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The Elizabeth George Foundation Co Susan E George

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$576k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it funds
0122% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$324kYouth Development$225kReligion$55kEducation$20kHuman Services$10kCrime & Legal$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$11k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$30,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
Individual grant recipient$27,500
Individual grant recipient$26,400
Mandy Moe Pwint Tu$25,000
Sterling Holy White Mountain$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
Individual grant recipient$23,750
Individual grant recipient$23,000
Individual grant recipient$22,300
Individual grant recipient$22,200
Individual grant recipient$20,500
Individual grant recipient$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
SEATTLE ARTS LECTURES$20,000
02The need
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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 (FY18–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Youth Justice Network: $10k → 17%SHOES THAT FIT: $10k → 14%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

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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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 28 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

28 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
123

Total granted

$1.2M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+27%

Still filing today

25%
5%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCrime & LegalEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • Wordcrafters in Eugene
    4× · 2018–2025 · $60k · revenue +33%
  • OJ
    OPERATION JUMP START
    2× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +8%
  • CT
    CHILDREN'S THEATER OF MADISON INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $30k · revenue +209%

Funded once

  • OF
    ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $60k · revenue +27%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $39k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $35k
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.

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Academy of Childrens Theatre

To provide quality educational opportunities in the theatre arts for young people of all abilities and levels of interest to produce quality theatre for and by the young with appeal to all ages to expose the community to diverse ideas and…

Arts & Culture
2
Artists Repertory Theatre

Artists repertory theatre's mission is to produce intimate, provacative theatre and provide a home for a diverse community of artists and audiences to take creative risks.

Arts & Culture
3
Columbia Childrens Theatre

Inspired by the intelligence and emotional wisdom of young people, we create professional theatre for youth and families, foster inclusive community, and nurture meaningful learning through the arts. We provide these experiences through…

Arts & Culture
4
Profile Theatre Project

Profile theatres mission is to produce a season of first-class productions and community engagement activities centered around a season-long featured writer whose vision broadens our perspective on the world and deepens our collective…

Arts & Culture
5
Young Playwrights Theater

Young Playwrights Theater (YPT) is committed to using theater & writing to foster dialogue, arts education, literacy & conflict resolution in communities.

Arts & Culture
6
Youth Theatre Northwest

Nurtures the intellectual, artistic and personal development of children aged 3-18 through drama education, performing opportunities and live theatre experiences.

Arts & Culture
7
Oregon Children's Theatre Company

The mission of oregon children's theater is to create exceptional theater experiences that transform lives. we do this by producing professional stage plays for young audiences, and through arts education classes and programs.

Arts & Culture
8
Bandit Theater

A Seattle-based improv theater with the mission to foster creativity, build community, and inspire personal growth through the art of comedy.

Arts & Culture
9
South Carolina Children's Theatre

Empowering and inspiring a new generation of changemakers through theatre. at scct, we define a changemaker as: someone who has empathy for others and is driven to make the world a better place. someone who is inquisitive, open minded, and…

Arts & Culture
10
Children's Theatre Company and School

Children's Theatre Company exists to create extraordinary theater experiences that educate, challenge, and inspire young people and their communities.

Arts & Culture
11
Playmakers Laboratory Theatre

Playmakers laboratory (pml) is an ensemble of actor/educators who create an alternative learning environment in which children share their personal voices and celebrate the power of their imaginations. pml accomplishes this through…

Arts & Culture
12
Titan Productions Incorporated

Titan theatre company is committed to breathing new life and clarity into classical works of theatre, exploring new and contemporary language plays, and delivering adventurous and visceral theatrical experiences for our audiences and…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Repertory Theatre; the most unlike its peers is Wordcrafters in Eugene. 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

14 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. 14 of the 156 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+145 more: $3,366,891 · Other+145 moreWordcrafters in Eugene: $60,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH COAST REPERTORY INC: $33,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE: $30,000 · Arts & CultureACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE INC: $28,902 · Arts & CultureTHE CHANCE THEATER: $22,000 · Arts & CultureA CONTEMPORARY THEATRE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Crime & LegalOPERATION JUMP START: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentMIGHTY WRITERS: $20,000 · EducationSHOES THAT FIT: $10,000 · Human ServicesYouth Justice Network Inc: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$3,366,891Arts & Culture$183,902Crime & Legal$60,000Youth Development$30,000Education$20,000Human Services$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWordcrafters in Eugene: $60,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Greater Seattle Bureau of Fearless Ideas: $55,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetSOUTH COAST REPERTORY INC: $33,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION JUMP START: $30,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S THEATER OF MADISON INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE INC: $28,902 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHANCE THEATER: $22,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSHOES THAT FIT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetA CONTEMPORARY THEATRE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYouth Justice Network Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBook-It Repertory Theatre: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

  • Who funds Wordcrafters in Eugene ↗
  • Who funds ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Greater Seattle Bureau of Fearless Ideas ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH COAST REPERTORY INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION JUMP START ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S THEATER OF MADISON INC ↗

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.

The Shubert Foundation IncNY15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Elizabeth George Foundation Co Susan E George funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Elizabeth George Foundation Co Susan E George. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Wordcrafters in Eugene: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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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Find your warmest path to The Elizabeth George Foundation Co Susan E George 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 156 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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