· Private foundation
Thurston Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k83 grants · $204k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $78k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CULVER EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $16,000 |
| FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CEN | $15,000 |
| BROWNS VALLEY FAMILY CLUB | $15,000 |
| SAWTOOTH BOTANICAL GARDEN INC | $12,000 |
| TRAILING OF THE SHEEP FESTIVAL | $10,000 |
| KIRKLAND ARTS CENTER | $10,000 |
| CHILDF EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP SPANIS | $9,500 |
| SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDAT | $7,500 |
| HOUSE OF YAHWEH | $7,000 |
| LOVE INC SOUTH BAY | $7,000 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN NAPA SOLANO INC | $5,250 |
| OVERLAKE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
| SUN VALLEY COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $168k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +14% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
117 repeat relationships — 67 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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
- SBSAWTOOTH BOTANICAL GARDEN6× · 2020–2025 · $68k · revenue +13%
- KAKirkland Arts Center6× · 2020–2025 · $62k · revenue +15%
- BVBROWNS VALLEY FAMILY CLUB5× · 2021–2025 · $51k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- UOU of W FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $20k
- SISOWERS INTERNATIONALone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -19%
- SJSt Jude Children's Reshearch Hospitone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
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.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
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.
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…
Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.
KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…
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;…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels America and the most unlike its peers is Seattle Opera Guild. 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 35 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 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
110 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. 110 of the 183 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
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 SAWTOOTH BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds Kirkland Arts Center ↗
- Who funds BROWNS VALLEY FAMILY CLUB ↗
- Who funds Child Evangelism Fellowship Of Southern California Inc ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE OPERA ↗
- Who funds OVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Culver Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds LOVE INC OF SOUTH BAY IN THE NAME OF CHRIST ↗
- Who funds Sammamish Bible Camp Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF YAHWEH ↗
- Who funds BEACON LIGHT MISSION ↗
- Who funds Animal Shelter League of Rohnert Park ↗
- Who funds Sun Valley Community School Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds JESUSONLINE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds Spirit of America Worldwide ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE HERITAGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATIONS FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds MEDIC ONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KELLER ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Apex Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Wyman Youth Trust · United Way of King County · Bellevue Rotary Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Artsfund · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Overlake Medical Center & Clinics
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 Thurston Charitable 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.
- Solve — 5% 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.