· Private foundation
Red Electric 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| Western Antique automobile Museum | $2,000 |
| STEVEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $1,000 |
| GORGE MAKERSPACE | $850 |
| AMERICAN LEGION POST 87 | $522 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| UUMC CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $500 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR | $500 |
| WHITE SALMON LIONS CLUB | $500 |
| LOVE HEALS YOUTH | $500 |
| PROVIDENCE MOUNT ST VINCENT FOUNDAT | $500 |
| WS COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER | $500 |
| COTTEY COLLEGE | $500 |
| ELKS LODGE 1868 | $200 |
| SKYLINE FOUNDATION | $200 |
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 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against -40% for those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
JUDICIAL WATCH INC6× · 2019–2024 · $6k · revenue +40%- ALAMERICAN LEGION POST #877× · 2018–2025 · $4k · revenue +25%
- CMCHRISTIAN MOTORCYCLISTS ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $3k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- WSWHITE SALMON EDUCATION FNDNone grant, 2017 · $1k
- BSBOY SCOUT TROOP 50one grant, 2021 · $1k
- LULAHAINA UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.
The union works to advocate and advance a public policy agenda to support and protect the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of iowa. it works to maintain throughout the united states the rights of free…
To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.
Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.
The burbank community ymca (burbank y) is committed to strengthening the foundation of our community through youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility. we work within our community to ensure that everyone, regardless of…
Acec research institute serve as the leading source of knowledge and thought leadership for creating a more sustainable, safe, secure, and technically advanced built environment. identify, fund, and provide industry wide research forecasts…
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 46 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 WESTERN ANTIQUE AEROPLANE & AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST #87 ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN MOTORCYCLISTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GORGE MAKERSPACE ↗
- Who funds BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS LODGE 1868 ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SKYLINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COTTEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UUMC CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALL GOD'S CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE MOUNT ST VINCENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOVE HEALS YOUTH ↗
- Who funds DESTINATION IMAGINATION INC ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Red Electric Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Red Electric Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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