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Washington Federal Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$873k
Granted FY2025still arriving
180
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$1.8MHuman Services$1.4MPhilanthropy$867kCommunity Improvement$739kYouth Development$621kFood & Nutrition$583kEducation$319kHealth$206kOther$0
02FY2025 · 180 grants

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
$3,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

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.

area typical 10%LIFE A CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC: $5k → 13%THE LIVING ROOM: $10k → 9%SILVER CITY GOSPEL MISSION: $5k → 20%MEN OF NEHEMIAH: $15k → 14%LOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 15%ANGELS ANONYMOUS INC: $10k → 16%LIFE A CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC: $5k → 13%THE LIVING ROOM CENTER: $5k → 9%CHAVES COUNTY CASA PROGRAM: $10k → 20%LOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 15%CHAVES COUNTY CASA PROGRAM: $5k → 20%LOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 15%FAMILY PROMISE OF LINCOLN COUNTY: $5k → 16%CARIDAD: $10k → 13%CASA DE PEREGRINOS INC: $10k → 23%THE LATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $25k → 10%EASTERN OREGON MISSION (AGAPE): $8k → 12%COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $10k → 9%CASA DE PEREGRINOS INC: $5k → 23%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA ROSA: $5k → 9%HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $8k → 13%WOMEN'S AND CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $15k → 8%WOMEN'S AND CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $10k → 8%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 14%WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $10k → 8%WOMEN AND CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $10k → 8%MEN OF NEHEMIAH: $15k → 14%AUSTIN AREA URBAN LEAGUE: $25k → 10%NEW MEXICO VETRANS INTEGRATION CENTERS: $5k → 14%NEW MEXICO VETRANS INTEGRATION CENTERS: $5k → 14%EARN TO LEARN: $15k → 15%TRUSTED WORLD FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%BYRD BARR PLACE: $5k → 9%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $25k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $25k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $15k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $25k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $15k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $10k → 14%THE INN BETWEEN: $20k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $5k → 8%SAFE HOUSE: $10k → 14%NORTHWEST ACCESS FUND: $20k → 9%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $15k → 9%FULL LIFE CARE: $15k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $10k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $10k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MT
OR
NV
CA
UT
AZ
NM
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 313 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

313
430

Total granted

$4.0M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+11%

Still filing today

82%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $518k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHealthEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PH
    PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES
    3× · 2020–2022 · $260k · revenue +49%
  • CF
    CARE FUND
    5× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +18%
  • TP
    The Primavera Foundation Inc
    3× · 2020–2023 · $62k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -38%
  • NH
    NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF LA
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • NO
    NEIGHBORWORKS OF ORANGE COUNTY
    one 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.

04Its field

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.

1
Impact Nw

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…

Human Services
2
House Our Neighbors

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…

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3
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
4
Network Services

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…

Human Services
5
Family Promise of Pierce County

To empower families experiencing housing insecurity through intervention, prevention,and stabilization services.

Housing & Shelter
6
Welcome Home Coalition

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…

Community Improvement
7
Habitat for Humanity - Spokane

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…

Housing & Shelter
8
Serenity House of Clallam County

Reduce homelessness in clallam county by providing resources for people to prevent evictions, receive funds for rental assistance, and shelters for families and adults.

Housing & Shelter
9
Thrive Central Oregon

To connect individuals to the housing and community resources they seek.

Human Services
10
North West Housing Partnership

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…

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11
Helping Hand House

Helping hand house provides emergency shelter and housing solutions for families in our community, ending their crisis of homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
12
Building Changes

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Promise House Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pierce County Community Land Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
160
Early backer (in before they grew)
603/612
Grantees still filing
392/612
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+102 more: $2,017,000 · Other+102 morePLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES: $260,000 · Housing & ShelterPLYMOUTH HOUSING GRO…The Primavera Foundation Inc: $62,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Primavera Founda…CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC: $53,500 · Housing & ShelterCENTRAL ARIZONA SHEL…Pima County Community Land Trust: $46,000 · Housing & ShelterEASTSIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterCHELAN VALLEY HOUSING TRUST: $39,500 · Housing & ShelterProud Ground: $36,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY PROMISE OF LAS VEGAS INC: $30,000 · Housing & Shelter+22 more: $307,648 · Housing & Shelter+22 moreDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $90,000 · Human ServicesDALLAS CHILDREN'S…Women's and Children's Alliance: $55,000 · Human ServicesWomen's and Child…The Family Place: $34,000 · Human ServicesTHE INN BETWEEN: $30,500 · Human ServicesMEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesLOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $28,282 · Human Services+31 more: $484,000 · Human Services+31 moreUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $500,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF K…UNITED WAY OF TREASURE VALLEY INC: $45,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF T…UTAH'S PROMISE: $40,000 · PhilanthropyUTAH'S PROMISEUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $30,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $50,500 · Philanthropy+4 moreDREAMSPRING: $75,000 · Community ImprovementMONTANA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $38,000 · Community ImprovementPEOPLEFUND: $25,000 · Community ImprovementSEATTLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND BUSINESS IMPACT NW: $18,000 · Community ImprovementProject Access Inc: $15,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHEAST EFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT: $15,000 · Community ImprovementWILD BIRD CHARITY: $14,500 · Community ImprovementKENT DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP: $12,000 · Community ImprovementSalt Lake Chamber Women's Business Center: $10,000 · Community ImprovementFERNLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementInstitute for Better Education: $100,000 · EducationARIZONA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCAT: $25,000 · EducationVENTURES: $13,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationECONOMIC GROWTH BUSINESS INCUBATOR: $10,000 · EducationCITIZENS FOR SAFE SCHOOLS: $10,000 · EducationCONNECTED LANE COUNTY: $10,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $10,000 · EducationCARE FUND: $100,000 · HealthVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $15,000 · HealthFIRST STEP HOUSE: $10,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY WORKS INC: $10,000 · HealthHEALTHY FAMILIES OF CLALLAM COUNTY: $10,000 · Health
Other$2,017,000Housing & Shelter$874,648Human Services$751,782Philanthropy$665,500Community Improvement$232,500Education$188,000Health$145,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $500,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES: $260,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCARE FUND: $100,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetInstitute for Better Education: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $90,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDREAMSPRING: $75,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Primavera Foundation Inc: $62,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWomen's and Children's Alliance: $55,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC: $53,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFINANCIAL BEGINNINGS OREGON: $53,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MID-WILLAMETTE VALLEY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPima County Community Land Trust: $46,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF IDAHO INC: $45,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TREASURE VALLEY INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH'S PROMISE: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEASTSIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND: $40,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetCHELAN VALLEY HOUSING TRUST: $39,500 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetMONTANA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $38,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetProud Ground: $36,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN NEVADA: $35,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetThe Family Place: $34,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INN BETWEEN: $30,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetWashington Women in Need: $30,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMEN OF NEHEMIAH INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetELEVATE PHOENIX: $30,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF LAS VEGAS INC: $30,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJunior Achievement of Utah & Idaho: $29,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $28,282 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOMEWISE INC: $27,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $27,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW MEXICO: $26,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE MID-WILLAMETTE VALLEY: $26,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetPEP Housing: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPEOPLEFUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHOICES EDUCATION GROUP: $25,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetARIZONA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCAT: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetFINANCIAL BEGINNINGS WASHINGTON: $25,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetAustin Area Urban League: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAFE HOUSEINC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871): $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHERWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $24,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $23,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Norcliffe FoundationWA114.6× affinity110 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
85report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Washington Federal Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Washington Federal Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 840 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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