· Private foundation
Janet Wright Ketcham Foundation
Its FY2025 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $183k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $315k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF WATERFRONT SEATTLE | $250,000 |
| SAHAR EDUCATION | $100,000 |
| EPIPHANY PARISH OF SEATTLE | $65,000 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY | $50,000 |
| SEATTLE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| SEATTLE ART MUSEUM | $30,000 |
| SAINT MARK'S CATHEDRAL PARISH | $30,000 |
| YWCA SEATTLE KING COUNTY | $25,000 |
| COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS | $25,000 |
| THE GREAT ELEHPANT MIGRATION | $13,000 |
| PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET | $10,000 |
| SAINT STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| CASCADE PBS | $10,000 |
| SMITH COLLEGE | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Janet Wright Ketcham Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- SASEATTLE ART MUSEUM8× · 2017–2025 · $903k · revenue +0%
- TTTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE4× · 2017–2025 · $323k · revenue +52%
- COCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC7× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- SMST MARKS PARISHone grant, 2017 · $215k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $102k · revenue +46%
- HRHAMLIN ROBINSON SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +75%
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…
Kexp's mission is to enrich your life by championing music and discovery.
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
To build and enhance the competitiveness of Washington State's film and associated creative industry. We accomplish this by marketing and managing the state's production incentive program, representing the state in national and…
To provide economic development financing to serve the needs of small businesses in the state of washington that would not qualify for private financing under conventional financing criteria.
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 oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Public Library Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Sahar Education. 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.
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 37 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 79 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 FRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GoodWeave International ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HAMLIN ROBINSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAHAR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Town Hall Association ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE OPERA ↗
- Who funds Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival ↗
- Who funds WATER FIRST INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds TELLER WILDLIFE REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SONOMA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE CITY CLUB ↗
- Who funds ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds EPIPHANY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
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 · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The GreerSolien Fund · Grousemont Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Donald Family Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · Real Progress Foundation · United Way of King County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Lenore Hanauer Foundation
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 Janet Wright Ketcham Foundation 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% 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.