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Tew 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.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Education$3.4MEnvironment$1.8MArts & Culture$1.5MHuman Services$695kHealth$599kFood & Nutrition$350kHousing & Shelter$310kRecreation & Sports$292kOther$0
02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $357k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$500,000
DICKINSON COLLEGE$400,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$250,000
MINI MART CITY PARK$125,000
SEATTLE OPERA$116,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SEATTLE-KING CO$100,000
GRIST$100,000
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES$100,000
SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE$100,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SEATTLE-KING CO$100,000
GOT GREEN$100,000
MAINE HUTS & TRAILS$100,000
PATH WITH ART$90,000
PATH WITH ART$80,000
THE GRACE FOUNDATION$50,000
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 (FY24–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.8M · 32 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
45

Total granted

$5.8M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+4%

Still filing today

72%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

  • DICKINSON COLLEGE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +44%
  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    4× · 2019–2023 · $885k · revenue +112%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $787k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • ST
    ST THERESE
    one grant, 2023 · $235k
  • R
    RYTHER
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -34%
  • MT
    Mountain to Sound Greenway
    one grant, 2022 · $150k

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
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
2
Puget Sound Restoration Fund

To restore habitat, water quality and native species in the puget sound

Environment
3
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
4
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
5
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
6
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
7
Washington Filmworks

To build and enhance the competitiveness of Washington State's film and associated creative industry. We accomplish this by marketing and managing the state's production incentive program, representing the state in national and…

Community Improvement
8
Museum of Northwest Art

The museum of northwest art collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits art created in the pacific northwest, supports artists, and strives to integrate art into the lives of all people. the museum is free and open to the public seven…

Arts & Culture
9
Spokane Parks Foundation

The Spokane Parks Foundation cultivates the health, growth, and continued enjoyment of our communities by inspiring giving and passion for our parks.

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10
Friends of Seattle Waterfront

To bring people, communities, and resources together to ensure waterfront park thrives as a vibrant gathering space - uplifting locals, fostering connections and honoring seattle's natural beauty and stories.

Community Improvement
11
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center

KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…

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12
Sustainable Path Foundation

Sustainable Path Foundation promotes sustainability and health in the Puget Sound region through collaborative approaches informed by scientific understanding and systems thinking.

Social Science

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Public Library Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cascadia Art Museum. 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 backsteadyLive Performance Arts Organ…Washington Environmental Co…Faith-Based International D…Arts Education & Community …Food Banks and Hunger Relief
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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr15%4%5–10yr18%16%10–20yr18%34%20–35yr12%16%35–55yr16%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr18%19%20–35yr12%28%35–55yr16%42%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/70
the rest of the field
13%
2,451/18,205

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

62 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. 62 of the 105 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/62
Grantees still filing
39/62
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON — $250,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONST THERESE — $235,000 · OtherST THERESECATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES — $225,000 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESHABITAT FOR HUMANITY SEATTLE-KING CO — $200,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY SEATTLE-KING COYWCA Seattle/King/Snohomish — $155,000 · OtherFriends of the Waterfront Seattle — $150,000 · OtherMountain to Sound Greenway — $150,000 · OtherRAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK — $150,000 · OtherJazzEd — $150,000 · OtherUnited Indians of All Tribes — $125,000 · Other+47 more — $1,904,000 · Other+47 moreDICKINSON COLLEGE — $1,600,000 · EducationDICKINSON COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $787,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDA…VENTURES — $105,000 · EducationSEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOL — $100,000 · EducationMaine Huts & Trails — $100,000 · EducationHERITAGE UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · Education+3 more — $60,000 · EducationTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $885,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PU…MINI MART CITY PARK — $125,000 · EnvironmentMINI MART CITY P…Got Green — $100,000 · EnvironmentGot GreenBAINBRIDGE ISLAND LAND TRUST — $100,000 · EnvironmentBAINBRIDGE ISLAN…Grist Magazine Inc — $100,000 · EnvironmentGrist Magazine I…FORTERRA NW — $50,000 · Environment+3 more — $104,000 · Environment+3 moreSEATTLE OPERA — $391,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE OPERASEATTLE ART MUSEUM — $190,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE ART M…PATH WITH ART — $170,000 · Arts & CulturePATH WITH ARTKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO — $115,000 · Arts & CultureKUOW PUGET SO…SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE — $100,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE REPER…THE 1932 CRITERION THEATRE — $80,000 · Arts & CultureTHE 1932 CRIT…ARTSFUND — $60,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $121,000 · Arts & Culture+6 moreRYTHER — $150,000 · Human ServicesOPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES — $100,000 · Human ServicesHOPESOURCE — $70,000 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCES CABRINI CHARITABLE SERVICES — $45,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $25,000 · Human ServicesLOPEZ ISLAND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $20,000 · Human Services+4 more — $35,000 · Human ServicesSEATTLE FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 · PhilanthropyFISH — $55,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF LOPEZ ISLAND POOL — $25,000 · PhilanthropyLITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $120,000 · Recreation & SportsSEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION — $67,000 · Recreation & SportsBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY — $50,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$3,694,000Education$2,852,000Environment$1,464,000Arts & Culture$1,227,000Human Services$445,000Philanthropy$250,000Recreation & Sports$237,000

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 budgetDICKINSON COLLEGE — $1,600,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $885,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $787,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSEATTLE OPERA — $391,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSEATTLE ART MUSEUM — $190,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPATH WITH ART — $170,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetRYTHER — $150,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK — $150,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMINI MART CITY PARK — $125,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetLITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $120,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO — $115,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVENTURES — $105,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetSEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOL — $100,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALLARD FOOD BANK — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGot Green — $100,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetBAINBRIDGE ISLAND LAND TRUST — $100,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetMaine Huts & Trails — $100,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetHERITAGE UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGrist Magazine Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetOPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES — $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE 1932 CRITERION THEATRE — $80,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetNW Childrens Foundation — $75,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetHOPESOURCE — $70,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION — $67,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS — $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARTSFUND — $60,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFISH — $55,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFORTERRA NW — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS — $50,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetSAINT FRANCES CABRINI CHARITABLE SERVICES — $45,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetPUGET SOUNDKEEPER ALLIANCE — $44,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc — $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUPOWER — $40,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetSOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST — $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBURKE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $31,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNAVOS — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST FILM FORUM — $30,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF LOPEZ ISLAND POOL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSHUNPIKE — $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWillowind Therapeutic Riding Center Inc — $23,000 over 1y, 5.5% 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 FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…The Satterberg Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Wyman Youth TrustUnited Way of King Co…Grousemont FoundationGarneau Nicon Family …M J Murdock Charitabl…Mightycause Charitabl…Artsfund
Seattle FoundationWA59.6× affinity34 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 · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Wyman Youth Trust · United Way of King County · Grousemont Foundation · Garneau Nicon Family Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Artsfund

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 Tew 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Tew Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Tew Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 105 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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