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The Dickey Fund
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 $10k11 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $51,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION | $15,000 |
| ACLU | $15,000 |
| SAMA SEATTLE SACRED MUSIC AND ART | $10,000 |
| SHORT MT SANCTUARY | $7,500 |
| WILDERNESS AWARENESS SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| NOPAL & MESQUITE SACRED PATHWAYS | $5,000 |
| KUOW | $3,000 |
| UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS | $3,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| VASHON MAURY FOOD BANK | $1,500 |
| KBCS - PUBLIC RADIO | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS | $1,000 |
| CASCADE PBS | $1,000 |
| ARTE NOIR | $500 |
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 (FY19–21, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- SPSEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $185k · revenue +326%
- TYTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871)3× · 2019–2021 · $102k · revenue +21%
- TAThe Awareness Society DBA Wilderness Awareness School8× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- NHNORTHWEST HARVEST EMMone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -35%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
EARTHJUSTICEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +26%
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.
Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.
Nedc's mission is to work toward a future in which the pacific northwest leads the nation in developing, implementing & enforcing strong laws and regulations that protect the environment & human health, and where our governments &…
The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…
Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.
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.…
To champion policies that center the expertise and resilience of overburdened communities for environmental progress and justice in the pacific northwest.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Work through advocacy and education to use federal environmental laws such as the Clean Water Act to protect and restore water quality and habit in the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
SEACC's mission is to protect the special places of the world's largest temperate rainforest, promote conservation, and advocate for sustainability in human use of natural resources. Inspired by the land, wildlife, cultures, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Public Library Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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 45 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) — 9% 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.
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 37 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 PCC FARMLAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds The Awareness Society DBA Wilderness Awareness School ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENT WASHINGTON RESEARCH & POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds KUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds SAMA SEATTLE SACRED MUSIC & ART ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds SHORT MT SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds SOUND THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds TILTH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ↗
- Who funds CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Conservatory ↗
- Who funds ARTE NOIR ↗
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: Goodfellow Fund · The Bullitt Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Dickey Fund 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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