· Private foundation
The Mary See Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER | $25,000 |
| THE 5TH AVENUE THEATRE ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| SAN JUAN ISLAND FIREFIGHTERS | $15,000 |
| VISION HOUSE | $10,000 |
| WASHINGTON WOMEN IN NEED | $10,000 |
| PEDIATRIC INTERIM CARE CENTER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| NEW HORIZONS | $10,000 |
| BACA | $10,000 |
| WESTSIDE NEIGHBOURS NETWORK SHELTER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| THE SOPHIA WAY | $10,000 |
| SAN JUAN COMM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY | $7,500 |
| WOMEN'S FUND FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $223k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 5 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- WWWashington Women in Need5× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +7%
- SFSEVA FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $65k · revenue +50%
- TSTHE SOPHIA WAY5× · 2020–2024 · $53k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- JLJOYCE L SOBEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +32%
- KCKYLER CARESone grant, 2023 · $8k
- SJSAN JUAN COMMUNITY HOME TRUSTone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -58%
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.
The organization operates primarily on the Southern Kenai Peninsula and its operations include the following:Community Mental Health - Counseling, evaluation, consultation and crisis mental health services for Adults and…
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,…
Seattle jobs initiative (sji) creates opportunities for people to support themselves and their families through living-wage careers.
SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
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 preserve and enhance the quality of life at home, with dignity and care.
Driving the creation of affordable housing for a more vibrant and equitable silicon valley.
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,…
To provide life long professional services to support all people with hearing or communication challenges in achieving their goals.
Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Transforming Justice and the most unlike its peers is Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. 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 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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 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.
32 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. 32 of the 57 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 Washington Women in Need ↗
- Who funds SEVA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SOPHIA WAY ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Pediatric Interim Care Center ↗
- Who funds VISION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds 5TH AVENUE THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LifeWire ↗
- Who funds College of the Desert Foundation ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERING STRIDES ↗
- Who funds ATTAIN HOUSING ↗
- Who funds JOYCE L SOBEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SAN JUAN ↗
- Who funds Project Open Hand ↗
- Who funds HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SKAGIT HOSPICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEAD FOR THE CURE FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Charis Fund · Washington Federal Foundation · United Way of King County · Byron & Alice Lockwood Foundation · Aven Foundation · Wilkins Charitable Foundation · Glaser Foundation Inc · NW Childrens Foundation · Medina Foundation
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 Mary See 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The Mary See Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Mary See 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.