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Pete and Wilma Olsen Foundation at a glance

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Pete and Wilma Olsen 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.

$140k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$330kHuman Services$230kYouth Development$55kPublic Safety & Disaster$40kEducation$35kScience & Tech$20kPhilanthropy$10kEnvironment$5k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON & ALASKA$40,000
SHRINER'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN (SPOKANE WA)$10,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON (EASTERN WASHINGTON)$10,000
YOUNG LIFE$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE VA PUGET SOUND FISHER HOUSE$10,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON (WESTERN WASHINGTON)$10,000
CAMP KOREY$10,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC$10,000
BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE$10,000
COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC$10,000
YOUTH EASTSIDE SERVICES$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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COAST GUARD FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $10k → 9%SENIOR SERVICES - SOUTH SOUND: $10k → 9%CAMP KOREY: $10k → 11%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON (EASTERN WASHINGTON): $10k → 12%COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 9%BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $10k → 9%CAMP KOREY: $10k → 11%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION - EASTERN WASHINGTON: $10k → 12%COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 9%YOUTH EASTSIDE SERVICES: $10k → 9%CAMP KOREY: $10k → 11%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON (EASTERN WASHINGTON): $10k → 12%COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 9%YOUTH EASTSIDE SERVICES: $10k → 9%CAMP KOREY: $10k → 11%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON (EASTERN WASHINGTON): $10k → 12%YOUTH EASTSIDE SERVICES: $10k → 9%YOUTH EASTSIDE SERVICES: $10k → 9%SHRINER'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL SPOKANE WA: $15k → 12%SHRINER'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN (SPOKANE WA): $10k → 12%SHRINER'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL SPOKANE WA: $10k → 12%SPIRIT OF PROPELLER: $10k → 9%Shriners Hospital for Children: $10k → 12%SHRINER'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN (SPOKANE WA): $10k → 12%JUBILEE REACH: $25k → 9%SHRINER'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN (SPOKANE WA): $10k → 12%Jubilee Reach: $10k → 9%YOUNG LIFE: $10k → 9%BELLEVUE YOUNG LIFE WA-44: $10k → 9%YOUNG LIFE: $10k → 9%YOUNG LIFE: $10k → 9%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON (WESTERN WASHINGTON): $10k → 9%FISHER HOUSE OF PUGET SOUND: $10k → 9%Make A Wish Western Washington: $10k → 9%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%FRIENDS OF THE VA PUGET SOUND FISHER HOUSE: $10k → 9%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION - WESTERN WASHINGTON: $10k → 9%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON & ALASKA: $40k → 9%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%FRIENDS OF THE VA PUGET SOUND FISHER HOUSE: $10k → 9%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF ALAKSA & WASHINGTON (WESTERN WASHINGTON): $10k → 9%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON & ALASKA: $25k → 9%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER: $10k → 9%FRIENDS OF THE VA PUGET SOUND FISHER HOUSE: $10k → 9%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF ALAKSA & WASHINGTON (WESTERN WASHINGTON): $10k → 9%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $20k → 9%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$620k · 19 repeat orgs$105k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
9

Total granted

$620k
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+106%

Still filing today

53%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • RM
    Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska
    2× · 2023–2025 · $65k · revenue +23%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +27%
  • YE
    Youth Eastside Services
    6× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +106%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
Seattle Children's Healthcare System

Seattle children's healthcare system (schs) is engaged in activities relating to the provision of health care services to infants, children, and adolescents, delivering and improving the delivery and the quality of those services through…

Health
2
Seattle Children's Hospital

Seattle children's hospital (seattle children's) will be an innovative leader in pediatric health and wellness through our unsurpassed quality, clinical care, relentless spirit of inquiry, and compassion for all children and their…

Health
3
Nexus Youth and Families

Restoring hope, building futures, and strengthening our communities through programs with youth, young adults and families. we support the behavioral health of at-risk and in-crisis youth across the greater south king county area. we take…

Human Services
4
Emergency Medical Services at the University of Washington
Health
5
The Association of Chrmc and University Physicians

Children's university medical group (cumg) is the non-profit pediatric group practice established to support the academic, research and clinical missions of its corporate members, university of washington school of medicine (uwsom) and…

Health
6
Seattle Children's Guild Association

Seattle children's guild association advocates for seattle children's hospital through volunteer, philanthropic and community endeavors to ensure hope, excellent care and advanced cures for children.

—
7
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
8
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…

—
9
Western Healthconnect

Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.

Health
10
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
11
Seattle Foundation

Seattle foundation's mission is to ignite powerful and rewarding philanthropy to make greater seattle a stronger, more vibrant community for all.

Philanthropy
12
Swedish Edmonds

Swedish edmonds is part of swedish health services, a healthcare system committed to meeting the health-care needs of snohomish county.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alaska & Washington; the most unlike its peers is Benaroya Research Institute At Virginia. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 29 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER FOUNDATION: $45,000 · OtherFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER FOUNDATIONMAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON (EASTERN WASHINGTON): $30,000 · OtherMAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON (EAS…SHRINER'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN (SPOKANE WA): $30,000 · OtherSHRINER'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN (SPOKANE …Seattle Children's Foundation: $30,000 · OtherSeattle Children's FoundationSHRINER'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL SPOKANE WA: $25,000 · OtherSHRINER'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL SPOKANE WAMAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF ALAKSA & WASHINGTON (WESTERN WASHINGTON): $20,000 · OtherMAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF ALAKSA & WASHINGTON (WES…VIRGINIA MASON FOUNDATION BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $20,000 · OtherVIRGINIA MASON FOUNDATION BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTIT…FISHER HOUSE OF PUGET SOUND: $20,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE OF PUGET SOUNDRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $20,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEMAKE A WISH FOUNDATION - EASTERN WASHINGTON: $15,000 · OtherMAKE A WISH FOUNDATION - WESTERN WASHINGTON: $15,000 · Other+6 more: $55,000 · Other+6 moreRonald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska: $65,000 · HealthRonald McDonald House Ch…Youth Eastside Services: $50,000 · HealthYouth Eastside ServicesBENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA: $20,000 · HealthBENAROYA RESEARCH INSTIT…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR C…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON: $10,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION O…CAMP KOREY: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP KOREYYOUNG LIFE: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFEThe Spirit of Propeller: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Spirit of …COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · Public BenefitCOAST GUAR…FRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE PUGET SOUND: $30,000 · Public BenefitFRIENDS OF…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesJubilee REACH: $35,000 · Education
Other$325,000Health$155,000Youth Development$90,000Public Benefit$70,000Human Services$50,000Education$35,000

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 budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska: $65,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Eastside Services: $50,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP KOREY: $45,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJubilee REACH: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE PUGET SOUND: $30,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES FOR SOUTH SOUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Youth Eastside Services ↗
  • Who funds CAMP KOREY ↗
  • Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Jubilee REACH ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE PUGET SOUND ↗
  • Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR SERVICES FOR SOUTH SOUND ↗
  • Who funds The Spirit of Propeller ↗

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.

Puget Sound Energy Fo…United Way of King Co…Seattle FoundationGlassybaby White Ligh…Credit Unions in the …M J Murdock Charitabl…The Albertsons Compan…The Blackbaud Giving …Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…
Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · United Way of King County · Seattle Foundation · Glassybaby White Light Fund · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 Pete and Wilma Olsen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pete and Wilma Olsen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 29 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home