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The Picsha Foundation at a glance

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The Picsha Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$480k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$270kEducation$240kEnvironment$150kHealth$100kReligion$100kEmployment$95kFood & Nutrition$80kArts & Culture$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $400k
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REDMOND UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$100,000
SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST$100,000
CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB$100,000
FOOD TO POWER$50,000
TEXAS HEALTH ACTION$50,000
KING COUNTY LIBRARY SERVICES FOUNDATION$20,000
FRIENDS OF THE OAKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY$20,000
THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$20,000
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY$20,000
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 (FY17–25, $295k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSE: $20k → 17%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $30k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $100k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $100k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $25k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $20k → 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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$945k · 10 repeat orgs$225k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$945k
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+80%

Still filing today

80%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationEnvironmentHealthEmploymentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CS
    CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB
    4× · 2019–2025 · $250k · revenue +97%
  • ST
    SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST
    5× · 2021–2025 · $150k · revenue +69%
  • FT
    FOOD TO POWER (FKA COLORADO SPRINGS FOOD RESCUE)
    3× · 2023–2025 · $80k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • MP
    Maris Placegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +80%
  • CS
    CHIEF SEATTLE FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • Y
    YOUTHCARE
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +23%
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
Community Credit Lab

To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.

Human Services
2
Friends of the Seattle Public Library

The Friends of the Seattle Public Library's mission is to elevate the Library and inspire the love of reading in our communities.

Education
3
Seattle Arts and Lectures

Seattle arts and lectures cultivates transformative experiences through story and language with readers and writers of all generations.

Arts & Culture
4
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
5
The Queens Borough Public Library

Queens library transforms lives by cultivating personal and intellectual growth and by building strong communities.

Education
6
San Francisco Public Press

The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…

Education
7
Portland Public Library

Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…

Education
8
Public Advocates Inc

For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…

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9
Seattle Jobs Initiative

Seattle jobs initiative (sji) creates opportunities for people to support themselves and their families through living-wage careers.

Employment
10
School's Out Washington

School's out washington (sowa) drives positive systemic change so that all washington's children and youth, particularly those furthest from justice, have access to a robust ecosystem of high-quality expanded learning programs.

Youth Development
11
Southeastern Libraries Cooperating

Supporting libraries through delivery of professional expertise and sustainable services.

Education
12
Seattle International Soccer Local Organizing Committee

Seattle international soccer local organizing committee exists to use the incredible platform of soccer (including the 2026 fifa world cup(tm)) to enrich and enhance the lives of everyone who visits or lives in the state of washington and…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Public Library Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Maris Place. 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

12 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. 12 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REDMOND UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $100,000 · OtherREDMOND UNITED METHODIST CHURC…THE FRIENDS OF THE OAKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY: $60,000 · OtherTHE FRIENDS OF THE OAKLAND PUB…KING COUNTY LIBRARY SERVICES FOUNDATION: $60,000 · OtherKING COUNTY LIBRARY SERVICES F…Individual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHIEF SEATTLE FUND: $30,000 · OtherCHIEF SEATTLE FUNDKRISTA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherKRISTA FOUNDATIONSOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST: $20,000 · OtherSOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWESTCHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $250,000 · Human ServicesCHIEF SEATTLE CLUBYOUTHCARE: $25,000 · Human ServicesYOUTHCAREAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSEINC: $20,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HO…SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: $150,000 · EnvironmentSOGOREA TE LAN…BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $60,000 · EducationBROOKLYN PU…SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationSEATTLE PUB…TEXAS HEALTH ACTION: $100,000 · HealthTEXAS HEA…FARESTART: $95,000 · EmploymentFARESTARTFOOD TO POWER (FKA COLORADO SPRINGS FOOD RESCUE): $80,000 · Food & NutritionMaris Place: $30,000 · Youth Development
Other$320,000Human Services$295,000Environment$150,000Education$120,000Health$100,000Employment$95,000Food & Nutrition$80,000Youth Development$30,000

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 budgetCHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $250,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: $150,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS HEALTH ACTION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFARESTART: $95,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD TO POWER (FKA COLORADO SPRINGS FOOD RESCUE): $80,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE OAKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY: $60,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTHCARE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSEINC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH10.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Picsha Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Picsha Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%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 · 0–50%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Picsha Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Picsha 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 17 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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