How much did THE WASHINGTON STEM CENTER grant in FY2024?

THE WASHINGTON STEM CENTER reported 35 grants totaling $1,307,854 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is THE WASHINGTON STEM CENTER based?

THE WASHINGTON STEM CENTER is based in WA.

THE WASHINGTON STEM CENTER

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· Public charity

THE WASHINGTON STEM CENTER

Washington stem (wa stem) is a statewide, education nonprofit leveraging stem for social change, removing barriers to credential attainment, and creating pathways to long-term economic security for systemically underserved students.

$1.3M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$62k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 75% of THE WASHINGTON STEM CENTER’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

implementation installmentlaser awardslaser co-directorpassesd

2019

implementation installmentimpactmath anywhereactivitylaserearlyapple

2020

fafsa wasfawasfa provisosedro-woolleyyoung womenworkforcestoryesd

2021

workforcefafsa wasfawasfa provisoyoung womennorthwestlearning activityesd

2022

highschool postsecondarydatafafsa wasfawasfa provisodistrictnorthweststory

2023

highschool postsecondarydata justicelaunchdistrictnorthwestlearning activityearly learning

2024

learning activitydistrictearly learningsnohomisheascgrowthleadership

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k25 grants · $624k
$50k–250k10 grants · $620k

$31,000

Median grant

States reached

$9.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

CAPITOL REGION STEM NETWORK$62,000
SNOHOMISH STEM NETWORK$62,000
APPLE STEM NETWORK$62,000
CAREER CONNECT NORTHEAST$62,000
WEST SOUND STEM NETWORK$62,000
SOUTH CENTRAL STEM NETWORK$62,000
CAREER CONNECT SOUTHWEST$62,000
EDUCATIONAL SERVICE DISTRICT # 189$62,000
SOUTHWEST STEM NETWORK$62,000
TACOMA STEAM NETWORK$62,000
WEST SOUND STEM NETWORK$31,000
SOUTHWEST STEM NETWORK$31,000
SNOHOMISH STEM NETWORK$31,000
SOUTH CENTRAL STEM NETWORK$31,000
CAPITOL REGION STEM NETWORK$31,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$9.6M · 23 repeat orgs$375k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +95% since the first grant, against +94% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.6M

$285k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+95%

+94%

Still filing today

43%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHealthScience & TechHuman ServicesOther

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

TS
TACOMA STEM NETWORK
8× · 2017–2024 · $795k · revenue +198%
SS
SPOKANE STEM NETWORK
8× · 2017–2024 · $724k · revenue +10%
SS
SNOHOMISH STEM NETWORK (ECONOMIC ALLIANCE SNOHOMISH COUNTY)
8× · 2017–2024 · $700k · revenue +68%

Funded once

SP
SEATTLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
one grant, 2018 · $48k
WI
WSU IMPACT CENTER
one grant, 2019 · $48k
RS
RICHLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT #400
one grant, 2023 · $30k

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

04Your field

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.

Economic Opportunity Institute

EOI works to make Washington state a national model of economic opportunity with an economy that truly works for everyone.

Community Improvement

Southwest Washington Equity Coalition

The Southwest Washington Equity Coalition advances racial equity through dismantling structural white supremacy, creating transformational action, and advocating for our community. We remain rooted in Re-Indigenization, Black Liberation,…

Civil Rights

Washington State Academy of Sciences

WSAS provides expert scientific and engineering assessments to inform public policy making and works to increase the impact of research in Washington State.

Science & Tech

The Washington Stem Center

Education

Clean Energy Transition Institute

To accelerate an equitable clean energy transition in the Northwest by producing unbiased research and analysis framing economic decarbonization strategies and convening stakeholders to debate the tradeoffs in building the clean energy…

Education

Pacific Northwest Economic Region

To increase the economic well-being and quality of life for all citizens of the region; to coordinate provincial, territorial, and state policies throughout the region; to identify and promote "models of success and to serve as a conduit…

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Pathwaves Washington

Employment-based Fellowships meant to draw mid-career individuals into the early childhood policy sector through roles in policy and advocacy.

Education

Cascade Pacific Rc&D Area

To enhance communities through social, economic, educational, and environmental recovery improvements

Community Improvement

Impact Public Schools

To prepare a diverse student population to succeed in college & impact communities.

Education

Washington State Family and Community Engagement Trust

Washington Family Engagement fosters social transformation by supporting the development of mulitgenerational leaders from diverse backgrounds to become actively engaged in schools and communities in Washington State.

Philanthropy

Spark Northwest

Spark Northwest accelerates the equitable transition to clean energy in the Pacific Northwest through on-the-ground project development and systemic advocacy to remove barriers to locally-generated clean energy.

Environment

Innovation Spokane Schools

To prepare a diverse range of students for a life of learning in post-secondary education, citizenship, and leadership.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yakima Valley Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Institute for Systems Biology. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/19

Grantees still filing

18/19

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$7,462,333Education$1,547,551Philanthropy$507,866Science & Tech$335,296Youth Development$58,600Health$45,354Human Services$20,000Community Improvement$10,000

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.

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.

Seattle FoundationWA28.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · School's Out Washington · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington · Thrive Washington · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Foundation for Tacoma Students · Gates Foundation · Building Changes · Columbus Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Seahawks Charitable Foundation · Discuren 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 organisation THE WASHINGTON STEM CENTER 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MID-COLUMBIA STEM NETWORK.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~23 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.6× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 264107233 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MID-COLUMBIA STEM NETWORK, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 23 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 30% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Washington STEM Center?

Find your warmest path to The Washington STEM Center through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE WASHINGTON STEM CENTER

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Washington STEM Center?

More from the funding graph

THE WASHINGTON STEM CENTER

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Washington STEM Center?

More from the funding graph