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Janet Wright Ketcham Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.3MRecreation & Sports$1.1MInternational$1.0MEducation$874kReligion$503kPhilanthropy$482kEnvironment$110kHuman Services$88kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $183k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $315k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF WATERFRONT SEATTLE$250,000
SAHAR EDUCATION$100,000
EPIPHANY PARISH OF SEATTLE$65,000
SEATTLE UNIVERSITY$50,000
UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY$50,000
SCHWAB CHARITABLE$50,000
SAINT MARK'S CATHEDRAL PARISH$30,000
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM$30,000
YWCA SEATTLE KING COUNTY$25,000
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS$25,000
THE GREAT ELEHPANT MIGRATION$13,000
SAINT STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$10,000
SEATTLE SYMPHONY$10,000
SMITH COLLEGE$10,000
ORCAS ISLAND CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL$10,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MT
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
VA
KS
NC
DC
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Janet Wright Ketcham Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Janet Wright Ketcham Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.0% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 40 repeat orgs$797k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
31

Total granted

$4.5M
$769k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+9%

Still filing today

60%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHousing & ShelterEnvironmentCommunity 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

  • SA
    SEATTLE ART MUSEUM
    8× · 2017–2025 · $903k · revenue +0%
  • TT
    THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE
    4× · 2017–2025 · $323k · revenue +52%
  • CO
    COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • SM
    ST MARKS PARISH
    one grant, 2017 · $215k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $102k · revenue +46%
  • HR
    HAMLIN ROBINSON SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +75%
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
Friends of Kexp

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

Youth Development
5
Fsc I&P

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.…

Philanthropy
6
Association of Washington Cities

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…

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7
University Cooperative School

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.

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8
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
9
Washington Filmworks

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…

Community Improvement
10
Seattle Economic Development Fund Business Impact Nw

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.

Community Improvement
11
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
12
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Public Library Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 79 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
31/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $903,250 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE ART MUSEUMTown Hall Association: $76,500 · Arts & CultureTown Hall AssociationSEATTLE OPERA: $70,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE OPERAOrcas Island Chamber Music Festival: $68,000 · Arts & CultureOrcas Island Chamber Mus…PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $43,510 · Arts & CultureST MARKS PARISH: $215,000 · OtherST MARKS PARISHSAHAR EDUCATION FOR AFGHAN GIRLS: $210,000 · OtherSAHAR EDUCATION FOR AFGHAN…EPIPHANY PARISH OF SEATTLE: $125,000 · OtherEPIPHANY PARISH OF SEATTLESEATTLE SYMPHONY: $106,000 · OtherSEATTLE SYMPHONYSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $101,000 · OtherSEATTLE UNIVERSITYUNITED WAY: $75,000 · OtherUNITED WAYYWCA SEATTLE KING COUNTY: $60,000 · OtherSAINT MARK'S CATHEDRAL PARISH: $53,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $45,000 · OtherSONOMA LAND TRUST: $50,000 · OtherTELLER WILDLIFE REFUGE INC: $50,000 · Other+35 more: $249,400 · Other+35 moreFRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT: $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF SEATTLE W…+1 more: $10,000 · Community ImprovementGoodWeave International: $582,599 · InternationalGoodWeave Internat…COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $200,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN…SAHAR EDUCATION: $100,000 · InternationalSAHAR EDUCATIONSave The Children Federation Inc: $55,000 · InternationalSave The Children …+1 more: $2,500 · InternationalTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $322,500 · EducationTHE TRUSTEE…UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $102,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY …HAMLIN ROBINSON SCHOOL: $100,000 · EducationHAMLIN ROBI…THE CITY CLUB: $25,000 · Education+4 more: $28,000 · EducationDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $200,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADV…UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $175,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…WATER FIRST INTERNATIONAL: $60,000 · PhilanthropyWATER FIR…ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $17,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropySEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION: $83,333 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$1,211,260Other$1,339,400Community Improvement$1,010,000International$940,099Education$577,500Philanthropy$467,000Recreation & Sports$83,333

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT: $1,000,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $903,250 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetGoodWeave International: $582,599 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $322,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $200,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $175,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $101,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAHAR EDUCATION: $100,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetHAMLIN ROBINSON SCHOOL: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION: $83,333 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTown Hall Association: $76,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSEATTLE OPERA: $70,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOrcas Island Chamber Music Festival: $68,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetWATER FIRST INTERNATIONAL: $60,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSONOMA LAND TRUST: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTELLER WILDLIFE REFUGE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHE CITY CLUB: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetEPIPHANY SCHOOL: $13,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTSFUND: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUPOWER: $10,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetOPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCLASSICAL 981: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMINDLEAPS: $5,010 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTREEHOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARBORETUM FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSound Foundations NW: $4,200 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKBTC ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRAZIAS RAY OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNW Childrens Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWilliam D Ruckelshaus Center Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSan Juan Islands Museum of Art: $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 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 SAHAR EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds HAMLIN ROBINSON SCHOOL ↗
  • 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 PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SONOMA LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds TELLER WILDLIFE REFUGE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CITY CLUB ↗
  • Who funds ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EPIPHANY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA ↗

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…M J Murdock Charitabl…The GreerSolien FundGrousemont FoundationMoccasin Lake Foundat…Donald Family Foundat…Wyman Youth TrustReal Progress Foundat…United Way of King Co…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Lenore Hanauer Founda…
Seattle FoundationWA45.8× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Janet Wright Ketcham Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Janet Wright Ketcham Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 79 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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