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The Arbutus 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IVINS INSPIRED | $2,500 |
| FOOD LIFELINE | $1,500 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLE-KING CO | $1,500 |
| FARESTART | $1,500 |
| NORTHWEST HARVEST E M M | $1,500 |
| UTAH FOOD BANK | $1,500 |
| KAYENTA ARTS FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| HOPELINK | $1,500 |
| GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| SUMMIT ASSISTANCE DOGS | $1,000 |
| HOMEWARD PET ADOPTION CENTER | $1,000 |
| MARYS PLACE SEATTLE | $1,000 |
| PASADOS SAFE HAVEN | $1,000 |
| VASHON MAURY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +58% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- FLFOOD LIFELINE9× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +89%
- HHOPELINK8× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +74%
DIRECT RELIEF8× · 2018–2025 · $12k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- BIBUILDON INC - SEATTLEone grant, 2022 · $7k
- MSMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC-Docs Wo bordersone grant, 2022 · $3k
- WAWORLD ANIMAL PROTECTIONone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +9%
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.
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
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.…
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Global greengrants fund seeds grassroots environmental action and social justice through small grants. we support change from the ground up by channeling donations to local projects and grassroots campaigns for environmental justice around…
Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.
End hunger together.
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Harvest Emm and the most unlike its peers is Ivins Inspired. 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 32 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 74 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 FOOD LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds HOPELINK ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD360 ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTERBOX USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Child Foundation ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VASHON MAURY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD PET ADOPTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT ASSISTANCE DOGS ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds MALTBY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MARY'S PLACE SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
- Who funds PASADO'S SAFE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds Conservation Lands Foundation ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds EastWest Food Rescue ↗
- Who funds SERVE OUR DOG AREAS SODA ↗
- Who funds Friends of Sammamish Valley Foundation ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
- Who funds STOREHOUSE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SEATTLE-KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KIVA MICROFUNDS ↗
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: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Give Lively Foundation Inc · American Gift Fund · The Norcliffe Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 The Arbutus Family 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.
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
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.
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