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The GreerSolien Fund

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.

$252k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$703kEnvironment$394kPhilanthropy$225kArts & Culture$198kHousing & Shelter$94kAnimals$68kScience & Tech$33kCivil Rights$32kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$811k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND A$150,000
FRIENDS OF THE OLGA STORE BUILDING$25,000
L Collins$6,500
FRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS$5,000
AAPC FOUNDATION$5,000
ORCAS FAMILY CONNECTIONS$5,000
OCEANS INITIATIVE$5,000
FRACTURED ATLAS PRODUCTIONS INC$5,000
FUSE INNOVATION FUND$5,000
WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INCORPORATED$5,000
UC DAVIS FOUNDATION$5,000
TOWN HALL ASSOCIATION$3,000
CLIMATE SOLUTIONS$2,500
ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,500
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 (FY17–24, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GIVE FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 8%INDIASPORA: $3k → 16%ORCAS FAMILY CONNECTIONS: $5k → 10%ORCAS FAMILY CONNECTIONS: $5k → 10%ORCAS FAMILY CONNECTIONS: $5k → 10%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $5k → 17%ORCAS FAMILY CONNECTIONS: $5k → 10%BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $3k → 17%BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $1k → 17%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $1k → 9%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $1k → 9%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $1k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $5k → 9%ORCAS FAMILY CONNECTIONS: $2k → 10%HOPELINK: $3k → 9%HOPELINK: $3k → 9%HOPELINK: $1k → 9%HOPELINK: $1k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $5k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $3k → 9%MARYS PLACE SEATTLE: $1k → 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

WA
NY
MA
OR
CA
CO
WV
VA
MD
NM
SC
DC
AL
TX
FL

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 9% of The GreerSolien Fund’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.

The GreerSolien Fundlessmore 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 72 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

72 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
53

Total granted

$1.5M
$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+32%

Still filing today

97%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationAnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI
    5× · 2017–2024 · $465k · revenue +6%
  • TE
    THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2023 · $140k · revenue +28%
  • OC
    OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
    7× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +226%

Funded once

  • TA
    TURNOUT ACTIVISM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +133%
  • CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +40%
  • OD
    OREGON DESERT LAND TRUST
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -86%

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
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
2
Center for Environmental Law & Policy

The Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a statewide organization whose mission is to protect, preserve and restore Washington's waters through education, advocacy, policy reform, and public interest litigation.

Environment
3
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
4
Washington Wild

Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.

Animals
5
Friends of Seattle Waterfront

To bring people, communities, and resources together to ensure waterfront park thrives as a vibrant gathering space - uplifting locals, fostering connections and honoring seattle's natural beauty and stories.

Community Improvement
6
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
7
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
8
Invest in Washington Now Campaign

Advocate for tax policy in Washington State

9
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
10
Sustainable Path Foundation

Sustainable Path Foundation promotes sustainability and health in the Puget Sound region through collaborative approaches informed by scientific understanding and systems thinking.

Social Science
11
Spark Northwest

Founded in 2001, Spark Northwest accelerates the just transition to clean energy in the Pacific Northwest. Spark Northwest uses two primary strategies: (1) on-the-ground project consulting, focusing on communities with limited financial…

Environment
12
Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Coffelt Farm Stewards. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Food Banks and PantriesYouth Sports ProgramsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Community Arts CentersAnimal Rescue and ShelterPregnancy Support ServicesAddiction Recovery ServicesYouth Development ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyImmigrant Worker SupportLocal History MuseumsEnvironmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%10%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr18%35%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr15%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr18%30%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr15%29%55yr+

The field is 21% 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 0.8% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%1/126
the rest of the field
12%
4,744/38,842

