How much did THE NORCLIFFE FOUNDATION grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of THE NORCLIFFE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

remodelcookingcovid responsecommunicationsconnect casinocasino roadsalvation army

2022

seniorspathsoutheast seattlecamp fireaffordable seniorpeninsulaanacortes

2023

improvementsanimalnativefood purchasingwestmauibridge

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 398 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k147 grants · $701k
$10k–50k211 grants · $3.3M
$50k–250k19 grants · $2.3M
$250k+21 grants · $17M

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$815M

Total assets

Largest grants

FRIENDS OF WATERFRONT SEATTLE$2,636,970
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION$2,136,970
WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$2,000,000
FULCRUM FOUNDATION$1,051,625
SEATTLE AQUARIUM$1,000,000
CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA$1,000,000
SEATTLE'S UNION GOSPEL MISSION$1,000,000
OUTDOORS FOR ALL FOUNDATION$750,000
O'DEA HIGH SCHOOL$750,000
EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA$600,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WASHINGTON STATE ASSOCIATION$500,000
CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON$500,000
KNKX$500,000
SEATTLE'S UNION GOSPEL MISSION$500,000
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE$415,000

02The need

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 (FY21–23, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 10%. 4% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 5% of THE NORCLIFFE FOUNDATION’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 89% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

THE NORCLIFFE FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 3.8% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$39M · 208 repeat orgs$32M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +52% for the ones you funded once.

208 repeat relationships — 150 still active in FY2023, 58 since wound down; 234 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

208

215

Total granted

$39M

$19M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%

+52%

Still filing today

66%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

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OVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
2× · 2021–2022 · $2.0M · revenue +121%
PH
PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP
2× · 2021–2022 · $2.0M · revenue +196%
BALLARD FOOD BANK
2× · 2021–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +223%

Funded once

UP
UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ACADEMYgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $2.5M · revenue +44%
YO
YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE
one grant, 2021 · $2.0M
UO
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $1.6M

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.

Skagit Gleaners

Food recovery for low income families over 600 families served

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Friends of Seattle Waterfront

To support, through outreach, fundraising and stewardship, the City's Waterfront Seattle project: Creation of a park along the central shoreline to benefit the public

Community Improvement

Recovery Cafe Skagit

Provide a safe, healing, and restorative community that empowers long-term transformation

Education

Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - Tag

Elevate the voice of those impacted by the Duwamish River pollution and other environmental injustices for a clean, healthy, equitable environment for people and wildlife. We promote place-keeping and prioritize communit

Environment

We Heart Seattle

We Heart Seattle is an action-based, boots-on-the-ground movement that organizes trash cleanups in our public spaces and offers resources to those in need. Through our direct civic engagement we lead the way to a more compassionate and…

Community Improvement

Artist Trust

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

Arts & Culture

Washington Bikes

The organization advocates for the rights of people who ride bikes and holds officials accountable working with them to shape policies.

Recreation & Sports

Eastside Pathways

Transforming the way our community stakeholders work together, harnessing and aligning our individual and collective experience, to positively impact the lives of children and youth; intergenerationaly. we mobilize individuals and public,…

Education

Seattle Architectural Foundation

The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design and history of Seattle. We provide entertaining workshops, dynamic tours, educational seminars and enthusiastic community advocacy. Through our programs and…

Arts & Culture

Southwest Washington Equity Coalition

The Southwest Washington Equity Coalition advances racial equity through dismantling structural white supremacy, creating transformational action, and advocating for our community. We remain rooted in Re-Indigenization, Black Liberation,…

Civil Rights

Dispute Resolution Center of Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties

To build long-lasting conflict solutions between to people and groups across Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties.

Crime & Legal

Economic Opportunity Institute

EOI works to make Washington state a national model of economic opportunity with an economy that truly works for everyone.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Making a Difference Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mount Baker Theatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.2%1/457

the rest of the field

12%

2,533/22,027

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.

06the grantee network

443 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

182

Early backer (in before they grew)

434/443

Grantees still filing

352/443

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$48,535,007Education$9,466,776Human Services$3,486,500Arts & Culture$3,431,500Housing & Shelter$2,943,000Health$2,377,000Recreation & Sports$1,100,000

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.

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.

Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE174.5× affinity157 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Medina Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Garneau Nicon Family Foundation · School's Out Washington · Fales Foundation Trust · United Way of King County · Dv & Ida McEachern Charitable Tr · The Satterberg Foundation Inc

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 organisation THE NORCLIFFE 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SOUND COMMUNITIES.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 844541349 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SOUND COMMUNITIES, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Norcliffe Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Norcliffe Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE NORCLIFFE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

443 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Norcliffe Foundation?

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THE NORCLIFFE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

443 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Norcliffe Foundation?

More from the funding graph