· Private foundation
The Dale and Leslie Chihuly 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $309k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HILLTOP ARTISTS | $250,000 |
| SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE | $75,000 |
| HILLTOP ARTISTS | $75,000 |
| ARTIST TRUST | $59,000 |
| MUSEUM OF GLASS | $50,000 |
| PATH WITH ART | $50,000 |
| CLASSICAL KING FM 981 | $30,000 |
| PATH WITH ART | $27,400 |
| SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE | $25,000 |
| IDAHO BASECAMP | $25,000 |
| IAIA FOUNDATION | $23,000 |
| PRATT FINE ARTS CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE ASPEN INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| IAIA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ARTIST TRUST | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of your 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.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
HILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE9× · 2017–2025 · $978k · revenue +105%
PATH WITH ART9× · 2017–2025 · $602k · revenue +284%- MOMuseum of Glass9× · 2017–2025 · $455k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- THTown Hall Associationone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -13%
- FFORTISSIMOone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +16%
- ULURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +261%
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.
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
Tacoma Art Museum transforms our communities by sharing art that inspires broader perspectives and cultivates a compassionate future
On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.
To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.
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.
To enliven and expand the understanding of craft and the museum experience for all.
Washington performing arts champions the arts as a unifying force. through collaborations with artists, educators, community leaders, and institutional partners, we bring wide-ranging artistic programs to stages, schools, and neighborhoods…
We offer an outstanding international college preparatory program for grades 6-12.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
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…
Northwind art offers people of all ages and skill levels opportunities to learn collaboratively with artists of exceptional talent, enthusiasm, and vision through classes, workshops, other programs, and through experiencing quality…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Repertory Theatre and the most unlike its peers is Idaho Base Camp Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 28 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 HILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE ↗
- Who funds PATH WITH ART ↗
- Who funds Artist Trust ↗
- Who funds Museum of Glass ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds CLASSICAL 981 ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IDAHO BASE CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds PRATT FINE ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds KEY TO CHANGE ↗
- Who funds Town Hall Association ↗
- Who funds GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF NORTHWEST ART ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ARTS AND LECTURES ↗
- Who funds FORTISSIMO ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds SHUNPIKE ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds OMPRAKASH INC ↗
- Who funds HAITIAN EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM ↗
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: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Artsfund · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Conru Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Peach Foundation · Raynier Institute & Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Gates Foundation
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 Dale and Leslie Chihuly 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.
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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