How much does Bates Family Foundation give?

Bates Family Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $1,596,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 41 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Bates Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (73%), Recreation & Sports (6%), Environment (4%).

Who are Bates Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Annie Wright Schools ($3.1M), University of Chicago ($660k), University of Washington ($544k).

Does Bates Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Bates Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Bates Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Dimmer Family Foundation, Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, Oscar T and Olivann Hokold Foundation.

Where is Bates Family Foundation based?

Bates Family Foundation is based in WA.

Foundation Dossiers

Washington · Private foundation

Bates 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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 35
Grants FY2025: 34
Organizations funded FY2024: 6%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $570,000
Organizations funded a year: 34 to 41; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 14
Total assets, FY2025: $11M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Bates Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	34	$1.6M	15%
FY2024	34	$1.7M	6%
FY2023	37	$1.3M	3%
FY2022	41	$1.5M	12%
FY2021	40	$1.4M	33%
FY2020	37	$1.5M	n/a

98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$5.3MRecreation & Sports$468kEnvironment$330kYouth Development$311kArts & Culture$280kSocial Science$240kHealth$179kHuman Services$111kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Annie Wright Schools	$3,150,000	6	2%
University of Chicago	$660,000	6	0%
University of Washington	$543,500	6	n/a
Pine Island Camp	$485,000	6	12%
Shattuck-St Mary's School	$380,000	6	0%
Board of Trustees of Whitman College	$300,000	6	0%
St Paul's School	$270,000	6	0%
The Brookings Institution	$240,000	4	0%
Cornell University	$200,000	4	0%
Seattle Pacific University	$190,000	6	0%

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All grantees of Bates Family Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Annie Wright Schools	$3,150,000	6	2%
University of Chicago	$660,000	6	0%
University of Washington	$543,500	6	n/a
Pine Island Camp	$485,000	6	12%
Shattuck-St Mary's School	$380,000	6	0%
Board of Trustees of Whitman College	$300,000	6	0%
St Paul's School	$270,000	6	0%
The Brookings Institution	$240,000	4	0%
Cornell University	$200,000	4	0%
Seattle Pacific University	$190,000	6	0%
Breakthrough T1d	$151,000	5	0%
University of Redlands	$110,428	3	0%
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc	$95,000	6	0%
The Oakwood School Inc	$92,500	6	1%
Annapolis Symphony Orchestra Inc	$70,000	6	1%
Trinity College	$68,000	1	0%
Tacoma Community House	$62,500	6	0%
Alpha Chi Omega Foundation Inc	$60,000	6	0%
National Association of Episcopal Schools Inc	$60,000	6	1%
Greenhill School	$52,000	6	0%
Equine Land Conservation Resource	$50,000	1	17%
Fordham University	$39,000	6	0%
The Sycamore School	$38,000	3	1%
We Heart Seattle	$35,000	3	4%
Detroit Horse Power	$34,000	6	0%
Sequim City Band	$34,000	3	11%
Lift Me Up Inc	$32,500	5	1%
Concordia Christian Academy	$31,332	3	0%
Baja Community Foundation	$30,000	2	1%
Mary Bridge Children's Foundation	$25,000	1	0%
Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center Inc	$23,500	5	0%
Greentrike	$22,000	4	0%
Z Girls Foundation	$20,000	1	3%
College Success Foundation	$20,000	3	0%
Washington University	$15,500	6	0%
R Merle Palmer Minority Scholarship	$10,000	2	0%
Amara	$7,500	1	0%
Clothesline for Arlington Kids	$6,000	3	1%
Maris Place	$5,000	1	2%
South Sound Christian Schools	$4,625	1	0%
Farestart	$2,500	1	0%
Doorways for Women and Families Inc	$2,000	1	0%
Engeye Inc	$2,000	1	1%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bates Family Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 42.

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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.

The Dimmer Family FoundationWA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Bates Family Foundation

How much does Bates Family Foundation give?: Bates Family Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $1,596,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 41 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Bates Family Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (73%), Recreation & Sports (6%), Environment (4%).
Who are Bates Family Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Annie Wright Schools ($3.1M), University of Chicago ($660k), University of Washington ($544k).
Does Bates Family Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bates Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bates Family Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Dimmer Family Foundation, Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, Oscar T and Olivann Hokold Foundation.
Where is Bates Family Foundation based?: Bates Family Foundation is based in WA.