· Private foundation
Tillie & Alfred Shemanski Testamentary Trust
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 $10k6 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $157k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $242k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE DE HIRSCH SINAI | $95,000 |
| SEATTLE UNIVERSITY | $87,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $60,000 |
| NW IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT | $25,000 |
| GIVAT HAVIVA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HILLEL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $18,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SEATTLE | $15,000 |
| WESTSIDE BABY | $12,500 |
| THE SOPHIA WAY | $12,000 |
| MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY | $12,000 |
| HARVEST AGAINST HUNGER | $12,000 |
| HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSN WASHINGTON STATE | $10,000 |
| YWCA OF SEATTLE KING SNOHOMISH COUNTY | $10,000 |
| BACKPACK BRIGADE | $10,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $464k) 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 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.
30 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 11 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- SUSEATTLE UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $630k · revenue +62%
- YWYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY7× · 2018–2024 · $95k · revenue +34%
- SCSeattle Children's Foundation7× · 2018–2024 · $87k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- SCSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $65k · revenue +82%
- MPMaris Placegraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +80%
- RWRefugee Womens Alliancegraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +144%
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 jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.
We Heart Seattle is an action-based, boots-on-the-ground movement that organizes trash cleanups in our public spaces and offers resources to those in need. Through our direct civic engagement we lead the way to a more compassionate and…
The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…
Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.
We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…
Gender Justice League's mission is to empower all people to eliminate discrimination and prejudice based on sex, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation in Washington State, and to ensure that trans and gender diverse…
Through Jazz education that liberates and inspires, Seattle JazzED increase access in the music room, celebrates student expression, and builds lasting connection rooted in community.
Futurewise works throughout Washington state to encourage healthy, equitable and opportunity-rich communities, and to protect our most valuable farmlands, forests and water resources through wise land use policies and practices.
The Friends of the Seattle Public Library's mission is to elevate the Library and inspire the love of reading in our communities.
Seattle jobs initiative (sji) creates opportunities for people to support themselves and their families through living-wage careers.
Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Children's Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. 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 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 39 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 SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds College Success Foundation ↗
- Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds THE SOPHIA WAY ↗
- Who funds HARVEST AGAINST HUNGER ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON STATE ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE BABY ↗
- Who funds Hillel Foundation for Jewish Life at the University of Washington ↗
- Who funds TEEN FEED ↗
- Who funds BACKPACK BRIGADE ↗
- Who funds Dress for Success Seattle ↗
- Who funds SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Holocaust Center For Humanity ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIE ↗
- Who funds Maris Place ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds Refugee Womens Alliance ↗
- Who funds LIMMUD SEATTLE ↗
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 · Samis Foundation · Medina Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · The Norcliffe Foundation · Kawabe Memorial Fund · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Fales Foundation Trust · Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle · American Gift Fund · Gates 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 Testamentary Trust 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.
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.
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