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Philanthropy Northwest

PHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST grows philanthropy's capacity to do transformative work towards redistributing resources and the power to underinvested communities in the northwest and beyond.

$3.3M
Granted FY2021
23
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

63% of Philanthropy Northwest’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Seattle Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Philanthropy Northwest named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

3
’17
6
’18
25
’19
366
’20
9
’21
6
’22
7
’23
6
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Food & Nutrition$17MPhilanthropy$5.8MHuman Services$3.1MArts & Culture$2.1MCommunity Improvement$2.0MCivil Rights$1.5MEducation$1.2MYouth Development$1.1MOther$0
02FY2021 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 23 grants below total $3,228,789 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,299,192 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $70,403 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 · FY2021

  • $10k–50k20 grants · $345k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.9M
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWEST HARVEST$1,213,225
FOOD LIFELINE$1,184,339
SECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST$486,225
POTLATCH FUND$30,000
LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON STATE$30,000
PRIDE FOUNDATION$30,000
BLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$15,000
SPOKANE COUNTY UNITED WAY$15,000
YAKIMA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$15,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL WASHINGTON$15,000
UNITED WAY OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY$15,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON$15,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON$15,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND$15,000
UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.9M) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COMUNIDAD LATINA DE VASHON CO LATINO COMMUNITY FUND: $25k → 9%HISPANIC DISABILITY SUPPORT SWWA CO SUPPORT FOR EARLY LEARNING & FAMILES: $50k → 9%CHILDREN OF THE VALLEY AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM: $25k → 11%TACOMA URBAN LEAGUE: $50k → 9%CENTRO LATINO: $50k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY: $30k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH RESILIENCY AND ENGAGEMENT CO ROOM ONE: $25k → 17%BLACK INDIGENOUS AND PEOPLE OF COLOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS COALITION OF WAS: $50k → 9%THE UNITY CENTER: $25k → 9%TACOMA URBAN LEAGUE: $27k → 9%INNOVATIONS HUMAN TRAFFICKING COLLABORATIVE: $25k → 9%SPOKANE EASTSIDE REUNION ASSOCIATION: $50k → 12%LA CASA HOGAR: $75k → 17%CAIR WASHINGTON: $50k → 9%PACIFIC COUNTY IMMIGRANT SUPPORT: $25k → 14%GATHER TOGETHER GROW TOGETHER: $50k → 10%LOWER COLUMBIA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $29k → 13%COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS OF WASHINGTON: $40k → 9%HELPING HANDS PROJECT ORGANIZATION: $25k → 9%MUJERES IN ACTION: $50k → 12%BAILEY AND BAILEY COUNSELING CO BROTHERHOOD RISE CENTER: $25k → 9%WOW WOMEN OF WISDOM TRI-CITIES: $50k → 11%CANOE JOURNEY HERBALISTS CO TACOMA SEED: $50k → 9%PARTNERS IN PREVENTION EDUCATION: $25k → 9%KITSAP IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $25k → 10%NUESTRA CASA: $50k → 11%REFUGEE CONNECTIONS SPOKANE: $50k → 12%UNITED FAMILY CENTER CO LATINO COMMUNITY FUND: $50k → 17%REFUGEE CONNECTIONS SPOKANE: $30k → 12%TTWAXT BIRTH JUSTICE CENTER: $75k → 17%IMMIGRANT GUIDE: $50k → 9%HILLTOP URBAN GARDEN CO TACOMA SEED: $50k → 9%ERITREAN ASSOCIATION IN GREATER SEATTLE: $50k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND: $175k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND: $175k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND: $80k → 9%TRI-CITIES LULAC COUNCIL CO LATINO COMMUNITY FUND: $50k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND: $34k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON STATE: $30k → 9%LATINO CF: $30k → 9%LATINO CF: $30k → 9%IRAQI COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON: $50k → 9%IRAQI COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON: $27k → 9%MOTHER NATION: $50k → 9%SOMALI FAMILY SAFETY TASK FORCE: $50k → 9%SOMALI COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SEATTLE: $50k → 9%HORN OF AFRICA SERVICES: $27k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 27% of Philanthropy Northwest’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 31% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Philanthropy Northwestlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 68% directed abroad (not shown)

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$21M · 28 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +75% since the first grant, against +53% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2021, 19 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
347

Total granted

$21M
$12M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
+53%

Still filing today

86%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

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

  • FL
    FOOD LIFELINE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $6.7M · revenue +6%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST
    2× · 2020–2021 · $2.8M · revenue +14%
  • LC
    Latino Community Fund of Washington State
    8× · 2017–2024 · $799k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • RVC SEATTLEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $217k · revenue +84%
  • C
    CRAFT3graduated
    one grant, 2018 · $135k · revenue +224%
  • CH
    COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER COALITIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $102k · revenue +36%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
2
Seattle Indian Center
Human Services
3
Coast Salish Youth Coalition

To cultivate the next generation of culturally engaged environmental stewards.

