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Wockner Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$330k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$641kHealth$367kCrime & Legal$215kAnimals$133kEducation$130kArts & Culture$100kRecreation & Sports$30kYouth Development$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $325k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Northshore Senior Center$40,000
Child Advocacy Center of Snohomish County - Dawson$30,000
Crisis Connections-Teen Link Program$30,000
Homage Senior Services of Snohomish County$30,000
Overlake Medical Center Foundation$25,000
Northwest School for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing$25,000
Assistance League of the Eastside$20,000
Outdoors for All$20,000
Sound Generations$20,000
Raven Rock Ranch$20,000
Boyer Children's Clinic$15,000
Volunteers of America Western Washington$10,000
Farestart$10,000
Imagine Children's Museum$10,000
Solid Ground Washington$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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $575k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Sound Generations: $20k → 9%HOMAGE SENIOR SERVICES: $60k → 9%HOMAGE SENIOR SERVICES: $35k → 9%HOMAGE SENIOR SERVICES: $30k → 9%HOMAGE SENIOR SERVICES: $20k → 9%HOMAGE SENIOR SERVICES: $20k → 9%HOPELINK: $50k → 9%HOPELINK: $50k → 9%HOPELINK: $50k → 9%HOPELINK: $50k → 9%HOPELINK: $30k → 9%EVERGREEN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%PROVIDENCE HOSPICE OF SEATTLE: $10k → 9%PROVIDENCE HOSPICE OF SEATTLE: $10k → 9%PROVIDENCE HOSPICE OF SEATTLE: $10k → 9%PROVIDENCE HOSPICE OF SEATTLE: $10k → 9%Northshore Senior Center: $40k → 9%NORTHSHORE SENIOR CENTER: $20k → 9%ALPHA SUPPORTED LIVING SERVICES: $10k → 9%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.

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 21 repeat orgs$353k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
11

Total granted

$1.3M
$173k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+1%

Still filing today

90%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k 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 ServicesHealthAnimalsEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

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

  • H
    HOPELINK
    5× · 2020–2024 · $230k · revenue +48%
  • CA
    CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $155k · revenue +53%
  • AL
    ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF THE EASTSIDE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $105k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • EF
    EVERGREENHEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • NH
    NEIGHBORCARE HEALTH
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -6%
  • HW
    HUMANITIES WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -17%

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
North Olympic Healthcare Network

To provide patient-centered, quality-driven, whole-person healthcare services, accessible to everyone in our community.

Health
2
Lutheran Community Services Northwest

LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.

Human Services
3
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
4
South Peninsula Behavioral Health Services Inc

The organization operates primarily on the Southern Kenai Peninsula and its operations include the following:Community Mental Health - Counseling, evaluation, consultation and crisis mental health services for Adults and…

Health
5
Senior Life Resources Northwest

To preserve and enhance the quality of life at home, with dignity and care.

Human Services
6
Healthpoint

Healthpoint strengthens communities and improves people's health by delivering quality services, breaking down barriers and providing access to all.

Health
7
Community Health Center of Snohomish County

Community health center of snohomish county (chc) provides our diverse communities with access to high quality, affordable primary health care.

Health
8
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
9
Project Access Northwest

Project Access Northwest provides low-income families access to medical, dental and Behavioral Health care so they can live a healthier and more productive life.

Health
10
Northwest Counseling Service Inc

Housing Counseling Services

Housing & Shelter
11
Washington Vocational Services

To provide job development, job seeking skills and job placement for persons with disabilities. we are dedicated to providing outstanding quality services that result in successful community involvement and employment for persons with…

Employment
12
Washington Health Care Association

Trade association dedicated to providing educational opportunities, legal and regulatory advice, quality compliance assistance, lobbying and discounted group member benefits for long-term care facilities.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Services of Snohomish County and the most unlike its peers is Raven Rock Ranch. 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 backsteadyHealthcare Access and Servi…Supportive Housing Organiza…Early Childhood and Alterna…Pacific Northwest Conservat…Vashon Island Community Org…
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 44 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr15%6%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr12%44%35–55yr12%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr15%6%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr19%18%20–35yr12%47%35–55yr12%8%55yr+

The field is 22% 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 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/34
the rest of the field
14%
1,719/12,705

