How much does The GreerSolien Fund give?

The GreerSolien Fund reported 34 grants totaling $138,829 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 59 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The GreerSolien Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (37%), Environment (21%), Philanthropy (12%).

Who are The GreerSolien Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Foundation for Western Washington University and Alumni ($465k), The Evergreen State College Foundation ($140k), Town Hall Association ($88k).

Does The GreerSolien Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The GreerSolien Fund 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 GreerSolien Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, The Bullitt Foundation, Stolte Family Foundation.

Where is The GreerSolien Fund based?

The GreerSolien Fund is based in DE.

The GreerSolien Fund

The GreerSolien Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

The GreerSolien Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$139k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$27k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k29 grants · $70k
$10k–50k5 grants · $69k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$836k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
TOWN HALL ASSOCIATION	$26,500
ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$12,000
COLLEGE SUCCESS FOUNDATION	$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS	$10,000
UC DAVIS FOUNDATION	$10,000
OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST	$7,500
ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER	$5,000
HUMANITY FUNDS	$5,000
SAVING GREAT ANIMALS	$5,000
ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$5,000
WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND	$5,000
AMERICAN RIVERS INC	$5,000
NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$5,000
CLIMATE SOLUTIONS	$2,500
ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$2,500

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 (FY17–25, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.

Where the work is directed

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

About 9% of The GreerSolien Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The GreerSolien Fundlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.6M · 74 repeat orgs$161k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

74 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.6M

$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%

+30%

Still filing today

97%

78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationAnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

FF
FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI
5× · 2017–2024 · $465k · revenue +6%
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THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION
6× · 2017–2023 · $140k · revenue +28%
OC
OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
8× · 2017–2025 · $76k · revenue +795%

Funded once

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

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.

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

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

Great Peninsula Conservancy

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

Environment

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

Western Resource Advocates

Western Resource Advocates (WRA) is a regional nonprofit advocacy organization fighting climate change and its impacts to sustain the environment, economy, and people of the West. As the region's go-to experts for more than three decades,…

Crime & Legal

Washington Wild

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

Animals

Northwest Environmental Defense Center

Nedc's mission is to work toward a future in which the pacific northwest leads the nation in developing, implementing & enforcing strong laws and regulations that protect the environment & human health, and where our governments &…

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Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development

Western Rivers Conservancy

Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…

Environment

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

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

Invest in Washington Now Campaign

Advocate for tax policy in Washington State

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Foundation; 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.

05the grantee network

131 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 131 of the 145 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)

129/131

Grantees still filing

89/131

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$732,500Environment$251,750Philanthropy$223,000Arts & Culture$202,600Other$422,279Animals$108,250Housing & Shelter$75,500

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 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

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

2024

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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, 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.

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.

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The camps

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By state

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