Washington · Private foundation
Gow Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2024
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $220,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 34
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $16M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations Gow Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 34 | $2.0M | 6% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $1.8M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $1.6M | 29% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $1.4M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $2.1M | 15% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $1.4M | 7% |
| FY2017 | 32 | $1.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food Lifeline | $850,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Yuan Tze Ren Xue Center | $840,000 | 6 | 50% |
| Farestart | $750,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Pottery Northwest | $460,000 | 7 | 21% |
| Young Womens Christian Association of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County | $450,000 | 3 | 0% |
| LifeWire | $380,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Islandwood | $350,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Rainier Scholars | $350,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Recovery Cafe | $330,000 | 7 | 2% |
| The Pachamama Alliance | $325,000 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gow Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · United Way of King County · The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Medina Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · Real Progress Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · Windermere Foundation · Glassybaby White Light Fund · Lucky Seven Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
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About Gow Family Foundation
- How much does Gow Family Foundation give?
- Gow Family Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $1,960,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Gow Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (22%), Health (19%), Education (13%).
- Who are Gow Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Food Lifeline ($850k), Yuan Tze Ren Xue Center ($840k), Farestart ($750k).
- Does Gow Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gow Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gow Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, United Way of King County, The Norcliffe Foundation.
- Where is Gow Family Foundation based?
- Gow Family Foundation is based in WA.
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