· Private foundation
College Spark Washington
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $158k
- $50k–250k29 grants · $2.6M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EDUCATION SERVICE DISTRICT 105 | $300,000 |
| TECHNOLOGY ACCESS FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| PUGET SOUND EDUCATION SERVICE DISTRICT 121 | $275,000 |
| PUGET SOUND EDUCATION SERVICE DISTRICT 121 | $250,000 |
| NORTHEAST WA ESD 101 | $175,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $175,000 |
| COMMUNITY CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESULTS | $164,000 |
| ONEAMERICA | $150,000 |
| NORTHWEST EDUCATION SERVICE DISTRICT 189 | $133,584 |
| EDUCATION SERVICE DISTRICT #105 | $120,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $106,000 |
| EDUCATION SERVICE DISTRICT 112 | $100,000 |
| EDUCATION NORTHWEST | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY INITIATIVES | $100,000 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $96,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $52k) 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.
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.
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.
63 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
TECHNOLOGY ACCESS FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $870k · revenue +14%- RTRENTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $400k · revenue +161%
- RARural Alliance2× · 2020–2022 · $323k · revenue +171% · 52% of their budget
Funded once
- OOOFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTIONone grant, 2020 · $1.1M
- OOOFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTIONone grant, 2021 · $770k
- SHSEIU HEALTHCARE 1199NW MULTI-EMPLOYER TRAINING & EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue 0%
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.
The Foundation for the Seattle Colleges exists to advance fundraising efforts for the Seattle Community College District. We seek to attract financial resources which support students so they may be successful; maintain the quality and…
The mission of Impact Public Schools is to prepare a diverse student population to succeed in college and impact communities as the next generation of equity-driven, innovative leaders. (Continued on Schedule O)Impact Public Schools makes…
The mission of the Foundation is to promote, accept, and maximize private support for programs, initiatives, and properties of Washington State University and its regional campuses. The Foundation also prudently manages, invests, and…
Through Jazz education that liberates and inspires, Seattle JazzED increase access in the music room, celebrates student expression, and builds lasting connection rooted in community.
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
To be a catalyst for vibrant growth of each student in the Sequim School District.
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences educates and trains health care professionals emphasizing service among rural and medically under-served communities throughout the Northwest.
Independent colleges of washington is the leading advocate for not-for-profit, private campuses in washington state.
To support the improvement of k through 12 educational programs for pupils in the state of washington. to provide professional development to principals in the state of washington.
Washington Family Engagement fosters social transformation by supporting the development of mulitgenerational leaders from diverse backgrounds to become actively engaged in schools and communities in Washington State.
In partnership with cwu and our donors, our mission is to transform the lives of current and future generations of students by developing and stewarding resources that provide access, opportunity, and hope.
The wcc foundation strengthens educational opportunities by providing student scholarships, supporting faculty and staff development, and assisting with key college initiatives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Washington Stem Center and the most unlike its peers is Seiu Healthcare 1199NW Multi-Employer Training & Education Fund. 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 28 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 141 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
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 DEGREES OF CHANGE ↗
- Who funds TECHNOLOGY ACCESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON STEM CENTER ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds ONEAMERICA ↗
- Who funds RENTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TeamChild ↗
- Who funds Rural Alliance ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESULTS ↗
- Who funds SEIU HEALTHCARE 1199NW MULTI-EMPLOYER TRAINING & EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON ETHNIC STUDIES NOW ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF BENTON-FRANKLI ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds RVC SEATTLE ↗
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: Gates Foundation · Seattle Foundation · School's Out Washington · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Inatai Foundation · Stolte Family Foundation · Medina 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 College Spark Washington 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.
- Education Northwest — 44% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% 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.