Washington · 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.
- $775k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 26
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $10M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Janet Wright Ketcham Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $622k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $713k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $649k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $425k | 53% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $458k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $1.1M | 45% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $592k | 54% |
| FY2017 | 25 | $778k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of Seattle Waterfront | $1,000,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Seattle Art Museum | $903,250 | 8 | 1% |
| GoodWeave International | $582,599 | 2 | 7% |
| The Trustees of the Smith College | $322,500 | 4 | 0% |
| St Marks Parish | $215,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Council on Foreign Relations Inc | $200,000 | 7 | 0% |
| United Way of King County | $175,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Washington Foundation | $102,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Seattle University | $101,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hamlin Robinson School | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 50 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($812k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Janet Wright Ketcham Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Janet Wright Ketcham Foundation
- How much does Janet Wright Ketcham Foundation give?
- Janet Wright Ketcham Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $774,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Janet Wright Ketcham Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (20%), Recreation & Sports (17%), International (16%).
- Who are Janet Wright Ketcham Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Friends of Seattle Waterfront ($1.0M), Seattle Art Museum ($903k), GoodWeave International ($583k).
- Does Janet Wright Ketcham Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Janet Wright Ketcham Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Janet Wright Ketcham Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation, M J Murdock Charitable Trust.
- Where is Janet Wright Ketcham Foundation based?
- Janet Wright Ketcham Foundation is based in WA.
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