· Private foundation
The Norcliffe Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k53 grants · $275k
- $10k–50k312 grants · $5.8M
- $50k–250k49 grants · $3.7M
- $250k+40 grants · $47M
Anchored by a single position — about 99% of reported assets are held in Paccar.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ONE ROOF STADIUM PARTNERSHIP FISCALLY SPONSORED BY SEATTLE CENTER FOUNDATIO | $7,112,025 |
| FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER | $4,820,920 |
| VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER | $3,000,000 |
| MARY'S PLACE | $2,367,120 |
| BISHOP BLANCHET HIGH SCHOOL | $2,130,843 |
| SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $2,000,000 |
| 5TH AVENUE THEATRE ASSOCIATION | $1,944,220 |
| SEATTLE SYMPHONY | $1,901,130 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA KENTUCKY | $1,650,000 |
| YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES | $1,500,000 |
| ARTSFUND | $1,446,276 |
| EVERGREENHEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,200,000 |
| MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS | $1,000,000 |
| THE ARC - KING COUNTY | $1,000,000 |
| OVERLAKE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $13.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 4% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% 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 87% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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 +14% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
484 repeat relationships — 281 still active in FY2025, 203 since wound down; 158 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17M 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
- TSTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY4× · 2021–2024 · $11M · revenue +35%
- FOFRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT3× · 2021–2023 · $7.5M · revenue +14%
- OHOVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2025 · $5.0M · revenue +20%
Funded once
- UPUNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ACADEMYone grant, 2022 · $2.5M · revenue +5%
- TYTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871)graduatedone grant, 2021 · $2.0M · revenue +46%
- THTHE HARING CENTERone grant, 2024 · $2.0M
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.
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…
House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…
Rainier Beach Action Coalition is a grassroot, Black-led organization devoted to locally driven development. It promotes quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing, and building community capacity in…
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…
Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.
Washington Bikes works to ensure that all who ride a bicycle in Washington have safe comfortable and convenient places to ride. Organization advocates for bicyclists rights and shapes policies.
Equip the public and public decision-makers with the policy research and practical tools they need to embed the values of fairness, care, and opportunity into the foundations of Washington's economy.
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
Founded in 1994, PSCS is a small, independent middle and high school located in the Chinatown/International District of downtown Seattle. PSCS is committed to co-creating a brave space for community-centered education, critical curriculum,…
We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…
Discover Your Northwest promotes the discovery of northwest public lands, enriches the experience of visitors and builds community stewardship of these special places today and for generations to come.
Washingtonians for Public banking promotes education and civic engagement on public banking and banking reform within Washington state. The organization organizes, educates, and advocates for the establishment of public banking, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Transformations By Seattle Angels and the most unlike its peers is Emergency Medical Services at the University of Washington. 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 27 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
874 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. 874 of the 1,110 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds OVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY ↗
- Who funds Maris Place ↗
- Who funds 5TH AVENUE THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) ↗
- Who funds MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE GIRLS' SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EVERGREENHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTSFUND ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds HAMLIN ROBINSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Housing Lopez ↗
- Who funds CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds BALLARD FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COMPASS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE ARC - KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TACOMAPIERCE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANIT ↗
- Who funds Pacific Lutheran University ↗
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: Medina Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Garneau Nicon Family Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · The Bamford Foundation · School's Out Washington · Dv & Ida McEachern Charitable Tr · Fales Foundation Trust · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn
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 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% 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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