How much does The Tt Foundation give?

The Tt Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $10,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Tt Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (58%), Health (10%), Philanthropy (6%).

Who are The Tt Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Washington ($159k), West Sound Academy ($40k), Hyla Middle School ($18k).

Does The Tt Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Tt Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Tt Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, Real Progress Foundation.

Where is The Tt Foundation based?

The Tt Foundation is based in WA.

The Tt Foundation

The Tt Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Tt 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.

$11k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$3k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$253kHealth$46kPhilanthropy$25kRecreation & Sports$16kEnvironment$14kArts & Culture$12kYouth Development$11kAnimals$10kOther$0

02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$2.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
DIRECT RELIEF	$2,500
MEDICAL AID FOR PALESTINIANS	$2,500
WING LUKE MUSEUM	$2,500
BALLARD HIGH SCHOOL PERFORMING ARTS	$2,500
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON	$700

02The need

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 (FY20–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$291k · 16 repeat orgs$121k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$291k

$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%

+17%

Still filing today

75%

48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

TI
The Island School
3× · 2018–2022 · $18k · revenue +55%
AF
Alliance for Education
4× · 2019–2022 · $11k · revenue +54%
WING LUKE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +18%

Funded once

CO
CHILDREN'S ORGAN TRANSPLANT ASSOCIA
one grant, 2019 · $35k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2019 · $13k
RD
RESTORECIVILITY DBA FREE HUGS PROJECT
one grant, 2017 · $10k

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.

Siff

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.

Youth Development

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

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

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

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

The Seattle Aquarium Society

Our mission is inspiring conservation of our marine environment.

Animals

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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Wildearth Guardians

Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.

Unclassified

Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

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.

Animals

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.

—

Friends of Kexp

Kexp's mission is to enrich your life by championing music and discovery.

Youth Development

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Ginger's Pet Rescue. 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 60 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/33

Grantees still filing

22/33

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$305,525Education$68,370Philanthropy$26,500Recreation & Sports$16,042Animals$9,800International$5,500Human Services$5,301

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

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.

Seattle FoundationWA23.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Real Progress Foundation · Gates Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Raikes Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · LPL Financial Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Tt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home