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The 97 Fund at a glance

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The 97 Fund

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$90k
Granted FY2022
5
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Religion$455kCivil Rights$218kCommunity Improvement$165kInternational$108kArts & Culture$93kFood & Nutrition$90kHuman Services$74kHealth$70kOther$0
02FY2022 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Emerald City Bible Fellowship$30,000
Urban Impact$30,000
The Church at Koloa$15,000
Stolen Youth$10,000
Teleios$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $90k) 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%FAMILY RENEWAL SHELTER: $9k → 9%FAMILY RENEWAL SHELTER: $5k → 9%MARYS PLACE SEATTLE: $5k → 9%MARYS PLACE SEATTLE: $5k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $5k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $5k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $3k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $3k → 9%DIVINE ALTERNATIVES FOR DADS SERVICES (DADS): $30k → 9%Stolen Youth: $10k → 9%DIVINE ALTERNATIVES FOR DADS SERVICES (DADS): $10k → 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
MN
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
AZ
NM
DC
HI
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of The 97 Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The 97 Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 10% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 27 repeat orgs$172k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2022, 22 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
12

Total granted

$1.2M
$172k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+93%

Still filing today

78%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
ReligionHuman ServicesInternationalYouth DevelopmentScience & TechPhilanthropyOther
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

  • UI
    Urban Impact
    6× · 2017–2022 · $165k · revenue +101%
  • T
    TELEIOS
    6× · 2017–2022 · $117k · revenue +18%
  • BALLARD FOOD BANK
    4× · 2017–2021 · $82k · revenue +337%

Funded once

  • GS
    GOOD SHEPHERD INDIA
    one grant, 2021 · $60k
  • FF
    FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue -8%
  • FO
    Fellowship of Israel Related Ministries Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue ×11
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
For the Nations Dc

We offer hope and help to refugee, asylumseeking, and immigrant families in the Washington D.C. metro area. We provide educational programs that help families learn English. We provide practical assistance and connections to community…

Education
2
Christian Harvest International Min

To provide strategic teaching about prayer, prophecy, and intercession in the US and abroad. Books, manuals, and audio teachings are also used to equip Christians in strategic level spiritual prayer and warfare.

Religion
3
Renewal Food Bank

Renewal Food Bank provides food to needy and economically vulnerable individuals who live in Bellevue, Washington and surrounding communities

Human Services
4
Jewish Family Service

Mission: Inspired by their history and values, Jewish Family Service supports the needs of Jewish individuals and families, refugees and immigrants, and the broader community to achieve well-being, health, and stability. From food security…

Human Services
5
Washington Prayer Coalition

to spread the gospel to the world by planting and serving churches, training local Christian leaders and to transform the world through prayer,

Religion
6
I58 Global

i58 Global is a Christian ministry dedicated to recruiting, sending and organizing relief workers to provide aid and share hope to refugees in various European countries.

Human Services
7
World Renew

Compelled by a deep passion for justice and mercy, World Renew joins communities around the world to renew hope, reconcile lives, and restore creation with programs focused on disaster response, community health, economic opportunity, food…

—
8
Reconciliation Ministries International Inc

Reconciliaton Ministries Intl. is a Christian evangelical organization preaching and teaching the Word of God in over 60 countries. The ministry equips and encourages Christians everywhere to be saved, healed, and delivered according to…

Religion
9
Skagit Valley Hospitality House Association

To reflect the heart of God by feeding, sheltering, clothing, healing and empowering those in need. Programs include housing, a cafe and job training system, shelter resources, and more. Our core values are: compassion, respect, joy and…

Housing & Shelter
10
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

—
11
Bread of Life Mission

Bringing hope, healing, and recovery to seattle's homeless through a christ-centered approach.

Human Services
12
Selah International Counseling Ministries

The mission of Selah International Counseling Ministries is to glorify God as we serve and equip His church, providing leadership and service through counseling, counseling resources, and counseling training.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fellowship Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Raven Rock Ranch. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 39 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
19/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPERATION MOBILIZATION: $217,800 · OtherOPERATION MOBILIZATIONTELEIOS: $117,000 · OtherTELEIOSBALLARD FOOD BANK: $81,500 · OtherBALLARD FOOD BANKGOOD SHEPHERD INDIA: $60,000 · OtherGOOD SHEPHERD INDIAHolocaust Center For Humanity: $41,000 · OtherHolocaust Center For HumanityEMERALD CITY BIBLE FELLOWSHIP: $40,000 · OtherEMERALD CITY BIBLE FELLOWSHIPFELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR CREATION RESEARCH: $25,000 · Other+13 more: $118,200 · Other+13 moreUrban Impact: $165,000 · ReligionUrban ImpactAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $135,500 · ReligionAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETYFellowship of Israel Related Ministries Inc: $35,000 · ReligionFellowship of Israel Related …+4 more: $27,446 · Religion+4 moreDADS DIVINE ALTERNATIVES FOR DADS SERVICES: $40,000 · Human ServicesMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE: $20,500 · Human ServicesVISION HOUSE: $15,500 · Human ServicesEverstrong Prevention: $15,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY RENEWAL SHELTER: $14,000 · Human ServicesFRIEND SHIPS: $60,108 · PhilanthropyPARK WEST CHILDRENS FUND INC: $35,414 · InternationalCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $10,000 · InternationalASCHIANA FOUNDATION: $8,000 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $51,800 · Arts & CultureYOUNG LIFE: $38,500 · Youth Development
Other$735,500Religion$362,946Human Services$105,000Philanthropy$60,108International$53,414Arts & Culture$51,800Youth Development$38,500

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 budgetUrban Impact: $165,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $135,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTELEIOS: $117,000 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetBALLARD FOOD BANK: $81,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $51,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHolocaust Center For Humanity: $41,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetDADS DIVINE ALTERNATIVES FOR DADS SERVICES: $40,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $38,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CREATION RESEARCH: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE: $20,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVISION HOUSE: $15,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEverstrong Prevention: $15,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFAMILY RENEWAL SHELTER: $14,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetNorth Helpline: $13,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIBLE MISSION GLOBAL: $8,800 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSUSTAINABLE SEATTLE: $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetASCHIANA FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetEquipping Restoring and Multiplying Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetKing County Search and Rescue Association: $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% 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.

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 FoundationServant FoundationThe Signatry Charitab…Credit Unions in the …Lucky Seven FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Moccasin Lake Foundat…United Way of King Co…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Natl Christian Charit…Willman-Crowley Found…Whatley Foundation
Seattle FoundationWA23.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Servant Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Lucky Seven Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · United Way of King County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Willman-Crowley 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 The 97 Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The 97 Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 The 97 Fund?

    Find your warmest path to The 97 Fund 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 39 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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