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Henry M Jackson Foundation

The henry m.

$569k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2018–2025.

Civil Rights$378kPublic Benefit$333kInternational$272kEnvironment$155kEducation$69kPhilanthropy$35kYouth Development$33kSocial Science$32kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $210k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FREEDOM HOUSE$250,000
THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS$50,000
HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST$40,000
UNIVERSITY OF WA JACKSON SCHOOL OF INL STUDIES$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF WA - EVANS SCHOOL$30,000
SEATTLE FOUNDATION$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF WA JACKSON SCHOOL OF INL STUDIES$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF WA JACKSON SCHOOL OF INL STUDIES$22,000
UNIVERSITY OF WA$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF WA - EVANS SCHOOL$12,500
FREE RUSSIA FOUNDATION$7,500
ASSOCIATION FOR COLLECTIVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ON SAFETY AND SECURITY$5,000
NATIONAL CIVIC LEAGUE OF COLORADO$5,000
GLACIER PEAK INSTITUTE$5,000
HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CONSORTIUM OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY$5,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BRAVER ANGELS INC: $5k → 17%THE CENTER FOR WOMEN & DEMOCRACY: $500 → 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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 33% of Henry M Jackson Foundation’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, 48% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 30% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Henry M Jackson Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.2% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$747k · 13 repeat orgs$635k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
30

Total granted

$747k
$454k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+12%

Still filing today

77%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $181k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureOther

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

  • TC
    THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $200k · revenue +30%
  • HD
    HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CONSORTIUM OF SEATTLE - KING COUNTY
    3× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +17%
  • GP
    Glacier Peak Institute
    4× · 2022–2025 · $19k · revenue +171%

Funded once

  • UH
    UW HENRY M JACKSON SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
    one grant, 2024 · $55k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON JACKSON SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
    one grant, 2023 · $52k
  • UE
    UW EVANS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY AND GOVERNANCE
    one grant, 2024 · $43k

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
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
2
Clean Energy Transition Institute

The Clean Energy Transition Institute (CETI) is an independent, nonpartisan research and analysis nonprofit whose mission is to accelerate an equitable clean energy transition in the Northwest.

Education
3
Economic Opportunity Institute

Equip the public and public decision-makers with the policy research and practical tools they need to embed the values of fairness, care, and opportunity into the foundations of Washington's economy.

Community Improvement
4
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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5
The Washington Bus

We empower Washington youth leaders to create sustainable, positive change through advocacy, youth voter turnout, and leadership development programs.

Civil Rights
6
Working Washington

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

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7
Enterprise Washington

See schedule o.enterprise washington empowers its members to effectively engage in public affairs and the political process. enterprise washington provides its business and association members with leading-edge research and strategies to…

Community Improvement
8
Invest in Washington Now Campaign

Advocate for tax policy in Washington State

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9
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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10
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
11
Washington Progress Fund

Washington Progress Fund is building a permanent and powerful social change movement in Washington state supported by a network of committed donors. WPF envisions a Washington state where government serves the public interest and we all…

Philanthropy
12
Pacific Northwest Economic Region Foundation

To increase the economic well-being and quality of life for all citizens of the region; to coordinate provincial, territorial, and state policies throughout the region; to identify and promote "models of success and to serve as a conduit…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership Tomorrow and the most unlike its peers is Operation Snow Leopard. 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%6%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr18%26%20–35yr14%29%35–55yr14%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%24%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr18%7%20–35yr14%28%35–55yr14%32%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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%0/38
the rest of the field
13%
4,248/32,704

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

36 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. 36 of the 57 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
24/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WA JACKSON SCHOOL OF INL STUDIES — $82,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WA JACKSON SCHOOL OF INL STUDIESUW HENRY M JACKSON SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES — $54,500 · OtherUW HENRY M JACKSON SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIESUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON JACKSON SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES — $52,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON JACKSON SCHOOL OF INTERNATI…UW EVANS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY AND GOVERNANCE — $42,500 · OtherUW EVANS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY AND GOVERNANCEUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON EVANS SCHOOL — $42,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON EVANS SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF WA - EVANS SCHOOL — $42,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WA - EVANS SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS — $31,890 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON CENTER FOR EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING & DIVERSITY — $30,000 · OtherCLIMATE SOLUTIONS — $30,000 · OtherENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE — $30,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON — $25,000 · Other+32 more — $192,650 · Other+32 moreFREEDOM HOUSE — $254,000 · InternationalFREEDOM HOUSEHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST — $160,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST+3 more — $15,000 · InternationalTHE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS — $200,000 · Public BenefitTHE COUNCIL ON STRA…MILLENNIAL ACTION PROJECT DBA FUTURE CAUCUS — $25,000 · Public BenefitMILLENNIAL ACTION P…LEADERSHIP TOMORROW — $8,500 · Public Benefit+1 more — $5,000 · Public BenefitSEATTLE FOUNDATION — $35,000 · PhilanthropyHOUSING DEVELOPMENT CONSORTIUM OF SEATTLE - KING COUNTY — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterNorth Cascades Institute — $15,000 · EnvironmentJEFFERSON LAND TRUST — $5,000 · EnvironmentGlacier Peak Institute — $19,000 · Science & Tech
Other$655,540International$429,000Public Benefit$238,500Philanthropy$35,000Housing & Shelter$20,000Environment$20,000Science & Tech$19,000

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 budgetFREEDOM HOUSE — $254,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS — $200,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST — $160,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE SOLUTIONS — $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE — $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMILLENNIAL ACTION PROJECT DBA FUTURE CAUCUS — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHOUSING DEVELOPMENT CONSORTIUM OF SEATTLE - KING COUNTY — $20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGlacier Peak Institute — $19,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetNorth Cascades Institute — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAsso for Collective Community Engagement on Safety — $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetOPERATION SNOW LEOPARD — $10,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetLEADERSHIP TOMORROW — $8,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSEATTLE 2030 DISTRICT — $8,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetONE WORLD NOW — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT GIRL MENTORING PROGRAM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLEADERSHIP LAUNCH — $5,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBraver AngelsInc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON SCHOOL PRINCIPALS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTULALIP FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEarthcorps — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Washington Bus Education Fund — $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CITY CLUB — $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBike Works Seattle — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC MODEL UNITED NATIONS — $1,650 over 3y, 0.4% 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.

Seattle FoundationHenry M Jackson Endow…Gates FoundationCredit Unions in the …School's Out Washingt…Puget Sound Energy Fo…The Satterberg Founda…The Norcliffe Foundat…The Hugh and Jane Fer…Community Foundation …Mightycause Charitabl…Grousemont Foundation
Seattle FoundationWA28.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Henry M Jackson Endowment · Gates Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · School's Out Washington · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · The Norcliffe Foundation · The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation · Community Foundation of Snohomish County · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Grousemont 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 Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    15report 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.

    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 57 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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