· 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 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–50k28 grants · $684k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $620k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH CENTRAL STEM NETWORK | $62,000 |
| CAREER CONNECT NORTHEAST | $62,000 |
| TACOMA STEAM NETWORK | $62,000 |
| WEST SOUND STEM NETWORK | $62,000 |
| SNOHOMISH STEM NETWORK | $62,000 |
| SOUTHWEST STEM NETWORK | $62,000 |
| CAPITOL REGION STEM NETWORK | $62,000 |
| EDUCATIONAL SERVICE DISTRICT # 189 | $62,000 |
| APPLE STEM NETWORK | $62,000 |
| CAREER CONNECT SOUTHWEST | $62,000 |
| SOUTHWEST STEM NETWORK | $31,000 |
| TACOMA STEAM NETWORK | $31,000 |
| CAPITOL REGION STEM NETWORK | $31,000 |
| EDUCATIONAL SERVICE DISTRICT # 189 | $31,000 |
| APPLE STEM NETWORK | $31,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +46% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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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How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 42 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 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 ↗
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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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Washington STEM Center funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Washington STEM Center. Bigger dots raise more.
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