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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 Inland Northwest Community 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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
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 (FY17–19, $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 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.
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.
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
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
- 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
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 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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Providence Inland Northwest Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Innovia Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 27 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 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 VANESSA BEHAN ↗
- Who funds DAYBREAK YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Eastern Washington University Foundation ↗
- Who funds BY THE WELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Spokane Humane Society ↗
- Who funds INLAND NORTHWEST LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds IDAHO CENTRAL SPOKANE VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds MID-CITY CONCERNS INC ↗
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: 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
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 The Is & Emily Fetterman 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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