· Private foundation
The Is & Emily Fetterman 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Is & Emily Fetterman Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Innovia Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Is & Emily Fetterman Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $73k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPOKANE SYMPHONY | $20,000 |
| PROVIDENCE INLAND NORTHWEST FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CCS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $5,000 |
| IDAHO CENTRAL SPOKANE VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $5,000 |
| GREATER SPOKANE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS | $5,000 |
| JOYA CHILD & FAMILY DEVELOPMENT | $5,000 |
| SPOKANE PARKS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2023, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SSSpokane Symphony Society7× · 2017–2023 · $48k · revenue +52%
CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2019 · $24k · revenue +42%- PSPROVIDENCE ST JOSEPH HEALTH FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $23k · revenue +349%
Funded once
- CCCOMMUNITY COLLEGES OF SPOKANEone grant, 2022 · $10k
- KKSPSone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
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.
The mission of the Community Health Association of Spokane (CHAS Health) is to improve the overall health of the communities we serve by expanding access to quality health and wellness services.
The mission of Visit Spokane is to help promote economic development for Spokane County through tourism and tourism promotion.
The mission of Spokane Public Radio is to provide high-quality, artistic, educational and informational radio programming, which enhances and enlivens the cultural life and civic discourse of its listening communities. Spokane Public Radio…
To prepare a diverse range of students for a life of learning in post-secondary education, citizenship, and leadership.
The Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce, dba Greater Spokane, Incorporated, primary mission is to lead transformative business and community initiatives to build a robust regional economy.
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences educates and trains health care professionals emphasizing service among rural and medically under-served communities throughout the Northwest.
The Community Foundation of Snohomish County (the Foundation) is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization incorporated under the laws of the State of Washington. The Foundation serves as a community foundation, supporting a broad spectrum of…
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…
Economic and community development through sport tourism. bid to host and create major sporting events, and facility consultation and optimization.
To build broad-based non-partisan civic power organizations in the Spokane region to address the fundamental common needs of the community including the inequities, and injustices facing low-income people and persons subjected to…
Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital (LSCH), established in 2005, provides acute and critical care in Vancouver, with 165 licensed beds. LSCH operates adult, pediatric, and OB/GYN hospitalist programs, as well as four primary care physician…
Transitions works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane, Washington.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Innovia Foundation ↗
- Who funds Spokane Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ST JOSEPH HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE INLAND NORTHWEST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER SPOKANE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds Spokane Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds Spokane Guilds' School & Neuromuscular Center ↗
- Who funds DAYBREAK YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds VANESSA BEHAN ↗
- Who funds Eastern Washington University Foundation ↗
- Who funds BY THE WELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Spokane Humane Society ↗
- Who funds IDAHO CENTRAL SPOKANE VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds INLAND NORTHWEST LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds MID-CITY CONCERNS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Innovia Foundation · The Avista Foundation · Numerica Credit Union · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Pierce Charitable Trust Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · The Bergquist Foundation Attn Eric Sachtjen · Providence Health & Services - Washington · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · McKinstry Charitable Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Is & Emily Fetterman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Is & Emily Fetterman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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