· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k28 grants · $684k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $620k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAREER CONNECT NORTHEAST | $62,000 |
| SOUTH CENTRAL STEM NETWORK | $62,000 |
| SOUTHWEST STEM NETWORK | $62,000 |
| EDUCATIONAL SERVICE DISTRICT # 189 | $62,000 |
| CAREER CONNECT SOUTHWEST | $62,000 |
| CAPITOL REGION STEM NETWORK | $62,000 |
| APPLE STEM NETWORK | $62,000 |
| TACOMA STEAM NETWORK | $62,000 |
| WEST SOUND STEM NETWORK | $62,000 |
| SNOHOMISH STEM NETWORK | $62,000 |
| EDUCATIONAL SERVICE DISTRICT # 189 | $31,000 |
| CAPITOL REGION STEM NETWORK | $31,000 |
| TACOMA STEAM NETWORK | $31,000 |
| WEST SOUND STEM NETWORK | $31,000 |
| APPLE STEM NETWORK | $31,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 11 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- FFFOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS8× · 2017–2024 · $917k · revenue +198%
- SRSpokane Regional Chamber of Commerce8× · 2017–2024 · $856k · revenue +11%
- EAECONOMIC ALLIANCE SNOHOMISH COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $843k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- SPSeattle Public Schoolsone grant, 2018 · $48k
- WSWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $48k
- RSRichland School District 400one grant, 2023 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
20 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. 20 of the 42 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 FOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS ↗
- Who funds Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC ALLIANCE SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE STEM EDUCATION FDTN ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Zeno ↗
- Who funds HIP OF SPOKANE COUNTY DBA COMMUNITY MINDED ENTERPRISES ↗
- Who funds FIRST FIVE FUNDAMENTALS ↗
- Who funds YAKIMA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC EDUCATION INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Washington Multicultural Services Link ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED ↗
- Who funds Brightspark Early Learning Services ↗
- Who funds RVC SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds CHILDSTRIVE ↗
- Who funds PRAXIS INSTITUTE FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds LIFE SCIENCE WASHINGTON ↗
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: Seattle Foundation · School's Out Washington · Gates Foundation · Thrive Washington · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Foundation for Tacoma Students · The Norcliffe Foundation · Discuren Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Invested · Building Changes
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 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.
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.