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Henry M Jackson Endowment

SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION UNDER I.R.C.

$539k
Granted FY2021
25
Grants FY2021
3
States reached
$15M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.

Philanthropy$17MEducation$1.0MEnvironment$326kCivil Rights$271kPublic Benefit$142kInternational$135kYouth Development$69kCommunity Improvement$26kOther$0
02FY2021 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k11 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $349k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $15M
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION$14,700,479
THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$40,663
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$40,663
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$40,663
HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST$35,000
FREEDOM HOUSE$34,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$30,000
ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE$26,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$25,000
WILSON CENTER$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$24,596
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON CENTER FOR EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING AND DIVERSITY$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$12,500
NORTH CASCADES INSTITUTE$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $35k → 17%SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL: $50k → 14%HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION: $14.7M → 9%STREET LAW INC: $22k → 8%HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $35k → 14%OUTRIGHT ACTION INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 17%HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $35k → 14%MILLENNIAL ACTION PROJECT: $20k → 14%HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION: $2.5M → 9%HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $35k → 17%HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $30k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $41k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $41k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $41k → 9%FREE RUSSIA FOUNDATION: $34k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $30k → 9%FREE RUSSIA FOUNDATION (US): $30k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $25k → 9%WILSON CENTER: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $25k → 9%THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS: $50k → 14%THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS: $50k → 14%COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS: $50k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $75k → 9%FREEDOM HOUSE: $34k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $63k → 9%ENVIRONMENTAL & ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE: $30k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $60k → 9%ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE: $26k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $50k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $49k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $42k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $42k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $42k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $42k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $42k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $42k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $41k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $41k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $41k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $40k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $35k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $35k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $35k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $30k → 9%NATIONAL BUREAU OF ASIAN RESEARCH: $25k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $25k → 9%NATIONAL BUREAU OF ASIAN RESEARCH: $22k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 82% of Henry M Jackson Endowment’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 15% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Henry M Jackson Endowmentlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.1M · 10 repeat orgs$513k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +91% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
9

Total granted

$4.1M
$191k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+91%
+9%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $322k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21
InternationalPublic BenefitEnvironmentEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $987k · revenue +46%
  • TC
    THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS
    3× · 2019–2021 · $150k · revenue +619%
  • FR
    FREE RUSSIA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $64k · revenue +500%

Funded once

  • SM
    SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $53k · revenue +270%
  • SC
    SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -11%
  • SL
    STREET LAW INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $22k · revenue +33%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
Womens Foreign Policy Group Inc

Founded in 1995 wfpg works to expand the foreign policy dialogue across policital divides and generations and to support women at every stake of their careers. as champions of womens leadership we are proud of our role in expanding the…

International
3
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
4
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
5
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
6
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
7
Global Policy Forum Inc

Research and education of United Nations activities

International
8
Nw Energy Coalition

The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…

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9
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
10
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
11
Partnership for Global Security

The partnership for global security (pgs) is a recognized international leader and innovator in nuclear and transnational security policy developing actionable responses to 21st century security challenges by engaging international,…

International
12
Center for Environmental Law & Policy

The Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a statewide organization whose mission is to protect, preserve and restore Washington's waters through education, advocacy, policy reform, and public interest litigation.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights First and the most unlike its peers is Henry M Jackson Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr18%24%20–35yr14%28%35–55yr13%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr18%8%20–35yr14%83%35–55yr13%2%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/30
the rest of the field
13%
3,722/28,888

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.

05the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 32 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
21/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION — $2,587,194 · OtherHENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON — $214,085 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON+14 more — $217,835 · Other+14 moreUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $987,220 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON…+1 more — $7,500 · EducationHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST — $135,000 · InternationalFREE RUSSIA FOUNDATION — $63,700 · InternationalFREEDOM HOUSE — $34,000 · InternationalWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL — $16,000 · International+1 more — $4,000 · InternationalTHE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS — $150,000 · Public BenefitSISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL INC — $50,000 · Public BenefitMILLENNIAL ACTION PROJECT DBA FUTURE CAUCUS — $35,000 · Public Benefit+1 more — $4,000 · Public BenefitSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION — $53,000 · EnvironmentNorth Cascades Institute — $23,500 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION NETWORK — $20,000 · EnvironmentSTREET LAW INC — $22,000 · Community ImprovementTHE INSTITUTE ON SCIENCE FOR GLOBAL POLICY — $10,000 · Health
Other$3,019,114Education$994,720International$252,700Public Benefit$239,000Environment$96,500Community Improvement$22,000Health$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION — $2,587,194 over 2y, 96% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $987,220 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS — $150,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST — $135,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFREE RUSSIA FOUNDATION — $63,700 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE — $56,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION — $53,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE NATIONAL BUREAU OF ASIAN RESEARCH — $47,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMILLENNIAL ACTION PROJECT DBA FUTURE CAUCUS — $35,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE — $34,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL — $31,335 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNorth Cascades Institute — $23,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSTREET LAW INC — $22,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION NETWORK — $20,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL — $16,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAmplifier Foundation — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWashington Community Action Network — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Service Board — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Snohomish County — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERSHIP LAUNCH — $4,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetPROJECT GIRL MENTORING PROGRAM — $4,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlacier Peak Institute — $4,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSTILLY-SNOHOMISH FISHERIES ENHANCEMENT TASK FORCE DBA SOUND SALMON SOLUTIONS — $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

Henry M Jackson Found…Seattle FoundationSchool's Out Washingt…Gates FoundationVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Henry M Jackson FoundationWA26.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Henry M Jackson Foundation · Seattle Foundation · School's Out Washington · Gates Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Henry M Jackson Endowment 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Henry M Jackson Endowment?

    Find your warmest path to Henry M Jackson Endowment 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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