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Windermere Foundation
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What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 95 grants below total $1,721,525 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,859,247 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,137,722 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k41 grants · $283k
- $10k–50k48 grants · $778k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $661k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER | $236,500 |
| NORTHWEST HOPE & HEALING | $99,588 |
| TREEHOUSE | $94,450 |
| ANGEL FLIGHT WEST | $88,450 |
| NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH | $82,379 |
| HOMESIGHTSAM SMITH FUND | $59,320 |
| BELLEVUE LIFESPRING | $47,500 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SEATTLE | $30,000 |
| SEQUIM SUNRISE ROTARY FOUNDATION | $28,326 |
| LIFEWIRE | $27,465 |
| UNIVERSITY DISTRICT FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| KIDVANTAGE | $25,000 |
| EDMONDS FOOD BANK | $22,736 |
| LEVEL THE FIELD SPORTS | $22,000 |
| BALLARD FOOD BANK | $21,380 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 15% 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 +34% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
151 repeat relationships — 70 still active in FY2024, 81 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $246k 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
- CJCHILDREN'S JUSTICE& ADVOCACY CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +62% · 77% of their budget
- NANEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC8× · 2017–2024 · $541k · revenue +108%
- HHOMESIGHT4× · 2021–2024 · $384k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- PNPHILANTHROPY NORTHWESTone grant, 2020 · $171k · revenue -84%
- SVSEATTLE VETERINARY OUTREACHone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +24%
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLANDone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +12%
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.
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.
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…
House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…
Our mission is to provide food and key resources to help our neighbors and community thrive. we lead the effort to feed, educated and advocate ending hunger in the snoqualmie valley and beyond.
Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…
To empower families experiencing housing insecurity through intervention, prevention,and stabilization services.
Impact nw prevents homelessness by supporting people as they navigate their journey to stability and strength. founded in portland in 1966, impact nw now serves 26,944 people a year in the greater portland, oregon metro area, including…
The organization's mission is growing food justice through collective action. the organization's vision is ending hunger in washington state.
At Solid Ground, we work passionately to end poverty and build a more equitable community. Our services support people experiencing poverty by helping them achieve stability and expand their skills to realize their dreams. And that's just…
To provide food to individuals in need with compassion, dignity and respect. No one needing assistance is turned away.
SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Womens Christian Association of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County and the most unlike its peers is Raymond T Moore Tacoma Rescue Mission. 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.
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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
303 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. 303 of the 335 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CHILDREN'S JUSTICE& ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds HOMESIGHT ↗
- Who funds ATTAIN HOUSING ↗
- Who funds MARY'S PLACE SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) ↗
- Who funds KIDVANTAGE ↗
- Who funds LifeWire ↗
- Who funds College Success Foundation ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds HOUSING HOPE ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HOPE & HEALING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROGRESSIVE ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF THE EASTSIDE ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
- Who funds BALLARD FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC ↗
- Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE VETERINARY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE MEADOWS ↗
- Who funds PIKE PLACE MARKET QB2 ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Park City Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROSE HAVEN CIC ↗
- Who funds Youth Eastside Services ↗
- Who funds LAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISSAQUAH FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MAMA'S HANDS DBA MAMMA'S HANDS ↗
- Who funds CANCER CARE NORTHWEST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds George Pocock Rowing Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDMONDS FOOD BANK ↗
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 · The Norcliffe Foundation · Medina Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Washington Federal Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · School's Out Washington · Moccasin Lake Foundation · United Way of King County · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company
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 Windermere 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.
- Bridge Meadows — 36% of income from government
- Adelante Mujeres — 31% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
- Portland Housing Center — 19% of income from government
- Human Solutions Inc Dba Our Just Future — 17% of income from government
- Columbia Gorge Childrens Advocacy Center — 12% of income from government
- Friends of the Children-Portland — 5% of income from government
- Pear — 1% of income from government
- William Temple House — 0% of income from government
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.
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