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The Nysether Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$605k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$2.6MYouth Development$1.9MAnimals$1.7MHealth$1.5MHuman Services$1.1MEducation$890kArts & Culture$889kEmployment$581kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $450k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$50,000
PROVIDENCE HOSPICE AND HOME CARE$25,000
SCOUTING AMERICA MOUNT BAKER COUNCIL #606$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$25,000
SKAGIT REGINOAL HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS- SNOHOMISH COUNTY CHAPTER$25,000
WONDERLAND CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES$25,000
MARI'S PLACE$25,000
MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND INDUSTRY$25,000
CHILD STRIVE$25,000
SEATTLE AQUARIUM$25,000
DOWN SYNDROME CENTER OF PUGET SOUND$25,000
VILLAGE THEATRE$25,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $234k) 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.

area typical 7%THE TEARS FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%SUMMIT ASSISTANCE DOGS: $15k → 11%SUMMIT ASSISTANCE DOGS: $5k → 11%PARKVIEW SERVICES: $25k → 9%PARKVIEW SERVICES: $15k → 9%PARKVIEW SERVICES: $15k → 9%PARKVIEW SERVICES: $9k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 9%TWO HEARTS PREGNANCY AID: $25k → 9%QUILCEDA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25k → 9%ARLINGTON KIDS KLOSET: $50k → 9%ARLINGTON KIDS KLOSET: $5k → 9%ARLINGTON KIDS KLOSET: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.2M · 43 repeat orgs$864k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

43 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
21

Total granted

$9.2M
$639k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+17%

Still filing today

77%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • WP
    WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +112%
  • MB
    MOUNT BAKER COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    3× · 2021–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +2% · 36% of their budget
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $753k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • CH
    COCOON HOUSE
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -28%
  • PG
    PROVIDENCE GENERAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -24%
  • SV
    SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL
    one grant, 2023 · $50k

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.

1
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
2
Easter Seals Washington

Easterseals Washington is changing the way the world defines and views disabilities by making profound, positive differences in peoples lives every day. We enrich education, enhance health, expand employment, and elevate our community.

Health
3
Skagit Preschool and Resource Center

Programs for children with special needs from birth to six. sparc offers opportunities for family education, participation and support so that familiies may become more knowledgeable about their childs needs and goals are are better able…

Education
4
Disability Rights Washington

Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.

Human Services
5
Washington Wildlife & Recreation Coalition

Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.

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6
Discover Your Northwest

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.

Recreation & Sports
7
Washington Vocational Services

To provide job development, job seeking skills and job placement for persons with disabilities. we are dedicated to providing outstanding quality services that result in successful community involvement and employment for persons with…

Employment
8
Special Olympics Washington

Mission: to provide inclusive sports, health, and leadership programs that enable individuals with idd to develop skills, improve health, and participate fully in their communities.vision: to be the leading organization in washington state…

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9
Cowiche Canyon Conservancy

Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.

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10
Washington Bikes

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.

Recreation & Sports
11
Wild Whatcom

Wild Whatcom's mission is to foster lifelong connections with nature and community through outdoor exploration and service.

Education
12
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…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alaska & Washington and the most unlike its peers is Helping Hands Ministries. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyImmigrant & Refugee Communi…Christian Missionary Organi…Youth & Family Support Serv…Pacific Northwest Conservat…Independent Schools and Ear…Supportive Housing and Serv…Animal Rescue and WelfareFaith-Based Health & HealingLive Performance & Arts Org…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 43 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr18%32%20–35yr12%38%35–55yr12%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr18%38%20–35yr12%31%35–55yr12%30%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/57
the rest of the field
13%
2,122/15,860

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.

04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 74 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
39/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Community Foundation of Snohomish County — $2,525,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation of …ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF EVERETT — $200,508 · PhilanthropyASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF EVE…YMCA OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $620,000 · OtherYMCA OF SNOHOMISH COUNTYPROVIDENCE GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $290,000 · OtherPROVIDENCE GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDAT…PAWS — $190,000 · OtherWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION — $138,500 · OtherPROVIDENCE HOSPICE AND HOME CARE — $135,000 · OtherCAMP FIRE USA- SNOHOMISH COUNTY COUNCIL — $135,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON — $280,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & …+41 more — $2,174,250 · Other+41 moreMOUNT BAKER COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $1,080,000 · Youth DevelopmentMOUNT BAKER COUNCIL …BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $752,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS…CAMP KOREY — $409,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP KOREY+3 more — $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $1,100,000 · AnimalsWOODLAND PA…SARVEY WILDLIFE CARE CENTER — $117,500 · AnimalsSARVEY WILD…INTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUST — $56,000 · Animals+1 more — $25,000 · AnimalsEastern Washington University Foundation — $400,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $400,000 · EducationNorthwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children — $40,000 · EducationNORTHWEST'S CHILD — $35,000 · Education+1 more — $15,000 · EducationIMAGINE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $370,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST RAILWAY MUSEUM — $165,000 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION — $135,000 · Arts & CultureVILLAGE THEATRE — $40,000 · Arts & CultureNational Nordic Museum — $30,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $30,000 · Arts & CultureSHERWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES — $297,000 · EmploymentWORK OPPORTUNITIES INC — $284,228 · Employment
Philanthropy$2,725,508Other$3,962,750Youth Development$2,321,500Animals$1,298,500Education$890,000Arts & Culture$770,000Employment$581,228

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCommunity Foundation of Snohomish County — $2,525,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $1,100,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetMOUNT BAKER COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $1,080,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $752,500 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetCAMP KOREY — $409,000 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetEastern Washington University Foundation — $400,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetIMAGINE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $370,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetSHERWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES — $297,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetWORK OPPORTUNITIES INC — $284,228 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON — $280,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF EVERETT — $200,508 over 3y, 15% of budgetNORTHWEST RAILWAY MUSEUM — $165,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION — $138,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetPACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION — $135,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $130,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetSKAGIT REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetLITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $123,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetOutdoors for all Foundation — $122,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetSARVEY WILDLIFE CARE CENTER — $117,500 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetPURRFECT PALS — $115,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetVILLAGE COMMUNITY SERVICES — $107,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCOCOON HOUSE — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNORTHWEST ORGANIZATION FOR ANIMAL HELP — $100,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPROVIDENCE GENERAL FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPARKVIEW SERVICES — $64,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHRISTMAS HOUSE — $61,000 over 4y, 30% of budgetARLINGTON KIDS KLOSET — $60,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUST — $56,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMaris Place — $40,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetVILLAGE THEATRE — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNorthwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children — $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHWEST'S CHILD — $35,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetALL ABOARD OF AMERICA 1 — $32,750 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetNational Nordic Museum — $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVolunteers of America Western Washington — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDSTRIVE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAILEY ICE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTWO HEARTS PREGNANCY AID — $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES — $25,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetCenter For Wooden Boats — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetQUILCEDA COMMUNITY SERVICES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWONDERLAND CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTears Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budget
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.

Community Foundation …Puget Sound Energy Fo…Seattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…School's Out Washingt…Employees Community F…Hazel Miller Foundati…Credit Unions in the …The Employee Communit…United Way of Snohomi…Dv & Ida McEachern Ch…Artsfund
Community Foundation of Snohomish CountyWA73.4× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Snohomish County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · School's Out Washington · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Hazel Miller Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · The Employee Community Foundation Optum Washington · United Way of Snohomish County · Dv & Ida McEachern Charitable Tr · Artsfund

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 Nysether 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 74 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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