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Tillie & Alfred Shemanski Testamentary Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$468k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$95k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.1MReligion$964kHuman Services$342kHealth$172kCivil Rights$122kFood & Nutrition$111kHousing & Shelter$77kArts & Culture$71kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $188k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $242k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEMPLE DE HIRSCH SINAI$95,000
SEATTLE UNIVERSITY$87,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$60,000
UNION OF REFORMED JUDAISM$25,000
NW IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT$25,000
GIVAT HAVIVA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$25,000
HILLEL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$15,000
COLLEGE SUCCESS FOUNDATION$15,000
WESTSIDE BABY$12,500
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SEATTLE$10,000
HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSN WASHINGTON STATE$10,000
YWCA OF SEATTLE KING SNOHOMISH COUNTY$10,000
THE SOPHIA WAY$10,000
BACKPACK BRIGADE$10,000
HARVEST AGAINST HUNGER$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $527k) 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%THE SOPHIA WAY: $12k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $10k → 9%SOPHIA WAY: $10k → 9%SOPHIA WAY: $10k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $10k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $10k → 9%SOPHIA WAY: $10k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $10k → 9%SOPHIA WAY: $5k → 9%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $12k → 9%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $10k → 9%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $10k → 9%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $10k → 9%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $10k → 9%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $10k → 9%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $10k → 9%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $10k → 9%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $10k → 9%REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE: $8k → 9%HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF: $10k → 9%HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF: $10k → 9%HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSN WASHINGTON STATE: $10k → 9%HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSN WASHINGTON STATE: $10k → 9%HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF: $10k → 9%HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF: $10k → 9%HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF: $10k → 9%HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF: $5k → 9%YWCA OF SEATTLE KING SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $15k → 9%YWCA OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY: $15k → 9%YWCA OF SEATTLE KING SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $15k → 9%YWCA OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY: $15k → 9%YWCA OF SEATTLE KING SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $15k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SEATTLE: $15k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SEATTLE: $15k → 9%YWCA OF SEATTLE KING SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $10k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SEATTLE: $15k → 9%YWCA OF SEATTLE KING SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $10k → 9%WESTSIDE BABY: $13k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SEATTLE: $10k → 9%YWCA OF SEATTLE KING SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $10k → 9%WESTSIDE BABY: $13k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SEATTLE: $10k → 9%WESTSIDE BABY: $10k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SEATTLE: $10k → 9%WESTSIDE BABY: $10k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SEATTLE: $5k → 9%WESTSIDE BABY: $5k → 9%WESTSIDE BABY: $5k → 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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 30 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
8

Total granted

$3.5M
$105k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+110%

Still filing today

70%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthReligionEducationPhilanthropyYouth 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

  • SU
    SEATTLE UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $717k · revenue +62%
  • YW
    YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $105k · revenue +34%
  • NI
    NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT
    5× · 2021–2025 · $99k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • SC
    SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $65k · revenue +110%
  • MP
    Maris Placegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +80%
  • RW
    Refugee Womens Alliancegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +144%
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
Jewish Mothers of Metropolitan Seattle
Religion
2
Jewish Coalition for Immigrant Justice Northwest

The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.

Human Services
3
We Heart Seattle

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…

Community Improvement
4
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

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…

Education
5
Bike Works Seattle

Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.

Recreation & Sports
6
Gender Justice League

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…

Civil Rights
7
Working Washington

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…

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8
Seattle JazzED

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Futurewise

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.

Environment
10
Pathwaves Washington

Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.

Education
11
Friends of the Seattle Public Library

The Friends of the Seattle Public Library's mission is to elevate the Library and inspire the love of reading in our communities.

Education
12
Emergency Medical Services at the University of Washington
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Womens Christian Association of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County; 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.
04the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 41 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
21/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE DE HIRSCH SINAI: $855,000 · OtherTEMPLE DE HIRSCH SINAISEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $717,000 · OtherSEATTLE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $477,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT: $99,000 · OtherSeattle Children's Foundation: $96,300 · Other+22 more: $531,550 · Other+22 moreYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $105,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMENS CHR…THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $92,000 · Human ServicesTHE MOCKINGBIRD …JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $90,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SE…THE SOPHIA WAY: $87,000 · Human ServicesTHE SOPHIA WAYHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON STATE: $75,000 · Human ServicesHEBREW FREE LOAN…WESTSIDE BABY: $70,000 · Human ServicesWESTSIDE BABY+1 more: $7,500 · Human ServicesCollege Success Foundation: $107,500 · EducationSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $65,000 · HealthSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA: $84,200 · InternationalTEEN FEED: $52,500 · ReligionLIMMUD SEATTLE: $3,000 · ReligionBACKPACK BRIGADE: $45,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,775,850Human Services$526,500Education$107,500Health$85,000International$84,200Religion$55,500Food & Nutrition$45,000

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 budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $717,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCollege Success Foundation: $107,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $105,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT: $99,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $96,300 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $92,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $90,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SOPHIA WAY: $87,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetHARVEST AGAINST HUNGER: $86,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA: $84,200 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON STATE: $75,000 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetWESTSIDE BABY: $70,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetHillel Foundation for Jewish Life at the University of Washington: $68,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $65,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEEN FEED: $52,500 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetBACKPACK BRIGADE: $45,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetDress for Success Seattle: $30,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHolocaust Center For Humanity: $16,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIE: $15,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SEATTLE: $10,550 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetRefugee Womens Alliance: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds College Success Foundation ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT ↗
  • 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 FRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA ↗
  • Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON STATE ↗
  • Who funds WESTSIDE BABY ↗
  • Who funds Hillel Foundation for Jewish Life at the University of Washington ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
  • 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 ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SEATTLE ↗
  • Who funds Maris Place ↗
  • Who funds Refugee Womens Alliance ↗
  • Who funds PATHS TO UNDERSTANDING ↗
  • Who funds LIMMUD SEATTLE ↗

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 FoundationSamis FoundationMedina FoundationLiberty Mutual Founda…The Norcliffe Foundat…Kawabe Memorial FundMoccasin Lake Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Fales Foundation TrustJewish Federation of …American Gift FundGates Foundation
Seattle FoundationWA32.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Tillie & Alfred Shemanski Testamentary Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tillie & Alfred Shemanski Testamentary Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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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    Find your warmest path to Tillie & Alfred Shemanski Testamentary Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 41 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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