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The Kirkpatrick Family Foundation Co Kathleen M Pierce - Trustee at a glance

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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.

$154k
Granted FY2023
20
Grants FY2023
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.4MCrime & Legal$141kCommunity Improvement$131kPublic Benefit$109kHuman Services$90kEducation$56kHousing & Shelter$54kInternational$31kOther$0
02FY2023 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k16 grants · $99k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
$7,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEATTLE FOUNDATION$25,000
501 COMMONS$10,000
VENTURES$10,000
COMMON POWER FUTURE$10,000
FREEDOM EDUCATION PROJECT PUDGET SO$9,000
WASHINGTON STATE BUDGET POLICY CENT$8,000
PUDGET SOUND SAGE$8,000
ONE AMERICA$8,000
CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE$7,500
REAL CHANGE$7,500
HOPEWELL FUND$7,500
PARTNERS ASIA$7,000
Individual grant recipient$7,000
CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES$7,000
COMMUNITIES RISE$7,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%REAL CHANGE: $5k → 9%REAL CHANGE: $5k → 9%CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $3k → 9%CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $3k → 9%CHILD CARE RESOURCES: $5k → 9%CHILD CARE RESOURCES: $5k → 9%REAL CHANGE: $8k → 9%REAL CHANGE: $8k → 9%REAL CHANGE: $8k → 9%CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $8k → 9%REAL CHANGE: $6k → 9%REAL CHANGE: $6k → 9%CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $5k → 9%CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $5k → 9%CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $3k → 9%CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $3k → 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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$680k · 30 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
1

Total granted

$680k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+106%

Still filing today

73%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationCrime & LegalHuman ServicesCivil RightsPublic BenefitEnvironmentOther
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

  • VENTURES
    7× · 2017–2023 · $59k · revenue +65%
  • 5C
    501 Commons
    7× · 2017–2023 · $55k · revenue +566%
  • PS
    PUGET SOUND SAGE
    7× · 2017–2023 · $54k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • CP
    COMMON POWER FUTUREgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +106%
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
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

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…

Education
2
Washington Community Alliance

Washington Community Alliance WCA is a statewide network of over 70 organizations working to advance multiracial social democracy by coordinating values aligned civic engagement

Civil Rights
3
Economic Opportunity Institute

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.

Community Improvement
4
Washington Progress Fund

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…

Philanthropy
5
Washington Progress Alliance

Washington Progress Alliance is building a permanent and powerful social change movement in Washington State supported by a network of committed donors.

Community Improvement
6
Working Washington

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…

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7
Pathwaves Washington

Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.

Education
8
Rainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalition

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…

Community Improvement
9
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

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,…

Employment
10
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
11
JustLead Washington

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

Community Improvement
12
Re Sources

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.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is School's Out Washington; 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.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 33 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
25/27
Grantees still filing
20/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEATTLE FOUNDATION: $1,330,425 · PhilanthropySEATTLE FOUNDATION+1 more: $32,500 · PhilanthropyWASHINGTON STATE BUDGET POLICY CENT: $39,000 · OtherWASHINGTON STAT…CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES: $33,000 · OtherCATHOLIC COMMUN…Individual grant recipient: $22,125 · OtherIndividual gran…Womens Funding Alliance: $12,000 · OtherPUGET SOUND SAGE: $54,000 · OtherPUGET SOUND SAG…EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $14,000 · OtherCOMMON POWER FUTURE: $10,000 · OtherSankofa Impact: $10,000 · OtherPartners Asia: $31,000 · OtherPartners AsiaGot Green: $25,000 · OtherGot Green+7 more: $26,400 · Other+7 moreVENTURES: $59,000 · EducationNORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS: $42,000 · EducationCHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $14,000 · EducationCASA LATINA: $6,000 · EducationFREEDOM EDUCATION PROJECT PUGET SOUND: $47,000 · Crime & LegalCommunities Rise: $31,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalPURPOSE DIGNITY ACTION: $10,000 · Crime & LegalREAL CHANGE HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $44,500 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $29,500 · Human ServicesBrightspark Early Learning Services: $10,000 · Human ServicesONEAMERICA: $46,000 · Public BenefitTHE WASHINGTON STATE BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER: $10,000 · Public Benefit501 Commons: $54,500 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$1,362,925Other$276,525Education$121,000Crime & Legal$98,000Human Services$84,000Public Benefit$56,000Community Improvement$54,500

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 budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $1,330,425 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetVENTURES: $59,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budget501 Commons: $54,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPUGET SOUND SAGE: $54,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetFREEDOM EDUCATION PROJECT PUGET SOUND: $47,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetONEAMERICA: $46,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetREAL CHANGE HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $44,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS: $42,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $32,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCommunities Rise: $31,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPartners Asia: $31,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $29,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetGot Green: $25,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWomens Funding Alliance: $12,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMON POWER FUTURE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON STATE BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSankofa Impact: $10,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetPURPOSE DIGNITY ACTION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBrightspark Early Learning Services: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCASA LATINA: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTILTH ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST: $4,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMunicipal League Foundation: $3,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 COMMON POWER FUTURE ↗
  • Who funds THE WASHINGTON STATE BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Sankofa Impact ↗
  • Who funds PURPOSE DIGNITY ACTION ↗
  • Who funds Brightspark Early Learning Services ↗
  • Who funds CASA LATINA ↗
  • Who funds TILTH ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds PHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds Municipal League Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON ↗

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 FoundationThe Satterberg Founda…Gates FoundationUnited Way of King Co…Inatai FoundationRidge Road FoundationMedina FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Russell Family Fo…Impactassetsinc
Seattle FoundationWA39.1× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Kirkpatrick Family Foundation Co Kathleen M Pierce - Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kirkpatrick Family Foundation Co Kathleen M Pierce - Trustee. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.

    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 33 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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