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The Kirkpatrick Family Foundation Co Kathleen M Pierce - Trustee
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Kirkpatrick Family Foundation Co Kathleen M Pierce - Trustee’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Seattle Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Kirkpatrick Family Foundation Co Kathleen M Pierce - Trustee named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $154k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k16 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEATTLE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| VENTURES | $10,000 |
| 501 COMMONS | $10,000 |
| COMMON POWER FUTURE | $10,000 |
| FREEDOM EDUCATION PROJECT PUDGET SO | $9,000 |
| PUDGET SOUND SAGE | $8,000 |
| ONE AMERICA | $8,000 |
| WASHINGTON STATE BUDGET POLICY CENT | $8,000 |
| REAL CHANGE | $7,500 |
| HOPEWELL FUND | $7,500 |
| CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| COMMUNITIES RISE | $7,000 |
| PARTNERS ASIA | $7,000 |
| NORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS | $7,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $84k) 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 your grants land in higher-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.
30 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2023, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
VENTURES7× · 2017–2023 · $59k · revenue +65%- 5C501 Commons7× · 2017–2023 · $55k · revenue +566%
- PSPUGET SOUND SAGE7× · 2017–2023 · $54k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- CPCOMMON POWER FUTUREgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +106%
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.
Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…
Washington Community Alliance WCA is a statewide network of over 70 organizations working to advance multiracial social democracy by coordinating values aligned civic engagement
Equip the public and public decision-makers with the policy research and practical tools they need to embed the values of fairness, care, and opportunity into the foundations of Washington's economy.
Washington Progress Fund is building a permanent and powerful social change movement in Washington state supported by a network of committed donors. WPF envisions a Washington state where government serves the public interest and we all…
Washington Progress Alliance is building a permanent and powerful social change movement in Washington State supported by a network of committed donors.
We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…
Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.
Rainier Beach Action Coalition is a grassroot, Black-led organization devoted to locally driven development. It promotes quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing, and building community capacity in…
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
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…
JustLead Washington is growing a sustainable network of community leaders who can effectively and collaboratively work toward equity and justice with low-income and marginalized individuals and communities throughout WA
RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is School's Out Washington and the most unlike its peers is Womens Funding Alliance. 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.
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 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
27 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. 27 of the 33 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 SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VENTURES ↗
- Who funds 501 Commons ↗
- Who funds PUGET SOUND SAGE ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM EDUCATION PROJECT PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds ONEAMERICA ↗
- Who funds REAL CHANGE HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds Communities Rise ↗
- Who funds Partners Asia ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Got Green ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Womens Funding Alliance ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON STATE BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Sankofa Impact ↗
- Who funds Brightspark Early Learning Services ↗
- Who funds PURPOSE DIGNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON POWER FUTURE ↗
- Who funds CASA LATINA ↗
- Who funds TILTH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds Municipal League Foundation ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON ↗
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 · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Gates Foundation · United Way of King County · Inatai Foundation · Ridge Road Foundation · Medina Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Russell Family Foundation · Impactassetsinc
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 Kirkpatrick Family Foundation Co Kathleen M Pierce - Trustee 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.