· Public charity
Perkins Coie Foundation
To support arts, education, humanitarian relief and other charitable causes.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 158 grants below total $2,018,349 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,815,917 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $797,568 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k81 grants · $638k
- $10k–50k75 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEGAL FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON | $100,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| LAWYERS COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER LAW | $46,050 |
| CHIPS NETWORK INC | $42,750 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION | $37,892 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $32,000 |
| RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION | $28,749 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC | $27,175 |
| COLLEGE SUCCESS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| LAWYERS CAMPAIGN FOR EQUAL JUSTICE | $24,200 |
| GIVING BACK FUND INC | $24,100 |
| DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC | $23,350 |
| URBAN LAND INSTITUTE | $21,755 |
| ARIZONA JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| UPWARD | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $656k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% 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.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
199 repeat relationships — 115 still active in FY2024, 84 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $416k 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
- LFLEGAL FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON8× · 2017–2024 · $867k · revenue +638%
- LCLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law8× · 2017–2024 · $229k · revenue +94%
- CNCHIPS NETWORK INC8× · 2017–2024 · $205k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- FPFoster Parent Association of WA Stategraduatedone grant, 2017 · $65k · revenue +43% · 41% of their budget
- TPTIPPING POINT COMMUNITYone grant, 2017 · $48k · revenue +18%
- AJARIZONA JUSTICE PROJECTgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $45k · revenue +133%
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.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
To attract, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color in the twin cities through education and collaboration with member organizations.
The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…
Ala is the catalyst for growth by providing: diverse educational experiences, engaged peer communities, strategic solutions, dynamic resources, and trusted networks.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…
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…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Meeting the professional needs of los angeles lawyers, and improving the administration of justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Biopharmaceutical Technology Center Institute Inc. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
375 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. 375 of the 384 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 LEGAL FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law ↗
- Who funds CHIPS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds College Success Foundation ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AND YOUTH JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds The Silicon Valley Leadership Group Foundation ↗
- Who funds Youth Guidance ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds THE LAWYERS' CAMPAIGN FOR EQUAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado ↗
- Who funds TEENS IN PUBLIC SERVICE ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CORPORATE COUNSEL WOMEN OF COLOR ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS LEGAL AID ONLINE ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN EQUAL JUSTICE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE TRACK ↗
- Who funds LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH ↗
- Who funds NFX ↗
- Who funds The Minority Corporate Counsel Association Inc ↗
- Who funds OREGON ENTREPRENEURS FORUM ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Law Foundation of Silicon Valley ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Disability & Elder Law Inc ↗
- Who funds PRO BONO INSTITUTE ↗
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: The Sidley Austin Foundation · The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation · The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation · Katten Muchin Rosenman Foundation Inc · The Morrison & Foerster Foundation · Littler Mendelson Foundation Inc Attn Tax Manager · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Mc Dermott Will and Emery Charitable Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way Miami Inc · Equal Justice Works
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 Perkins Coie 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.
- National Marine Sanctuary Foundation — 88% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- St Andrew Legal Clinic — 2% of income from government
- Oregon Entrepreneurs Forum — 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.
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