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

123 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. 123 of the 137 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)
35
Early backer (in before they grew)
122/123
Grantees still filing
86/123
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI — $465,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSI…THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $140,000 · EducationTHE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATIONCollege Success Foundation — $60,750 · EducationCollege Success Foundation+14 more — $41,000 · Education+14 moreWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND — $43,500 · EnvironmentWASHINGTON CON…THE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST — $36,500 · EnvironmentTHE SAN JUAN P…Fuse Innovation Fund — $35,000 · EnvironmentFuse Innovatio…NEW VENTURE FUND — $31,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FU…AMERICAN RIVERS INC — $25,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN RIVER…Grist Magazine Inc — $15,000 · EnvironmentGrist Magazine…EARTHJUSTICE — $11,000 · EnvironmentOREGON DESERT LAND TRUST — $10,000 · Environment+15 more — $30,750 · Environment+15 moreORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $158,500 · PhilanthropyORCAS ISLAND…Washington Progress Fund — $16,000 · PhilanthropyWashington P…SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS — $10,000 · PhilanthropyPROJECT AKILAH INC — $8,500 · Philanthropy+4 more — $8,000 · PhilanthropyTown Hall Association — $61,750 · Arts & CultureTown Hall …FRIENDS OF THE OLGA STORE BUILDING — $50,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF…FRACTURED ATLAS INC — $18,500 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED …CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA — $18,000 · Arts & CultureCASCADE PU…CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE V…KUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO — $6,500 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $7,850 · Arts & CultureREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - UC DAVIS — $46,500 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSI…FRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS — $33,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE SAN JUAN…CLIMATE SOLUTIONS — $29,000 · OtherCLIMATE SOLUTIONSOPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $68,000 · OtherOPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRU…Oceans Initiative — $42,500 · OtherOceans InitiativeONEAMERICA — $14,000 · OtherEconomic Opportunity Institute — $15,000 · Other+49 more — $143,700 · Other+49 moreLONG LIVE THE KINGS — $43,500 · AnimalsSAVING GREAT ANIMALS — $12,000 · AnimalsTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY — $11,000 · AnimalsSAVE OUR WILD SALMON — $10,000 · AnimalsWild Orca — $6,000 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY — $3,250 · Animals+6 more — $11,500 · AnimalsORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER — $22,000 · Human ServicesYOUTHCARE — $12,500 · Human ServicesLatino Community Fund of Washington State — $7,500 · Human ServicesHOPELINK — $7,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE — $4,500 · Human ServicesTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC — $3,500 · Human ServicesTHE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY — $3,000 · Human ServicesINDIASPORA — $2,500 · Human ServicesGIVE FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · Human Services
Education$706,750Environment$237,750Philanthropy$201,000Arts & Culture$172,600Other$391,700Animals$97,250Human Services$70,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI — $465,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $158,500 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetTHE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $140,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetOPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $68,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetTown Hall Association — $61,750 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCollege Success Foundation — $60,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE OLGA STORE BUILDING — $50,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND — $43,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetLONG LIVE THE KINGS — $43,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetOceans Initiative — $42,500 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetTHE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST — $36,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetFuse Innovation Fund — $35,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS — $33,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $31,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE SOLUTIONS — $29,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER — $22,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $18,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA — $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWashington Progress Fund — $16,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGrist Magazine Inc — $15,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEconomic Opportunity Institute — $15,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetONEAMERICA — $14,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTHCARE — $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAVING GREAT ANIMALS — $12,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUSEPPA ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $10,500 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetTURNOUT ACTIVISM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE OUR WILD SALMON — $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOREGON DESERT LAND TRUST — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT AKILAH INC — $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPATIENTS FOR AFFORDABLE DRUGS — $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLatino Community Fund of Washington State — $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOPELINK — $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPUGET SOUND SAGE — $7,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO — $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWild Orca — $6,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION — $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAAPC Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNW ENERGY COALITION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetISLAND CONSERVATION — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSALISH CURRENT — $5,000 over 2y, 2.9% 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.

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 FoundationWA72.8× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Bullitt Foundation · Stolte Family Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Kaleidoscope Foundation · Ridge Road Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Russell Family Foundation · Gates Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Orcas Island Community Foundation · Grousemont Foundation

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 GreerSolien Fund 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 · 80%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 22%
  • Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc69% of income from government
  • Xerces Society Inc22% of income from government
  • Paws Lee County Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The GreerSolien Fund?

Find your warmest path to The GreerSolien Fund 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 137 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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