· Private foundation
Richard&Lois Worthington Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Richard&Lois Worthington Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Skagit Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Richard&Lois Worthington Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $335k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k12 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANACORTES SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SKAGIT COUNTY | $50,000 |
| SKAGIT VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| ISLAND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| WESTMINISTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $20,000 |
| ANACORTES COMMUNITY SHELTER | $15,000 |
| RICHARD C WORTHINGTON JUNIOR CITIZE | $15,000 |
| GREATER SEATTLE BUSINESS ASSOCIATIO | $10,000 |
| SACRED EARTH FOUNDATION EKONE RANCH | $10,000 |
| ANACORTES SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SUMMIT ASSISTANCE DOGS | $10,000 |
| SKAGIT PRESCHOOL AND RESOURCE CENTE | $10,000 |
| CATS MEOW | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF SKAGIT VALLEY | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ASANACORTES SCHOOLS FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $757k · revenue +11%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SKAGIT COUNTY7× · 2017–2023 · $468k · revenue +153%
- IHISLAND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $318k · revenue +133%
Funded once
- APANACORTES PARKS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $28k · revenue +190%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
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PAWS cares for lost, abandoned and abused animals and finds them new homes with responsible owners. PAWS also provides low cost spay and neuter services, a pet food pantry, and community education. During 2024 PAWS adopted out 577 pets.…
Sustainable Path Foundation promotes sustainability and health in the Puget Sound region through collaborative approaches informed by scientific understanding and systems thinking.
To identify, collect, document and preserve objects of relevancy and to provide information reflecting the unique cultural history of skagit county, washington.
Representing real estate agents and brokers in Snohomish County and Camano Island, Washington, the Association provides its members with resources, education, and support to help them excel in their careers and serve their clients…
The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…
To be a catalyst for vibrant growth of each student in the Sequim School District.
Enable low income individuals and families to obtain skills, knowledge, motivation, and opportunities to become self-sufficient.
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United Way of Skagit County's mission is to build a positive and sustainable quality of life for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Skagit Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Skagit River Poetry Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 38 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
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 THE SKAGIT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANACORTES SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SKAGIT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Seattle Business Association ↗
- Who funds Skagit Valley College Foundation ↗
- Who funds ANACORTES PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT ASSISTANCE DOGS ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SKAGIT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CATS MEOW ↗
- Who funds SEAHAWK ATHLETIC BOOSTER ASSOCIATIO ↗
- Who funds Skagit Preschool and Resource Center ↗
- Who funds SKAGIT RIVER POETRY FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Skagit Community Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Jeff and Linda Hendricks Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Kiwanis Club of Anacortes Wa Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Richard&Lois Worthington 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.
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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