· Private foundation
Quest for Truth 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $695k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| NW SCHOOL DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING | $100,000 |
| BLOODWORKS NW | $100,000 |
| FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CEN | $100,000 |
| SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST | $95,292 |
| SAVE THE PT BOAT INC | $75,000 |
| THE BURKE MUSEUM | $65,000 |
| NORTH CASCADES INSTITUE | $60,000 |
| NEUROPSYCHOLOGY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Quest for Truth Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 91%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FHFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $785k · revenue +27%
- STSave The PT Boat Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $532k · revenue +10% · 50% of their budget
- NCNorth Cascades Institute9× · 2017–2025 · $340k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- TLTEXAS LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +17%
- OCOREGON CHILDREN'S FUNDone grant, 2017 · $10k
- SJSAN JUAN ISLANDS SHUTTLE SYSTEMgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +555%
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.
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.
Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…
The museum of northwest art collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits art created in the pacific northwest, supports artists, and strives to integrate art into the lives of all people. the museum is free and open to the public seven…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
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.
Conserving nature through science and discovery.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…
Educating children and adults through interactive hands-on exhibits and educational programming.
The organization's mission is to promote respect and appreciation for Puget Sound by teaching principles of environmental stewardship and inspire observation of and involvement with Puget Sound. Through its Marine Science Afloat program,…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds BLOODWORKS ↗
- Who funds Save The PT Boat Inc ↗
- Who funds BURKE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds North Cascades Institute ↗
- Who funds THE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Neuropsychology Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST RAILWAY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN ISLANDS SHUTTLE SYSTEM ↗
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: Seattle Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Quest for Truth Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Quest for Truth Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Columbia River Maritime Museum: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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