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

34 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. 34 of the 42 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
18/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HOPELINK — $230,000 · Human ServicesHOPELINKSENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $165,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTYNORTHSHORE SENIOR CENTER — $60,000 · Human ServicesNORTHSHORE SENIOR CENTEREVERGREENHEALTH FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Human ServicesEVERGREENHEALTH FOUNDATIONPROVIDENCE HOSPICE OF SEATTLE FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Human ServicesPROVIDENCE HOSPICE OF SEATTLE FOUNDATI…SOUND GENERATIONS — $20,000 · Human Services+2 more — $15,000 · Human ServicesASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF THE EASTSIDE — $105,000 · OtherASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF THE EASTS…NW SCHOOL FOR DEAF AND HARD-OF-HEARING CHILDREN — $70,000 · OtherNW SCHOOL FOR DEAF AND HARD-OF…Homage Senior Services of Snohomish County — $30,000 · OtherHomage Senior Services of Snoh…Crisis Connections-Teen Link Program — $30,000 · OtherCrisis Connections-Teen Link P…Child Advocacy Center of Snohomish County - Dawson — $30,000 · OtherChild Advocacy Center of Snoho…Northwest School for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing — $25,000 · OtherNorthwest School for the Deaf …King County Sexual Assault Resource Center — $20,000 · OtherFULL LIFE ELDERHEALTH NORTHWEST — $17,000 · OtherTHE GRADY SCHOOL DBA THE MADRONE SCHOOL — $30,000 · OtherTHE GRADY SCHOOL DBA THE MADRO…+10 more — $96,000 · Other+10 moreOVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $60,000 · HealthOVERLAKE HOSP…CRISIS CONNECTIONS — $50,000 · HealthCRISIS CONNEC…Boyer Children's Clinic — $30,000 · HealthBoyer Childre…NEIGHBORCARE HEALTH — $30,000 · HealthNEIGHBORCARE …PROVIDENCE HOSPICE & HOME CARE FOUNDATION SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $30,000 · HealthPROVIDENCE HO…+1 more — $1,500 · HealthCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $155,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILD ADVOC…Maris Place — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentMaris PlaceRAVEN ROCK RANCH — $80,000 · AnimalsRAVEN ROCK…WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $53,000 · AnimalsWOODLAND P…NW Hearts United — $20,000 · AnimalsNW Hearts …IMAGINE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $45,000 · Arts & CultureHUMANITIES WASHINGTON — $20,000 · Arts & CultureLITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $30,000 · Recreation & SportsOutdoors for all Foundation — $30,000 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$580,000Other$453,000Health$201,500Youth Development$175,000Animals$153,000Arts & Culture$65,000Recreation & Sports$60,000

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 budgetHOPELINK — $230,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $165,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $155,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF THE EASTSIDE — $105,000 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetRAVEN ROCK RANCH — $80,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetNORTHSHORE SENIOR CENTER — $60,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetOVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $53,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEVERGREENHEALTH FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCRISIS CONNECTIONS — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIMAGINE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOSPICE OF SEATTLE FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetLITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBoyer Children's Clinic — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOutdoors for all Foundation — $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBORCARE HEALTH — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOSPICE & HOME CARE FOUNDATION SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $30,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE GRADY SCHOOL DBA THE MADRONE SCHOOL — $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHUMANITIES WASHINGTON — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKing County Sexual Assault Resource Center — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMaris Place — $20,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetNW Hearts United — $20,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetMusic Center of the Northwest — $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDHAVEN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVolunteers of America Western Washington — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALPHA SUPPORTED LIVING SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLifetime Learning Center — $6,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetListen and Talk — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SEATTLE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEMPOWERING STRIDES — $1,500 over 1y, 2.5% 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.

The Norcliffe Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Liberty Mutual Founda…Seattle FoundationLucky Seven FoundationEmployees Community F…Community Foundation …Medina FoundationUnited Way of King Co…Dv & Ida McEachern Ch…Garneau Nicon Family …Employees Community F…
The Norcliffe FoundationWA45.3× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Seattle Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Community Foundation of Snohomish County · Medina Foundation · United Way of King County · Dv & Ida McEachern Charitable Tr · Garneau Nicon Family Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound

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 Wockner 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%3%6%10%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
    11report 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 Wockner Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Wockner 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 42 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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