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The Moraine 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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$5.4MEnvironment$2.8MEducation$2.7MHousing & Shelter$260kYouth Development$210kHuman Services$190kPublic Safety & Disaster$150kCivil Rights$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $331k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION$750,000
SEATTLE SYMPHONY$500,000
BISHOP BLANCHET HIGH SCHOOL$151,366
YWCA OF SEATTLE-KING-SNOHOMISH$130,000
NO MORE UNDER$50,000
REAL ESCAPE FROM THE SEX TRADE$30,000
COLLEGE SUCCESS FOUNDATION$30,000
ARTSFUND$30,000
NORTH HELPLINE$25,000
HIP HOP IS GREEN$20,000
WESTSIDE BABY$10,000
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 (FY24–25, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WESTSIDE BABY: $10k → 9%YWCA OF SEATTLE-KING-SNOHOMISH: $130k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $50k → 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 10 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
10

Total granted

$10M
$905k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+9%

Still filing today

60%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $421k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther
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

  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +3%
  • NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2019–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +10%
  • DICKINSON COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • SN
    SMITHSONIAN NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
    one grant, 2017 · $375k
  • DE
    Downtown Emergency Service Centergraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $225k · revenue +57%
  • D
    DESC
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
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
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
2
Artist Trust

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

Arts & Culture
3
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
4
Nexus Youth and Families

Restoring hope, building futures, and strengthening our communities through programs with youth, young adults and families. we support the behavioral health of at-risk and in-crisis youth across the greater south king county area. we take…

Human Services
5
Seattle University

Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.

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6
Seattle Architectural Foundation

The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…

Arts & Culture
7
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,…

—
8
Seattle Symphony Orchestra Inc

To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

—
11
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
12
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Womens Christian Association of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County; the most unlike its peers is Dickinson College. 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

18 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. 18 of the 27 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
9/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $3,000,071 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONBURKE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $1,325,138 · Arts & CultureBURKE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION+3 more: $60,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $2,750,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATIO…DICKINSON COLLEGE: $2,000,172 · EducationDICKINSON COLLEGECollege Success Foundation: $150,000 · EducationCollege Success Foun…+1 more: $25,000 · EducationSEATTLE SYMPHONY: $650,000 · OtherSEATTLE SYMPHONYSMITHSONIAN NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM: $375,000 · OtherSMITHSONIAN NATURAL…ST LUKE SCHOOL: $356,250 · OtherST LUKE SCHOOLBISHOP BLANCHET HIGH SCHOOL: $151,366 · OtherBISHOP BLANCHET HIG…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY - LOWELL ELEMENTARY: $110,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB…DESC: $100,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY - ROTARY BRANCH: $75,000 · Other+5 more: $165,000 · Other+5 moreDowntown Emergency Service Center: $225,000 · HealthHIP HOP IS GREEN: $20,000 · HealthYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $130,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871): $50,000 · Human ServicesWESTSIDE BABY: $10,000 · Human ServicesALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$4,385,209Environment$2,750,000Education$2,175,172Other$1,982,616Health$245,000Human Services$190,000Community Improvement$50,000

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 budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $3,000,071 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $2,750,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetDICKINSON COLLEGE: $2,000,172 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBURKE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $1,325,138 over 2y, 22% of budgetDowntown Emergency Service Center: $225,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCollege Success Foundation: $150,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871): $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNO MORE UNDER: $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetNorth Helpline: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetREAL ESCAPE FROM THE SEX TRADE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetARTSFUND: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwest Girl Choir: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetArts Corps: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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 FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Mightycause Charitabl…Grousemont FoundationGarneau Nicon Family …Moccasin Lake Foundat…Lucky Seven FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…Gates FoundationReal Progress Foundat…Employees Community F…Medina Foundation
Seattle FoundationWA27.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · Garneau Nicon Family Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Gates Foundation · Real Progress Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · 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 Moraine Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Moraine 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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

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    How do I get to The Moraine Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Moraine 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 27 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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