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Veterane 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.

$696k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$140k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$554kEducation$241kArts & Culture$222kEnvironment$212kHousing & Shelter$166kYouth Development$165kInternational$142kPhilanthropy$130kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $320k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $340k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PACIFIC PUBLIC MEDIA$140,000
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER$100,000
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND LAND TRUST$50,000
HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES$50,000
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE$30,000
HELPLINE HOUSE$25,000
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND LAND TRUST$25,000
THE SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES$20,000
WHATCOM COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION$20,000
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER$20,000
HOUSING RESOURCES BAINBRIDGE$20,000
NORTH KITSAP FISHLINE$20,000
REFUGEES IN SCHOOLS EVERYWHERE$15,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC$15,000
PACIFIC PUBLIC MEDIA$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $485k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOLLY RIDGE CENTER INC: $5k → 10%HOLLY RIDGE CENTER INC: $5k → 10%NORTH KITSAP FISHLINE: $20k → 10%NORTH KITSAP FISHLINE: $10k → 10%NORTH KITSAP FISHLINE: $5k → 10%SUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 9%HELPLINE HOUSE: $100k → 10%BAINBRIDGE ISLAND SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER: $100k → 10%BAINBRIDGE ISLAND SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER: $100k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 9%HELPLINE HOUSE: $25k → 10%BAINBRIDGE ISLAND SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 10%HELPLINE HOUSE: $10k → 10%HELPLINE HOUSE: $10k → 10%BAINBRIDGE ISLAND SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 10%BAINBRIDGE ISLAND SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 10%HELPLINE HOUSE: $10k → 10%BAINBRIDGE YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 10%BAINBRIDGE YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 10%BAINBRIDGE YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 10%BAINBRIDGE ISLAND SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 10%BAINBRIDGE ISLAND SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 10%BAINBRIDGE YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

AK
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CA
VA
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HI
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 26 repeat orgs$344k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
16

Total granted

$1.7M
$294k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+89%

Still filing today

92%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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 ServicesInternationalEducationHousing & ShelterArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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

  • BI
    BAINBRIDGE ISLAND SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER
    5× · 2021–2025 · $250k · revenue +55%
  • PP
    PACIFIC PUBLIC MEDIA
    2× · 2018–2025 · $170k · revenue +11%
  • HH
    HELPLINE HOUSE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $155k · revenue +174%

Funded once

  • OC
    OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS
    one grant, 2019 · $110k
  • BI
    Bainbridge Island Child Care Centers
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -19%
  • KP
    KNKX PACIFIC PUBLIC MEDIA
    one grant, 2017 · $12k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art

Bainbridge island museum of art (bima) inspires curiosity, wonder and understanding by connecting people with the contemporary art and craft of the puget sound region.

Arts & Culture
2
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
3
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
4
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
5
Re Sources

RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.

Environment
6
Rainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalition

Rainier Beach Action Coalition is a grassroot, Black-led organization devoted to locally driven development. It promotes quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing, and building community capacity in…

Community Improvement
7
Bike Works Seattle

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

Recreation & Sports
8
Islesboro Islands Trust

The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…

Philanthropy
9
Washington Bikes

Washington Bikes works to ensure that all who ride a bicycle in Washington have safe comfortable and convenient places to ride. Organization advocates for bicyclists rights and shapes policies.

Recreation & Sports
10
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
11
Bay Nature Institute dba Bay Nature Bay Nature Magazine

Bay Nature connects the people of the San Francisco Bay Area to our natural world and motivates people to solve problems with nature in mind. Our vision is that all people have a close relationship with theirnatural world.

Environment
12
Port Angeles Food Bank

Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bainbridge Island Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySenior Support ServicesLand Conservation Organizat…Affordable Housing Developm…Government Accountability R…Pregnancy Support ServicesLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Food Pantries & AssistancePublic Library SupportDevelopmental Disabilities …Child and Family ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…South Asian Cultural and Sp…Environmental Advocacy Orga…Community FoundationsIndependent K-8 SchoolsEarly Childhood Education C…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr18%43%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr15%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr18%42%20–35yr13%42%35–55yr15%6%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/41
the rest of the field
12%
4,745/38,927

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.

04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 49 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
27/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER — $250,000 · Human ServicesBAINBRIDGE ISLAND SENIOR …HELPLINE HOUSE — $155,000 · Human ServicesHELPLINE HOUSENORTH KITSAP FISHLINE — $35,000 · Human ServicesNORTH KITSAP FISHLINEBainbridge Youth Services — $20,000 · Human Services+3 more — $25,000 · Human ServicesOTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS — $110,000 · OtherOTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONSBainbridge Island Child Care Centers — $100,000 · OtherBainbridge Island Child Care CentersTHE KOSSOYE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM — $52,425 · OtherTHE KOSSOYE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMBAINBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $92,625 · OtherBAINBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONONE CALL FOR ALL — $34,000 · OtherInternational Rescue Committee INC — $40,000 · OtherInternational Rescue Committee INCEarthcorps — $31,500 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $30,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $55,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERIC…EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $40,000 · OtherEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVEISLAND VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS — $38,650 · Other+15 more — $118,750 · Other+15 moreTHE SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES — $118,500 · EducationTHE SEATTLE …WHATCOM COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $90,000 · EducationWHATCOM COUN…Bainbridge Public Library — $12,500 · EducationBainbridge P…Giddens School — $10,000 · EducationPACIFIC PUBLIC MEDIA — $170,000 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC PUB…CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA — $40,000 · Arts & CultureCASCADE PUB…+1 more — $3,000 · Arts & CultureHousing Resources Bainbridge — $140,000 · Housing & ShelterROOTS YOUNG ADULT SHELTER — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER — $5,500 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $3,000 · Housing & ShelterHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES — $140,000 · Youth Development100cameras — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBAINBRIDGE ISLAND LAND TRUST — $95,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION NW — $40,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Environment
Human Services$485,000Other$742,950Education$231,000Arts & Culture$213,000Housing & Shelter$158,500Youth Development$145,000Environment$140,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBAINBRIDGE ISLAND SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER — $250,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetPACIFIC PUBLIC MEDIA — $170,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHELPLINE HOUSE — $155,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES — $140,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHousing Resources Bainbridge — $140,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHE SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES — $118,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBainbridge Island Child Care Centers — $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetBAINBRIDGE ISLAND LAND TRUST — $95,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBAINBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $92,625 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetWHATCOM COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $90,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION NW — $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS — $38,650 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetNORTH KITSAP FISHLINE — $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetONE CALL FOR ALL — $34,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetEarthcorps — $31,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBainbridge Youth Services — $20,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBainbridge Public Library — $12,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLLY RIDGE CENTER — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROOTS YOUNG ADULT SHELTER — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGiddens School — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER — $5,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget100cameras — $5,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetISLAMIC RELIEF USA — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNEAU COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSolid Ground Washington — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAINBRIDGE ISLAND PARKS & TRAILS FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCascade Bicycle Club — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Seattle FoundationBainbridge Community …One Call for AllPuget Sound Energy Fo…Rotary Club of Bainbr…Kitsap Community Foun…First Fed FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Clovis FoundationQuail Roost FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Margaret and Raymond …
Seattle FoundationWA42× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Bainbridge Community Foundation · One Call for All · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Rotary Club of Bainbridge Island Trust · Kitsap Community Foundation · First Fed Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Clovis Foundation · Quail Roost Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Margaret and Raymond Chang Family 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 Veterane 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Veterane Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Veterane Family Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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