· Private foundation
Washington Federal Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k157 grants · $493k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $280k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INSTITUTE FOR BETTER EDUCATION | $100,000 |
| DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $25,000 |
| FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT NETWORK | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LINCOLN COUNTY | $15,000 |
| UNITED FUND OF GLOBE MIAMI | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| MOFI - MONTANA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP | $15,000 |
| ELIJAH FAMILY HOMES | $15,000 |
| EARN TO LEARN | $15,000 |
| OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST | $15,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF SPOKANE | $10,000 |
| RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN NEVADA | $10,000 |
| SANTA FE COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST | $10,000 |
| LOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +30% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
313 repeat relationships: 82 still active in FY2025, 231 since wound down; 91 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $518k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PHPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES3× · 2020–2022 · $260k · revenue +49%
- CFCARE FUND5× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +18%
- TPThe Primavera Foundation Inc3× · 2020–2023 · $62k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTYone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -38%
- NHNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF LAone grant, 2024 · $50k
- NONEIGHBORWORKS OF ORANGE COUNTYone grant, 2024 · $50k
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.
Impact nw prevents homelessness by supporting people as they navigate their journey to stability and strength. founded in portland in 1966, impact nw now serves 26,944 people a year in the greater portland, oregon metro area, including…
House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…
We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.
Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…
To empower families experiencing housing insecurity through intervention, prevention,and stabilization services.
Welcome Home is a diverse coalition in the Portland metropolitan region that uses its collective resources to create healthy communities by ensuring everyone has an affordable and stable home. We use community education and collaboration…
Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Habitat for Humanity-Spokane adheres to a…
Reduce homelessness in clallam county by providing resources for people to prevent evictions, receive funds for rental assistance, and shelters for families and adults.
To connect individuals to the housing and community resources they seek.
Through a fiscally responsible and multi-faceted approach, north west housing partnership nwhp promotes public and private partnerships that create and preserve cost-effective quality diverse housing for low to moderate-income residents…
Helping hand house provides emergency shelter and housing solutions for families in our community, ending their crisis of homelessness.
Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…
How this is measured
612 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 612 of the 840 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds CARE FUND ↗
- Who funds Institute for Better Education ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds DREAMSPRING ↗
- Who funds The Primavera Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Women's and Children's Alliance ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS OREGON ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MID-WILLAMETTE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Pima County Community Land Trust ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TREASURE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UTAH'S PROMISE ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds CHELAN VALLEY HOUSING TRUST ↗
- Who funds MONTANA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds Proud Ground ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
- Who funds THE INN BETWEEN ↗
- Who funds Washington Women in Need ↗
- Who funds MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF LAS VEGAS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Utah & Idaho ↗
- Who funds LOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
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: The Norcliffe Foundation · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · Medina Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Harvest Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Windermere Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Lucky Seven Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · M J Murdock Charitable Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Washington Federal Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Washington Federal Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Citizens for Safe Schools: 100% of income from government
- Kor Community Land Trust Dba Rootedhomes: 63% of income from government
- Mountainstar Family Relief Nursery: 60% of income from government
- Community Works Inc: 59% of income from government
- Sable House: 50% of income from government
- Hacienda Community Development Corporation: 48% of income from government
- Se Works Inc: 43% of income from government
- Portland YouthBuilders: 35% of income from government
- Relief Nursery Inc: 30% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
- Portland Housing Center: 19% of income from government
- Looking Glass Community Services: 18% of income from government
- Bend-Redmond Habitat for Humanity: 17% of income from government
- Connected Lane County: 17% of income from government
- Friends of the Children- Central Oregon: 16% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Corvallis Inc: 16% of income from government
- Latino Community Association: 11% of income from government
- Corvallis Neighborhood Housing Services Inc: 11% of income from government
- Proud Ground: 11% of income from government
- Hollywood Senior Center dba Community for Positive Aging: 9% of income from government
- Community Outreach Inc: 7% of income from government
- Klamath Basin Senior Citizens' Center: 6% of income from government
- United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley: 6% of income from government
- Friends of the Children-Portland: 5% of income from government
- Squareone Villages: 2% of income from government
- First Story: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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