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Vatheuer Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
52
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$230k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$2.9MEnvironment$2.2MHuman Services$2.0MEducation$1.3MReligion$620kInternational$611kFood & Nutrition$580kCrime & Legal$150kOther$0
02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k37 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $116k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $885k
$1,648
Median grant
5
States reached
$54M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREEN EMPOWERMENT$230,000
Individual grant recipient$150,000
PROJECT 41 - KENYA SAFETAP PILOT PROJECT SAFE WATER INITIATIVE$120,000
OHSU FOUNDATION (INTESTINAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATOR (IMO AQUALUNG PROJECT)$100,000
PSU FOUNDATION$80,000
SPECIAL HOPE NETWORK$80,000
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEM FUNDERS (SAFSF)$75,000
ACT FOR CONGO$50,000
NEW COVENANT MISSIONS$23,000
THE BACKSTAGE FOUNDATION$20,000
SAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION$20,000
PACIFIC NW TRIBAL LENDING (FORMERLY LUMMI - CDFI)$20,000
GRANTS TO UNDERSERVED INDIVIDUALS$12,999
SKATE LIKE A GIRL$10,000
RUBY'S RAINBOW$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $157k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FUEL RELIEF FUND: $10k → 11%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $32k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $30k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $25k → 9%SAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $15k → 9%SAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MN
NY
OR
PA
CA
MD
DC
HI
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Vatheuer Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 81% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 59%.

Vatheuer Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 36% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.7M · 54 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
54

Total granted

$7.7M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+14%

Still filing today

22%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $436k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationInternationalPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • GE
    GREEN EMPOWERMENT
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +169%
  • NC
    NEW COVENANT MISSIONS INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $595k · revenue +255%
  • P
    Project41
    7× · 2017–2023 · $464k · revenue +249% · 76% of their budget

Funded once

  • BRIDGE MEADOWS
    one grant, 2018 · $1.5M · revenue -35% · 49% of their budget
  • O
    OHSU
    one grant, 2020 · $460k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $56k
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
Co-Impact Philanthropic Funds Inc

Philanthropic collaborative focused on improving lives through just & inclusive systems change.

Philanthropy
2
Seattlecu Foundation

The foundations impact pillars include wealth creation for low-income and marginalized communities, supporting small businesses, investing in our communities, and providing services for immigrant communities.

Education
3
Social Finance Inc

Social finance builds innovative partnerships and investments that realign systems to measurably improve lives.

Human Services
4
Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International
5
The People's Fund

Hawai`i people`s fund supports, funds, and amplifies the work of hawai`i- based grassroots organizations challenging systems of oppression.

Human Services
6
Power for All

Our mission is to build and mobilize a network of partners across the energy access ecosystem that together can accelerate the adoption of decentralized renewable energy.

International
7
Breakthrough Energy Foundation

Working with our world-class network of innovators, business and industry leaders, and policy experts, we accelerate the innovation of climate technologies at every stage - from discovery to development to deployment.

Public Benefit
8
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
9
Seattle University

Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.

—
10
She-Can Global Inc

The world is grappling with complex problems, including climate change, war, poverty, and ongoing human rights violations. These issues disproportionately impact women, particularly in developing countries. In nations recovering from…

Education
11
Sustainable Path Foundation

Sustainable Path Foundation promotes sustainability and health in the Puget Sound region through collaborative approaches informed by scientific understanding and systems thinking.

Social Science
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Venture Fund; the most unlike its peers is Zion Lutheran Church. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 134 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/29
Grantees still filing
21/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OHSU FOUNDATION: $2,290,000 · OtherOHSU FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $500,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPSU FOUNDATION: $494,629 · OtherPSU FOUNDATIONOHSU: $460,000 · OtherOHSUSUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS: $225,000 · Other+110 more: $1,343,607 · Other+110 moreGREEN EMPOWERMENT: $1,612,084 · PhilanthropyGREEN EMPOWERMENTThe Backstage Foundation: $145,000 · PhilanthropyThe Backstage Foun…+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyBRIDGE MEADOWS: $1,540,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRIDGE MEADOWS+1 more: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEW COVENANT MISSIONS INC: $594,850 · InternationalNEW COVEN…ACT FOR CONGO INC: $222,000 · InternationalACT FOR C…MYRIAD USA INC: $83,000 · InternationalMYRIAD US…+1 more: $5,200 · InternationalProject41: $463,512 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUND: $25,000 · EnvironmentSpecial Hope Network: $236,000 · Human ServicesVINE MAPLE PLACE: $107,000 · Human ServicesSAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $310,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Education+2 more: $19,000 · Education
Other$5,313,236Philanthropy$1,767,084Youth Development$1,590,000International$905,050Environment$488,512Human Services$393,000Education$354,000

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 budgetGREEN EMPOWERMENT: $1,612,084 over 7y, 23% of budgetBRIDGE MEADOWS: $1,540,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetNEW COVENANT MISSIONS INC: $594,850 over 7y, 11% of budgetProject41: $463,512 over 7y, 76% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $310,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSpecial Hope Network: $236,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetSUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS: $225,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetACT FOR CONGO INC: $222,000 over 4y, 41% of budgetThe Backstage Foundation: $145,000 over 4y, 57% of budgetVINE MAPLE PLACE: $107,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $83,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50,621 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MT BAKER COMMUNITY CLUB: $50,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetWONDERLAND CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHEALTH ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL: $45,568 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S GUILD ASSOCIATION: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY LENDING: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollege Access Now: $12,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRUBY'S RAINBOW: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSKATE LIKE A GIRL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFUEL RELIEF FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST TRIBAL LENDING FINANCIAL INSTITUTION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL HEALTH MINISTRIES: $5,200 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 GREEN EMPOWERMENT ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE MEADOWS ↗
  • Who funds NEW COVENANT MISSIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds Project41 ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Special Hope Network ↗
  • Who funds SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS ↗
  • Who funds ACT FOR CONGO INC ↗
  • Who funds The Backstage Foundation ↗
  • Who funds VINE MAPLE PLACE ↗
  • Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MT BAKER COMMUNITY CLUB ↗
  • Who funds WONDERLAND CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds SAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S GUILD ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY LENDING ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds College Access Now ↗

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 FoundationMcKinstry Charitable …The Norcliffe Foundat…The Blackbaud Giving …United Way of King Co…M J Murdock Charitabl…ImpactassetsincMightycause Charitabl…Baird Foundation IncNatl Christian Charit…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Seattle FoundationWA17.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · McKinstry Charitable Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · United Way of King County · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Impactassetsinc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 36%
  • Bridge Meadows: 36% of income from government
  • Portland State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report 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 134 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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