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Teel Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $99k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $137k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY | $76,700 |
| MONROE COVENANT CHURCH | $60,000 |
| CASINO ROAD KIDS MINISTRIES | $30,000 |
| WARM BEACH CHRISTIAN CAMPS | $20,000 |
| WOGEN CHILDREN & MOTHER'S SUPPORT | $15,000 |
| CROSSPOINT ACADEMY | $11,700 |
| NORTHWEST ARKANSAS DISTRICT FAIR | $11,500 |
| SEATTLE INT'L CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $10,500 |
| NOURISH PIERCE COUNTY | $9,000 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CHARITY MINISTRY | $8,000 |
| RYAN'S HOUSE FOR YOUTH | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| EMI (ENGINEERING MISSIONS INTL) | $6,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 42% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against -19% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- GOGo On the Mission4× · 2019–2022 · $61k · revenue +77%
- RHRYAN'S HOUSE6× · 2019–2024 · $44k · revenue +141%
West Seattle Food Bank5× · 2020–2024 · $43k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- YLYOUNG LIFEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $17k · revenue +38%
- YLYOUNG LIFE SOUTH KITSAPone grant, 2020 · $9k
- WSWEST SOUND YOUTH FOR CHRISTone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -62%
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.
Ending homelessness, one young person at a time.
YWCA Bellingham is part of a national network of programs with the shared mission of eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, and freedom for all.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska supports families with seriously ill children by providing a caring home-away-from-home at the SEattle Ronald McDonald House and operating a house and a van service in…
The mission of the organization is to contribute to improved food security by providing consistent access to nutritious food, reducing hunger, and supporting the health and well-being of individuals and families in the community.
Provide transitional housing for women and their children. Assist families in crisis, helping them in their recovery process. Provide pregnancy support for crisis pregnancy. Provide food and assistance to our community, helping to break…
Transitions works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane, Washington.
Ministry to build relationships, equip for leadership, teach life skills for youth in low-income, innercity neighborhoods, serving approximately 500 children in afterschool and evening programs.
To provide pathways to end youth homelessness.
The Trail Youth's mission is to remove negative labels for teens ages 13-19 facing difficult challenges in their lives. The Trail Youth provides mentorship, barista training, leadership development and community out reach in North Bend,…
Preventing and ending youth homelessness by supporting young people, strengthening families and communities, and holding the systems designed to serve them accountable.
SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New Horizons Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance. 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.
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 29 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) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 55 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 SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Seattle Area Youth for Christ ↗
- Who funds Go On the Mission ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds RYAN'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds West Seattle Food Bank ↗
- Who funds HAMLIN ROBINSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Nourish Pierce County ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS CHARITY MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds WEST SOUND YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds ROUTE 21 ↗
- Who funds THE COFFEE OASIS ↗
- Who funds HELP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOOD CANAL SALMON ENHANCEMENT GROUP ↗
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 · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Russell Family Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Northwest Harvest Emm · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving 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 Teel Charitable 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.
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.