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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.

$243k
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$46k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$918kReligion$315kArts & Culture$199kPhilanthropy$135kInternational$57kEnvironment$55kHousing & Shelter$50kHealth$39kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k30 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $184k
$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BERTSCHI SCHOOL$45,500
SEATTLE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$27,500
ST THOMAS CHURCH$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$15,000
LEARNING TREE PRESCHOOL MONTESSORI$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
ASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%HEALTH TANZANIA FOUNDATION: $250 → 7%EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $3k → 17%EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $2k → 17%EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $1k → 17%BELLEVUE LIFESPRING: $1k → 9%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $1k → 9%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $1k → 9%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $1k → 9%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
WY
CT
CA
VA
MD
NM
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 64 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
34

Total granted

$1.8M
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+27%

Still filing today

64%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentAnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $229k · revenue +46%
  • SC
    SEATTLE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    7× · 2019–2025 · $109k · revenue +69%
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • SC
    Seattle Children's Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +190%
  • RS
    RAINIER SCHOLARSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +359%
  • DT
    DENSHO THE JAPANESE AMERICAN LEGACY PROJECT
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
2
University Cooperative School

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.

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3
The George Washington University

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…

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
United States Naval Institute

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.

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6
Association of Washington Cities

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…

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7
The Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment
8
Fsc I&P

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.…

Philanthropy
9
Seattle International Foundation

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,…

Philanthropy
10
Washington State University Foundation

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…

Education
11
Seattle Architectural Foundation

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…

Arts & Culture
12
The Northwest School of the Arts Humanities and Environment

We offer an outstanding international college preparatory program for grades 6-12.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Public Library Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/64
Grantees still filing
44/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST THOMAS CHURCH: $278,275 · OtherST THOMAS CHURCHARCS FOUNDATION INC: $72,000 · OtherARCS FOUNDATION INCCAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY IN AMERICA: $50,000 · OtherCAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY IN AMERICAIndividual grant recipient: $42,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientREPRESENT US EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $34,575 · OtherOUR LADY OF GUADALUPE EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $30,000 · OtherSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $27,500 · Other+61 more: $227,144 · Other+61 moreUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $228,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATIONSEATTLE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $108,500 · EducationSEATTLE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYBERTSCHI SCHOOL: $74,000 · EducationBERTSCHI SCHOOLLAKESIDE SCHOOL: $61,500 · EducationLAKESIDE SCHOOLGiddens School: $55,000 · EducationGiddens SchoolUNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Education+8 more: $52,911 · Education+8 moreSEATTLE OPERA: $89,080 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $23,500 · Arts & CultureARTSFUND: $14,750 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION: $12,500 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $9,750 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $131,250 · Philanthropy+3 more: $6,079 · PhilanthropyWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $20,300 · AnimalsTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $19,000 · AnimalsWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $8,580 · AnimalsWILD SALMON CENTER: $6,500 · Animals+1 more: $1,050 · AnimalsASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $28,500 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $22,110 · InternationalPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES: $50,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$761,994Education$690,411Arts & Culture$149,580Philanthropy$137,329Animals$55,430International$50,610Housing & Shelter$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $228,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $131,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $108,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE OPERA: $89,080 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBERTSCHI SCHOOL: $74,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLAKESIDE SCHOOL: $61,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGiddens School: $55,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $28,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $23,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITTLE SCHOOL: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $22,110 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $20,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $19,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN WINDOW SCHOOL: $18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARTSFUND: $14,750 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $10,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $8,580 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWILD SALMON CENTER: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam D Ruckelshaus Center Foundation: $5,250 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSeattle Garden Club Inc: $5,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetEPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MT BAKER COMMUNITY CLUB: $4,750 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetRwanda Girls Initiative: $4,516 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTREEHOUSE: $3,630 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKing County Library System Foundation: $3,050 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE REPERTORY THEATER FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $2,511 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL BALLET SCHOOL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANTAMNESTY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $2,025 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRATHAM USA: $1,579 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEarthGen Fka WA Green Schools: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHYDROCEPHALUS ASSOCIATION: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOPPER CANYON PRESS: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $1,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Seattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Moccasin Lake Foundat…Grousemont FoundationMightycause Charitabl…M J Murdock Charitabl…Islands FundWyman Youth TrustUnited Way of King Co…Norberg Family Founda…Whatley Foundation
Seattle FoundationWA44.7× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Stevens Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stevens Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 106 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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