Washington · Public charity
Project 42
To support building infrastructure in washington state around free markets, personal liberty, and public safety.
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2024
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,206,550
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 6
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $383k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Project 42 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 6 | $2.2M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $1.7M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $1.1M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $492k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $225k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin News Foundation | $3,070,025 | 4 | 21% |
| League of Our Own Washington | $1,307,980 | 5 | 93% |
| Citizen Action Defense Fund | $850,000 | 4 | 87% |
| Change Washington | $167,500 | 4 | 94% |
| Discovery Institute | $125,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Full Court Press | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Washington Veterans Vote | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lucy Burns Institute Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($75k), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: Adolph Coors Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Project 42
- How much does Project 42 give?
- Project 42 reported 6 grants totaling $2,179,050 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 6 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Project 42 fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (79%), Crime & Legal (13%), Public Safety & Disaster (3%).
- Who are Project 42's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Franklin News Foundation ($3.1M), League of Our Own Washington ($1.3M), Citizen Action Defense Fund ($850k).
- Does Project 42 fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Project 42?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Adolph Coors Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Project 42 based?
- Project 42 is based in WA.
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