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The Selinger-Shone Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Selinger-Shone Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$126k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$71k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$581kHealth$194kEducation$176kPublic Benefit$76kArts & Culture$51kReligion$21kHuman Services$13kEnvironment$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $71k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Providence Healthcare Foundation Eastern WA$71,000
Second Harvest Inland Northwest$40,000
Friends of KSPS$5,000
Washington State University Foundation (Elson S Floyd College of Medicine)$2,500
Spokane Symphony Society$1,000
Saint Georges School$1,000
Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture Foundation$1,000
Community Colleges of Spokane Foundation$1,000
Eastern Washington University Foundation (Nursing School)$1,000
Spokane Public Radio (KPBX Radio)$1,000
John Hopkins University (Medical School)$500
Trustees of Princeton University$500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PIKES MARKET SENIOR CENTER & FOOD BANK: $1k → 9%Second Harvest Inland Northwest: $250k → 12%CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $50k → 19%HUMANITIES WA: $1k → 9%SECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST: $250k → 12%JOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $30k → 19%TEMPLE DE HIRSCH SINAI: $1k → 9%Second Harvest Inland Northwest: $40k → 12%JOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $20k → 19%HUMANITIES WA: $1k → 9%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF SPOKANE: $13k → 12%JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL SCHOOL: $11k → 19%HUMANITIES WA: $10k → 9%SECOND HARVEST INLAND NW: $10k → 12%HUMANITIES WA: $10k → 9%SECOND HARVEST INLAND NW: $10k → 12%Humanities Washington: $10k → 9%SECOND HARVEST INLAND NW: $10k → 12%HUMANITIES WA: $1k → 9%SECOND HARVEST INLAND NW: $10k → 12%JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL SCHOOL: $1k → 19%HUMANITIES WA: $1k → 9%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF SPOKANE: $7k → 12%JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL SCHOOL: $1k → 19%SECOND HARVEST INLAND NW: $1k → 12%EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%Providence Healthcare Foundation Eastern WA: $71k → 12%PROVIDENCE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $21k → 12%PROVIDENCE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $17k → 12%PROVIDENCE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $16k → 12%PROVIDENCE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $15k → 12%Providence Healthcare Foundation Eastern WA: $15k → 12%PROVIDENCE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $14k → 12%PROVIDENCE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $12k → 12%PROVIDENCE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%COMMUNITY COLLEGES OF SPOKANE FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%COMMUNITY COLLEGES OF SPOKANE FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%PARTNERS WITH FAMILIES & CHILDREN: $3k → 12%KSPS PUBLIC TELEVISION: $23k → 12%KSPS PUBLIC TELEVISION: $7k → 12%KSPS PUBLIC TELEVISION: $5k → 12%KSPS PUBLIC TELEVISION: $5k → 12%Friends of KSPS: $5k → 12%KSPS PUBLIC TELEVISION: $5k → 12%KSPS PUBLIC TELEVISION: $5k → 12%Friends of KSPS: $5k → 12%KSPS PUBLIC TELEVISION: $2k → 12%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.
$1.1M · 28 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
9

Total granted

$1.1M
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+0%

Still filing today

39%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST
    8× · 2017–2025 · $581k · revenue +46%
  • PH
    PROVIDENCE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $100k · revenue +102%
  • SC
    SPOKANE COLLEGES FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +293%

Funded once

  • HW
    HUMANITIES WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • WASHINGTON HEALTHCARE ACCESS ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +40%
  • TG
    TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +308%
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
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences

Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences educates and trains health care professionals emphasizing service among rural and medically under-served communities throughout the Northwest.

Education
2
Washington State University Foundation

The mission of the Foundation is to promote, accept, and maximize private support for programs, initiatives, and properties of Washington State University and its regional campuses. The Foundation also prudently manages, invests, and…

Education
3
Puget Sound Restoration Fund

To restore habitat, water quality and native species in the puget sound

Environment
4
Washington State Pharmacy Association

The Washington State Pharmacy Association is the home and voice of pharmacy practice. We advocate on behalf of the profession to ensure pharmacy professionals are uniformly recognized as a vital member of the healthcare team.

