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Social Venture Partners

Svp seeks to foster a philanthropic and nonprofit sector that has the strength and resources to address systemic issues related to racial equity in svp core issue areas by building a community of engaged and educated philanthropists who understand their role in creating an equitable community, helping them make the greatest impact with…

$63k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Community Improvement$1.3MHuman Services$598kEnvironment$359kEducation$288kRecreation & Sports$208kYouth Development$163kPhilanthropy$96kArts & Culture$95kHealth$59kOther$574k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $60,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $63,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$445k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOOKS LISTEN & LEARN LLC$20,000
CHOOSE 180$20,000
350 SEATTLE$20,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $598k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Nuestra Casa: $30k → 11%La Casa Hogar: $25k → 17%La Casa Hogar: $10k → 17%Ttawaxt Birth Justice Center: $25k → 17%SOUTHWEST YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $45k → 9%SOUTHWEST YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $31k → 9%Dignity for Divas: $10k → 9%Southwest Youth & Family Serv: $10k → 9%OPEN ARMS: $40k → 9%OPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES: $31k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON: $30k → 9%Latino Community Fund: $20k → 9%South King Cnty Food Coalit: $8k → 9%CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $31k → 9%CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $31k → 9%EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $35k → 9%EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $31k → 9%Childrens Alliance: $30k → 9%East African Comm Services: $30k → 9%Childrens Alliance: $30k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND: $30k → 9%VIETNAMESE FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION: $15k → 9%East African Comm Services: $10k → 9%Childrens Alliance: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 29 repeat orgs$878k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
37

Total granted

$2.8M
$858k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+35%

Still filing today

93%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • NA
    NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON
    4× · 2017–2020 · $514k · revenue +49%
  • 5C
    501 Commons
    4× · 2017–2020 · $445k · revenue +566%
  • RVC SEATTLE
    6× · 2018–2023 · $242k · revenue +459%

Funded once

  • SP
    SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $208k · revenue +49%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR ETHICAL LEADERSHIP
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -72% · 36% of their budget
  • TC
    TRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION
    one grant, 2017 · $45k · revenue +12%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
2
Working Washington

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

—
3
Re Sources

RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.

Environment
4
Washington Progress Fund

Washington Progress Fund is building a permanent and powerful social change movement in Washington state supported by a network of committed donors. WPF envisions a Washington state where government serves the public interest and we all…

Philanthropy
5
Invest in Washington Now Campaign

Advocate for tax policy in Washington State

—
6
We Heart Seattle

We Heart Seattle is an action-based, boots-on-the-ground movement that organizes trash cleanups in our public spaces and offers resources to those in need. Through our direct civic engagement we lead the way to a more compassionate and…

Community Improvement
7
Pathwaves Washington

Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.

Education
8
Washington State Family and Community Engagement Trust

Washington Family Engagement fosters social transformation by supporting the development of mulitgenerational leaders from diverse backgrounds to become actively engaged in schools and communities in Washington State.

Philanthropy
9
Pro-Choice Washington

To protect and promote every persons right to access the full range of reproductive healthcare choices in Washington State, including safe and legal abortion, through education, advocacy, lobbying and coalition-building

—
10
Seattle JazzED

Through Jazz education that liberates and inspires, Seattle JazzED increase access in the music room, celebrates student expression, and builds lasting connection rooted in community.

Arts & Culture
11
Economic Opportunity Institute

Equip the public and public decision-makers with the policy research and practical tools they need to embed the values of fairness, care, and opportunity into the foundations of Washington's economy.

Community Improvement
12
Washington Community Alliance

Washington Community Alliance WCA is a statewide network of over 70 organizations working to advance multiracial social democracy by coordinating values aligned civic engagement

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yakima Valley Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyRegional Economic Developme…Community Grantmaking Found…Supportive Housing & Care S…Homeless Services & Family …Youth Sports ProgramsFood Banks and Hunger ReliefYouth Development and Educa…Immigrant & Refugee Communi…Washington State Advocacy &…Professional Trade Associat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr15%12%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr19%36%20–35yr12%12%35–55yr13%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr15%7%5–10yr19%36%10–20yr19%44%20–35yr12%10%35–55yr13%2%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
9%
6/70
the rest of the field
13%
1,804/13,493

