· Private foundation
Stevens Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $184k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BERTSCHI SCHOOL | $45,500 |
| SEATTLE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $27,500 |
| ST THOMAS CHURCH | $25,000 |
| LEARNING TREE PRESCHOOL MONTESSORI | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| LAKESIDE SCHOOL | $13,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY | $12,500 |
| WOODLAND PARK ZOO | $10,100 |
| UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| LITTLE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| WILD SALMON CENTER | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| ASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
64 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $229k · revenue +46%
- SCSEATTLE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL7× · 2019–2025 · $109k · revenue +69%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- SCSeattle Children's Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +190%
- RSRAINIER SCHOLARSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +359%
- SFSEATTLE FOUNDATION (PANDEMIC RELIEF)one grant, 2020 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
Seattle international foundation (sif) champions equity and rule of law in central america through good governance and a robust civil society. sif works with other donors to the region to increase philanthropy and to promote collaboration,…
The mission of the Foundation is to promote, accept, and maximize private support for programs, initiatives, and properties of Washington State University and its regional campuses. The Foundation also prudently manages, invests, and…
The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…
We offer an outstanding international college preparatory program for grades 6-12.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Public Library Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Friends of the Royal Ballet School Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 106 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE OPERA ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BERTSCHI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LAKESIDE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Giddens School ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OPEN WINDOW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ARTSFUND ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILD SALMON CENTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Islands Fund · Wyman Youth Trust · United Way of King County · Norberg Family Foundation · Whatley Foundation
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 Stevens Family Foundation 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.
- Wild Salmon Center — 49% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
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.