· Private foundation
The Satterberg Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $316k
- $50k–250k244 grants · $30M
- $250k+22 grants · $12M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FDN | $1,033,231 |
| SEE INC | $1,018,879 |
| BYRD BARR PLACE | $995,916 |
| LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION | $896,360 |
| NCFP | $849,019 |
| RAINIER VALLEY CORPS | $774,902 |
| COMPASSPOINT NONPROFIT SERVICE | $774,902 |
| SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NW | $764,136 |
| LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION | $764,136 |
| Individual grant recipient | $509,486 |
| RURAL DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES | $500,000 |
| SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NW | $498,017 |
| SEATTLE INT'L FILM FESTIVAL | $440,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR TRIBAL CLEAN ENERGY | $300,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $265,986 |
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 (FY17–24, $22.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 9% of The Satterberg Foundation Inc’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, 47% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 42% — 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 +34% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
346 repeat relationships — 227 still active in FY2024, 119 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M 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
RVC SEATTLE6× · 2017–2024 · $7.2M · revenue ×18- CNCOMPASSPOINT NONPROFIT SERVICES5× · 2020–2024 · $4.4M · revenue +48% · 62% of their budget
- BBBYRD BARR PLACE5× · 2020–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +51%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- PNPHILANTHROPY NORTHWESTone grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue +12%
- GFGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INCone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -60%
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.
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,…
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…
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…
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…
The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…
The Clean Energy Transition Institute (CETI) is an independent, nonpartisan research and analysis nonprofit whose mission is to accelerate an equitable clean energy transition in the Northwest.
Washington Progress Fund is building a permanent and powerful social change movement in Washington state supported by a network of committed donors. WPF envisions a Washington state where government serves the public interest and we all…
Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…
The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…
To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.
Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.
Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Links Foundation Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Fabians Fund. 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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
500 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. 500 of the 665 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 LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RVC SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds COMPASSPOINT NONPROFIT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BYRD BARR PLACE ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Global Justice Corp ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF THE SETTING SUN PRODUCT ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds Communities Rise ↗
- Who funds 501 Commons ↗
- Who funds COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds AZ IMPACT FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds Latino Community Fund of Washington State ↗
- Who funds REALITY CHANGERS ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds Grist Magazine Inc ↗
- Who funds TeamChild ↗
- Who funds TRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION ↗
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: The Norcliffe Foundation · Medina Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Inatai Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · The Bullitt Foundation · The Russell Family Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Raikes Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · Social Justice Fund Northwest · Stolte Family 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 Satterberg Foundation Inc 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.
- Northwest Health Foundation Fund Ii — 81% of income from government
- Rural Development Initiatives Inc — 11% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Columbia Riverkeeper — 1% of income from government
- Chainless Change Inc — 0% 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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