· Private foundation
The Nick and Leslie Hanauer 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.
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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $430k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Media Matters for America | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $115,000 |
| Royal Albert Hall America Inc | $100,000 |
| ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE | $65,000 |
| Capital and Main | $25,000 |
| WASHINGTON STATE BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER | $25,000 |
| National Employment Law Project | $25,000 |
| The American Prospect Inc | $25,000 |
| CLIMATE SOLUTIONS | $25,000 |
| The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | $14,879 |
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 (FY22–22, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WIWORKMONEY INC2× · 2021–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +441%
- FOFRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT3× · 2017–2019 · $1.0M · revenue +108%
- EPECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2024 · $480k · revenue +261%
Funded once
- SASEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES - ANNUAL FUNDone grant, 2017 · $830k
- UWUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTYone grant, 2020 · $750k · revenue -38%
- SCSeattle Children's Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +190%
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.
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The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…
How this is measured
54 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. 54 of the 72 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.
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- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Rand Corporation ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Washington Progress Fund ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUST CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds League of Education Voters ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds FORTERRA NW ↗
- Who funds MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ROYAL ALBERT HALL AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON STATE BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN PROSPECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Working Washington ↗
- Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN IN CONFLICT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ECONOMIC LIBERTIES PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ROOSEVELT FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
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: Seattle Foundation · Gates Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · The GreerSolien Fund · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Impactassetsinc · New Venture Fund · Ridge Road Foundation · Stolte Family Foundation · Hopewell Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Nick and Leslie Hanauer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nick and Leslie Hanauer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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