Environment
4
Rainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalition

Rainier Beach Action Coalition is a grassroot, Black-led organization devoted to locally driven development. It promotes quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing, and building community capacity in…

Community Improvement
5
Central Washington Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

We increase access to economic opportunities for business owners, entrepreneurs, and individuals in Central Washington by connecting and providing them with resources, representation, and opportunities to build community.

Community Improvement
6
Black Owned Business Excellence

Help create a more equitable entrepreneurial ecosystem in Washington State.

Community Improvement
7
Comunidades Sin Fronteras Washington

To provide services needed in the community

Community Improvement
8
Movimiento Afrolatino Seattle

MAS activates and strengthens communities through art, raising awareness of the history and cultural contributions of Black Latinos for social change and racial equity.

Arts & Culture
9
Washington Community Alliance

Washington Community Alliance WCA is a statewide network of over 70 organizations working to advance multiracial social democracy by coordinating values aligned civic engagement

Civil Rights
10
Asians for Collective Action

Asians for Collective Action (ACA) harnesses the strenghts of Asians and Asian Americans to drive systemic change to create a just, healthy, and thriving community for all.

Public Benefit
11
Washington African American Chamber of Commerce

WAACOC nonprofit organization focuses on promoting economic development by providing crucial business development and technical assistance services. Through strategic partnerships and targeted programs we support entrepreneurs and small…

Human Services
12
Community Cafe Collaborative

Community based work, focused on strengthening families and youth through community cafe sessions.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yakima Valley Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is DARE2BE Project. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFood Banks and PantriesFamily Philanthropic Founda…Workforce & Community Devel…School Parent-Teacher Organ…Regional Chambers of Commer…Animal Rescue and AdoptionIndependent Schools and Ear…Stem Education & College Ac…Fraternal Social Organizati…College Foundation NetworksPacific Northwest Conservat…Family & Youth Support Serv…Live Theatre & PerformanceFaith-Based International D…Homeless & Transitional Hou…Youth Development ProgramsImmigrant & Refugee Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 16 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%28%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr18%25%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr14%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%10%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr18%24%20–35yr13%47%35–55yr14%6%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
6%
24/395
the rest of the field
13%
3,687/28,334

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.

05the grantee network

318 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. 318 of the 395 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.

