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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.
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 $10k32 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEN TOWNE CENTER FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER RESEARCH - SEATTLE CHILDREN'S | $55,000 |
| COMMON POWER FUTURE | $40,000 |
| AKIN | $35,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $20,000 |
| OVERLAKE HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY | $10,000 |
| ASB | $9,500 |
| BELLEVUE LIFESPRING | $7,500 |
| DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| TRANSPLANT HOUSE | $6,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $5,500 |
| SLS PRESCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| HOPELINK | $5,000 |
| KUOW | $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, $148k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% 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 +25% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 11 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- BBBELLEVUE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC4× · 2020–2023 · $173k · revenue +43%
- CCHILDHAVEN4× · 2020–2023 · $148k · revenue +31%
- YLYOUNG LIFE6× · 2020–2025 · $115k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- FHFRED HUTCH CANCER RESEARCH CENTERone grant, 2020 · $25k
- WFWSU FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k
- MOMEALS ON WHEELSone grant, 2020 · $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.
Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…
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;…
To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.
To provide exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education, and advocacy for all.
To help all children in our community reach their full potential.
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Family law casa is committed to positive long-term outcomes for children, families, and communities navigating economic injustice across king county. we advance intersectional equity by providing free advocacy services for children…
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childrens Home Society of Washington and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Equity and Justice Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% 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 15% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 67 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 BELLEVUE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDHAVEN ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds COMMON POWER FUTURE ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds TRANSPLANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY ↗
- Who funds OVERLAKE SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds HOPELINK ↗
- Who funds KINDERING CENTER ↗
- Who funds KUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
- Who funds BELLEVUE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jubilee REACH ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds MDRC ↗
- Who funds GRAYS HARBOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SLS PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OLD TOWN COOPERATIVE PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds GREENTRIKE ↗
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: 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
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 True North Family 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.
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.