· Private foundation
Sahlin Foundation
Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k17 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $84k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $188k
- $250k+1 grant · $502k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WSU FOUNDATION | $502,013 |
| COMMUNITY COLLEGES OF SPOKANE | $102,157 |
| Individual grant recipient | $86,087 |
| KPBX | $43,694 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| WSU ART MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| CONNOISSEUR CONCERTS | $7,000 |
| MAC FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PROVIDENCE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE BING | $2,500 |
| EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| HOLY NAMES MUSIC CENTER | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE GUITAR HOUR | $2,000 |
| MUSICFEST | $1,500 |
| SPOKANE CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your 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.
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.
Philharmonia Northwest contributes to the vitality of the classical music community in the Pacific Northwest by presenting professional concerts highlighting the diverse past and present repertoire for chamber orchestra. It is also…
Seattle Chamber Music Festival fosters the appreciation of chamber music in our region by presenting performances featuring world-class musicians in accessible and inviting formats, with an emphasis on developing a broad-based sustainable…
Enrich and inspire our audiences, singers and community through the experience of choral artistry, and to increase access to and appreciationn of choral music
The mission of Orchestra Seattle | Seattle Chamber Singers is to enrich the quality of life in the Pacific Northwest through performance of great orchestral and choral literature; to introduce Northwest audiences to rarely heard works of…
To provide world class orchestra & chamber music concerts, master classes, educational rehearsals and other music education opportunities, and pre-concert lectures for audiences in the Pacific Northwest at an affordable price and/or for…
The organization's mission is to financially support the work of the Spokane Symphony and the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox for the benefit of the community.
Provide financial support to the Seattle Chamber Music Festival (dba Seattle Chamber Music Society).
Sound Salon is a chamber music series building community through thoughtfully programmed performances that feature favorite composers alongside lesser-known gems, brought to life by the multifaceted perspectives of our brilliant…
Skagit Symphony's mission is to present exceptional orchestral experiences to a growing and inclusive audience; to enrich, entertain, educate, and inspire our community through music.
Performing Concerts and Education program- free students and seniors tickets
Gather diverse and talented musicians, professionals and amateurs, to curate and perform orchestral repertoire that uplifts, inspires, and celebrates live performances, as well as offer educational activities concerning music.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spokane Chamber Music Association and the most unlike its peers is Idaho Mythweaver Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 22 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 Spokane Public Radio ↗
- Who funds Connoisseur Concerts Association ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BING ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Guitar Hour ↗
- Who funds Spokane Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds Idaho Mythweaver Inc ↗
- Who funds SPOKANE CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF SANDPOINT ↗
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 Avista Foundation · Innovia Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Sahlin 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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