· Private foundation
Rick & Julie Hermanson 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.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| WASHINGTON STATE GRANGE | $5,000 |
| ROSLYN DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA INC | $5,000 |
| HEALTHNET FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| PROJECT 42 | $5,000 |
| CHANGING MINDS ONE AT A TIME FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER | $500 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 46% of your 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.
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.
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.
To improve the health of the public.
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…
To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.
WSAS provides expert scientific and engineering assessments to inform public policy making and works to increase the impact of research in Washington State.
Arcs foundation advances science and technology in the united states by providing financial awards to academically outstanding u.s. citizens studying to complete degrees in science, engineering and medical research.
Fundraising activities to support Seattle University
Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.
Highline Medical Center Foundation brings our community together to support exceptional health care, close to home, for all who need it. Thanks to the generosity of our caring neighbors and friends, we help ensure that St Anne Hospital has…
Advance Washington State University by engaging alumni, parents, students, and friends in meaningful ways that inspire lifelong connections and foster a culture of philanthropy that helps the University achieve its aspirations.
To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'i's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'i and our future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Multicare Foundations and the most unlike its peers is Heritage 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 15 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 MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds HEAVY METAL SUMMER EXPERIENCE ↗
- Who funds FORTERRA NW ↗
- Who funds 3DE NATIONAL LLC ↗
- Who funds Life Support ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE GRANGE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT42 ↗
- Who funds Roslyn Downtown Association ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- 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.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 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.
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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