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The Russell Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
128
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Environment$11MPhilanthropy$6.5MEducation$2.0MFood & Nutrition$1.7MArts & Culture$1.7MHuman Services$1.6MYouth Development$1.5MRecreation & Sports$1.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 128 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k67 grants · $293k
  • $10k–50k51 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $655k
$8,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$77M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RESTAURANT 2 GARDEN (FISCAL SPONSOR SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION)$75,000
PIERCE CONSERVATION DISTRICT$75,000
PUGET SOUND RESTORATION FUND$75,000
VIVA FARMS$75,000
COMMUNITY TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (C2C) FS INSTITUTE FOR WASHINGTONS FUTUR$75,000
KULSHAN CARBON TRUST$70,000
WASHINGTON WATER TRUST$60,000
VC INCLUDE A PROJECT OF TIDES CENTER$50,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PENINSULA$50,000
WASHINGTON MARITIME BLUE$50,000
FOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT$45,000
GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$30,000
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY KITSAP COUNTY EXTENSION$26,000
CONFLUENCE PHILANTHROPY$25,000
CLIMATE INTERACTIVE FISCALLY SPONSORED BY NEW VENTURE FUND$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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OPERATION HEALING FORCES: $100k → 12%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $10k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 12%THE COFFEE OASIS: $25k → 10%THE COFFEE OASIS: $25k → 10%THE COFFEE OASIS: $25k → 10%THE COFFEE OASIS: $25k → 10%NW FURNITURE BANK: $50k → 9%MOTHER AFRICA: $10k → 9%NW FURNITURE BANK: $50k → 9%NW FURNITURE BANK: $50k → 9%NW FURNITURE BANK: $25k → 9%NW FURNITURE BANK: $20k → 9%NW FURNITURE BANK: $15k → 9%BIG HOMIE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 9%THE MUSTARD SEED PROJECT OF KEY PENINSULA: $50k → 9%THE MUSTARD SEED PROJECT OF KEY PENINSULA: $25k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $25k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $25k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $25k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $18k → 9%GIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH: $100k → 9%GIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH: $50k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON: $75k → 9%GIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH: $50k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON: $30k → 9%GIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH: $50k → 9%FOOD BACKPACKS 4 KIDS: $41k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON: $20k → 9%GIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH: $30k → 9%GIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH: $25k → 9%GIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH: $25k → 9%GIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH: $25k → 9%FOOD BACKPACKS 4 KIDS: $18k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $25k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $25k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $25k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $25k → 9%FORGOTTEN CHILDREN'S FUND: $30k → 9%CHILD CARE RESOURCES: $50k → 9%FORGOTTEN CHILDREN'S FUND: $30k → 9%FORGOTTEN CHILDREN'S FUND: $30k → 9%FORGOTTEN CHILDREN'S FUND: $25k → 9%CHILD CARE RESOURCES: $20k → 9%TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $40k → 9%FORGOTTEN CHILDREN'S FUND: $20k → 9%TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $25k → 9%FORGOTTEN CHILDREN'S FUND: $20k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

AK
VT
WA
ID
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
RI
CA
CO
NE
KY
VA
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 11% of The Russell Family 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, 92% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 90% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Russell Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$21M · 243 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.

243 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2024, 185 since wound down; 51 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

243
203

Total granted

$21M
$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+45%

Still filing today

61%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $964k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionHealthOther

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

  • WC
    WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND
    6× · 2017–2022 · $580k · revenue +66%
  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PENINSULA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $518k · revenue +268%
  • SP
    Stewardship Partners
    6× · 2017–2022 · $508k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • S
    SPLASH
    one grant, 2018 · $800k
  • FA
    FRONT AND CENTERED (FISCALLY SPONSORED BY LATINO COMMUNITY FUND)
    one grant, 2019 · $175k
  • V
    VANGUARD
    one grant, 2020 · $101k

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
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
2
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
3
Sustainable Path Foundation

Sustainable Path Foundation promotes sustainability and health in the Puget Sound region through collaborative approaches informed by scientific understanding and systems thinking.

Social Science
4
Center for Environmental Law & Policy

The Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a statewide organization whose mission is to protect, preserve and restore Washington's waters through education, advocacy, policy reform, and public interest litigation.

Environment
5
Futurewise

Futurewise works throughout Washington state to encourage healthy, equitable and opportunity-rich communities, and to protect our most valuable farmlands, forests and water resources through wise land use policies and practices.

Environment
6
Cowiche Canyon Conservancy

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

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7
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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8
Friends of Seattle Waterfront

To bring people, communities, and resources together to ensure waterfront park thrives as a vibrant gathering space - uplifting locals, fostering connections and honoring seattle's natural beauty and stories.

Community Improvement
9
Pacific Northwest Economic Region Foundation

To increase the economic well-being and quality of life for all citizens of the region; to coordinate provincial, territorial, and state policies throughout the region; to identify and promote "models of success and to serve as a conduit…

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10
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
11
Cascade Climate Inc

To accelerate progress in interventions that harness Earths natural systems to stabilize the climate.

Environment
12
Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is As You Sow and the most unlike its peers is Provision. 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 backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Food Banks and PantriesCommunity Arts CentersYouth Development ServicesCommunity FoundationsSchool District FoundationsLocal History MuseumsSenior Support ServicesLocal Food System Organizat…Jewish Community Organizati…Christian Youth CampsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Public Library OperationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterLgbtq+ Community SupportImmigrant Worker SupportSchool Parent OrganizationsCommunity College Foundatio…Youth Development CentersElementary Literacy TutoringHealth Access Advocacy and …Christian Missionary Organi…Addiction Recovery ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Policy Research and AdvocacyFaith-Based Social ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsYouth Sports ProgramsUnited Way AffiliatesCommunity Foundations
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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%2%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr18%33%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr15%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%2%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr18%29%20–35yr13%43%35–55yr15%14%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%6/348
the rest of the field
12%
4,740/38,620

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.

05the grantee network

330 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. 330 of the 511 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
110
Early backer (in before they grew)
321/330
Grantees still filing
238/330
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PUYALLUP WATERSHED INITIATIVE — $2,745,400 · OtherPUYALLUP WATERSHED INITIATIVESPLASH — $800,000 · OtherSPLASHBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND — $716,250 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUNDCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PENINSULA — $517,500 · Other+108 more — $7,109,708 · Other+108 moreGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $4,540,855 · PhilanthropyGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY F…UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY — $1,300,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNT…TACOMA COMMUNITY BOAT BUILDERS INC — $265,000 · Philanthropy+5 more — $524,120 · Philanthropy+5 moreWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND — $579,500 · EnvironmentWASHINGTON CONSERVA…Stewardship Partners — $507,500 · EnvironmentStewardship Partner…PUGET SOUNDKEEPER ALLIANCE — $491,500 · EnvironmentPUGET SOUNDKEEPER A…RE SOURCES — $342,500 · EnvironmentRE SOURCESAMERICAN RIVERS INC — $265,000 · EnvironmentHARBOR WILDWATCH — $252,500 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $186,012 · EnvironmentGREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCY — $180,500 · EnvironmentEnvironmental Science Center — $172,500 · Environment+29 more — $2,027,601 · Environment+29 moreGIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH — $365,000 · Human ServicesNW FURNITURE BANK — $215,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES — $205,000 · Human ServicesFORGOTTEN CHILDRENS FUND — $155,000 · Human ServicesLatino Community Fund of Washington State — $135,000 · Human ServicesTHE COFFEE OASIS — $112,500 · Human ServicesOPERATION HEALING FORCES INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE MUSTARD SEED PROJECT OF KEY PENINSULA — $90,000 · Human ServicesTacoma Community House — $87,000 · Human ServicesFOOD BACKPACKS 4 KIDS — $77,500 · Human ServicesBrightspark Early Learning Services — $70,000 · Human Services+5 more — $128,500 · Human ServicesDEGREES OF CHANGE — $206,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS — $162,500 · EducationR MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP — $157,650 · EducationCollege Success Foundation — $157,650 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI — $125,500 · EducationWASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF LAND TRUSTS — $110,000 · EducationSUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC — $84,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $83,000 · EducationHILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE — $60,083 · EducationWASHINGTON STATE FFA FOUNDATION — $60,000 · EducationPuget Sound Voyaging Society — $60,000 · EducationClean Energy Transition Institute — $45,000 · Education+1 more — $30,000 · EducationFOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT — $452,500 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Glass — $380,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST MARITIME CENTER — $110,000 · Arts & CultureTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS INC — $100,000 · Arts & CulturePORT GAMBLE S'KLALLAM FOUNDATION — $75,000 · Arts & CultureCENTRUM FOUNDATION — $47,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $45,500 · Arts & CulturePORT TOWNSEND MARINE SCIENCE CENTER — $190,030 · Science & TechNORTHWEST STRAITS MARINE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — $185,000 · Science & TechOceans Initiative — $127,500 · Science & TechWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION — $70,000 · Science & TechPACIFIC SHELLFISH INSTITUTE — $60,000 · Science & Tech
Other$11,888,858Philanthropy$6,629,975Environment$5,005,113Human Services$1,740,500Education$1,341,383Arts & Culture$1,210,500Science & Tech$632,530

