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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SEATTLE-KING CO$100,000
SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE$100,000
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES$100,000
GRIST$100,000
MAINE HUTS & TRAILS$100,000
GOT GREEN$100,000
PATH WITH ART$90,000
PATH WITH ART$80,000
SEATTLE NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS$50,000
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.

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Its 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. Its 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
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.
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.2M · 34 repeat orgs$3.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
43

Total granted

$6.2M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+22%

Still filing today

68%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
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

  • 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
  • J
    JazzEd
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
  • MT
    Mountain to Sound Greenway
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Public Library Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 102 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/62
Grantees still filing
42/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SEATTLE-KING CO: $300,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY SEATTLE-KING COUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $250,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONST THERESE: $235,000 · OtherST THERESECATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $225,000 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESYWCA Seattle/King/Snohomish: $155,000 · OtherFriends of the Waterfront Seattle: $150,000 · OtherJazzEd: $150,000 · OtherTHE GRACE FOUNDATION: $150,000 · OtherRAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK: $150,000 · OtherMountain to Sound Greenway: $150,000 · OtherUnited Indians of All Tribes: $125,000 · Other+43 more: $1,654,000 · Other+43 moreDICKINSON COLLEGE: $1,600,000 · EducationDICKINSON COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $787,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDA…VENTURES: $105,000 · EducationMaine Huts & Trails: $100,000 · EducationSEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOL: $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 GreenGrist Magazine Inc: $100,000 · EnvironmentGrist Magazine I…BAINBRIDGE ISLAND LAND TRUST: $100,000 · EnvironmentBAINBRIDGE ISLAN…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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetRAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK: $150,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetRYTHER: $150,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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 budgetOPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES: $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBALLARD FOOD BANK: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGot Green: $100,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetSEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGrist Magazine Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMaine Huts & Trails: $100,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetBAINBRIDGE ISLAND LAND TRUST: $100,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOL: $100,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHERITAGE UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE 1932 CRITERION THEATRE: $80,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetNW Childrens Foundation: $75,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetHOPESOURCE: $70,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 1y, 13% 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 budgetSEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFORTERRA NW: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 budgetSOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUPOWER: $40,000 over 3y, 2.9% 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 budgetSHUNPIKE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF LOPEZ ISLAND POOL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWillowind Therapeutic Riding Center Inc: $23,000 over 1y, 5.5% 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 DICKINSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE OPERA ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds PATH WITH ART ↗
  • Who funds RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds RYTHER ↗
  • Who funds MINI MART CITY PARK ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds KUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds VENTURES ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES ↗
  • Who funds BALLARD FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Got Green ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds Grist Magazine Inc ↗
  • Who funds Maine Huts & Trails ↗
  • Who funds BAINBRIDGE ISLAND LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE 1932 CRITERION THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds NW Childrens Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HOPESOURCE ↗

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…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

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 Tew Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tew Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
    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.
    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 102 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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