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Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation at a glance

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Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$50M
Granted FY2024still arriving
547
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$5.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$115MEducation$55MHealth$49MYouth Development$48MArts & Culture$31MRecreation & Sports$13MHuman Services$12MHousing & Shelter$5.6MOther$0
02FY2024 · 547 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k244 grants · $935k
  • $10k–50k252 grants · $4.0M
  • $50k–250k26 grants · $2.4M
  • $250k+25 grants · $43M
$10,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$1.1B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HORATIO ALGER ASSOCIATION OF CANADA$5,000,000
EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$5,000,000
STATE OF MONTANA - MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$5,000,000
STATE OF MONTANA - MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$5,000,000
EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$5,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION$3,690,000
EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$2,500,000
CAMOSUN COLLEGE FOUNDATION$1,301,475
XAVIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL$1,250,000
YOUNG LIFE - WFR$1,109,821
DAVID FOSTER FOUNDATION THE$1,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION - 21ST CENTURY TEACHING & LEARNING INITIAT$800,000
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION - EDREADY$700,000
WASHINGTON KIDS FOUNDATION$568,342
WASHINGTON KIDS FOUNDATION$502,830
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $6.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CENTRAL MONTANA CHILDCARE ALLIANCE: $20k → 12%ANACONDA PCA FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $33k → 14%STARS & STRIPES CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%STARS & STRIPES CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%ORPHANED STARFISH FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%CHALLENGE ASPEN: $188k → 6%CHALLENGE ASPEN: $188k → 6%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - LANE COUNTY OREGON: $25k → 15%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - LANE COUNTY OREGON: $25k → 15%CHILD BRIDGE: $75k → 18%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - LANE COUNTY OREGON: $25k → 15%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC: $500k → 9%CHILD BRIDGE: $50k → 18%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - LANE COUNTY OREGON: $25k → 15%FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME & SERVICES: $69k → 9%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC: $40k → 9%CHILD BRIDGE: $50k → 18%NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME & SERVICES: $59k → 9%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC: $30k → 9%CHILD BRIDGE: $50k → 18%NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME & SERVICES: $52k → 9%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC: $30k → 9%CHILD BRIDGE: $50k → 18%FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME & SERVICES: $50k → 9%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC: $30k → 9%CHILD BRIDGE: $20k → 18%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC: $25k → 9%CHILD BRIDGE: $20k → 18%FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME & SERVICES: $47k → 9%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC: $20k → 9%REACH INC: $20k → 10%WATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $20k → 9%WATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $20k → 9%TUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM: $50k → 9%FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME & SERVICES: $550k → 9%FAMILIES FIRST (DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM MISSOULA PUTTING FAMILIES FIRST): $30k → 9%FAMILIES FIRST (DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM MISSOULA PUTTING FAMILIES FIRST): $30k → 9%FAMILIES FIRST: $30k → 9%CHILD CARE RESOURCES: $25k → 9%CHILD CARE RESOURCES: $25k → 9%GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA: $2.0M → 9%GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA: $500k → 9%GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA: $30k → 9%GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA: $25k → 9%GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA: $25k → 9%GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA: $25k → 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

AK
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MI
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CO
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GA
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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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 54% of Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$209M · 562 repeat orgs$24M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

562 repeat relationships: 356 still active in FY2024, 206 since wound down; 88 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

562
366

Total granted

$209M
$16M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+17%

Still filing today

62%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationFood & NutritionYouth 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • GM
    GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +81%
  • MF
    MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +112%
  • JF
    JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    7× · 2017–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • LG
    LIONS GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $2.2M
  • VH
    VICTORIA HOSPITALS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $2.0M
  • RC
    ROYAL COLUMBIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $2.0M
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.

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Scenic Montana Trails
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2
Montana Healthcare Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Montana Budget and Policy Center

To advance responsible tax, budget, and economic policies through credible research and analysis in order to promote opportunity and fairness for all Montanans.

Public Benefit
4
Montana Pediatric Cancer Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Montana State Parks Foundation

The montana state parks foundation raises private support to enhance the visitors experience and build advocates for montanas state parks and recreation heritage.

Recreation & Sports
6
Montana Business Leadership Council

The mblc exists to encourage and enact business-friendly policies that create good-paying jobs and make montana a better place to live. the primary purpose of the mblc is to educate the public on important business issues, enable citizens…

Community Improvement
7
Montana Chamber of Commerce

To create and sustain an optimal business climate, business prosperity and a strong montana economy through advocacy, education and collaboration, working to provide an empowered and educated workforce, reduce business growth obstacles,…

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8
Northwest Montana Community Land Trust Inc

Provide permanently affordable homeownership opportunities for low- and moderate-income families in the flathead valley and nw montana.

Housing & Shelter
9
Jobs Now Inc Dba Montana West Economic Development

To build upon the economic base in flathead county by assisting business startups and expansion activities with resources and valuable connections. montana west delivers local business economic development services targeted to impact job…

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10
The Greater Montana Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Center for Mental Health

The center for mental health partners with people and communities to produce exceptional mental health and substance abuse services.

