· Private foundation
The Macrae Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $81k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THREE RING RANCH | $15,500 |
| MERCER ISLAND YOUTH&FAMILY SERVICES | $15,000 |
| HAMLIN ROBINSON SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| GEORGE POCOCK ROWING FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MERCER ISLAND SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SEATTLE ART MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| PITCH YOUR PEERS | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FIRCREST | $5,000 |
| SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE | $5,000 |
| MERCER ISLAND HIGH SCHOOL PTSA | $5,000 |
| BAINBRIDGE ISLAND ART MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE | $5,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $153k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
- SASEATTLE ART MUSEUM8× · 2017–2024 · $257k · revenue +0%
- TRTHREE RING RANCH8× · 2017–2024 · $121k · revenue +108%
- MIMERCER ISLAND YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $85k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- EREden Reforestation Projectsone grant, 2017 · $5k
- YCYMCA Camping Servicesone grant, 2017 · $5k
- EPEDEN PEOPLEPLANETone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -34%
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.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
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.…
The Island School provides a flexible learning environment where each child is known and celebrated.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
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.
To restore habitat, water quality and native species in the puget sound
The institutes's mission is to inspire environmental stewardship through transformative learning experiences in natures.
The primary goal is to help children & adults develop a commitment to lifelong learning & environmental and community stewardship through hands-on learning experiences combining science, technology, & the arts at islandwood's 255-acre…
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.
Seattle country day school is an independent, coeducational school serving kindergarten through eighth grade, inspiring gifted children to reach their potential through inquiry, curiosity, and wonder.
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercer Island Schools Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Macaw Rescue and Sanctuary. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
23 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. 23 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 SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THREE RING RANCH ↗
- Who funds MERCER ISLAND SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERCER ISLAND YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FIRCREST ↗
- Who funds Pitch Your Peers Seattle Inc ↗
- Who funds HAMLIN ROBINSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds MERCER ISLAND LACROSSE CLUB ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE INLAND NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds Conservation Lands Foundation ↗
- Who funds George Pocock Rowing Foundation ↗
- Who funds ISLAND CHORAL EXPERIENCE DBA HARMONY YOUTH COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MACAW RESCUE AND SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds EDEN PEOPLEPLANET ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Health in Harmony ↗
- Who funds PORT TOWNSEND MARINE SCIENCE CENTER ↗
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 Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Macrae 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.