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George Washington Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$66k
Granted FY2026still arriving
20
Grants FY2026still arriving
4
States reached
$11k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$301k
02FY2026 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k18 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
$1,050
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY$10,500
CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$10,500
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$9,450
EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$6,300
WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY$5,250
WENATCHEE VALLEY COLLEGE$4,200
PERRY TECHNICAL INSTITUTE$3,939
COLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE$3,150
GONZAGA UNIVERSITY$2,100
LOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE$1,050
WHITMAN COLLEGE$1,050
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$1,050
HERITAGE UNIVERSITY$1,050
HIGHLINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$1,050
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO$1,050
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN: $2k → 13%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 8%NOTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%University of Idaho: $2k → 16%CARROLL COLLEGE: $2k → 9%WENATCHEE VALLEY COLLEGE: $5k → 9%COLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE: $3k → 11%CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $11k → 11%WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 12%Spokane Falls Community College: $2k → 12%BIG BEND COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 14%Perry Technical Institute: $6k → 17%GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%WENATCHEE VALLEY COLLEGE: $4k → 9%COLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE: $3k → 11%Central Washington University: $7k → 11%SPOKANE FALLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 12%BIG BEND COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 14%PERRY TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $4k → 17%GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%WENATCHEE VALLEY COLLEGE: $4k → 9%CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $6k → 11%WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $5k → 12%SPOKANE FALLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 12%PERRY TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $4k → 17%GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $9k → 9%CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $4k → 11%WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 12%PERRY TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $2k → 17%CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY: $5k → 12%WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY: $3k → 12%WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY: $3k → 12%GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $2k → 12%Northwest University: $3k → 9%WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY: $2k → 12%SPOKANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 12%Spokane Community College: $2k → 12%SPOKANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 12%EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $5k → 12%EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $9k → 12%EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $6k → 12%Eastern Washington University: $5k → 12%EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $4k → 12%EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $4k → 12%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

WA
ID
MT
OR
OH
CT
UT
NE
VA
AZ
AR
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.
$348k · 35 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2026, 19 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
15

Total granted

$348k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+1%

Still filing today

37%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2021–2026 · $9k · revenue +40%
  • GC
    Grand Canyon University
    2× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +22%
  • BO
    BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE
    3× · 2022–2026 · $3k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN
    one grant, 2025 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • UO
    University of Washington Bothell
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
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
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
2
University of Portland

The university of portland, an independently governed catholic university guided by the congregation of holy cross, addresses significant questions of human concern through interdisciplinary studies of the arts, sciences, and humanities…

Education
3
Nebraska Wesleyan University

Nebraska wesleyan university is an academic community dedicated to intellectual and personal growth within the context of a liberal arts education and in an environment of christian concern.

Education
4
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
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
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
7
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
8
John Brown University

John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…

Education
9
Texas Christian University

Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…

Education
10
Augustana University Association

Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.

Education
11
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
12
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Pacific University; the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. 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

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 54 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY: $67,225 · OtherWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $45,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONEASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $33,950 · OtherEASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITYCENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $33,250 · OtherCENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITYPerry Technical Institute: $18,631 · OtherPerry Technical InstituteWENATCHEE VALLEY COLLEGE: $14,350 · OtherWESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $13,650 · Other+33 more: $88,725 · Other+33 moreWHITWORTH UNIVERSITY: $14,175 · EducationWHITWORTH UNIVER…CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $9,450 · EducationCORPORATION OF G…SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $4,200 · EducationSEATTLE PACIFIC …Grand Canyon University: $4,200 · EducationGrand Canyon Uni…BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE: $3,150 · EducationBOARD OF TRUSTEE…HERITAGE UNIVERSITY: $3,150 · EducationHERITAGE UNIVERS…CARROLL COLLEGE: $2,625 · EducationGEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY: $2,100 · EducationSAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY: $2,100 · EducationNORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC: $2,100 · EducationCORBAN UNIVERSITY: $2,100 · Education+3 more: $3,150 · Education+3 more
Other$315,281Education$52,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWHITWORTH UNIVERSITY: $14,175 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $9,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST UNIVERSITY: $4,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $4,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Canyon University: $4,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE: $3,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHERITAGE UNIVERSITY: $3,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCARROLL COLLEGE: $2,625 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY: $2,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY: $2,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC: $2,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORBAN UNIVERSITY: $2,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $2,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWARNER PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Lutheran University: $1,050 over 1y, 0.0% 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 WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
  • Who funds BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CARROLL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds CORBAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WARNER PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

M J Murdock Charitabl…Paul Lauzier Scholars…Scottish Rite Foundat…Wf & Blanche E West E…Leo Adler TrustNational Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
M J Murdock Charitable TrustWA15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Paul Lauzier Scholarship Foundation · Scottish Rite Foundation of Wa Inc Dba Scottish Rite Scholarship Fdn of Wa · Wf & Blanche E West Educational & Coffman Jf · Leo Adler Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 George Washington Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George Washington Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Warner Pacific University: 8% of income from government
  • Corban University: 4% of income from government
  • George Fox University: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to George Washington Foundation?

Find your warmest path to George 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 54 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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