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The Mary See Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$236k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$221kHuman Services$195kHealth$172kEducation$107kPublic Safety & Disaster$96kReligion$75kArts & Culture$67kInternational$65kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $148k
$7,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$25,000
FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$25,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
SAN JUAN EMT ASSOCIATION$13,000
SAN JUAN ISLAND FIREFIGHTERS$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
WESTSIDE NEIGHBOURS NETWORK SHELTER$10,000
BACA$10,000
NEW HORIZONS$10,000
WASHINGTON WOMEN IN NEED$10,000
THE SOPHIA WAY$10,000
COMMUNITY HOME TRUST$8,000
ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY$7,500
Individual grant recipient$7,500
SUMMER SEARCH$5,000
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 (FY20–25, $243k) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAM: $5k → 10%NEW HORIZONS: $10k → 9%NEW HORIZONS: $10k → 9%NEW HORIZONS: $10k → 9%SAN JUAN ISLAND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $20k → 10%NEW HORIZONS: $10k → 9%NEW HORIZONS: $10k → 9%NEW HORIZONS: $10k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $10k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $10k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $10k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $5k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $13k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $10k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $10k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $10k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $10k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $10k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $10k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $10k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $10k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $10k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $10k → 9%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAM: $5k → 9%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAM: $5k → 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 46 repeat orgs$130k to everyone else

46 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
11

Total granted

$1.4M
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+32%

Still filing today

57%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
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

  • WW
    Washington Women in Need
    6× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +7%
  • SF
    SEVA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $65k · revenue +50%
  • TS
    THE SOPHIA WAY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $63k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • JL
    JOYCE L SOBEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +32%
  • SJ
    SAN JUAN COMM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
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
Seattle Jobs Initiative

Seattle jobs initiative (sji) creates opportunities for people to support themselves and their families through living-wage careers.

Employment
2
South Peninsula Behavioral Health Services Inc

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…

Health
3
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
4
Southwest Youth and Family Services

SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.

Human Services
5
Siff

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.

Youth Development
6
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
7
Senior Life Resources Northwest

To preserve and enhance the quality of life at home, with dignity and care.

Human Services
8
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
9
Seattle Children's Guild Association

Seattle children's guild association advocates for seattle children's hospital through volunteer, philanthropic and community endeavors to ensure hope, excellent care and advanced cures for children.

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10
Sv Home

Driving the creation of affordable housing for a more vibrant and equitable silicon valley.

Housing & Shelter
11
Mary's Shelter

Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.

Human Services
12
Wayside House Inc

Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Transforming Justice; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the San Juan Island Library. 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

33 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. 33 of the 62 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
23/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $155,000 · OtherFAMILY RESOURCE CENTERWashington Women in Need: $80,000 · OtherWashington Women in NeedSAN JUAN ISLAND FIREFIGHTERS: $64,000 · OtherSAN JUAN ISLAND FIREFIGHTERSBACA: $47,000 · OtherSAN JUAN EMT ASSOCIATION: $42,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY: $35,000 · Other+36 more: $514,500 · Other+36 moreTHE SOPHIA WAY: $63,000 · Human ServicesTHE SOPHIA WAYNEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $60,000 · Human ServicesNEW HORIZONS MINI…VISION HOUSE: $50,000 · Human ServicesVISION HOUSELifeWire: $35,000 · Human ServicesLifeWireJOYCE L SOBEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $20,000 · Human ServicesJOYCE L SOBEL FAM…HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH…Pediatric Interim Care Center: $50,000 · HealthPediatric …EMPOWERING STRIDES: $23,000 · HealthEMPOWERING…Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $20,000 · HealthFred Hutch…SKAGIT HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthSKAGIT HOS…HEAD FOR THE CURE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthHEAD FOR T…NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $13,000 · HealthNATIONAL D…+1 more: $2,500 · HealthSEVA FOUNDATION: $65,000 · International5TH AVENUE THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $45,000 · Arts & CultureCollege of the Desert Foundation: $30,000 · EducationYOUTH TRANSFORMING JUSTICE: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationSUMMER SEARCH: $25,000 · Employment
Other$977,500Human Services$243,000Health$138,500International$65,000Arts & Culture$45,000Education$42,500Employment$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWashington Women in Need: $80,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetSEVA FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SOPHIA WAY: $63,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $60,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetVISION HOUSE: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPediatric Interim Care Center: $50,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budget5TH AVENUE THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLifeWire: $35,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCollege of the Desert Foundation: $30,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEMPOWERING STRIDES: $23,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetATTAIN HOUSING: $22,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetJOYCE L SOBEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF SAN JUAN: $18,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetPROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSKAGIT HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHEAD FOR THE CURE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetProject Open Hand: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH TRANSFORMING JUSTICE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSan Juan Islands Museum of Art: $5,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSAN JUAN COMMUNITY HOME TRUST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN AND YOUTH JUSTICE CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST LOS ANGELES WOMEN'S CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SAN JUAN ISLAND LIBRARY: $2,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE: $2,000 over 2y, 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 Washington Women in Need ↗
  • Who funds SEVA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE SOPHIA WAY ↗
  • Who funds NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds VISION HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Pediatric Interim Care Center ↗
  • Who funds 5TH AVENUE THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds LifeWire ↗
  • Who funds College of the Desert Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
  • Who funds EMPOWERING STRIDES ↗
  • Who funds ATTAIN HOUSING ↗
  • Who funds JOYCE L SOBEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF SAN JUAN ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds SKAGIT HOSPICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEAD FOR THE CURE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Project Open Hand ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗

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.

The Norcliffe Foundat…Seattle FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…Charis FundWashington Federal Fo…United Way of King Co…Byron & Alice Lockwoo…Aven FoundationWilkins Charitable Fo…Glaser Foundation IncNW Childrens Foundati…Medina Foundation
The Norcliffe FoundationWA27.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Mary See Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mary See Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    14report 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 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.

    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 62 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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