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Humanities Washington

HUMANITIES WASHINGTON (hw) opens minds and bridges divides by creating spaces to explore different perspectives. We envision a state where all people seek a deeper understanding of others, themselves, and the human experience, in order to discern and promote the common good.

$1.0M
Granted FY2021
101
Itemized grants FY2021
99
Organizations funded FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$928k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$15,000
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$2.5M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Centro Cultural Mexicano$15,00011%
National Nordic Museum$15,00010%
Wing Luke Memorial Foundation$15,00010%
Northwest Railway Museum$15,00011%
Washington State Historical Society$15,0001n/a
Eastern Washington State Historical Society$15,00010%
Foss Waterway Seaport$15,00011%
Densho$15,00011%
Spokane Public Radio$15,00011%
Northwest African American Museum$15,00011%
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All grantees of Humanities Washington by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Centro Cultural Mexicano$15,00011%
National Nordic Museum$15,00010%
Wing Luke Memorial Foundation$15,00010%
Northwest Railway Museum$15,00011%
Washington State Historical Society$15,0001n/a
Eastern Washington State Historical Society$15,00010%
Foss Waterway Seaport$15,00011%
Densho$15,00011%
Spokane Public Radio$15,00011%
Northwest African American Museum$15,00011%
Central Washington University$14,0001n/a
Kitsap County Historical Society$14,00018%
Gig Harbor Peninsula Historical Soc$10,00011%
Kuow Puget Sound Public Radio$10,00010%
Tasveer$10,00012%
South Sound Reading Foundation$10,00013%
Holocaust Center For Humanity$10,00010%
Washington State University$10,0001n/a
Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center$10,00011%
Bellevue Art Museum$10,00010%
Imagine Children's Museum$10,00010%
Window Seat Media$10,000113%
Skagit River Poetry Project$10,0001n/a
Clark County Historical Society$10,00014%
Polson Park and Museum Historical Society$10,00014%
Orquesta Northwest$10,00015%
Everett Museum of History$10,00012%
Vancouver National Historic Reserve Trust$10,00010%
Methow Arts Alliance$10,00012%
Family Guide$10,000124%
Spokane Arts Fund$10,00011%
Fort Vancouver Regional Library Foundation$10,00010%
Experience Learning Community$10,00010%
206 Universal Dba 206 Zulu$10,00015%
Quillisascut Education Fund$10,0001n/a
Fort Walla Walla Museum Walla Walla Valley Historical Society$10,00011%
Seattle Latino Film Festival$10,000113%
Children's Museum of Skagit County$10,00014%
Orcas Center$10,00011%
Sound Theatre Company$10,00012%
MOHAI Foundation$10,00013%
Yakima Valley Museum & Historical Assoc$10,00011%
Confluences Inc Confluence Project$10,00011%
Look Listen and Learn Tv$10,0001n/a
Tieton Arts and Humanities$10,00014%
Hedgebrook$10,00011%
Issaquah History Museums$10,00015%
Kidsquest Children's Museum$10,00010%
Washington's National Park Fund$10,00010%
Corporation of Gonzaga University$10,00010%
Grief Dialogues$10,0001n/a
Heritage University$10,00010%
Voices of the Children$10,000112%
Port Gamble S'Klallam Foundation$10,00011%
Village Theatre$10,00010%
Cascadia College$10,0001n/a
City of Moses Lake$9,9831n/a
Mirror Stage$9,960111%
City of Everett$9,2121n/a
Jack Straw Foundation$7,50011%
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art$7,50010%
Music Fusian Nw$7,5001n/a
Washington Trust For Historic Preservation$7,50010%
SV Archive$7,50011%
Wow China Inc$7,50013%
9th and 10th Horse Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers$7,50011%
Jefferson County Historical Society$7,50012%
Port Angeles Fine Arts Center Foundation$7,50012%
Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice$7,25014%
Kulshan Community Media$7,0001n/a
Northern Kittitas County Historical Society$7,0001n/a
Okanogan County Historical Society Inc$7,00013%
Pioneer Farm Museum$7,00012%
Living Voices$7,00013%
Coastal Interpretive Center$7,00015%
The Thorp Mill Town Historical Preservation Society$7,0001n/a
Washington Museum Association$7,0001n/a
Desert Fiber Arts$7,0001n/a
Mason County Historical Society$7,00015%
Makeshift$7,00015%
Cowlitz County Historical Society$7,00015%
Huong Viet Performing Arts Group$7,0001n/a
Cascadia Poetics Lab$7,000112%
Northeast Washington Community Radio Guild$7,0001n/a
Steilacoom Historical Museum Assn Inc$7,00014%
Methow Field Institute$7,0001n/a
The Rhapsody Project$7,0001n/a
Tacoma Historical Society$7,00014%
Arbutus Folk School$7,00014%
Steilacoom Tribal Museum Association$7,0001n/a
Asotin County Library Foundation$7,000111%
Historic Whidbey$7,00014%
Spokane Valley Heritage Museum$7,00016%
Ilwaco Heritage Foundation Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum$7,00013%
Maple Valley Creative Arts Council$7,0001n/a
Poulsbo Historical Society$6,71512%
Bushwick Northwest$6,20016%
Whatcom Reads$6,0001n/a
Celtic Arts Foundation$5,10910%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Humanities Washington supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCentro Cultural Mexicano: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNational Nordic Museum: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWing Luke Memorial Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwest Railway Museum: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEastern Washington State Historical Society: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFoss Waterway Seaport: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDensho: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSpokane Public Radio: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNorthwest African American Museum: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKitsap County Historical Society: $14,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetGig Harbor Peninsula Historical Soc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetKuow Puget Sound Public Radio: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTasveer: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSouth Sound Reading Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetHolocaust Center For Humanity: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBellevue Art Museum: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetImagine Children's Museum: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWindow Seat Media: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetClark County Historical Society: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetPolson Park and Museum Historical Society: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetOrquesta Northwest: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetEverett Museum of History: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetVancouver National Historic Reserve Trust: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMethow Arts Alliance: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFamily Guide: $10,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetSpokane Arts Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFort Vancouver Regional Library Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetExperience Learning Community: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget206 Universal Dba 206 Zulu: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetFort Walla Walla Museum Walla Walla Valley Historical Society: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSeattle Latino Film Festival: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetChildren's Museum of Skagit County: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetOrcas Center: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSound Theatre Company: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMOHAI Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetYakima Valley Museum & Historical Assoc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetConfluences Inc Confluence Project: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTieton Arts and Humanities: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetHedgebrook: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetIssaquah History Museums: $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetKidsquest Children's Museum: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWashington's National Park Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCorporation of Gonzaga University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeritage University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVoices of the Children: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPort Gamble S'Klallam Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVillage Theatre: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 76.

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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.

ArtsfundWA128.9× affinity71 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 · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · School's Out Washington · Inatai Foundation · The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Raynier Institute & Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Philanthropy Northwest · Dv & Ida McEachern Charitable Tr

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.

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About Humanities Washington

How much does Humanities Washington give?
Humanities Washington reported 101 itemized grants totaling $927,929, out of $1,027,139 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing.
What does Humanities Washington fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2021, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (72%), Education (10%), Human Services (6%).
Who are Humanities Washington's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2021: Centro Cultural Mexicano ($15k), National Nordic Museum ($15k), Wing Luke Memorial Foundation ($15k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Humanities Washington?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Artsfund, Seattle Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation.
Where is Humanities Washington based?
Humanities Washington is based in WA.

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 99 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $25k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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