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The Summit Family a Washington Foundation at a glance

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The Summit Family a Washington Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$22k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.4MHealth$93kHuman Services$62kHousing & Shelter$12kRecreation & Sports$10kFood & Nutrition$9kArts & Culture$6kScience & Tech$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k27 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$200
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSN$15,000
HOPELINK$1,200
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION$500
AMERICAN RED CROSS - KING COUNTY WA$400
WASHINGTON WOMEN IN NEED$300
LIFEWIRE$300
SOPHIA WAY THE$300
TREEHOUSE$300
MAUI FOOD BANK$200
CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF MAUI$200
NORTHWEST HARVEST$200
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$200
UPLIFT NORWEST (NEE MILLIONAIRE CLUB CHARITY)$200
EVERGREEN HEALTH FOUNDATION HOSPICE CARE$200
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION$200
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Help a Mother Out: $200 → 10%Women Helping Women: $200 → 9%WOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $200 → 9%Women Helping Women: $200 → 9%Lifewire: $400 → 9%LIFEWIRE: $300 → 9%LIFEWIRE: $300 → 9%WOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $200 → 9%LIFEWIRE: $300 → 9%WOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $200 → 9%Lifewire (nee Eastside Domestic Violence Prog): $200 → 9%SOPHIA WAY THE: $400 → 9%SOPHIA WAY THE: $300 → 9%Sophia Way: $300 → 9%PARKVIEW SERVICES: $200 → 9%PARKVIEW SERVICES: $200 → 9%Parkview Services: $200 → 9%PARKVIEW SERVICES: $200 → 9%Parkview Services: $200 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OR
OH
CA
MD
DC
HI
FL
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 33 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
34

Total granted

$1.5M
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+9%

Still filing today

55%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $900 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • UP
    UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +42%
  • RS
    RAINIER SCHOLARS
    4× · 2020–2023 · $60k · revenue +244%
  • H
    HOPELINK
    5× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • NP
    Northwest Parkinsons Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +8%
  • HF
    Habitat for Humanity
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • WA
    WASHINGTON ATHLETIC CLUB FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +52%
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
Association of Washington Cities

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…

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2
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

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3
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
4
Life Science Washington

Life science washington is a non-profit trade and professional association dedicated to promoting innovation and responsible growth in the life sciences and biomedical industries in the state of washington. promotion and education are…

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5
Humanities Washington

Humanities washington (hw) opens minds and bridges divides by creating spaces to explore different perspectives. we envision a state where all people seek a deeper understanding of others, themselves, and the human experience, in order to…

Arts & Culture
6
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
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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8
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
9
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
10
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
11
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities accredits institutions of higher education by applying evidence-informed standards and processes to support continuous improvements and promote equitable student achievement and success.

Education
12
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. 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

33 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. 33 of the 72 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
25/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $1,150,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ACADEMYRAINIER SCHOLARS: $60,000 · Education+5 more: $8,900 · EducationNORTHWEST MARITIME CENTER FOUNDATION: $162,500 · OtherNORTHWEST MARITIME CENT…Program for Early Family Support: $40,000 · OtherProgram for Early Famil…AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSN: $35,000 · OtherAMERICAN PARKINSON DISE…American Parkinson's Disease Assn: $30,000 · OtherAmerican Parkinson's Di…HARVARD UNIVERSITY - BUSINESS GRAD SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherHARVARD UNIVERSITY - BU…+44 more: $48,921 · Other+44 moreNorthwest Parkinsons Foundation: $10,000 · HealthYouth Eastside Services: $1,100 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $950 · Health+1 more: $200 · HealthWASHINGTON ATHLETIC CLUB FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: $2,500 · Arts & CultureBELLEVUE ART MUSEUM: $470 · Arts & CultureHOPELINK: $7,000 · Human ServicesLifeWire: $1,500 · Human ServicesTHE SOPHIA WAY: $1,000 · Human ServicesPARKVIEW SERVICES: $1,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $1,000 · Human Services+1 more: $200 · Human ServicesMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $5,200 · Food & NutritionTREEHOUSE: $3,300 · Youth Development
Education$1,218,900Other$336,421Health$13,250Arts & Culture$12,970Human Services$11,700Food & Nutrition$5,200Youth Development$3,300

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 budgetUNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $1,150,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS: $60,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNorthwest Parkinsons Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWASHINGTON ATHLETIC CLUB FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetHOPELINK: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $5,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTREEHOUSE: $3,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALTA VISTA SCHOOL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $2,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLifeWire: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWashington Women in Need: $1,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Eastside Services: $1,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOPHIA WAY: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPARKVIEW SERVICES: $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BAY SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELLEVUE ART MUSEUM: $470 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLOEDEL RESERVE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE POTOMAC BOAT CLUB INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE PLANT TRUST INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELP A MOTHER OUT: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKAGIT HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
  • Who funds Northwest Parkinsons Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON ATHLETIC CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPELINK ↗
  • Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
  • Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds ALTA VISTA SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LifeWire ↗
  • Who funds Washington Women in Need ↗
  • Who funds Youth Eastside Services ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SOPHIA WAY ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds PARKVIEW SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN HELPING WOMEN ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Corps ↗

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.

Seattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Bny Mellon Charitable…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Mightycause Charitabl…The Mary See Foundati…Overlake Medical Cent…Byron & Alice Lockwoo…Robins Nest Family Fo…Thurston Charitable F…Medina Foundation
Seattle FoundationWA19.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Mary See Foundation · Overlake Medical Center & Clinics · Byron & Alice Lockwood Foundation · Robins Nest Family Foundation · Thurston Charitable Foundation · Medina 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 Summit Family a Washington Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Summit Family a Washington 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Native Plant Trust Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 72 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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