Washington · Private foundation
True North Family 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.
- $253k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $55,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 33
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations True North Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 37 | $246k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $209k | 28% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $189k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $193k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $196k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $192k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bellevue Boys & Girls Clubs Inc | $172,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Childhaven | $147,750 | 4 | 0% |
| Young Life | $114,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Common Power Future | $108,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Childrens Home Society of Washington | $85,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Transplant House | $56,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Mockingbird Society | $40,000 | 6 | 0% |
| University of Washington | $32,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Alliance for Gun Responsibility | $27,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Overlake Service League | $24,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($292k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget True North Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Medina Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Harnish Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Aven Foundation
How this is measured
About True North Family Foundation
- How much does True North Family Foundation give?
- True North Family Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $252,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 33 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does True North Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (26%), Youth Development (23%), Health (16%).
- Who are True North Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Bellevue Boys & Girls Clubs Inc ($173k), Childhaven ($148k), Young Life ($115k).
- Does True North Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does True North Family 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 True North Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Puget Sound Energy Foundation, Seattle Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation.
- Where is True North Family Foundation based?
- True North Family Foundation is based in WA.
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