· Public charity
Washington Federation of State Employees
Provide welfare, protection and advancement of washington state employee local unions.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $1,197,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,263,786 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $66,786 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $72k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INVEST IN WASHINGTON NOW | $500,000 |
| DEFEND WASHINGTON | $300,000 |
| NO ON-2109 COMMITTEE | $250,000 |
| ACTION DD | $75,000 |
| WASHINGTON STATE LABOR COUNCIL | $38,000 |
| AFSCME LOCAL 443 | $14,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR WORKING FAMILIES | $10,000 |
| WASHINGTON STATE BUDGET & POLICY CENTER | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 3% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +23% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 WORKING FAMILIES7× · 2018–2025 · $555k · revenue +367% · 94% of their budget
- WSWASHINGTON STATE LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO5× · 2020–2025 · $149k · revenue +26%
- TWTHE WASHINGTON STATE BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER6× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- PFPEOPLE FOR A BALANCED TAX CODEone grant, 2019 · $100k
- NONo on 2117 Committeeone grant, 2024 · $100k
- NANORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUMone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +6%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…
Collective bargaining for members
Washingtonians for Public banking promotes education and civic engagement on public banking and banking reform within Washington state. The organization organizes, educates, and advocates for the establishment of public banking, and…
The Federation is affiliated with the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, and assists and represents local unions of teachers in the state of Washington in labor relations issues, organizes new units of teachers and other education…
The council's mission is to further protect the rights of members of the building and constructions trades industry in the state of washington.
To achieve progress through government,by the people, and for the people, in Washington state.
Member, affiliate, and community education for worker's issues - union and non-union
The seiu washington state council builds collective power by uniting the strength of our locals in washington state and our collective membership of over 150,000 members. we work collaboratively to coordinate political and legislative…
The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…
Washington Bikes works to ensure that all who ride a bicycle in Washington have safe comfortable and convenient places to ride. Organization advocates for bicyclists rights and shapes policies.
To protect and promote every persons right to access the full range of reproductive healthcare choices in Washington State, including safe and legal abortion, through education, advocacy, lobbying and coalition-building
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Washington State Budget and Policy Center and the most unlike its peers is Washington Fair Trade Coalition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 20 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 Invest in Washington Now Campaign ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR WORKING FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds NO ON 2109 COMMITEE ↗
- Who funds Defend Washington ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO ↗
- Who funds No on 2117 Committee ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON STATE BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AFSCME FALLEN HEROES FUND ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON FEDERATION OF STATE EMPLOYEES LOCAL 443 ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON FAIR TRADE COALITION ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS ↗
- Who funds William D Ruckelshaus Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds RETIRED PUBLIC EMPLOYEES COUNCIL OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds ONEAMERICA ↗
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: Washington Education Association · Seattle Foundation · Gates Foundation · Inatai Foundation · Washington Progress Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Washington Federation of State Employees 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.