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Virginia Mason Medical Center

VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER's (the medical center) mission is to improve the health and well-being of the patients it services through the delivery of high quality, cost-effective care.

$12M
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$68MHousing & Shelter$627kHuman Services$418kFood & Nutrition$400kCrime & Legal$138kYouth Development$104kEmployment$100kArts & Culture$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $61k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $10M
$59,510
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA MASON$10,155,020
PUBLIC HEALTH - SEATTLE & KING COUNTY$150,226
FREEDOM PROJECT$138,405
BACKPACK BRIGADE$126,405
LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST$114,833
ROOTS YOUNG ADULT SHELTER$100,000
HEPATITIS EDUCATION PROJECT$99,371
MARY'S PLACE SEATTLE$86,900
RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK$59,510
SOLID GROUND WASHINGTON$57,695
HUNGER INTERVENTION PROGRAM$50,000
FARESTART$50,000
NASHI IMMIGRANTS HEALTH BOARD$50,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$34,000
COCOON HOUSE$17,318
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $655k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KITSAP IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $100k → 10%STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $100k → 9%MARY'S PLACE SEATTLE: $87k → 9%MARY'S PLACE SEATTLE: $87k → 9%YWCA OF SEATTLE KC SNOHOMISH CTY: $54k → 9%MARY'S PLACE SEATTLE: $41k → 9%MARYS PLACE SEATTLE: $13k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 9%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $115k → 9%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $5k → 9%WHY NOT YOU FOUNDATION: $32k → 9%Leuk &Lymphoma Society: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$69M · 27 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

27 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
42

Total granted

$69M
$772k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+16%

Still filing today

89%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $515k 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
HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterArts & CultureEducationOther

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

  • BR
    BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $49M · revenue +20%
  • PA
    Project Access Northwest
    6× · 2017–2024 · $490k · revenue +36%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    4× · 2017–2020 · $263k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • SB
    STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • NP
    Nourish Pierce County
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -58%
  • KI
    KITSAP IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%

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.

1
Uw Physicians Network

To improve the health of the public.

Education
2
The Seattle Chapter American Institute of Archite

We champion the central role of architects in creating and sustaining a better built environment.

—
3
Emergency Medical Services at the University of Washington
Health
4
North Olympic Healthcare Network

To provide patient-centered, quality-driven, whole-person healthcare services, accessible to everyone in our community.

Health
5
Northwest Health Law Advocates

NoHLA works toward achieving a health care system in which all individuals receive quality, affordable health care, provided on an equitable and timely basis, and are assured of basic rights and protections. NoHLA conducts outreach,…

Health
6
Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility

Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility engages the community to create a healthy, just, peaceful and sustainable world. We take on the gravest current threats to human health and survival -- nuclear weapons, economic inequity, and…

International
7
Healthpoint

Healthpoint strengthens communities and improves people's health by delivering quality services, breaking down barriers and providing access to all.

Health
8
Swedish Health Services

To improve the health and well-being of each person we serve.

Health
9
Neighborcare Health

The organization is a community-based, non-profit agency that operates 31 medical, dental, and school-based health centers throughout seattle and provides services to over 57,008 people each year. our clinics are located throughout areas…

Health
10
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington

To provide high-quality, affordable health care services to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve.

Health
11
Wenatchee Valley Hospital

We are dedicated to improving our patients' health by providing safe, high-quality care in a compassionate and cost-effective manner.

—
12
Community Health Center of Snohomish County

Community health center of snohomish county (chc) provides our diverse communities with access to high quality, affordable primary health care.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Children's Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Robert Vasen Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Healthcare Syst…Crisis Support & Vulnerable…Emergency Food AssistanceAffordable Housing Developm…Immigrant & Refugee Communi…Professional Live Performan…Private Membership ClubsProfessional Trade Associat…Washington State Advocacy &…Pacific Northwest Conservat…Children & Youth GrantmakingYouth Sports LeaguesRegional Business & Tourism…Faith-Based Healthcare Syst…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr15%0%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr19%31%20–35yr12%24%35–55yr12%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr19%2%20–35yr12%26%35–55yr12%71%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/76
the rest of the field
13%
1,869/14,139

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

71 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. 71 of the 76 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/71
Grantees still filing
43/71
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA — $48,613,505 · HealthBENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIAVIRGINIA MASON HEALTH SYSTEM — $17,200,587 · HealthVIRGINIA MASON HEALTH SYSTEM+25 more — $1,477,250 · HealthKING COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES — $729,611 · OtherRAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK — $119,020 · OtherNourish Pierce County — $100,000 · OtherHEPATITUS EDUCATION PROJECT — $99,371 · OtherFARESTART — $100,000 · Other+25 more — $373,925 · OtherMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE — $227,998 · Human ServicesLutheran Community Services Northwest — $119,833 · Human ServicesSTEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER — $100,000 · Human ServicesKITSAP IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER — $100,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $54,370 · Human ServicesRUSSELL WILSON FOUNDATION — $32,000 · Human Services+2 more — $21,000 · Human ServicesROOTS YOUNG ADULT SHELTER — $200,000 · Housing & ShelterSolid Ground Washington — $182,695 · Housing & ShelterPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES — $24,000 · Housing & ShelterCOCOON HOUSE — $17,318 · Housing & ShelterBACKPACK BRIGADE — $126,405 · Food & NutritionHunger Intervention Program — $50,000 · Food & NutritionSeattle Center Foundation — $117,664 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureGAY CITY HEALTH PROJECT — $5,500 · Arts & Culture5TH AVENUE THEATRE ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · Arts & CultureFREEDOM PROJECT — $138,405 · Crime & Legal
Health$67,291,342Other$1,521,927Human Services$655,201Housing & Shelter$424,013Food & Nutrition$176,405Arts & Culture$143,164Crime & Legal$138,405

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA — $48,613,505 over 9y, 12% of budgetVIRGINIA MASON HEALTH SYSTEM — $17,200,587 over 4y, 35% of budgetProject Access Northwest — $490,000 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $263,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH CARE IMPROVEMENT — $245,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE — $227,998 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetROOTS YOUNG ADULT SHELTER — $200,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetSolid Ground Washington — $182,695 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $153,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLutheran Community Services Northwest — $119,833 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK — $119,020 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSeattle Center Foundation — $117,664 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetSTEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNourish Pierce County — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKITSAP IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetFARESTART — $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $54,370 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHunger Intervention Program — $50,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetNashi Immigrants Health Board — $50,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $37,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST KIDNEY CENTERS — $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTEEN FEED — $35,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetRUSSELL WILSON FOUNDATION — $32,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $29,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGirls on the Run Puget Sound — $26,900 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES — $24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRIDEFEST PRIDE FEST — $21,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSNO-KING AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $17,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Lake Sammamish State Park — $17,500 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetCOCOON HOUSE — $17,318 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHIRSHBERG FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELLEVUE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMONTANA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT — $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLOEDEL RESERVE — $11,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBainbridge Island Downtown Association — $10,025 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetRobert Vasen Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMGA FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON POISON CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRANCISCAN FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEDIC ONE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

Puget Sound Energy Fo…Seattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…United Way of King Co…Swedish Health Servic…Wilkins Charitable Fo…Gates FoundationMoccasin Lake Foundat…Glassybaby White Ligh…Liberty Mutual Founda…Seattle Children's Ho…Employees Community F…
Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE44.9× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Swedish Health Services · Wilkins Charitable Foundation · Gates Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Glassybaby White Light Fund · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Seattle Children's Hospital · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound

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 Virginia Mason Medical 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    23report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 76 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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