· Private foundation
The John C & Karyl Kay Hughes 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $390k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY | $682,000 |
| SEATTLE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $400,000 |
| CHURCH COUNCIL OF GREATER SEATTLE | $260,000 |
| SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $225,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $207,000 |
| FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER | $200,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $196,000 |
| NOAH CENTER | $150,000 |
| CARTER CENTER | $133,000 |
| 1ST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST | $125,000 |
| 12TH CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST | $100,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CASCADE PBS | $100,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $80,000 |
| COMPANIS | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $697k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
36 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 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
SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +400%- FHFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +27%
- TCTHE CARTER CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $993k · revenue +38%
Funded once
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.
Seattle children's hospital (seattle children's) will be an innovative leader in pediatric health and wellness through our unsurpassed quality, clinical care, relentless spirit of inquiry, and compassion for all children and their…
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.
Seattle children's healthcare system (schs) is engaged in activities relating to the provision of health care services to infants, children, and adolescents, delivering and improving the delivery and the quality of those services through…
Seattle children's foundation exists to improve the quality of health care services to infants, children, and adolescents through contributions to organizations providing health care services, research and education.
Children's university medical group (cumg) is the non-profit pediatric group practice established to support the academic, research and clinical missions of its corporate members, university of washington school of medicine (uwsom) and…
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,…
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.
Seattle international foundation (sif) champions equity and rule of law in central america through good governance and a robust civil society. sif works with other donors to the region to increase philanthropy and to promote collaboration,…
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
See schedule ofounded in 1973, city university of seattle's mission is to change lives for good by offering high quality and relevant lifelong education to anyone with the desire to learn. city university's vision is to provide underserved…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Public Library Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Seattle Yacht Club Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 36 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 SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Education ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KBTC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds QUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SAN JUAN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Seattle Yacht Club Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN ISLAND EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS ASSOCIATION ↗
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 · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 John C & Karyl Kay Hughes 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.
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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