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12
Montana Farm Bureau Foundation

The mission of the montana farm bureau foundation (mfbfo) is to support montana agriculture through education, research, and community support, with a special emphasis for the development of our youth.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Head Start Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

609 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. 609 of the 1,029 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)
209
Early backer (in before they grew)
574/609
Grantees still filing
406/609
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $38,005,900 · OtherEISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONYOUNG LIFE: $24,116,250 · OtherYOUNG LIFESTATE OF MONTANA - MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $21,022,500 · OtherSTATE OF MONTANA - MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETYYOUNG LIFE - WFR: $12,699,821 · OtherYOUNG LIFE - WFRCITY & COUNTY OF BUTTE-SILVER BOW: $6,872,000 · OtherWASHINGTON KIDS FOUNDATION: $5,791,003 · Other+128 more: $51,057,516 · Other+128 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $110,975,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT F…+4 more: $459,500 · Community ImprovementTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $21,128,455 · EducationTHE UNIVERSIT…HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC: $14,757,500 · EducationHORATIO ALGER…+13 more: $4,369,450 · Education+13 moreGREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA: $2,845,000 · Human ServicesFLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME AND SERVICES: $826,642 · Human ServicesMOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC: $685,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGE ASPEN: $375,000 · Human ServicesCHILD BRIDGE INC: $315,000 · Human Services+12 more: $1,241,808 · Human ServicesJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1,730,000 · Arts & CultureSUN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS INC: $1,010,000 · Arts & CultureMISSOULA CULTURAL COUNCIL dba ARTS MISSOULA: $452,500 · Arts & CultureZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER: $397,000 · Arts & CultureROCKY MOUNTAIN BALLET THEATRE: $287,400 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF SARAH MCLACHLAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC SOCIETY INC: $228,525 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $945,969 · Arts & CultureSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC: $3,427,500 · Recreation & SportsBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION AND LAKE COUNTY: $1,050,000 · Recreation & SportsGLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $347,305 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $85,000 · Recreation & SportsPARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,675,500 · PhilanthropyXAVIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL: $1,250,000 · PhilanthropyEagle Mount: $222,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY: $207,750 · PhilanthropyROGER FEDERER CHARITABLE FUND INC: $200,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF HAAC INC: $185,575 · Philanthropy+4 more: $339,090 · Philanthropy
Other$159,564,990Community Improvement$111,434,500Education$40,255,405Human Services$6,288,450Arts & Culture$5,051,394Recreation & Sports$4,909,805Philanthropy$4,080,415

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $110,975,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $21,128,455 over 8y, 10% of budgetHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC: $14,757,500 over 7y, 53% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC: $3,427,500 over 8y, 34% of budgetGREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA: $2,845,000 over 8y, 25% of budgetMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC: $1,887,500 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1,730,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,675,500 over 7y, 9.7% of budgetMONTANA RESCUE MISSION: $1,567,750 over 8y, 17% of budgetMainstreet Uptown Butte Inc: $1,320,000 over 8y, 27% of budgetMONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,292,600 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetXAVIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL: $1,250,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION AND LAKE COUNTY: $1,050,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetSUN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS INC: $1,010,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMONTANA PEDIATRICS: $1,000,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetEDUCATION DESIGN LAB: $1,000,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetTHE DAVID FOSTER FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME AND SERVICES: $826,642 over 6y, 15% of budgetMOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC: $685,000 over 7y, 7.0% of budgetBUTTE FAMILY YMCA: $685,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetMontana State University Billings Foundation & Alumni: $630,000 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $566,740 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMONTANA METH PROJECT: $558,000 over 2y, 75% of budgetBABY2BABY: $512,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $500,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMISSOULA CULTURAL COUNCIL dba ARTS MISSOULA: $452,500 over 7y, 14% of budgetZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER: $397,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetCHALLENGE ASPEN: $375,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetMONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS INC: $365,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetGLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $347,305 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetCHILD BRIDGE INC: $315,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetMISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $314,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetIntermountain Deaconess Childrens Services: $308,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN BALLET THEATRE: $287,400 over 8y, 21% of budgetCARROLL COLLEGE: $285,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMontana State University Foundation Inc: $275,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetButte Rescue Mission: $251,250 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetCODE GIRLS UNITED: $242,100 over 5y, 12% of budgetFRIENDS OF SARAH MCLACHLAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC SOCIETY INC: $228,525 over 3y, 99% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST: $222,940 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetEagle Mount: $222,500 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetPOVERELLO CENTER INC: $221,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY: $207,750 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetButte Emergency Food Bank: $202,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF HAAC INC: $185,575 over 1y, 88% of budgetLEADERSHIP MONTANA INC: $185,000 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetGREAT FALLS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $178,750 over 8y, 2.2% 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds Mainstreet Uptown Butte Inc ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds XAVIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION AND LAKE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds SUN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA PEDIATRICS ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATION DESIGN LAB ↗
  • Who funds THE DAVID FOSTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE GATEHOUSE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME AND SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC ↗
  • Who funds BUTTE FAMILY YMCA ↗

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.

Town Pump Charitable …Montana Community Fou…Gianforte Family Char…Headwaters Health Fou…Montana Food Bank Net…Treacy FoundationSample Foundation IncFirst Interstate Banc…The Steele-Reese Foun…Oro y Plata FoundationWhitefish Community F…The High Stakes Found…
Town Pump Charitable FoundationMT255.8× affinity226 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Montana Food Bank Network Inc · Treacy Foundation · Sample Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Steele-Reese Foundation Xxxxx1004 · Oro y Plata Foundation · Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · The High Stakes 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 Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Bradley Angle: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
62report 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
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.
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How do I get to Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dennis & Phyllis Washington 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 1029 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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