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 70 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/64
Grantees still filing
41/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON — $513,600 · Community ImprovementNONPROFIT ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON501 Commons — $445,000 · Community Improvement501 CommonsRVC SEATTLE — $242,000 · Community ImprovementRVC SEATTLETRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION — $45,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $56,000 · Community ImprovementCHILDREN'S ALLIANCE — $132,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S ALLIANC…East African Community Services — $106,000 · Human ServicesEast African Commu…Southwest Youth And Family Services — $86,000 · Human ServicesSouthwest Youth An…Latino Community Fund of Washington State — $80,000 · Human ServicesLatino Community F…OPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES — $71,000 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS PERINATA…LA CASA HOGAR — $35,000 · Human ServicesLA CASA HOGARNuestra CASA — $30,000 · Human ServicesTTAWAXT BIRTH JUSTICE CENTER — $25,000 · Human Services+3 more — $32,750 · Human Services+3 moreUNITED INDIANS OF ALL TRIBES FOUNDATION — $111,000 · OtherUNITED INDIANS OF ALL TR…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SEATTLE — $85,000 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS O…PHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST — $47,500 · OtherPHILANTHROPY NORTHWESTSEATTLE UNIVERSITY — $34,500 · OtherSomali Youth & Family Club — $30,000 · OtherSEATTLE FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherYAKIMA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherLOOK LISTEN AND LEARN TV — $45,000 · OtherLOOK LISTEN AND LEARN TVONEAMERICA — $37,500 · OtherPUGET SOUND SAGE — $40,000 · Other+27 more — $332,520 · Other+27 moreEarthGen Fka WA Green Schools — $132,000 · EnvironmentEarthGen F…FUTUREWISE — $106,000 · EnvironmentFUTUREWISESPARK NORTHWEST — $78,500 · EnvironmentSPARK NORT…ENVIRONMENTAL COALITION OF SOUTH SEATTLE — $22,500 · EnvironmentENVIRONMEN…350 Seattle — $20,000 · Environment350 Seattl…CENTER FOR ETHICAL LEADERSHIP — $100,000 · EducationSoutheast Seattle Education Coalition — $43,500 · EducationEQUITY IN EDUCATION COALITION — $36,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESULTS — $30,000 · EducationSTEM PATHS INNOVATION NETWORK — $30,000 · EducationEASTSIDE PATHWAYS — $25,000 · EducationYoga Behind Bars — $15,500 · Education+1 more — $7,500 · EducationSEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION — $208,425 · Recreation & SportsBELONG Partners — $86,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHOOSE 180 — $76,500 · Youth Development
Community Improvement$1,301,600Human Services$597,750Other$823,020Environment$359,000Education$287,500Recreation & Sports$208,425Youth Development$162,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNONPROFIT ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON — $513,600 over 4y, 9.4% of budget501 Commons — $445,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetRVC SEATTLE — $242,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetSEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION — $208,425 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S ALLIANCE — $132,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetEarthGen Fka WA Green Schools — $132,000 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetUNITED INDIANS OF ALL TRIBES FOUNDATION — $111,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFUTUREWISE — $106,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetEast African Community Services — $106,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetCENTER FOR ETHICAL LEADERSHIP — $100,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetSouthwest Youth And Family Services — $86,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBELONG Partners — $86,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SEATTLE — $85,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetLatino Community Fund of Washington State — $80,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSPARK NORTHWEST — $78,500 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetCHOOSE 180 — $76,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetOPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES — $71,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST — $47,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLOOK LISTEN AND LEARN TV — $45,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetTRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION — $45,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetSoutheast Seattle Education Coalition — $43,500 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetPUGET SOUND SAGE — $40,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetONEAMERICA — $37,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEQUITY IN EDUCATION COALITION — $36,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetLA CASA HOGAR — $35,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY — $34,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNuestra CASA — $30,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESULTS — $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSTEM PATHS INNOVATION NETWORK — $30,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetYAKIMA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSomali Youth & Family Club — $30,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTeamChild — $26,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTTAWAXT BIRTH JUSTICE CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetYAKIMA MUSIC EN ACCION — $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetBOARDSOURCE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBUILDING CHANGES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEASTSIDE PATHWAYS — $25,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL COALITION OF SOUTH SEATTLE — $22,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSEATTLE AGAINST SLAVERY — $20,250 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCENTER FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget350 Seattle — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTH SEATTLE WOMENS HEALTH FOUNDAT — $20,000 over 1y, 83% of budgetUNLOOP — $18,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetURBAN DEATH PROJECT — $16,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetYoga Behind Bars — $15,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetKANDELIA — $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS — $13,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Seattle FoundationGates FoundationStolte Family Foundat…The Satterberg Founda…United Way of King Co…School's Out Washingt…Inatai FoundationPhilanthropy NorthwestThe Norcliffe Foundat…Medina FoundationRaikes FoundationPerigee Fund
Seattle FoundationWA71.1× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Gates Foundation · Stolte Family Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · United Way of King County · School's Out Washington · Inatai Foundation · Philanthropy Northwest · The Norcliffe Foundation · Medina Foundation · Raikes Foundation · Perigee Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Social Venture Partners funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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