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Independent Colleges of Washington

INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF WASHINGTON is the leading advocate for not-for-profit, private campuses in washington state.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$129k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$5.5M
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $1,000,540, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,220,227 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $219,687 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$116,279
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY$129,223
SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY$125,864
SAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY$119,602
PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY$117,832
UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND$116,279
WHITMAN COLLEGE$115,218
SEATTLE UNIVERSITY$108,764
GONZAGA UNIVERSITY$96,798
HERITAGE UNIVERSITY$70,960
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $76k → 9%SAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY: $120k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $116k → 9%GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $97k → 12%HERITAGE UNIVERSITY: $71k → 17%SEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $63k → 9%SAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY: $112k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $107k → 9%WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY: $129k → 12%HERITAGE UNIVERSITY: $59k → 17%SEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $62k → 9%SAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY: $100k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $81k → 9%GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $84k → 12%SAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY: $92k → 9%University of Puget Sound: $61k → 9%WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY: $123k → 12%SAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY: $90k → 9%GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $67k → 12%SAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY: $69k → 9%WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY: $98k → 12%WHITMAN COLLEGE: $115k → 13%SAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY: $63k → 9%GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $67k → 12%WHITMAN COLLEGE: $98k → 13%SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $126k → 9%WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY: $85k → 12%WHITMAN COLLEGE: $77k → 13%SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $111k → 9%PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $118k → 9%GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $64k → 12%WHITMAN COLLEGE: $65k → 13%SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $89k → 9%PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $106k → 9%WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY: $79k → 12%WHITMAN COLLEGE: $60k → 13%SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $83k → 9%PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $90k → 9%GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $61k → 12%SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $82k → 9%PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $81k → 9%WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY: $62k → 12%SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $80k → 9%PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $75k → 9%Gonzaga University: $60k → 12%SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $68k → 9%PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $64k → 9%PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $63k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.5M · 10 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
0

Total granted

$5.5M
$0

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SM
    SAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $692k · revenue +68%
  • WU
    WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $687k · revenue +24%
  • PL
    Pacific Lutheran University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $647k · revenue +3%

Funded once

    How this is measured

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

    04Its field

    Closest unfunded matches

    The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

    1
    St Marys University of Minnesota

    Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

    Education
    2
    Lewis & Clark College

    Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

    Education
    3
    Lehigh University

    The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

    Education
    4
    Wake Forest University

    Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

    Education
    5
    Western New England University

    Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

    Education
    6
    University of Portland

    The university of portland, an independently governed catholic university guided by the congregation of holy cross, addresses significant questions of human concern through interdisciplinary studies of the arts, sciences, and humanities…

    Education
    7
    President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

    Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

    Education
    8
    Nebraska Wesleyan University

    Nebraska wesleyan university is an academic community dedicated to intellectual and personal growth within the context of a liberal arts education and in an environment of christian concern.

    Education
    9
    Augustana University Association

    Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.

    Education
    10
    Pacific Union College

    Pacific union college is a seventh-day adventist learning community offering an excellent christ-centered education that prepares its students for productive lives of useful human service and uncompromising personal integrity.

    Education
    11
    California Lutheran University

    The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

    Education
    12
    Point Park University

    Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Pacific University; the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
    04the grantee network

    10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

    Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

    How this is measured

    Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

    Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    0
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    10/10
    Grantees still filing
    8/10
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $692,344 · EducationSEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITYSAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY: $691,990 · EducationSAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITYWHITWORTH UNIVERSITY: $686,856 · EducationWHITWORTH UNIVERSITYPacific Lutheran University: $647,266 · EducationPacific Lutheran UniversityTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $561,586 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUNDCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $552,249 · EducationCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITYBOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE: $544,172 · EducationBOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGEHERITAGE UNIVERSITY: $411,474 · EducationHERITAGE UNIVERSITYWALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY: $235,702 · EducationSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $512,618 · OtherSEATTLE UN…
    Education$5,023,639Other$512,618

    Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $692,344 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY: $691,990 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWHITWORTH UNIVERSITY: $686,856 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPacific Lutheran University: $647,266 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $561,586 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $552,249 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE: $544,172 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $512,618 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHERITAGE UNIVERSITY: $411,474 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetWALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY: $235,702 over 6y, 0.1% of budget
    Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

    A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

    • Who funds SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
    • Who funds SAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY ↗
    • Who funds WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY ↗
    • Who funds Pacific Lutheran University ↗
    • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
    • Who funds CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ↗
    • Who funds BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE ↗
    • Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
    • Who funds HERITAGE UNIVERSITY ↗
    • Who funds WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY ↗

    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.

    Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
    Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy FundNY12.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

    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.

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Independent Colleges of Washington funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Independent Colleges of Washington. Bigger dots raise more.

    2025
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
      typical government reliance, FY20–25
      How this is measured
      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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

      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 10 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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