· Private foundation
Tillie & Alfred Shemanski Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TILLIE & ALFRED SHEMANSKI TESTAMENTARY | $11,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE | $2,000 |
| THE SEATTLE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY | $500 |
| SEATTLE UNIVERSITY | $300 |
| SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $300 |
| TEMPLE DE HIRSCH SINAI | $300 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $300 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $200 |
| CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON | $200 |
| HEBREW UNION COLLEGE | $200 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $100 |
| CHURCH COUNCIL OF GREATER SEATTLE | $100 |
| MARCH OF DIMES | $100 |
| SEATTLE ART MUSEUM | $100 |
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 (FY23–24, $500) 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 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.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- HCHolocaust Center For Humanity2× · 2018–2019 · $16k · revenue +121%
- SUSEATTLE UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +62%
- SASEATTLE ART MUSEUM8× · 2017–2024 · $800 · revenue +0%
Funded once
- CSCollege Success Foundationone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -14%
- HFHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +26%
- DFDress for Success Seattlegraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +50%
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 mission of Hillel at the University of Washington (Hillel UW) is to inspire students and young adults (ages 18-35) to explore, embrace, and celebrate Jewish life and identity.
Fundraising activities to support Seattle University
Seattle children's foundation exists to improve the quality of health care services to infants, children, and adolescents through contributions to organizations providing health care services, research and education.
Mission: Inspired by their history and values, Jewish Family Service supports the needs of Jewish individuals and families, refugees and immigrants, and the broader community to achieve well-being, health, and stability. From food security…
Arcs foundation advances science and technology in the united states by providing financial awards to academically outstanding u.s. citizens studying to complete degrees in science, engineering and medical research.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
Seattle christian schools is committed to providing a premier, christ-centered education for k-12 students. blessed with a legacy of over 70 years of god's provision and leading, students benefit from an unparalleled educational…
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.
Seattle children's hospital (seattle children's) will be an innovative leader in pediatric health and wellness through our unsurpassed quality, clinical care, relentless spirit of inquiry, and compassion for all children and their…
Bellevue college foundation brings together people and resources across the community to invest in bc students, faculty, and staff to realize their goals and dreams.
The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Tillie & Alfred Shemanski Testamentary Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 31 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 Holocaust Center For Humanity ↗
- Who funds College Success Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds TILLIE & ALFRED SHEMANSKI TESTAMENTARY TRUST ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dress for Success Seattle ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE SEATTLE TIMES COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
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 · Tillie & Alfred Shemanski Testamentary Trust · Samis Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Tillie & Alfred Shemanski 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.
- Brandeis University — 9% 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.