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Richard&Lois Worthington Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$335k
Granted FY2019
24
Grants FY2019
23
Organizations funded FY2019
39%
First-time grantees FY2019
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100% of Richard&Lois Worthington Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The 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

10
’17
9
’18
9
’19
4
’20
4
’21
4
’22
4
’23
0
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2019
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$70,000
Organizations funded a year
20 to 23
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
1
Total assets, FY2019
$6.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 39% of the organizations Richard&Lois Worthington Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19
EducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201923$335k39%
FY201821$240k38%
FY201720$350kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$985kPhilanthropy$848kYouth Development$468kHealth$318kHousing & Shelter$185kFood & Nutrition$160kRecreation & Sports$98kCommunity Improvement$60kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Richard&Lois Worthington Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Anacortes Schools Foundation$757,000713%
Boys & Girls Club of Skagit County$467,50073%
Island Hospital Foundation$317,50077%
Greater Seattle Business Association$60,00071%
Skagit Valley College Foundation$40,0001n/a
Anacortes Parks Foundation$27,5001n/a
Summit Assistance Dogs$20,00031%
Humane Society of Skagit County$15,00031%
Cats Meow$11,00032%
Seahawk Athletic Booster Associatio$10,00023%
Skagit Preschool and Resource Center$10,0001n/a
Skagit River Poetry Foundation$6,0002n/a

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($598k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Richard&Lois Worthington Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAnacortes Schools Foundation: $757,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Skagit County: $467,500 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetIsland Hospital Foundation: $317,500 over 7y, 7.4% of budgetGreater Seattle Business Association: $60,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSummit Assistance Dogs: $20,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetHumane Society of Skagit County: $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCats Meow: $11,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetSeahawk Athletic Booster Associatio: $10,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

The Skagit Community FoundationWA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Richard&Lois Worthington Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Richard&Lois Worthington Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Richard&Lois Worthington Foundation

How much does Richard&Lois Worthington Foundation give?
Richard&Lois Worthington Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $335,000 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Richard&Lois Worthington Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (31%), Philanthropy (27%), Youth Development (15%).
Who are Richard&Lois Worthington Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Anacortes Schools Foundation ($757k), Boys & Girls Club of Skagit County ($468k), Island Hospital Foundation ($318k).
Does Richard&Lois Worthington Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Richard&Lois Worthington Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Richard&Lois Worthington Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Skagit Community Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, Jeff and Linda Hendricks Family Foundation.
Where is Richard&Lois Worthington Foundation based?
Richard&Lois Worthington Foundation is based in WA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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