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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.

$253k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$334kYouth Development$289kHealth$206kPublic Benefit$108kPhilanthropy$83kEducation$60kHousing & Shelter$60kCivil Rights$34kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k32 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
HOPELINK$5,000
KUOW$5,000
SLS PRESCHOOL$5,000
MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY$5,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF SKAGIT VALLEY: $1k → 11%MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN: $1k → 11%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $10k → 9%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $10k → 9%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $5k → 9%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $5k → 9%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $5k → 9%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $5k → 9%HOPELINK: $5k → 9%HOPELINK: $5k → 9%HOPELINK: $3k → 9%HOPELINK: $3k → 9%HOPELINK: $3k → 9%HOPELINK: $2k → 9%AKIN: $50k → 9%AKIN: $35k → 9%UNIVERSITY DISTRICT FOOD BANK: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MI
NY
CA
CO
VA
DC
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 34 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
20

Total granted

$1.1M
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+13%

Still filing today

68%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthEmploymentInternationalOther
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

  • BB
    BELLEVUE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $173k · revenue +43%
  • C
    CHILDHAVEN
    4× · 2020–2023 · $148k · revenue +31%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $115k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • FH
    FRED HUTCH CANCER RESEARCH CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • WF
    WSU FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
Building Changes

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…

Health
2
Kqed Inc

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;…

Arts & Culture
3
Community Credit Lab

To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.

Human Services
4
Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho

To provide exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education, and advocacy for all.

Health
5
Family Futures

To help all children in our community reach their full potential.

Crime & Legal
6
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
7
Common Future

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…

Community Improvement
8
Western Healthconnect

Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.

Health
9
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

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…

Education
10
Feeding San Diego

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,…

Food & Nutrition
11
Family Law Casa of King County

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…

Human Services
12
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

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.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childrens Home Society of Washington; 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.
04the grantee network

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
28/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BELLEVUE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC: $172,500 · OtherBELLEVUE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INCCHILDHAVEN: $147,750 · OtherCHILDHAVENBEN TOWNE CENTER FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER RESEARCH - SEATTLE CHILDREN'S: $95,000 · OtherBEN TOWNE CENTER FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER RESEARCH - SEATTLE CHILDREN'…OVERLAKE HOSPITAL: $50,000 · OtherOVERLAKE HOSPITALYES FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherYES FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $32,500 · OtherFRED HUTCH CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $25,000 · Other+44 more: $181,250 · Other+44 moreCHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $85,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS HOME …THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE MOCKINGBIRD…OVERLAKE SERVICE LEAGUE: $24,500 · Human ServicesOVERLAKE SERVIC…HOPELINK: $19,500 · Human ServicesHOPELINK+3 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG LIFE: $114,500 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFECOMMON POWER FUTURE: $108,000 · Civil RightsCOMMON PO…TRANSPLANT HOUSE: $56,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $32,000 · PhilanthropyGRAYS HARBOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY: $27,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$744,000Human Services$172,000Youth Development$114,500Civil Rights$108,000Health$57,000Philanthropy$39,000Public Safety & Disaster$27,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBELLEVUE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC: $172,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDHAVEN: $147,750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $114,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON POWER FUTURE: $108,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $85,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRANSPLANT HOUSE: $56,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetTHE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $40,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $32,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY: $27,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetOVERLAKE SERVICE LEAGUE: $24,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHOPELINK: $19,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKINDERING CENTER: $15,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO: $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFARESTART: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBELLEVUE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJubilee REACH: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA: $5,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMDRC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSLS PRESCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGRAYS HARBOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOLD TOWN COOPERATIVE PRESCHOOL: $4,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENTRIKE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONSTRUCTION FOR CHANGE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBACKPACK BRIGADE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKIDSQUEST CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE LTD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBACON FAMILY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPIH Health Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARY BRIDGE BRIGADE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HOPE RESOURCE CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC PUBLIC MEDIA: $750 over 3y, 0.0% 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 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 SLS PRESCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds GRAYS HARBOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OLD TOWN COOPERATIVE PRESCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds GREENTRIKE ↗

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.

Puget Sound Energy Fo…Seattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…United Way of King Co…Moccasin Lake Foundat…Medina FoundationM J Murdock Charitabl…Harnish FoundationLiberty Mutual Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Albertsons Compan…Aven Foundation
Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE30.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 True North Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from True North Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.

    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 67 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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