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· Private foundation
RICK & JULIE HERMANSON FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$173k
Granted FY2024
15
Grants
6
Communities
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 15 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $81k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
- MULTICARE FOUNDATION$50,190
- HEAVY METAL SUMMER EXPERIENCE$32,000
- FORTERRA NW$23,500
- 3DE NATIONAL LLC$15,000
- LIFE SUPPORT$10,167
- ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION$5,700
- PROJECT 42$5,000
- HEALTHNET FOUNDATION INC$5,000
- ROSLYN DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION$5,000
- TURNING POINT USA INC$5,000
- WASHINGTON STATE GRANGE$5,000
- CHANGING MINDS ONE AT A TIME FOUNDATION$5,000
- UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$5,000
- HERITAGE FOUNDATION$500
- FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER$500
02The need
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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.
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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 9%. 41% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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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Emergency Medical Services at the University of Washington
Health
2
Whatcom Land Trust
Protecting the rich and vibrant lands for a healthy, thriving Whatcom County for generations to come.
Environment
3
Washington University
The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)
Education
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Washington University Medical Center
To provide and assist its member organizations in providing hospital facilities, physical properties, and programs appropriate for the care and treatment of patients, for the continued on Schedule O
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Washington Regional Medical Center
Washington regional is committed to improving the health of people in communities we serve through compassionate, high-quality care, prevention, and wellness education.
Health
6
Washington State University Foundation
The mission of the Foundation is to promote, accept, and maximize private support for programs, initiatives, and properties of Washington State University and its regional campuses. The Foundation also prudently manages, invests, and…
Education
7
Washington Health Care Association
Trade association dedicated to providing educational opportunities, legal and regulatory advice, quality compliance assistance, lobbying and discounted group member benefits for long-term care facilities.
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8
Highline Medical Center Foundation
Highline Medical Center Foundation engages our community so that everyone has access to exceptional health care close to home.
Health
9
Uw Physicians Network
Uw physicians network ("the network") provides increased access to diverse patient populations to improve the health of the public. the network also supports the charitable and public mission of the university of washington school of…
Education
10
Washington State Academy of Sciences
WSAS provides expert scientific and engineering assessments to inform public policy making and works to increase the impact of research in Washington State.
Science & Tech
11
The Association of University Physicians
Clinical practice plan for the university of washington school of medicine ("uwsom") faculty physicians and non-physician practitioners and provides substantial support to the uwsom.
Education
12
Futurewise
Futurewise works throughout Washington state to encourage healthy, equitable and opportunity-rich communities, and to protect our most valuable farmlands, forests and water resources through wise land use policies and practices.
Environment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Turning Point Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$101,057Education$37,000Environment$23,500Health$5,500Community Improvement$5,000Arts & Culture$500
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 HEAVY METAL SUMMER EXPERIENCE ↗
- Who funds FORTERRA NW ↗
- Who funds 3DE NATIONAL LLC ↗
- Who funds LIFE SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds ROSLYN DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE GRANGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER ↗
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.
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE5.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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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 organisation RICK & JULIE HERMANSON 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.
2025
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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HEALTHNET FOUNDATION INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~27 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 5 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 384090140 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on HEALTHNET FOUNDATION INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 27 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 21% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Rick & Julie Hermanson Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Rick & Julie Hermanson Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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By state
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State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines