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The Harry B and Betty M Corliss Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Harry B and Betty M Corliss Foundation

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.

$67k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Human Services$227kEducation$144kHealth$45kRecreation & Sports$38kReligion$20kInternational$20kArts & Culture$15kPublic Benefit$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $62k
$16,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY$36,000
SUMNER-BONNEY LAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$16,000
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$10,000
SUNDANCE CIRCLE HIPPOTHERAPY FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY22–25, $222k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MOMS FOR AMERICA: $5k → 14%MISSION PRE-BORN INC: $5k → 16%MISSION PRE-BORN INC: $5k → 16%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KIT: $200k → 9%SUNDANCE CIRCLE HIPPOTHERAPY FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%TEARS FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

WA
ID
NY
IN
UT
MO
AZ
NC
TX
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.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$183k · 9 repeat orgs$356k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
15

Total granted

$183k
$305k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
0%

Still filing today

78%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CC
    Cascade Christian Schools
    3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +17%
  • TP
    TURNING POINT USA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +41%
  • RS
    REALITY SPORTS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIESgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +88%
  • BL
    BONNEY LAKE BASEBALL ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +27%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · 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.

1
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
2
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
3
Seattle Christian School Association

Seattle christian schools is committed to providing a premier, christ-centered education for k-12 students. blessed with a legacy of over 70 years of god's provision and leading, students benefit from an unparalleled educational…

Education
4
Seattle University

Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.

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5
Hunter Classical Christian School

Provide an education to children in lower and middle school using classical christian methodology.

Education
6
Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center Inc

We, saint alphonsus health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. saint alphonsus regional medical center is a member of saint…

Health
7
Saint John's Cancer Institute

To support research and development of, and education in, the basic and clinical sciences for the prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer.

Health
8
Trinity Academy of Portland

The mission of trinity academy of portland is to educate middle and high school students within a joyful christian school culture marked by the discovery of truth, the practice of goodness, the creation of beauty, and the development of…

Education
9
Providence Health & Services - Washington

As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.

Health
10
Lincoln Memorial University

Lincoln memorial university is a values-based learning community dedicated to providing educational experiences in the liberal arts and professional studies.

Education
11
Valor Christian High School in

To educate students in a biblical worldview, to high academic standards, with good character, as preparation to live victorious lives as christian adults.

Education
12
Legacy Meridian Park Hospital

Legacy Meridian Park Hospital (LMPH), established in 1973, is a community hospital in Tualatin, OR, south of Portland with 150 licensed beds. LMPH serves the needs of the fast growing communities of Tualatin, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sherwood,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Turning Point Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Corner Canyon Trails. 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

22 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. 22 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
11/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $200,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AN…Mission Pre-Born Inc: $10,000 · Human Services+3 more: $11,500 · Human ServicesBOISE STATE UNIVERSITY: $36,000 · OtherBOISE STATE UNIVERSITYCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20,000 · OtherCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICESBONNEY LAKE BASEBALL ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · OtherBONNEY LAKE BASEBALL ASSOCIATIO…TURNING POINT USA INC: $15,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INCSOUTH MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherSOUTH MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY CHURCHHELEN B MURRAY ONCOLOGY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherHELEN B MURRAY ONCOLOGY FOUNDAT…HUNTSMAN MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherHUNTSMAN MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATI…CALVARY COMMUNITY CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherGoodRoots Northwest: $5,000 · OtherSumner Rotary Club Foundation: $5,000 · Other+1 more: $3,000 · OtherSUMNER-BONNEY LAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $48,000 · EducationSUMNER-BONNEY LAKE EDU…Cascade Christian Schools: $30,000 · EducationCascade Christian Scho…WATERFORD SCHOOL HOLDING CORPORATION: $15,000 · EducationWATERFORD SCHOOL HOLDI…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL …TORCH OF FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $20,000 · ReligionREALITY SPORTS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsHALE CENTRE THEATRE: $15,000 · Arts & CultureFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $5,000 · HealthINTERMOUNTAIN FRONT RANGE INC: $5,000 · Health
Human Services$221,500Other$149,000Education$108,000Religion$20,000Recreation & Sports$15,000Arts & Culture$15,000Health$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCascade Christian Schools: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBONNEY LAKE BASEBALL ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREALITY SPORTS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWATERFORD SCHOOL HOLDING CORPORATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHALE CENTRE THEATRE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMission Pre-Born Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHELEN B MURRAY ONCOLOGY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetHUNTSMAN MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGoodRoots Northwest: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSundance Circle Hippothery Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTORCH OF FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSumner Rotary Club Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetINTERMOUNTAIN FRONT RANGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMoms for America Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCORNER CANYON TRAILS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTears Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

Korum for Kids Founda…Names Family Foundati…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Korum for Kids FoundationWA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Korum for Kids Foundation · Names Family Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Harry B and Betty M Corliss Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Harry B and Betty M Corliss Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
    2report 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, 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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