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The Foss Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$243k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Human Services$424kHealth$220kPublic Safety & Disaster$206kArts & Culture$151kHousing & Shelter$55kYouth Development$46kEducation$17kScience & Tech$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $162k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$50,000
MARYS PLACE$40,000
RYTHER CHILD CENTER$30,000
AMARA$27,000
MEDIC ONE FOUNDATION$25,000
SALVATION ARMY - SEATTLE$10,000
INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEM BIOLOGY$10,000
SEATTLE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$10,000
TEENS IN PUBLIC SERVICE$10,000
PARKVIEW SERVICES$5,000
NORTHWEST CHILDRENS FOUNDATION$5,000
SEATTLE POLICE FOUNDATION$4,000
SEATTLE HUMANE SOCIETY$3,200
SEATTLE PLAY GARDEN$2,500
ST BONAVENTRUE INDIAN MISSION & SCHOOL$2,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $200k) 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.

area typical 8%BOYS TOWN: $1k → 12%BOYS TOWN: $260 → 12%BOYS TOWN: $200 → 12%PARKVIEW SERVICES: $6k → 9%PARKVIEW SERVICES: $5k → 9%PARKVIEW SERVICES: $5k → 9%PARKVIEW SERVICES: $5k → 9%PARKVIEW SERVICES: $5k → 9%PARKVIEW SERVICES: $2k → 9%BAYVIEW MANOR FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%AMARA: $27k → 9%AMARA: $26k → 9%AMARA: $25k → 9%AMARA: $25k → 9%AMARA: $22k → 9%AMARA: $20k → 9%AMARA: $20k → 9%BREAD OF LIFE MISSION: $500 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

AK
WA
IL
NY
SD
NE
VA
NM
AR
TN
DC
GA

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 100% of The Foss Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Foss Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 28 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
19

Total granted

$1.1M
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+31%

Still filing today

64%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther

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

  • AMARA
    7× · 2018–2024 · $165k · revenue +44%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    5× · 2018–2024 · $153k · revenue +26%
  • MP
    Maris Place
    7× · 2018–2024 · $151k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $7k
  • BM
    BAYVIEW MANOR FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +243%
  • FP
    Fairmount Park Elementary PTAgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +31%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Uw Physicians Network

To improve the health of the public.

Education
2
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…

3
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

4
Seattle Children's Guild Association

Seattle children's guild association advocates for seattle children's hospital through volunteer, philanthropic and community endeavors to ensure hope, excellent care and advanced cures for children.

5
Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho

To provide exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education, and advocacy for all.

Health
6
Seattle Children's Healthcare System

Seattle children's healthcare system (schs) is engaged in activities relating to the provision of health care services to infants, children, and adolescents, delivering and improving the delivery and the quality of those services through…

Health
7
Seattle Children's Foundation

Seattle children's foundation exists to improve the quality of health care services to infants, children, and adolescents through contributions to organizations providing health care services, research and education.

8
The National Association of State Workforce Agencies

The national association of state workforce agencies (naswa) mission is to enhance the state workforce agencies' ability to accomplish their goals, statutory roles and responsibilities.

9
Western Healthconnect

Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.

Health
10
Children's Hospital

Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…

Health
11
Inland Northwest Health Services

To provide unique, affordable services using collaborative and innovative approaches for the benefit of the entire health care continuum.

12
Senior Life Resources Northwest

To preserve and enhance the quality of life at home, with dignity and care.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Children's Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr20%25%20–35yr14%32%35–55yr13%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr20%16%20–35yr14%27%35–55yr13%39%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/30
the rest of the field
12%
5,438/45,893

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.

05the grantee network

28 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 49 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/28
Grantees still filing
23/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

American Heart Association Inc — $152,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association IncMEDIC ONE FOUNDATION — $132,500 · HealthMEDIC ONE FOUNDATIONSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $60,000 · HealthSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL+2 more — $2,300 · HealthRYTHER CHILD CENTER — $160,410 · OtherRYTHER CHILD CENTERSALVATION ARMY - SEATTLE — $81,300 · OtherSALVATION ARMY - SEATTLEBELLWETHER HOUSING — $26,309 · OtherBELLWETHER HOUSING+28 more — $48,260 · Other+28 moreAMARA — $165,000 · Human ServicesAMARAPARKVIEW SERVICES — $27,662 · Human ServicesPARKVIEW SERVICES+3 more — $6,960 · Human ServicesMaris Place — $150,779 · Youth DevelopmentMaris PlaceTEENS IN PUBLIC SERVICE — $46,000 · Youth DevelopmentTEENS IN PUBLIC SER…Seattle Police Foundation — $73,905 · Crime & LegalNW Childrens Foundation — $10,125 · Crime & LegalINSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY — $15,000 · Science & TechFairmount Park Elementary PTA — $5,000 · EducationNORTHWEST'S CHILD — $1,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORG — $824 · Education
Health$347,300Other$316,279Human Services$199,622Youth Development$196,779Crime & Legal$84,030Science & Tech$15,000Education$6,824

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMARA — $165,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $152,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMaris Place — $150,779 over 7y, 12% of budgetMEDIC ONE FOUNDATION — $132,500 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetSeattle Police Foundation — $73,905 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTEENS IN PUBLIC SERVICE — $46,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetPARKVIEW SERVICES — $27,662 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBELLWETHER HOUSING — $26,309 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNW Childrens Foundation — $10,125 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBAYVIEW MANOR FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFairmount Park Elementary PTA — $5,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY — $3,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIGHT CONNECTION — $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALASKAN AIDS ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $1,460 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST'S CHILD — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $824 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $700 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNTAINEERS — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD OF LIFE MISSION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA — $260 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 AMARA
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds Maris Place
  • Who funds MEDIC ONE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Seattle Police Foundation
  • Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
  • Who funds TEENS IN PUBLIC SERVICE
  • Who funds PARKVIEW SERVICES
  • Who funds BELLWETHER HOUSING
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
  • Who funds NW Childrens Foundation
  • Who funds BAYVIEW MANOR FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Fairmount Park Elementary PTA
  • Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY
  • Who funds SIGHT CONNECTION
  • Who funds ALASKAN AIDS ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  • Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
  • Who funds NORTHWEST'S CHILD
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds THE MOUNTAINEERS
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BREAD OF LIFE MISSION

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.

Seattle FoundationWA29.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · The Thomas and Michele Parsons Family Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Foss Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your 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
    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 · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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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    How do I get to The Foss Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Foss Family Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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