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Raikes Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k133 grants · $330k
- $10k–50k83 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k37 grants · $3.4M
- $250k+16 grants · $5.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $800,000 |
| NATIONAL EQUITY PROJECT | $750,000 |
| AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $700,000 |
| TIDES CENTER | $400,000 |
| CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES | $300,000 |
| LEARNING POLICY INSTITUTE | $300,000 |
| EDUCATION TRUST INC | $300,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM | $300,000 |
| ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC AND LAND-GRANT UNIVERSITIES | $280,000 |
| VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $275,000 |
| NEW VENTURE FUND | $250,000 |
| NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES | $250,000 |
| SCHOOLHOUSE CONNECTION | $250,000 |
| SCHOOL BOARD PARTNERS | $250,000 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR YOUTH LAW | $250,000 |
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, $8.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Raikes Foundation’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.
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.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
224 repeat relationships — 109 still active in FY2024, 115 since wound down; 82 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M 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
- NENATIONAL EQUITY PROJECT6× · 2017–2024 · $7.0M · revenue +56%
- BCBUILDING CHANGES6× · 2017–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +531%
University of Chicago5× · 2017–2023 · $2.7M · revenue +56%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLNone grant, 2017 · $636k
- TBTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $600k
NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION INone grant, 2022 · $560k · revenue +18%
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.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
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…
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Bringing diverse voices together across global sectors, disciplines, and demographics so developments in ai advance positive outcomes for people and society.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Policylink and the most unlike its peers is Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. 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 28 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 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
558 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. 558 of the 667 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 SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL EQUITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Giving Compass Network Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds COLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING ↗
- Who funds BUILDING CHANGES ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC AND LAND-GRANT UNIVERSITIES ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Learning Policy Institute ↗
- Who funds THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Education Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLHOUSE CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds National Center for Youth Law ↗
- Who funds EQUAL OPPORTUNITY SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds TUBMAN CENTER FOR HEALTH & FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds TURNAROUND FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY ↗
- Who funds Solidaire Network Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PANORAMA GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL BOARD PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds LEGAL COUNSEL FOR YOUTH AND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds POINT SOURCE YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSCEND INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTFUNDUS ↗
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: Gates Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Medina Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Inatai Foundation · Casey Family Programs · Stolte Family Foundation · School's Out Washington
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 Raikes 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.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Reinstitute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Education Resource Strategies Inc — 4% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc — 0% 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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