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The Gibson 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k38 grants · $180k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP KOREY | $20,000 |
| OPERATION SMILE | $10,000 |
| WESTMINSTER COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| AMARA PARENTING AND ADOPTION SERVICE | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $8,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS DISEASE ASSOCIATION | $8,000 |
| FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER | $8,000 |
| PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $8,000 |
| SUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| NORTHWEST HARVEST | $6,000 |
| HOPELINK | $6,000 |
| EVERGREEN FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC | $6,000 |
| YOUTH EASTSIDE SERVICES | $6,000 |
| AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- OSOPERATION SMILE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $48k · revenue +26%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $48k · revenue +43%
- PCPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $46k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- SCSeattle Children's Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +140%
- RYROOTS YOUNG ADULT SHELTERone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +5%
- WWWACAP World Association for Children and Parentsone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue 0%
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.
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
School's out washington (sowa) drives positive systemic change so that all washington's children and youth, particularly those furthest from justice, have access to a robust ecosystem of high-quality expanded learning programs.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
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,…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
To improve the health of the public.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
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…
To provide exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education, and advocacy for all.
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evergreen Goodwill of Northwest Washington and the most unlike its peers is Choices Education Group. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 54 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 50 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 CAMP KOREY ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds HOPELINK ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN FREEDOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Youth Eastside Services ↗
- Who funds THE OVERLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MARY'S PLACE SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds Tholos Foundation ↗
- Who funds PASADO'S SAFE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN GOODWILL OF NORTHWEST WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds EdChoice Inc ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
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 · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · United Way of King County · Lynn and Bruce Gibson Foundation · The Foster Foundation · Elizabeth a Lynn Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Anderson Foundation · NW Childrens Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company
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 Gibson 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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