How much did HUMANITIES WASHINGTON grant in FY2021?

HUMANITIES WASHINGTON reported 101 grants totaling $1,027,139 in its FY2021 IRS filing.

Where is HUMANITIES WASHINGTON based?

HUMANITIES WASHINGTON is based in WA.

HUMANITIES WASHINGTON

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· Public charity

HUMANITIES WASHINGTON

HUMANITIES WASHINGTON opens minds and bridges divides by creating spaces to explore different perspectives.

$1.0M

Granted FY2021

101

Grants

Communities

$15k

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2021 · 101 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

Under $10k47 grants · $338k
$10k–50k54 grants · $590k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

NORDIC MUSEUM$15,000
FOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT$15,000
NORTHWEST MUSEUM OF ARTS AND CULTURE$15,000
NORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM$15,000
SPOKANE PUBLIC RADIO$15,000
NORTHWEST RAILWAY MUSEUM$15,000
WING LUKE MUSEUM OF THE ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN EXPERIENCE$15,000
WASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$15,000
DENSHO JAPANESE AMERICAN LEGACY PROJECT$15,000
CENTRO CULTURAL MEXICANO$15,000
CASCADIA COLLEGE$10,000
YAKIMA VALLEY MUSEUM$10,000
VOICES OF THE CHILDREN$10,000
FORT VANCOUVER REGIONAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION$10,000
IMAGINE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$10,000

02The need

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 (FY21–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 8%. 98% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your 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.

Portland Museum of Art

Museum/Educational

Arts & Culture

Oregon Historical Society

The oregon historical society has been collecting, preserving, exhibiting and publishing oregon's history for over 100 years. today, the society's complex is a landmark in the heart of portland's cultural district, and offers oregon's rich…

Arts & Culture

Seattle Opera

To thrill, inspire and educate through the shared experience of opera

Arts & Culture

Des Moines Historical Society

The purposes of the Des Moines Historical Society include the discovery, preservation, and dissemination of knowledge about the history of the greater Des Moines area of southern King County, State of Washington

Arts & Culture

Chelan County Historical Society

The museum preserves and displays pioneer village homes and businesses, wildlife and native american artifacts for the public to enjoy.

Arts & Culture

Highline Heritage Museum

To collect, preserve and tell the stories of the Highline region and its people.

Unclassified

Seattle Chamber Music Festival

To foster the appreciation of chamber music in our region by presenting performances featuring world-class musicians in accessible and inviting formats, with an emphasis on developing a broad-based sustainable audience through education…

Arts & Culture

Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture

The mission of the northwest museum of arts & culture foundation is to financially support the eastern washinton state historical society dba northwest museum of arts & culture as it actively engages all people in appreciation of arts and…

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Mt Hood Cultural Center and Museum

Preserving the history of the Mt. Hood region and providing a cultural center for the community. Museum facilities are open to the public and available for community educational activities.

Arts & Culture

Forks Timber Museum

Educate public about heritage of the olympic peninsula emphasizing timber industry and forestry

Arts & Culture

Center for Contemporary Art & Culture

To enliven and expand the understanding of craft and the museum experience for all.

Arts & Culture

Historical Society of Seattle & King

Collect and preserve the diverse history of Seattle, the Puget Sound region and beyond. Highlighting innovation and education, MOHAI enriches lives by sharing the individual and collective stories of our communities.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington Trust for Historic and the most unlike its peers is Arbutus Folk School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/99

the rest of the field

11%

3,258/29,820

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.

03the grantee network

82 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

78/82

Grantees still filing

68/82

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$493,269Other$301,910Education$88,500Civil Rights$10,000Public Benefit$10,000Recreation & Sports$10,000International$7,250Environment$7,000

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

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.

ArtsfundWA127.8× affinity70 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Artsfund · Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · School's Out Washington · Inatai Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Philanthropy Northwest · The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation · Raynier Institute & Foundation · Dv & Ida McEachern Charitable Tr · Moccasin Lake Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust

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 organisation HUMANITIES WASHINGTON 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE FAMILY GUIDE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 7.8× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 260223132 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on THE FAMILY GUIDE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 24% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Humanities Washington?

Find your warmest path to Humanities Washington through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

HUMANITIES WASHINGTON

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

82 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Humanities Washington?

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HUMANITIES WASHINGTON

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

82 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Humanities Washington?

More from the funding graph