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5
Washington Filmworks

To build and enhance the competitiveness of Washington State's film and associated creative industry. We accomplish this by marketing and managing the state's production incentive program, representing the state in national and…

Community Improvement
6
Washington Society of Certified Public a

We are a community of cpas and financial professionals cultivating authentic relationships, unique learning experiences, and purposeful advocacy for our future.

—
7
Washington State Pharmacy Foundation

To support and initiate educational programming, pharmacy practice research and innovative practices to improve and enhance the practice of pharmacy.

Health
8
Swedish Edmonds

Swedish edmonds is part of swedish health services, a healthcare system committed to meeting the health-care needs of snohomish county.

Health
9
Spokane Public Radio

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Sustainable Path Foundation

Sustainable Path Foundation promotes sustainability and health in the Puget Sound region through collaborative approaches informed by scientific understanding and systems thinking.

Social Science
11
Inland Northwest Health Services

To provide unique, affordable services using collaborative and innovative approaches for the benefit of the entire health care continuum.

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12
Western Healthconnect

Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Providence Inland Northwest Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Spokane River Forum. 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

19 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. 19 of the 37 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST: $581,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWESTJOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $100,100 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF MEDICINEPROVIDENCE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherPROVIDENCE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $52,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $24,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF SPOKANE: $19,600 · OtherWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY: $17,000 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL SCHOOL: $13,000 · Other+16 more: $57,250 · Other+16 morePROVIDENCE INLAND NORTHWEST FOUNDATION: $86,000 · HealthPROVIDENC…+2 more: $3,000 · HealthSpokane Symphony Society: $11,500 · Arts & CultureHUMANITIES WASHINGTON: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF KSPS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSpokane Symphony Associates: $2,000 · Arts & CultureSPOKANE COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $17,000 · EducationEastern Washington University Foundation: $4,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton University: $2,400 · EducationCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · EducationSpokane River Forum: $3,500 · EnvironmentTEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Human Services
Food & Nutrition$581,000Other$382,950Health$89,000Arts & Culture$33,500Education$24,400Environment$3,500Human Services$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST: $581,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPROVIDENCE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetPROVIDENCE INLAND NORTHWEST FOUNDATION: $86,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPOKANE COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSpokane Symphony Society: $11,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANITIES WASHINGTON: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF KSPS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEastern Washington University Foundation: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSpokane River Forum: $3,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $2,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST MUSEUM OF ARTS & CULTURE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWASHINGTON HEALTHCARE ACCESS ALLIANCE: $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSpokane Symphony Associates: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSpokane Parks Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $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 SECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE INLAND NORTHWEST FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SPOKANE COLLEGES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Spokane Symphony Society ↗
  • Who funds HUMANITIES WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF KSPS ↗
  • Who funds Eastern Washington University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Spokane River Forum ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds SAINT GEORGE'S SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST MUSEUM OF ARTS & CULTURE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON HEALTHCARE ACCESS ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Spokane Symphony Associates ↗
  • Who funds TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Spokane Parks Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PRESCRIPTION DRUG ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEALING HEARTS NORTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION 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.

Innovia FoundationThe Avista FoundationPierce Charitable Tru…Providence Health & S…First Interstate Banc…The Blood Center Foun…The Is & Emily Fetter…The Bergquist Foundat…Hagan FoundationSpokane Teachers Cred…Numerica Credit UnionShell USA Company Fou…
Innovia FoundationWA22.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Innovia Foundation · The Avista Foundation · Pierce Charitable Trust Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Providence Health & Services - Washington · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Blood Center Foundation of the Inland Northwest · The Is & Emily Fetterman Foundation · The Bergquist Foundation Attn Eric Sachtjen · Hagan Foundation · Spokane Teachers Credit Union · Numerica Credit Union · Shell USA Company 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 Selinger-Shone Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Selinger-Shone Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 37 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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