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The Dale and Leslie Chihuly Foundation at a glance

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The Dale and Leslie Chihuly Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$744k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$3.2MEducation$189kRecreation & Sports$100kYouth Development$40kSocial Science$38kPhilanthropy$10kCommunity Improvement$5kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $170k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $309k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HILLTOP ARTISTS$250,000
SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE$75,000
HILLTOP ARTISTS$75,000
ARTIST TRUST$59,000
MUSEUM OF GLASS$50,000
PATH WITH ART$50,000
CLASSICAL KING FM 981$30,000
PATH WITH ART$27,400
SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE$25,000
IDAHO BASECAMP$25,000
IAIA FOUNDATION$23,000
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE$10,000
IAIA FOUNDATION$10,000
PRATT FINE ARTS CENTER$10,000
ARTIST TRUST$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%IDAHO BASECAMP: $25k → 7%ARTIST TRUST: $118k → 9%ARTIST TRUST: $59k → 9%IAIA FOUNDATION: $28k → 12%ARTIST TRUST: $59k → 9%ARTIST TRUST: $59k → 9%ARTIST TRUST: $59k → 9%MUSEUM OF GLASS: $50k → 9%ARTIST TRUST: $59k → 9%MUSEUM OF GLASS: $50k → 9%ARTIST TRUST: $59k → 9%MUSEUM OF GLASS: $50k → 9%ARTIST TRUST: $59k → 9%HILLTOP ARTISTS: $250k → 9%ARTIST TRUST: $50k → 9%MUSEUM OF GLASS: $50k → 9%FRIENDS OF WATERFRONT SEATTLE: $25k → 9%HILLTOP ARTISTS: $105k → 9%MUSEUM OF GLASS: $50k → 9%HILLTOP ARTISTS: $78k → 9%MUSEUM OF GLASS: $50k → 9%HILLTOP ARTISTS: $75k → 9%MUSEUM OF GLASS: $50k → 9%HILLTOP ARTISTS: $75k → 9%MUSEUM OF GLASS: $50k → 9%HILLTOP ARTISTS: $75k → 9%MUSEUM OF GLASS: $50k → 9%HILLTOP ARTISTS: $75k → 9%HILLTOP ARTISTS: $75k → 9%SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE: $100k → 9%PATH WITH ART: $75k → 9%SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE: $75k → 9%PATH WITH ART: $50k → 9%SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE: $75k → 9%PATH WITH ART: $50k → 9%CLASSICAL KING FM 981: $40k → 9%PATH WITH ART: $50k → 9%CLASSICAL KING FM 981: $30k → 9%PATH WITH ART: $50k → 9%CLASSICAL KING FM 981: $25k → 9%PATH WITH ART: $50k → 9%PATH WITH ART: $50k → 9%PATH WITH ART: $50k → 9%PATH WITH ART: $50k → 9%PATH WITH ART: $33k → 9%PATH WITH ART: $33k → 9%PATH WITH ART: $33k → 9%PATH WITH ART: $27k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 17 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
6

Total granted

$3.5M
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+16%

Still filing today

82%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalSocial ScienceCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $978k · revenue +105%
  • PATH WITH ART
    9× · 2017–2025 · $602k · revenue +284%
  • AT
    Artist Trust
    8× · 2017–2025 · $591k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • TH
    Town Hall Association
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -13%
  • F
    FORTISSIMO
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +16%
  • UL
    URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +261%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
2
Tacoma Art Museum

Tacoma Art Museum transforms our communities by sharing art that inspires broader perspectives and cultivates a compassionate future

Arts & Culture
3
On the Boards

On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.

—
4
Seattle Symphony Orchestra Inc

To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.

Arts & Culture
5
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
6
Center for Contemporary Art & Culture

To enliven and expand the understanding of craft and the museum experience for all.

Arts & Culture
7
Washington Performing Arts Society

Washington performing arts champions the arts as a unifying force. through collaborations with artists, educators, community leaders, and institutional partners, we bring wide-ranging artistic programs to stages, schools, and neighborhoods…

Arts & Culture
8
The Northwest School of the Arts Humanities and Environment

We offer an outstanding international college preparatory program for grades 6-12.

Education
9
Willapa Bay AiR
Arts & Culture
10
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

—
11
Seattle Architectural Foundation

The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…

Arts & Culture
12
Port Townsend School of the Arts Dba Northwind Art

Northwind art offers people of all ages and skill levels opportunities to learn collaboratively with artists of exceptional talent, enthusiasm, and vision through classes, workshops, other programs, and through experiencing quality…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Repertory Theatre; the most unlike its peers is Idaho Base Camp Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
18/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PATH WITH ART: $602,399 · Arts & CulturePATH WITH ARTArtist Trust: $591,000 · Arts & CultureArtist TrustMuseum of Glass: $455,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of GlassSEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE: $300,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRECLASSICAL 981: $175,000 · Arts & CultureCLASSICAL 981+6 more: $71,000 · Arts & CultureHILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE: $977,500 · EducationHILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCETHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $76,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND+1 more: $30,000 · EducationIAIA FOUNDATION: $83,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $10,000 · OtherFORTISSIMO: $5,000 · OtherFOLIO THE SEATTLE ATHENAEUM: $5,000 · OtherNEW MEXICO ARTS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE: $5,000 · Other+2 more: $3,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT: $100,000 · Community ImprovementTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $37,500 · Social ScienceIDAHO BASE CAMP INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyOMPRAKASH INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyHAITIAN EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM: $1,000 · International
Arts & Culture$2,194,399Education$1,083,500Other$116,000Community Improvement$100,000Social Science$37,500Environment$25,000Philanthropy$11,000International$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE: $977,500 over 9y, 17% of budgetPATH WITH ART: $602,399 over 9y, 6.8% of budgetArtist Trust: $591,000 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetMuseum of Glass: $455,000 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetSEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE: $300,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCLASSICAL 981: $175,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT: $100,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $76,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $37,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPRATT FINE ARTS CENTER: $25,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetKEY TO CHANGE: $15,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTown Hall Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF NORTHWEST ART: $8,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSEATTLE ARTS AND LECTURES: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFORTISSIMO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOMPRAKASH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAITIAN EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds HILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE ↗
  • Who funds PATH WITH ART ↗
  • Who funds Artist Trust ↗
  • Who funds Museum of Glass ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds CLASSICAL 981 ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
  • Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds IDAHO BASE CAMP INC ↗
  • Who funds PRATT FINE ARTS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds KEY TO CHANGE ↗
  • Who funds Town Hall Association ↗
  • Who funds GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF NORTHWEST ART ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE ARTS AND LECTURES ↗
  • Who funds SHUNPIKE ↗
  • Who funds FORTISSIMO ↗
  • Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
  • Who funds OMPRAKASH INC ↗
  • Who funds HAITIAN EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM ↗

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.

Seattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…ArtsfundM J Murdock Charitabl…The Conru FoundationWyman Youth TrustThe Satterberg Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Peach FoundationRaynier Institute & F…Moccasin Lake Foundat…Gates Foundation
Seattle FoundationWA32.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Artsfund · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Conru Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Peach Foundation · Raynier Institute & Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Gates Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Dale and Leslie Chihuly Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dale and Leslie Chihuly Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Dale and Leslie Chihuly Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Dale and Leslie Chihuly 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.

    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 28 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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