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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 FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$570k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $228k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $726k
  • $250k+1 grant · $570k
$15,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOL$570,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$140,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$105,000
TACOMA MUSEUM OF GLASS$91,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHUINGTON FOUNDATION$90,000
THE UNITED STATES PONY CLUBS INC$50,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$50,000
EQUINE LAND CONSERVATION RESOURCE$50,000
WHITMAN COLLEGE$50,000
CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY$50,000
SHATTUCK ST MARY'S SCHOOL$50,000
SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY$40,000
ST PAUL'S SCHOOL$30,000
BAJA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
PINE ISLAND CAMP INC$25,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $70k) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $13k → 9%TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $10k → 9%TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $10k → 9%TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $10k → 9%TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $10k → 9%TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $10k → 9%AMARA: $8k → 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

ME
NH
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
IA
IN
CT
CA
MO
KY
VA
MD
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.5M · 44 repeat orgs$436k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
14

Total granted

$8.5M
$221k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+7%

Still filing today

73%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k 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
EducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • AW
    ANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOLS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +63%
  • University of Chicago
    6× · 2020–2025 · $660k · revenue +52%
  • PI
    Pine Island Camp
    6× · 2020–2025 · $485k · revenue +244%

Funded once

  • TRINITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2024 · $68k · revenue +3%
  • EL
    ESQUESTRIAN LAND CONSERVATION RESOURCE
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • 5A
    5TH AVENUE THEATER
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
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
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
2
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
3
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
6
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
Goucher College

Goucher College provides an innovative liberal arts education that prepares students with a broad, humane perspective for a life of inquiry, creativity, and critical and analytical thinking. The College's vision is to become a top-100…

Education
9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
10
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
11
Bosque School

To create transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate contribution to a more just world.

Education
12
Darrow School

Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenhill School; the most unlike its peers is Engeye Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 63 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
29/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOLS: $3,150,000 · OtherANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOLSUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $543,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONTHE UNITED STATES PONY CLUBS INC: $300,000 · OtherTHE UNITED STATES PONY CLUBS INCESQUESTRIAN LAND CONCERVATION RECOURCE: $200,000 · OtherTACOMA MUSEUM OF GLASS: $177,000 · Other+30 more: $854,131 · Other+30 moreUniversity of Chicago: $660,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoSHATTUCK-ST MARY'S SCHOOL: $380,000 · EducationSHATTUCK-ST MARY'S SCHOOLBOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE: $300,000 · EducationBOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COL…ST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $270,000 · EducationST PAUL'S SCHOOLCornell University: $200,000 · EducationCornell UniversitySEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $190,000 · EducationSEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS: $110,428 · EducationThe Oakwood School Inc: $92,500 · Education+10 more: $339,832 · Education+10 morePine Island Camp: $485,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $240,000 · Social ScienceBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $151,000 · HealthMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthLUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER INC: $23,500 · HealthCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 · EnvironmentEQUINE LAND CONSERVATION RESOURCE: $50,000 · EnvironmentANNAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $70,000 · Arts & CultureSEQUIM CITY BAND: $34,000 · Arts & CultureGREENTRIKE: $22,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$5,224,631Education$2,542,760Recreation & Sports$485,000Social Science$240,000Health$199,500Environment$145,000Arts & Culture$126,000

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 budgetANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOLS: $3,150,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $660,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPine Island Camp: $485,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetSHATTUCK-ST MARY'S SCHOOL: $380,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE: $300,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $270,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $240,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University: $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $190,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $151,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS: $110,428 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Oakwood School Inc: $92,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetANNAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $70,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE: $68,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTacoma Community House: $62,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetALPHA CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EPISCOPAL SCHOOLS INC: $60,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetGREENHILL SCHOOL: $52,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEQUINE LAND CONSERVATION RESOURCE: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetFordham University: $39,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SYCAMORE SCHOOL: $38,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWe Heart Seattle: $35,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetDETROIT HORSE POWER: $34,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSEQUIM CITY BAND: $34,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetLIFT ME UP INC: $32,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetConcordia Christian Academy: $31,332 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBAJA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER INC: $23,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREENTRIKE: $22,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetZ GIRLS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCollege Success Foundation: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $15,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetR MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMARA: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLOTHESLINE FOR ARLINGTON KIDS: $6,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetMaris Place: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSOUTH SOUND CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $4,625 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFARESTART: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENGEYE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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 ANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Pine Island Camp ↗
  • Who funds SHATTUCK-ST MARY'S SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS ↗
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Oakwood School Inc ↗
  • Who funds ANNAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Tacoma Community House ↗
  • Who funds ALPHA CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EPISCOPAL SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENHILL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds EQUINE LAND CONSERVATION RESOURCE ↗
  • Who funds Fordham University ↗
  • Who funds THE SYCAMORE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds We Heart Seattle ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT HORSE POWER ↗
  • Who funds SEQUIM CITY BAND ↗
  • Who funds LIFT ME UP INC ↗
  • Who funds Concordia Christian Academy ↗
  • Who funds BAJA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗

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 Fou…Greater Tacoma Commun…Oscar T and Olivann H…LT Murray Family Foun…Sequoia FoundationForest FoundationKilworth Florence Cha…Ben B Cheney Foundati…Fuchsg & M Fdn TaiThe Bamford FoundationMedina FoundationSeattle Foundation
The Dimmer Family FoundationWA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dimmer Family Foundation · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Oscar T and Olivann Hokold Foundation · LT Murray Family Foundation · Sequoia Foundation · Forest Foundation · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · The Bamford Foundation · Medina Foundation · Seattle Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Trinity College: 0% of income from government
  • Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 63 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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