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James D and Sherry Raisbeck Foundation Trust at a glance

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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.

$3.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Arts & Culture$19MEducation$15MHealth$9.4MYouth Development$1.7MRecreation & Sports$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$380kPhilanthropy$15kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $101k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $333k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.7M
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 4% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY: $205k → 12%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $500k → 19%SEATTLE SYMPHONY: $1.4M → 9%UND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $108k → 13%EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY: $200k → 12%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $250k → 19%SEATTLE SYMPHONY: $739k → 9%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 19%SEATTLE SYMPHONY: $473k → 9%SEATTLE SYMPHONY: $412k → 9%CORNISH COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: $5.4M → 9%CORNISH COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: $1.2M → 9%CORNISH COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: $1.2M → 9%CORNISH COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: $1.0M → 9%CORNISH COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: $358k → 9%CORNISH COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: $180k → 9%CORNISH COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: $125k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $2.6M → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $2.5M → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $2.2M → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $2.0M → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $1.7M → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $1.0M → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $529k → 9%MUSEUM OF FLIGHT: $1.2M → 9%RAISBECK AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL PTSA: $966k → 9%MUSEUM OF FLIGHT (RAISBECK AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT): $859k → 9%MUSEUM OF FLIGHT: $756k → 9%RAISBECK AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL PTSA: $702k → 9%MUSEUM OF FLIGHT: $298k → 9%MUSEUM OF FLIGHT: $146k → 9%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $2.1M → 9%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $1.8M → 9%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $1.6M → 9%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $1.0M → 9%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $750k → 9%SEATTLE OPERA: $630k → 9%PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET: $575k → 9%SEATTLE OPERA: $335k → 9%PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET: $289k → 9%SEATTLE OPERA: $265k → 9%SEATTLE OPERA: $200k → 9%SEATTLE OPERA: $183k → 9%PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET: $153k → 9%SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $583k → 9%SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $500k → 9%SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $490k → 9%SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $427k → 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$46M · 25 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
15

Total granted

$46M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+28%

Still filing today

72%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • FH
    FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER
    5× · 2017–2023 · $7.3M · revenue +27%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2022 · $2.5M · revenue +176%
  • SC
    SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    4× · 2019–2022 · $2.0M · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • MO
    MUSEUM OF FLIGHT (RAISBECK AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT)
    one grant, 2019 · $859k
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $64k · revenue +35%
  • ER
    EMBRY RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIV
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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
Siff

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.

Youth Development
2
Seattle Symphony Orchestra Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Seattle Architectural Foundation

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Museum of Northwest Art

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…

Arts & Culture
5
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
6
Seattle Foundation

Seattle foundation's mission is to ignite powerful and rewarding philanthropy to make greater seattle a stronger, more vibrant community for all.

Philanthropy
7
Seattle International Foundation

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,…

Philanthropy
8
Seattle Public Library Foundation

The seattle public library foundation inspires the community's philanthropic support, advocacy for, and pride in the library.

Education
9
Friends of Kexp

Kexp's mission is to enrich your life by championing music and discovery.

Youth Development
10
Perigee Fund

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…

Health
11
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences

Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences educates and trains health care professionals emphasizing service among rural and medically under-served communities throughout the Northwest.

Education
12
Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Seattle Chapter

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Art Museum; 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.
04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/29
Grantees still filing
20/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $12,545,818 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONFORTISSIMO: $9,537,692 · OtherFORTISSIMOFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $7,316,846 · OtherFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTERSEATTLE SYMPHONY: $3,115,705 · OtherSEATTLE SYMPHONYRAISBECK AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL PTSA 95747: $1,690,000 · Other+18 more: $3,266,989 · Other+18 moreMUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION: $2,467,747 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FLIG…SEATTLE OPERA: $1,762,100 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE OPERAPACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $1,224,450 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC NORTHW…MUSIC OF REMEMBRANCE: $311,650 · Arts & CultureSpectrum Dance Theater: $222,681 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $170,556 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $2,000,000 · HealthMEDIC ONE FOUNDATION: $291,300 · Health+2 more: $67,100 · HealthEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $405,000 · EducationRAINIER SCHOLARS: $200,000 · EducationSeattle Fire Foundation: $83,526 · Public Safety & DisasterFRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT: $55,000 · Community ImprovementGlacier Peak Institute: $20,000 · Science & Tech
Other$37,473,050Arts & Culture$6,159,184Health$2,358,400Education$605,000Public Safety & Disaster$83,526Community Improvement$55,000Science & Tech$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFORTISSIMO: $9,537,692 over 7y, 23% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $7,316,846 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION: $2,467,747 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $2,000,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE OPERA: $1,762,100 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetRAISBECK AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL PTSA 95747: $1,690,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $1,224,450 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $405,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC OF REMEMBRANCE: $311,650 over 7y, 15% of budgetMEDIC ONE FOUNDATION: $291,300 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetSpectrum Dance Theater: $222,681 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS: $200,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetSeattle Fire Foundation: $83,526 over 2y, 21% of budgetNORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $75,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $63,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT: $55,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRAINIER CLUB HISTORIC FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetGlacier Peak Institute: $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $13,556 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORY INK: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRainier Chamber Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetNational Nordic Museum: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARTSFUND: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBEHIND THE BADGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE ST JOSEPH HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗

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.

Seattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Wyman Youth TrustApex FoundationArtsfundM J Murdock Charitabl…The Hugh and Jane Fer…Stevens Family Founda…Moccasin Lake Foundat…The Satterberg Founda…Mightycause Charitabl…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Seattle FoundationWA27× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 James D and Sherry Raisbeck Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James D and Sherry Raisbeck Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report 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
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.
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Find your warmest path to James D and Sherry Raisbeck Foundation Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 45 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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