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The Martin Fabert 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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$103k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Environment$1.5MFood & Nutrition$225kArts & Culture$205kEducation$198kCivil Rights$153kHuman Services$150kInternational$150kPhilanthropy$150kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $558k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $538k
$20,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Realize Impact$102,565
United Way of Pierce County$100,000
Great Peninsula Conservacy$100,000
Bainbridge Island Land Trust$85,000
Green Forest Work$50,000
Sierra Club Foundation$50,000
Sustainable Northwest$50,000
National Marine Sanctuary$48,000
NW Immigrant Rights Project$40,000
Northwest Outward Bound School$40,000
Forterra NW$25,000
Healing Soils Foundation$25,000
Alaska Wilderness League$25,000
Living Lands and Waters$25,000
Earthjustice Gift Processing Center$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Remake: $5k → 10%Byrd Barr Place: $10k → 9%Realize Impact: $103k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
IL
MI
OR
CA
MO
KY
MD
NC
DC
LA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 30 repeat orgs$998k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
14

Total granted

$2.2M
$190k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+11%

Still filing today

80%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $808k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureInternationalAnimalsFood & NutritionEducationOther

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

  • BI
    BAINBRIDGE ISLAND LAND TRUST
    4× · 2022–2025 · $340k · revenue +31%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $188k · revenue +11%
  • FN
    FORTERRA NW
    4× · 2022–2025 · $100k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF COOPER ISLANDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +89% · 33% of their budget
  • BF
    BLACK FARMER FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +113%
  • HF
    Healthcare for all WA - Education Fund
    one grant, 2020 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Washington Wild

Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.

Animals
3
Puget Sound Restoration Fund

To restore habitat, water quality and native species in the puget sound

Environment
4
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
5
Western Rivers Conservancy

Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…

Environment
6
Whatcom Land Trust

The mission of the Whatcom Land Trust is to preserve and protect wildlife habitat, scenic, agricultural and open space lands in Whatcom County for future generations by securing interests in land and promoting land stewardship.

Environment
7
Council of Western State Foresters

The council of western state foresters (cwsf) promotes the conservation, protection, and sustainable management of forests for today and generations to come by leading collective action, fostering learning, facilitating resource sharing,…

Environment
8
Washington Wildlife & Recreation Coalition

Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.

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9
Stewardship Partners

Stewardship Partners helps private landowners restore and preserve the natural landscapes of WA State. We collaborate with diverse interest groups to build bridges and find solutions that achieve mutual goals of environmental protection,…

Environment
10
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
11
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
12
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Forterra Nw and the most unlike its peers is Maris Place. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLand Conservation Organizat…United Way FederationsGovernment Accountability R…Legal Aid & Immigration Ser…Urban Agriculture & Food Ac…Food Pantries & AssistanceAnimal Rescue and AdoptionEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%12%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr18%34%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr15%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr18%44%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr15%12%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/54
the rest of the field
12%
4,745/38,914

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.

04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 70 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
35/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND LAND TRUST — $340,000 · EnvironmentBAINBRIDGE ISLAND LAND TRUSTALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE — $125,000 · EnvironmentALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUEGREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCY — $100,000 · EnvironmentGREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCYFORTERRA NW — $100,000 · EnvironmentFORTERRA NWTHE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION — $80,000 · EnvironmentTHE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATIONPCC FARMLAND TRUST — $50,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EnvironmentGREEN FORESTS WORK INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION — $48,000 · EnvironmentDuwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG — $42,500 · EnvironmentTACOMA TREE FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Environment+3 more — $60,000 · Environment+3 moreBainbridge Island Land Trust - Acquisitions — $200,000 · OtherBainbridge Island Land Trust - AcquisitionsNW Immigrant Rights Projects — $105,000 · OtherNW Immigrant Rights ProjectsSamaritan Center of Puget Sound — $100,000 · OtherSamaritan Center of Puget SoundWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION — $55,000 · OtherEastWest Food Rescue — $85,000 · OtherEastWest Food RescueNEIGHBORCARE HEALTH — $50,000 · OtherCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $50,000 · OtherSUSTAINABLE NORTHWEST — $50,000 · Other+29 more — $545,500 · Other+29 morePATH — $80,000 · InternationalMercy Corps — $70,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $62,500 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $20,000 · InternationalUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $188,000 · EducationFARM ACTION — $10,000 · EducationSOUTH SOUND READING FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY — $100,000 · PhilanthropySEATTLE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · PhilanthropyAUBURN FOOD BANK — $30,000 · PhilanthropyARTSFUND — $55,000 · Arts & CultureKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO — $45,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE THEATRE GROUP — $20,000 · Arts & CultureCASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA — $20,000 · Arts & CultureInvestigateWest — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureRealize Impact — $102,565 · Human ServicesBYRD BARR PLACE — $30,000 · Human ServicesRemake — $5,000 · Human Services
Environment$1,085,500Other$1,240,500International$232,500Education$208,000Philanthropy$180,000Arts & Culture$160,000Human Services$137,565

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBAINBRIDGE ISLAND LAND TRUST — $340,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $188,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE — $125,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFORTERRA NW — $100,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY — $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetEastWest Food Rescue — $85,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPATH — $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMercy Corps — $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $62,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION — $55,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetARTSFUND — $55,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPCC FARMLAND TRUST — $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREEN FORESTS WORK INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORCARE HEALTH — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDuwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG — $42,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSEA MAR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTACOMA TREE FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetAUBURN FOOD BANK — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPrince William Sound Science & Technology Institute — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBYRD BARR PLACE — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK — $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEALING SOILS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF INDIANA AND KENTUCKY INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF COOPER ISLAND — $25,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetBLACK FARMER FUND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLIVING LANDS & WATERS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSEATTLE THEATRE GROUP — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF KEXP — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHICAGO COMMUNITY BOND FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH SOUND READING FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetRemake — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTH SEATTLE EMERALD — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMaris Place — $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
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.

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.

Seattle FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…M J Murdock Charitabl…The Norcliffe Foundat…Grousemont FoundationThe Satterberg Founda…ImpactassetsincThe Bullitt FoundationThe Russell Family Fo…Greater Tacoma Commun…Inatai FoundationPatagoniaorg
Seattle FoundationWA43.5× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Norcliffe Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · The Bullitt Foundation · The Russell Family Foundation · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Inatai Foundation · Patagoniaorg

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 Martin Fabert 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • National Marine Sanctuary Foundation — 88% of income from government
  • Sustainable Northwest — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Martin Fabert Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Martin Fabert 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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