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The Map 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.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Civil Rights$27kHuman Services$9kReligion$5kArts & Culture$5kHealth$5kAnimals$4kEducation$4kCrime & Legal$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$78k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT$5,000
TRANSLATIN COALITION$1,000
MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY$1,000
ST JAMES IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE$1,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$1,000
HOLOCAUST CENTER FOR HUMANITY$500
SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$250
ST THERESE CATHOLIC ACADEMY$250
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 (FY17–25, $7k) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $2k → 9%THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $1k → 9%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $1k → 9%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $1k → 9%THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $350 → 9%THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $300 → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON: $1k → 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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$52k · 15 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
19

Total granted

$52k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+46%

Still filing today

87%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationAnimalsHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • NI
    NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT
    7× · 2019–2025 · $20k · revenue +85%
  • THE TRANSLATIN COALITION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +66%
  • TM
    THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY
    6× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • TD
    TEMPLE DE HIRSCH SINAI
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -19%
  • PP
    PIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -24%
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
Pro-Choice Washington

To protect and promote every persons right to access the full range of reproductive healthcare choices in Washington State, including safe and legal abortion, through education, advocacy, lobbying and coalition-building

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2
Disability Rights Washington

Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.

Human Services
3
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…

—
4
Fsc I&P

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.…

Philanthropy
5
We Heart Seattle

We Heart Seattle is an action-based, boots-on-the-ground movement that organizes trash cleanups in our public spaces and offers resources to those in need. Through our direct civic engagement we lead the way to a more compassionate and…

Community Improvement
6
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
7
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
8
Center for Environmental Law & Policy

The Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a statewide organization whose mission is to protect, preserve and restore Washington's waters through education, advocacy, policy reform, and public interest litigation.

Environment
9
Artist Trust

Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.

Arts & Culture
10
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center

KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…

—
11
Gender Justice League

Gender Justice League's mission is to empower all people to eliminate discrimination and prejudice based on sex, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation in Washington State, and to ensure that trans and gender diverse…

Civil Rights
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Public Library Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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

29 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. 29 of the 37 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
24/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT: $19,500 · OtherNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECTTEMPLE DE HIRSCH SINAI: $5,000 · OtherTEMPLE DE HIRSCH SINAIHolocaust Center For Humanity: $3,000 · OtherHolocaust Center For HumanityPATH WITH ART: $1,900 · Other+23 more: $17,300 · Other+23 moreTHE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $5,650 · Human ServicesTHE MOCKIN…Latino Community Fund of Washington State: $1,000 · Human ServicesLatino Com…THE TRANSLATIN COALITION: $6,000 · Civil RightsTHE TRANS…THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY: $2,000 · AnimalsTHREE LITTLE PITTIES RESCUE: $1,350 · AnimalsWildlife Conservation Society: $1,000 · AnimalsSEATTLE CLEMENCY PROJECT: $3,300 · Crime & LegalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $3,000 · InternationalTranslifeline DBA Trans Lifeline: $1,000 · HealthNATIONAL HARM REDUCTION COALITION: $1,000 · Health
Other$46,700Human Services$6,650Civil Rights$6,000Animals$4,350Crime & Legal$3,300International$3,000Health$2,000

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 budgetNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT: $19,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRANSLATIN COALITION: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $5,650 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHolocaust Center For Humanity: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPATH WITH ART: $1,900 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE LITTLE PITTIES RESCUE: $1,350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDHAVEN: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTranslifeline DBA Trans Lifeline: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLatino Community Fund of Washington State: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL HARM REDUCTION COALITION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Conservatory: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 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.

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 FoundationGrousemont FoundationCasey Family ProgramsThe Norcliffe Foundat…ArtsfundSteiner-Helsby Family…Loeb Charitable Found…The Bullitt FoundationMoccasin Lake Foundat…Medina FoundationGates FoundationImpactassetsinc
Seattle FoundationWA21.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · Casey Family Programs · The Norcliffe Foundation · Artsfund · Steiner-Helsby Family Foundation · Loeb Charitable Foundation · The Bullitt Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Medina Foundation · Gates 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 Map Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Map Foundation. 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
    6report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Map Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Map Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 37 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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