· Private foundation
Ridge Road Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $112k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $173k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $450k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WENTACHEE VALLEY MUSEUM | $175,000 |
| RURAL DEMOCRACY INITIATIVEHEARTLAND FUND | $125,000 |
| TOWN HALL ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CLEAN ENERGY TRANSITION INSTITUTE | $42,500 |
| MOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND | $40,000 |
| STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT | $30,000 |
| RURAL PEOPLE'S PLATFORM | $25,000 |
| THE ALASKA CURRENT | $15,000 |
| RURAL URBAN BRIDGE INITIATIVE (VIA APPALACHIAN PEACE EDUCATION CENTER) | $10,000 |
| RURAL ORGANIZINGORG EDUCATION FUND | $10,000 |
| NORTHWEST HARVEST | $9,000 |
| WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| WENATCHEE RIVER INSTITITUE | $6,100 |
| CHELAN-DOUGLAS TRUST | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $152k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
117 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 85 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k 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
- CSCLIMATE SOLUTIONS7× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +153%
- SLSTATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT6× · 2020–2025 · $158k · revenue +86%
- CLCHELAN-DOUGLAS LAND TRUST6× · 2017–2025 · $141k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- BBBYRD BARR PLACEone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -16%
- TDTHE DEMOCRACY CAPACITY PROJECT ( NEO PHILANTHROPY)one grant, 2022 · $50k
- NMNEW MEDIA VENTURES EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
The Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a statewide organization whose mission is to protect, preserve and restore Washington's waters through education, advocacy, policy reform, and public interest litigation.
Founded in 2001, Spark Northwest accelerates the just transition to clean energy in the Pacific Northwest. Spark Northwest uses two primary strategies: (1) on-the-ground project consulting, focusing on communities with limited financial…
To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.
We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…
Washington Progress Fund is building a permanent and powerful social change movement in Washington state supported by a network of committed donors. WPF envisions a Washington state where government serves the public interest and we all…
RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.
Advocate for tax policy in Washington State
Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
Washingtonians for Public banking promotes education and civic engagement on public banking and banking reform within Washington state. The organization organizes, educates, and advocates for the establishment of public banking, and…
Equip the public and public decision-makers with the policy research and practical tools they need to embed the values of fairness, care, and opportunity into the foundations of Washington's economy.
Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Organizing Empowerment Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sahar Education. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
128 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. 128 of the 207 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CLIMATE SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds Town Hall Association ↗
- Who funds STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CHELAN-DOUGLAS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Fuse Innovation Fund ↗
- Who funds Clean Energy Transition Institute ↗
- Who funds HIGH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Washington Progress Alliance ↗
- Who funds BYRD BARR PLACE ↗
- Who funds Rural Peoples Platform ↗
- Who funds Giddens School ↗
- Who funds Sightline Institute ↗
- Who funds THE BUSH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLACK MALE VOTER PROJECT EF INC ↗
- Who funds Alaska Progressive Donor Table ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZING EMPOWERMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ONEAMERICA ↗
- Who funds College Success Foundation ↗
- Who funds Powerful Voices ↗
- Who funds Win Win Network ↗
- Who funds Seattle Good Business Network DBA Good Business Network of Washington ↗
- Who funds WOMEN DONORS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Washington Community Alliance ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON STATE BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Democracy Fund ↗
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: Seattle Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · The Bullitt Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Stolte Family Foundation · Anthony-Maymudes Family Foundation · Gates Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Medina Foundation · Impactassetsinc · United Way of King County · Raikes 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 Ridge Road 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.
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
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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