How much does The Arbutus Family Foundation give?

The Arbutus Family Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $47,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Arbutus Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (30%), Food & Nutrition (17%), Human Services (9%).

Who are The Arbutus Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Food Lifeline ($15k), Hopelink ($14k), Direct Relief ($12k).

Does The Arbutus Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Arbutus Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Arbutus Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Puget Sound Energy Foundation, Seattle Foundation, The Albertsons Companies Foundation.

Where is The Arbutus Family Foundation based?

The Arbutus Family Foundation is based in DE.

The Arbutus Family Foundation

The Arbutus Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$47k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$3k

Largest

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 2025.

International$88kFood & Nutrition$50kHuman Services$27kEnvironment$22kAnimals$22kPublic Safety & Disaster$16kCommunity Improvement$14kHousing & Shelter$13kOther$0

02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
IVINS INSPIRED	$2,500
HOPELINK	$1,500
FARESTART	$1,500
FOOD LIFELINE	$1,500
HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLE-KING CO	$1,500
UTAH FOOD BANK	$1,500
KAYENTA ARTS FOUNDATION	$1,500
NORTHWEST HARVEST E M M	$1,500
THE MOUNTAINS TO SOUND GREENWAY TRAIL	$1,000
EASTWEST FOOD RESCUE	$1,000
GOOD360	$1,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC	$1,000
BUILDON INC	$1,000
SUMMIT ASSISTANCE DOGS	$1,000
MARYS PLACE SEATTLE	$1,000

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$264k · 46 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$264k

$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%

Still filing today

87%

69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHuman ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther

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

FL
FOOD LIFELINE
9× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +89%
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HOPELINK
8× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +74%
DIRECT RELIEF
8× · 2018–2025 · $12k · revenue +94%

Funded once

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BUILDON INC - SEATTLE
one grant, 2022 · $7k
MS
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC-Docs Wo borders
one grant, 2022 · $3k
MT
MEDICAL TEAMS WORLDWIDEgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +66%

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.

The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International

Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science

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

Food Forward Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition

United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

Food & Water Watch

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…

Food & Nutrition

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Global Greengrants Fund

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…

Environment

Port Angeles Food Bank

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.

Food & Nutrition

Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition

Global Forest Generation

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,…

Environment

American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Harvest Emm; 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.

04the grantee network

60 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. 60 of the 74 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

60/60

Grantees still filing

42/60

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$75,000Other$94,970Human Services$51,700Animals$26,100Food & Nutrition$23,000Environment$19,500Health$7,400

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE26.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

15report 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.

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