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $4,540,855 over 8y, 12% of budgetPUYALLUP WATERSHED INITIATIVE — $2,745,400 over 4y, 92% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY — $1,300,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND — $579,500 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PENINSULA — $517,500 over 8y, 22% of budgetStewardship Partners — $507,500 over 6y, 12% of budgetPUGET SOUNDKEEPER ALLIANCE — $491,500 over 8y, 8.3% of budgetFOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT — $452,500 over 8y, 7.9% of budgetMuseum of Glass — $380,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetGIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH — $365,000 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetRE SOURCES — $342,500 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetTACOMA COMMUNITY BOAT BUILDERS INC — $265,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC — $265,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHARBOR WILDWATCH — $252,500 over 6y, 34% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $247,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNourish Pierce County — $235,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNW FURNITURE BANK — $215,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetDEGREES OF CHANGE — $206,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES — $205,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPORT TOWNSEND MARINE SCIENCE CENTER — $190,030 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetLINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN — $187,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $186,012 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST STRAITS MARINE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — $185,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetGREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCY — $180,500 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetEnvironmental Science Center — $172,500 over 7y, 13% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS — $162,500 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetDuwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG — $158,500 over 5y, 14% of budgetR MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP — $157,650 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetCollege Success Foundation — $157,650 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION — $156,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFORGOTTEN CHILDRENS FUND — $155,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY — $150,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPure Blue — $145,000 over 2y, 80% of budgetFRIENDS OF NORTH CREEK FOREST — $145,000 over 6y, 29% of budgetNISQUALLY REACH NATURE CENTER — $138,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetLatino Community Fund of Washington State — $135,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetCONFLUENCE PHILANTHROPY INC — $135,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $128,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKITCHEN GARDEN PROJECT INC GARDEN-RAISED BOUNTY — $127,500 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetOceans Initiative — $127,500 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI — $125,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION — $125,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetRESOURCE MEDIA — $120,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetThe Community Foundation of South Puget Sound — $120,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE COFFEE OASIS — $112,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHWEST MARITIME CENTER — $110,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetWASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF LAND TRUSTS — $110,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetNa'ah Illahee Fund — $110,000 over 2y, 3.9% 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.

  • Who funds GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PUYALLUP WATERSHED INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PENINSULA ↗
  • Who funds Stewardship Partners ↗
  • Who funds PUGET SOUNDKEEPER ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds FOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT ↗
  • Who funds Museum of Glass ↗
  • Who funds GIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH ↗
  • Who funds RE SOURCES ↗
  • Who funds TACOMA COMMUNITY BOAT BUILDERS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
  • Who funds HARBOR WILDWATCH ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Nourish Pierce County ↗
  • Who funds NW FURNITURE BANK ↗
  • Who funds DEGREES OF CHANGE ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES ↗
  • Who funds PORT TOWNSEND MARINE SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST STRAITS MARINE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREAT PENINSULA CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Environmental Science Center ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS ↗
  • Who funds Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG ↗
  • Who funds R MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP ↗
  • Who funds College Success Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FORGOTTEN CHILDRENS FUND ↗
  • Who funds EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Pure Blue ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF NORTH CREEK FOREST ↗

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.

Greater Tacoma Commun…The Norcliffe Foundat…The Bamford FoundationFuchsg & M Fdn TaiPuget Sound Energy Fo…The Satterberg Founda…Seattle FoundationThe Bullitt FoundationMedina FoundationKilworth Florence Cha…Ben B Cheney Foundati…Forest Foundation
Greater Tacoma Community FoundationWA132.9× affinity78 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · The Bamford Foundation · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Seattle Foundation · The Bullitt Foundation · Medina Foundation · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc · Forest Foundation

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 Russell 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 · 40%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Northwest Youth Corps — 100% of income from government
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
  • Food Connects — 15% of income from government
  • Rural Development Initiatives Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians — 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
89report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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 511 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.

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