· Private foundation
The Sheri and Les Biller 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $617k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $965k
- $250k+2 grants · $3.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF HOPE | $2,000,000 |
| CAREERWORKS INC | $1,123,211 |
| THE 5TH AVENUE THEATRE | $230,094 |
| EDUCATIONAL SERVICE DISTRICT 105 | $190,000 |
| EDUCATIONAL SERVICE DISTRICT 112 | $190,000 |
| OPERATION HOPE | $150,000 |
| PURCHASER BUSINESS GROUP ON HEALTH | $80,000 |
| LATINO THEATER COMPANY | $75,000 |
| GOALS OF CARE COALITION OF NEW JERSEY INC | $50,000 |
| GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC | $45,000 |
| PORTLAND CENTER STAGE | $40,000 |
| PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA IN | $30,000 |
| BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE | $25,000 |
| THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP (TCG) | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | $25,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 17% of The Sheri and Les Biller 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, 33% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 28% — 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 +24% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
90 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 25 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; $305k 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
- CICAREERWORKS INC4× · 2020–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +209% · 46% of their budget
- PFPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS3× · 2020–2022 · $414k · revenue +80%
- TPTHE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC6× · 2018–2024 · $162k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- HSHIGHLINE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $76k · revenue +81%
- DCDALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +518%
- SPSUMMIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS WASHINGTONone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +13%
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.
The oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.
The american theatre guild is dedicated to providing the experience of live theatre to foster passion, inspire creativity and empower youth within our communities.
Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
Public theatrical performances of bold and daring interpretations of the greatst plays.
Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
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…
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
To build a thriving, just and empowered pacific northwest using capital, relationships and voice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Center for Conscientious Leadership. 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 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% 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.
207 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. 207 of the 247 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 CAREERWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds LATINO THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds PURCHASER BUSINESS GROUP ON HEALTH ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HIGHLINE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND CENTER STAGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds GOALS OF CARE COALITION OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds King County Sexual Assault Resource Center ↗
- Who funds THE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds Perseverance Theatre Incorporated ↗
- Who funds FULFILLMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds JVS SOCAL ↗
- Who funds WALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE RAPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Coalition To Transform Advanced Car ↗
- Who funds DALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OJAI PLAYWRIGHTS CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds NORTH COAST REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds A CONTEMPORARY THEATRE INC ↗
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 Shubert Foundation Inc · Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · United Way of King County · Artsfund · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · The Annenberg 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 Sheri and Les Biller 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.
- Mhp Salud — 66% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Asian Health & Service Center Inc — 18% of income from government
- The Portland Playhouse — 11% of income from government
- Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest — 4% of income from government
- Portland Center Stage — 1% 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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