· Private foundation
Pemco Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k66 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $66k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF WASHINGTON | $100,000 |
| EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $25,619 |
| WASHINGTON BUSINESS WEEK | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $9,835 |
| CAMP FIRE OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY | $7,500 |
| YOUGIVEGOODS | $6,439 |
| JOYA CHILD & FAMILY DEVELOPMENT | $5,000 |
| FIRST AME CHURCH | $5,000 |
| TABOR 100 | $3,600 |
| HOUSING HOPE | $1,950 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 8% of those 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.
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.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
265 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 224 since wound down; 29 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- ICINDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF WASHINGTON6× · 2017–2025 · $415k · revenue +70%
- CPCASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA8× · 2017–2024 · $414k · revenue +158%
- EWEastern Washington University Foundation8× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +316%
Funded once
- PSPHCC SPECIAL EVENTS CHRISTMAS TREE AUCTIONone grant, 2022 · $22k
- CLCISPUS LEARNING CENTERone grant, 2021 · $15k
- SASEATTLE ACADEMYone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences educates and trains health care professionals emphasizing service among rural and medically under-served communities throughout the Northwest.
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
Life science washington is a non-profit trade and professional association dedicated to promoting innovation and responsible growth in the life sciences and biomedical industries in the state of washington. promotion and education are…
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…
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…
Kuow/puget sound public radio is a nonprofit organization which operates three radio stations to provide news, information, and cultural programs to the greater seattle area. our mission is to create and serve a more informed public.
KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…
Support people with disabilities and low incomes to realize their purpose, potential and strength.
Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.
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.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Center and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 36 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
105 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. 105 of the 461 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR PRIVATE ENTERPRISE ↗
- Who funds Eastern Washington University Foundation ↗
- Who funds CRIME STOPPERS OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds YOUGIVEGOODS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds Spokane Guilds' School & Neuromuscular Center ↗
- Who funds TABOR 100 INC ↗
- Who funds College Success Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds COCOON HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Maris Place ↗
- Who funds Green River College Foundation ↗
- Who funds VANESSA BEHAN ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
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: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Community Foundation of Snohomish County · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · McKinstry Charitable Foundation · School's Out Washington · United Way of King County · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · Dv & Ida McEachern Charitable Tr · Glaser Foundation 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 Pemco Foundation Inc 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.
- Willamette University — 1% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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.