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The Munson Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Oregon State Foundation | $36,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of North Lake Tahoe | $28,000 |
| Crisis Intervention Services | $21,000 |
| Neighbors Nourishing Neighbors | $10,000 |
| Aunt Dot's Place | $10,000 |
| CASA-Voices for Children | $9,000 |
| Achieve Tahoe | $6,000 |
| Foster and Heart | $5,000 |
| Arbor Day Foundation | $5,000 |
| Boise Rescue Mission Ministries | $5,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northern Sierra | $5,000 |
| Neighborcare Health | $2,500 |
| Washington Kids in Transition | $2,500 |
| Edmonds Food Bank | $2,500 |
| Girls on the Run Snohomish County | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +68% since the first grant, against +61% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CICRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES DBA SIERRA COMMUNITY HOUSE9× · 2017–2025 · $163k · revenue +248%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH LAKE TAHOE9× · 2017–2025 · $153k · revenue +102%
Oregon State University Foundation4× · 2017–2020 · $87k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- KRKaplan Research Fund - Swedish Hospital Foundationone grant, 2017 · $10k
- KCKITSAP COMMUNITY RESOURCESgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +61%
- NNNeighbors Nourishing Neighborsone grant, 2023 · $8k
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.
West Seattle Food Bank strengthens the community through the power of neighbors helping neighbors, working to ensure all in our community have access to the essential necessities of living.
Create and support mentoring matches that ignite the power and promise of youth.
To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska supports families with seriously ill children by providing a caring home-away-from-home at the SEattle Ronald McDonald House and operating a house and a van service in…
To provide food to individuals in need with compassion, dignity and respect. No one needing assistance is turned away.
Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…
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,…
Sierra Nevada Children's Services enhances the community by supporting quality childcare and empowering families to aspire to life-long success.
Community health center of snohomish county (chc) provides our diverse communities with access to high quality, affordable primary health care.
Our mission is to provide a variety of food products to families and individuals who are in need. We are open one day a week.
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crisis Intervention Services Dba Sierra Community House and the most unlike its peers is Foster and Heart. 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 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 51 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 CRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES DBA SIERRA COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH LAKE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds HARMONY HILL OF UNION ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds CASA-VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS NOURISHING NEIGHBORS ↗
- Who funds Aunt Dot's Place Inc ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds KIDVANTAGE ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Nevada Cnty ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT MANA ↗
- Who funds SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHERN SIERRA ↗
- Who funds EDMONDS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF VERMONT ↗
- Who funds KITSAP COMMUNITY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds FOSTER AND HEART ↗
- Who funds Arts For The Schools dba Fox Cultural Hall ↗
- Who funds HEALTHPOINT ↗
- Who funds KITSAP MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds KINGSTON CARES ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Jubilee REACH ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
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: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Kitsap Community Foundation · Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Martis Camp Community Foundation Dba Martis Camp Foundation · Glassybaby White Light Fund · The Norcliffe Foundation · Hazel Miller Foundation · Community Foundation of Snohomish County · Tahoe Community Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company
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 Munson Family 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.
- Casa-Voices for Children — 20% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc — 16% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.
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