How much does The Gibson Family Foundation give?

The Gibson Family Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $230,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 44 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does The Gibson Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (43%), Human Services (19%), Education (10%).

Who are The Gibson Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Camp Korey ($83k), Westminster University ($48k), American Heart Association Inc ($48k).

Does The Gibson Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Gibson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Gibson Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, United Way of King County.

Where is The Gibson Family Foundation based?

The Gibson Family Foundation is based in WA.

The Gibson Family Foundation

The Gibson Family Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

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.

$230k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$20k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$559kHuman Services$255kEducation$126kPublic Benefit$93kHousing & Shelter$51kAnimals$49kFood & Nutrition$35kInternational$28kOther$0

02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k38 grants · $180k
$10k–50k4 grants · $50k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CAMP KOREY	$20,000
AMARA PARENTING AND ADOPTION SERVICE	$10,000
OPERATION SMILE	$10,000
WESTMINSTER COLLEGE	$10,000
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER	$8,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY	$8,000
PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION	$8,000
ALZHEIMERS DISEASE ASSOCIATION	$8,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION	$8,000
SUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION	$7,000
EVERGREEN FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC	$6,000
NORTHWEST HARVEST	$6,000
YOUTH EASTSIDE SERVICES	$6,000
HOPELINK	$6,000
YOUTHCARE	$5,000

02The need

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 (FY19–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.3M · 46 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.3M

$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

+5%

Still filing today

74%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther

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

AH
American Heart Association Inc
6× · 2019–2024 · $48k · revenue +43%
OS
OPERATION SMILE INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $48k · revenue +26%
PC
PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION
6× · 2019–2024 · $46k · revenue +57%

Funded once

SC
Seattle Children's Foundationgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +140%
RY
ROOTS YOUNG ADULT SHELTER
one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +5%
WW
WACAP World Association for Children and Parents
one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue 0%

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.

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health

School's Out Washington

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.

Youth Development

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health

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,…

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The George Washington University

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…

Education

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health

Uw Physicians Network

To improve the health of the public.

Education

Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services

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…

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Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho

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

Health

Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights

Children's Heartlink

We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evergreen Goodwill of Northwest Washington; 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.

04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 50 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

36/38

Grantees still filing

28/38

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$603,500Health$232,500Human Services$159,000Education$111,500Youth Development$106,500Animals$48,500International$48,000

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

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.

Seattle FoundationWA25.8× affinity11 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 · 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

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 Gibson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gibson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get 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

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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