28
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
147
Early backer (in before they grew)
301/318
Grantees still filing
224/318
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FOOD LIFELINE — $6,749,091 · Food & NutritionFOOD LIFELINESECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST — $2,793,562 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST+3 more — $142,000 · Food & NutritionNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM — $6,913,703 · OtherNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM+90 more — $4,620,756 · Other+90 moreUnited Way of Spokane County — $1,102,500 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Spokan…United Way of the Columbia-Willamette — $1,102,500 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of the Co…YAKIMA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $890,000 · PhilanthropyYAKIMA VALLEY COMMUN…KITSAP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $645,000 · PhilanthropyKITSAP COMMUNITY FOU…GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $232,500 · PhilanthropyInnovia Foundation — $210,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation for SW Washington — $202,500 · Philanthropy+14 more — $1,522,000 · Philanthropy+14 moreLatino Community Fund of Washington State — $799,000 · Human ServicesCouncil On American-Islamic Relations — $107,000 · Human ServicesHilltop Urban Gardens — $100,000 · Human ServicesLA CASA HOGAR — $94,000 · Human ServicesREFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT CONNECTIONS OF SPOKANE — $90,000 · Human Services+27 more — $1,231,830 · Human ServicesPOTLATCH FUND — $345,000 · Arts & CultureCarl Maxey Center — $100,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST KENYAN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — $87,000 · Arts & CulturePan African Center For Empowerment Inc — $75,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST FILM FORUM — $75,000 · Arts & CultureSHUNPIKE — $75,000 · Arts & CultureAFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CULTURAL EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY — $75,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST COMMUNITIES' EDUCATION CENTER — $74,380 · Arts & CultureRefugee Choir Project — $67,000 · Arts & Culture+18 more — $602,000 · Arts & CultureRVC SEATTLE — $217,000 · Community ImprovementCRAFT3 — $135,000 · Community ImprovementWHITE CENTER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION — $75,000 · Community ImprovementAFRICAN COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT — $75,000 · Community ImprovementCONFEDERATED LOWER CHINOOK TRIBES & BANDS — $66,500 · Community ImprovementWin Win Network — $52,000 · Community ImprovementTRI-CITIES DIVERSITY & INCLUSION COUNCIL — $50,000 · Community ImprovementCEDAR FUND OF THE CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF THE COLVILLE RESERVATION — $50,000 · Community ImprovementERITREAN COMMUNITY IN SEATTLE & VICINITY — $50,000 · Community ImprovementKOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER — $47,000 · Community ImprovementNONPROFIT ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON — $37,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $50,000 · Community ImprovementCLARK COUNTY LATINO YOUTH CONFERENCE — $102,000 · Youth DevelopmentDUNGEON BOXING CLUB — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT GIRL MENTORING PROGRAM — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentPEACEKEEPER SOCIETY — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentODYSSEY WORLD INTERNATIONALEDUCATION SERVICES — $50,000 · Youth Development4 TOMORROW — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROGRESS PUSHERS — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentSPOKANE TRIBAL NETWORK — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBLACK PILOTS OF AMERICA INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentOUR GEMS — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentEmpowering Youth and Families Outreach — $25,000 · Youth Development
Food & Nutrition$9,684,653Other$11,534,459Philanthropy$5,907,000Human Services$2,421,830Arts & Culture$1,575,380Community Improvement$904,500Youth Development$527,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM — $6,913,703 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE — $6,749,091 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST — $2,793,562 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetUnited Way of Spokane County — $1,102,500 over 7y, 12% of budgetUnited Way of the Columbia-Willamette — $1,102,500 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetYAKIMA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $890,000 over 8y, 7.4% of budgetLatino Community Fund of Washington State — $799,000 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetKITSAP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $645,000 over 7y, 9.2% of budgetPOTLATCH FUND — $345,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetThe Pride Foundation — $235,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $232,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetRVC SEATTLE — $217,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetInnovia Foundation — $210,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Foundation for SW Washington — $202,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BENTON & FRANKLIN COUNTIES — $180,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetThe Community Foundation of South Puget Sound — $177,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $175,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Snohomish County — $175,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL WASHINGTON — $175,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NCW — $170,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $165,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCRAFT3 — $135,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $120,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNa'ah Illahee Fund — $115,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetLATINO EDUCATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE — $107,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetCouncil On American-Islamic Relations — $107,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER COALITION — $102,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetHilltop Urban Gardens — $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetPUGET SOUND SAGE — $100,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetCarl Maxey Center — $100,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetLA CASA HOGAR — $94,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR WASHINGTONS FUTURE — $92,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetREFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT CONNECTIONS OF SPOKANE — $90,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION — $90,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST KENYAN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — $87,000 over 2y, 56% of budgetENTRE HERMANOS — $84,160 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetGRAYS HARBOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $82,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTacoma Urban League — $77,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTTAWAXT BIRTH JUSTICE CENTER — $75,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetPan African Center For Empowerment Inc — $75,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCentral Washington Justice For Our Neighbors — $75,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetWHITE SWAN ARTS & RECREATION COMMITTEE — $75,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetNORTHWEST FILM FORUM — $75,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetThe Breakfast Group — $75,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetWHITE CENTER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION — $75,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSHUNPIKE — $75,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $75,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CULTURAL EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY — $75,000 over 1y, 33% of budget
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.

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.

Inatai FoundationSchool's Out Washingt…Seattle FoundationBuilding ChangesCredit Unions in the …ArtsfundUnited Way of King Co…The Satterberg Founda…Medina FoundationWashington Progress F…Perigee FundSocial Justice Fund N…
Inatai FoundationWA203.8× affinity147 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Inatai Foundation · School's Out Washington · Seattle Foundation · Building Changes · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Artsfund · United Way of King County · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Medina Foundation · Washington Progress Fund · Perigee Fund · Social Justice Fund Northwest

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 Philanthropy Northwest 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • United Way of the Columbia-Willamette — 25% of income from government
  • Coalition of Communities of Color — 15% of income from government
  • Columbia Riverkeeper — 1% of income from government
  • CRAFT3 — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
89report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 395 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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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
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
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