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The Snyder Family Foundation at a glance

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The Snyder Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$134k
Granted FY2021
14
Grants FY2021
5
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

69% of The Snyder Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to World Vision Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year The Snyder Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $134k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

7
’17
2
’18
7
’19
5
’20
12
’21
2
’22
1
’23
1
’24
3
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$255kYouth Development$91kHousing & Shelter$60kReligion$40kFood & Nutrition$35kEducation$30kHuman Services$27kEnvironment$11kOther$0
02FY2021 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k7 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$162k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD VISION$40,000
YOUNG LIFE$20,000
MARYS PLACE SEATTLE$20,000
NW FURNITURE BANK$10,000
YOUNG LIFE$10,000
SAMARITANS PURSE$10,000
GIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH$10,000
KIDSTLC INC$5,000
THE ANCHOR GATHERING$5,000
FRIENDS OF BURLEY LAGOON$1,000
KOHALA ANIMAL RELOCATION AND EDUCATION SERVICE$1,000
AFGHAN HEALTH INITIATIVE$1,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE$1,000
NORMANDY PARK POLICE FOUNDATION$400
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 (FY17–22, $77k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MARYS PLACE SEATTLE: $15k → 9%GIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH: $10k → 9%GIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH: $10k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $1k → 9%GIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH: $10k → 9%MARYS PLACE SEATTLE: $5k → 9%AFGHAN HEALTH INITIATIVE: $1k → 9%FOOD BACKPACKS 4 KIDS: $5k → 9%NW FURNITURE BANK: $10k → 9%NW FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 9%NW FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 7% of The Snyder Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Snyder Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 37% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$326k · 9 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +132% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$326k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+132%
0%

Still filing today

78%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentReligionHealthAnimalsEducationOther
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

  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    5× · 2017–2022 · $90k · revenue +59%
  • MP
    MARY'S PLACE SEATTLE
    4× · 2017–2021 · $60k · revenue +196%
  • TA
    THE ANCHOR GATHERING
    4× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue 0%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +29%
  • SA
    SEATTLE AGAINST SLAVERY
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -100%
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
Wakulima Usa

Our Food Production Center will serve as our primary storage production and distribution facility. The coop will aggregate purchase store and distribute farm inputs for members and will act as an integrator collecting the output from…

Food & Nutrition
2
West Seattle Food Bank

West Seattle Food Bank strengthens the community through the power of neighbors helping neighbors, working to ensure all in our community have access to the essential necessities of living.

Food & Nutrition
3
Food Lifeline

Food lifeline's mission is to feed people experiencing hunger today while working to end hunger tomorrow.

Food & Nutrition
4
Port Angeles Food Bank

Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.

Food & Nutrition
5
North Kitsap Fishline

Fishline coordinates resources to place individuals onto a path towards sustainability.

Human Services
6
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
7
Storehouse Food Bank

Serving our community with healthy food and care.

Food & Nutrition
8
Bread of Life Mission

Bringing hope, healing, and recovery to seattle's homeless through a christ-centered approach.

Human Services
9
Loaves and Fishes Food Shelf
Food & Nutrition
10
Network Services

Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…

Human Services
11
Kauai Food Bank Inc

The mission of the food bank is to educate, provide nutritious food for the hungry, and respond to emergencies.

Food & Nutrition
12
Seattle University

Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mary's Place Seattle; the most unlike its peers is The Anchor Gathering. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 22 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WORLD VISION INC: $315,000 · InternationalWORLD VISION INCMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE: $60,000 · Human ServicesMARY'S PLACE SEATTL…GIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH: $30,000 · Human ServicesGIG HARBOR PENINSUL…NW FURNITURE BANK: $20,000 · Human ServicesNW FURNITURE BANKFOOD BACKPACKS 4 KIDS: $5,000 · Human Services+2 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesTHE ANCHOR GATHERING: $50,000 · OtherTHE ANCHOR GATHER…UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF THE…FRIENDS OF BURLEY LAGOON: $11,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF BURLEY…CHAPEL HILL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherCHAPEL HILL PRESB…KIDSTLC INC: $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA INC: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF THE…+5 more: $4,400 · OtherYOUNG LIFE: $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFESAMARITAN'S PURSE: $40,000 · ReligionBURN DESIGN LAB: $15,000 · EnvironmentHIGHLINE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE: $15,000 · Philanthropy
International$315,000Human Services$117,000Other$105,400Youth Development$90,000Religion$40,000Environment$15,000Philanthropy$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWORLD VISION INC: $315,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $90,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ANCHOR GATHERING: $50,000 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNW FURNITURE BANK: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHIGHLINE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BACKPACKS 4 KIDS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKIDSTLC INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE AGAINST SLAVERY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAFGHAN HEALTH INITIATIVE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKOHALA ANIMAL RELOCATION & EDUCATION SERVICE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKokolulu Farm & Cancer Retreats Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.8% 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.

The Russell Family Fo…Seattle FoundationNatl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Russell Family FoundationWA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Russell Family Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Snyder Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Snyder Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 22 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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