· Private foundation
James D and Sherry Raisbeck Foundation Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 80% of JAMES D AND SHERRY RAISBECK FOUNDATION TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $101k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $333k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CORNISH COLLEGE OF THE ARTS | $1,215,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $1,000,000 |
| SEATTLE SYMPHONY | $472,669 |
| PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET | $100,000 |
| MUSIC OF REMEMBRANCE | $67,500 |
| SEATTLE OPERA | $60,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT | $55,000 |
| SPECTRUM DANCE THEATER | $50,000 |
| MEDIC ONE FOUNDATION | $41,300 |
| NORTHWEST OPERA IN SCHOOLS ETCETERA (NOISE) | $20,000 |
| GLACIER PEAK INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| SEATTLE FIRE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HISTORY LINK | $10,000 |
| ARTSFUND | $5,000 |
| PROVIDENCE ST JOSEPH HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 4% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FHFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER5× · 2017–2023 · $7.3M · revenue +27%
- MOMUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2022 · $2.5M · revenue +176%
- SCSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL4× · 2019–2022 · $2.0M · revenue +43%
Funded once
- MOMUSEUM OF FLIGHT (RAISBECK AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT)one grant, 2019 · $859k
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $64k · revenue +35%
- EREMBRY RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVone grant, 2023 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.
The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…
The museum of northwest art collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits art created in the pacific northwest, supports artists, and strives to integrate art into the lives of all people. the museum is free and open to the public seven…
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
Seattle foundation's mission is to ignite powerful and rewarding philanthropy to make greater seattle a stronger, more vibrant community for all.
Seattle international foundation (sif) champions equity and rule of law in central america through good governance and a robust civil society. sif works with other donors to the region to increase philanthropy and to promote collaboration,…
The seattle public library foundation inspires the community's philanthropic support, advocacy for, and pride in the library.
Kexp's mission is to enrich your life by championing music and discovery.
Our mission is to shift policies and systems to increasingly value and embed supports for caregiver and infant mental health in the places where families are during pregnancy and early childhood. perigee is organized & operated as a…
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences educates and trains health care professionals emphasizing service among rural and medically under-served communities throughout the Northwest.
Arcs foundation advances science and technology in the united states by providing financial awards to academically outstanding u.s. citizens studying to complete degrees in science, engineering and medical research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Art Museum and the most unlike its peers is The Dee Howard 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 28 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
29 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. 29 of the 45 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds FORTISSIMO ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE OPERA ↗
- Who funds RAISBECK AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL PTSA 95747 ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC OF REMEMBRANCE ↗
- Who funds MEDIC ONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Spectrum Dance Theater ↗
- Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds Seattle Fire Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT ↗
- Who funds RAINIER CLUB HISTORIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Glacier Peak Institute ↗
- Who funds KUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HISTORY INK ↗
- Who funds Rainier Chamber Foundation ↗
- Who funds National Nordic Museum ↗
- Who funds ARTSFUND ↗
- Who funds THE DEE HOWARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEHIND THE BADGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · Apex Foundation · Artsfund · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation · Stevens Family Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 James D and Sherry Raisbeck Foundation Trust 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.
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 3% of income from government
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.
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