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The F Danz Foundation at a glance

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The F Danz Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$254k
Granted FY2022
14
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.

Civil Rights$1.5MHuman Services$996kArts & Culture$200kFood & Nutrition$120kPublic Safety & Disaster$75kHousing & Shelter$44kHealth$20kEducation$15kOther$0
02FY2022 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k8 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES$150,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$25,000
NORTHWEST HARVEST$10,000
FOOD LIFELINE$10,000
HOPELINK$10,000
KLINE GALLAND HOME$10,000
NORTH HELPLINE$5,000
TREEHOUSE$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$5,000
LIFEWIRE$5,000
PAWS$5,000
HUMANE SOCIETY$5,000
KINDERING$5,000
CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES$4,403
02The need
03

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 (FY19–22, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $150k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $500k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $125k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%LIFEWIRE: $150k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $5k → 9%PIONEER HUMAN SERVICES: $2k → 9%HOPELINK: $10k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $8k → 9%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.
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 12 repeat orgs$668k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
11

Total granted

$2.3M
$639k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+30%

Still filing today

67%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionCivil RightsYouth 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

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $275k · revenue +39%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    4× · 2019–2022 · $75k · revenue +39%
  • FL
    FOOD LIFELINE
    4× · 2019–2022 · $55k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue +121%
  • SE
    STUDIO EAST TRAINING FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    one grant, 2019 · $60k · revenue -16%
  • KC
    KIDSQUEST CHILDREN'S MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +30%
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.

1
West Seattle Food Bank

West Seattle Food Bank strengthens the community through the power of neighbors helping neighbors, working to ensure all in our community have access to the essential necessities of living.

Food & Nutrition
2
Network Services

Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…

Human Services
3
Nourish Pierce County

To provide food to individuals in need with compassion, dignity and respect. No one needing assistance is turned away.

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4
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
5
Feeding Washington

Create a strong and effective statewide infrastructure that efficiently leverages resources to expand capacity in Washington State's Feeding America network.

Food & Nutrition
6
Snoqualmie Valley Food Bank

Our mission is to provide food and key resources to help our neighbors and community thrive. we lead the effort to feed, educated and advocate ending hunger in the snoqualmie valley and beyond.

Food & Nutrition
7
Second Harvest Inland Northwest

Fighting hunger, feeding hope: second harvest brings community resources together to feed people in need through empowerment, education, and partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
8
Renewal Food Bank

Renewal Food Bank provides food to needy and economically vulnerable individuals who live in Bellevue, Washington and surrounding communities

Human Services
9
Lutheran Community Services Northwest

LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.

Human Services
10
Nooksack Valley Food Bank Association

Our mission is to provide a variety of food products to families and individuals who are in need. We are open one day a week.

Food & Nutrition
11
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center

KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…

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12
The Storehouse Inc

The mission of the organization is to contribute to improved food security by providing consistent access to nutritious food, reducing hunger, and supporting the health and well-being of individuals and families in the community.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Harvest Emm; the most unlike its peers is Studio East Training for the Performing Arts. 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

19 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. 19 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

American Civil Liberties Union of Washington Found: $1,482,500 · Civil RightsAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Washington FoundJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $500,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICEJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $275,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INCLifeWire: $155,000 · Human ServicesLifeWireAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $75,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Const…+3 more: $19,000 · Human ServicesOVERLAKE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherOVERLAKE FO…NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $54,500 · OtherNORTHWEST H…KLINE GALLAND HOME: $30,000 · OtherKLINE GALLA…PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $20,000 · OtherPLANNED PAR…CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY: $19,000 · OtherCHILDRENS H…KINDERING CENTER: $15,000 · OtherNEW BEGINNINGS: $10,000 · OtherTHIRD PLACE COMMONS: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · Other+6 more: $29,403 · Other+6 moreSTUDIO EAST TRAINING FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $60,000 · Arts & CultureKIDSQUEST CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $25,000 · Arts & CultureFOOD LIFELINE: $55,000 · Food & NutritionHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionTREEHOUSE: $23,000 · Youth Development
Civil Rights$1,482,500Human Services$1,024,000Other$297,903Arts & Culture$85,000Food & Nutrition$60,000Youth Development$23,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Washington Found: $1,482,500 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $500,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $275,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLifeWire: $155,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDIO EAST TRAINING FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $60,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE: $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $54,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKIDSQUEST CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTREEHOUSE: $23,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKINDERING CENTER: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPELINK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTHCARE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Helpline: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE: $4,403 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIONEER HUMAN SERVICES INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 Fo…Liberty Mutual Founda…United Way of King Co…Seattle FoundationMoccasin Lake Foundat…The Norcliffe Foundat…Mightycause Charitabl…Windermere FoundationLucky Seven FoundationEmployees Community F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Bank of America C…
Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · United Way of King County · Seattle Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Windermere Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 F Danz Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The F Danz Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 28 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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