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Washington Progress Fund

Washington Progress Fund is building a permanent and powerful social change movement in Washington state supported by a network of committed donors.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$425k
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 FY2017–2024.

Public Benefit$3.1MCivil Rights$1.8MHuman Services$1.8MCommunity Improvement$1.5MEnvironment$478kEducation$322kHousing & Shelter$202kArts & Culture$174kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $133k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+1 grant · $425k
$55,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network$425,170
Nuestra Casa$215,000
La Casa Hogar$215,000
The Washington Bus Education Fund$200,000
Lavendar Rights Project$150,000
Fuse Innovation Fund$133,334
Economic Opportunity Institute$76,666
Pacific County Voices Uniting$60,000
Pro-Choice Washington Foundation$55,000
Washington State Budget and Policy Center$50,000
The Roosevelt Institute$50,000
Fair Work Center$40,000
Invest in WA Now$30,000
No on 2109 Committee$20,000
Spokane County Against Racism$15,000
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 (FY17–24, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Nuestra Casa: $215k → 11%Latino Community Fund of Washington State: $40k → 12%La Casa Hogar: $215k → 17%Change Elemental: $8k → 14%Nuestra Casa: $15k → 11%La Casa Hogar: $60k → 17%La Casa Hogar: $15k → 17%La Casa Hogar: $5k → 17%Nuestra Casa: $65k → 17%Washington Immigrant Solidarity Netowrk: $188k → 17%Council on American Islamic Relations of Washington State: $48k → 9%Eritrean Association in Greater Seattle: $125k → 9%Eritrean Association in Greater Seattle: $77k → 9%Asian Counseling and Referral Services: $35k → 9%Asian Counseling and Referral Services: $35k → 9%Eritrean Association of Greater Seattle: $33k → 9%Asian Counseling and Referral Service: $32k → 9%Asian Counseling and Referral Service: $30k → 9%Asian Counseling and Referral Services: $25k → 9%Eritrean Association in Greater Seattle: $10k → 9%Asian Counseling and Referral Service: $10k → 9%Eritrean Association in Greater Seattle: $10k → 9%Latino Community Fund of Washington State: $63k → 9%Latino Community Fund of Washington State: $25k → 9%Latino Community Fund: $298k → 9%Latino Community Fund: $97k → 9%Latino Community Fund of Washington: $40k → 9%Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network: $425k → 9%Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network: $163k → 9%Teenagers Plus: $9k → 9%Iraqi Community Center of Washington: $30k → 9%Open Doors for Multicultural Families: $25k → 9%Somali Family Safety Task Force: $15k → 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.1M · 26 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
41

Total granted

$8.1M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+24%

Still filing today

85%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $183k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsPublic BenefitEducationOther

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

  • FI
    Fuse Innovation Fund
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +50% · 34% of their budget
  • TW
    THE WASHINGTON STATE BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $937k · revenue +80% · 27% of their budget
  • LC
    Latino Community Fund of Washington State
    6× · 2018–2023 · $563k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • SE
    STATE ENGAGEMENT FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $295k · revenue -4%
  • NA
    NATIVE ACTION NETWORK
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +24%
  • KC
    KOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $56k · revenue +115%

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
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
2
Working Washington

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…

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3
Rainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalition

Rainier Beach Action Coalition is a grassroot, Black-led organization devoted to locally driven development. It promotes quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing, and building community capacity in…

Community Improvement
4
Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission

Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission is led by and for Indigenous people, and envisions a just society in which we are treated with honor, fairness and respect. Our mission is to uphold our individual civil rights through education…

Human Services
5
Washington Progress Fund

Washington Progress Fund is building a permanent and powerful social change movement in Washington state supported by a network of committed donors. WPF envisions a Washington state where government serves the public interest and we all…

Philanthropy
6
Washingtonians for Public Banking

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…

Community Improvement
7
Nw Energy Coalition

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…

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8
Win Win Action

To build a civically powerful network working together to advance racial, social, and economic equity across Washington State

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9
Pathwaves Washington

Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.

Education
10
Financial Empowerment Network

Vision we envision communities where low- and moderate-income individuals and families are able to achieve financial well-being.mission we advance financial empowerment through partnerships that support access to affordable, effective, and…

Public Benefit
11
Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund

The Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund elects candidates, educates voters and decision-makers, and amplifies the voices and priorities of people and communities most impacted by housing instability and homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
12
Fuse Washington

To achieve progress through government,by the people, and for the people, in Washington state.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yakima Valley Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Meyer Memorial Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 17. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%11%<5yr14%21%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr20%29%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr13%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%20%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%34%10–20yr20%33%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr13%0%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 20% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
3/73
the rest of the field
12%
5,133/43,300

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

58 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. 58 of the 73 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
39/58
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WASHINGTON IMMIGRANT SOLIDARITY NETWORK — $775,170 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON IMMIGRANT SOLIDARI…Latino Community Fund of Washington State — $563,293 · Human ServicesLatino Community Fund of Wash…LA CASA HOGAR — $295,250 · Human ServicesLA CASA HOGARNuestra CASA — $295,000 · Human ServicesNuestra CASAERITREAN ASSOCIATION IN GREATER SEATTLE — $255,030 · Human ServicesERITREAN ASSOCIATION IN GREAT…ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE — $174,500 · Human ServicesASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL…+5 more — $126,750 · Human ServicesFuse Innovation Fund — $1,342,903 · EnvironmentFuse Innovation …+2 more — $30,000 · EnvironmentTHE WASHINGTON STATE BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER — $937,465 · Public BenefitTHE WASHINGTON …STATE ENGAGEMENT FUND — $295,000 · Public BenefitSTATE ENGAGEMEN…+2 more — $53,000 · Public BenefitWin Win Network — $585,725 · Community ImprovementWin Win Networ…RVC SEATTLE — $311,650 · Community ImprovementRVC SEATTLEEconomic Opportunity Institute — $206,666 · Community ImprovementEconomic Oppor…KOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER — $56,200 · Community ImprovementIAF Northwest — $55,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $40,000 · Community ImprovementWashington Community Action Network Education & Research Fund — $283,500 · OtherWashington Community Acti…Balance Our Tax Code — $92,000 · OtherEqual Rights WA Education & Engagement — $80,000 · OtherEl Comite — $71,563 · OtherEQUITY IN EDUCATION COALITION — $212,009 · OtherEQUITY IN EDUCATION COALI…NATIVE ACTION NETWORK — $100,000 · OtherLavender Rights Project — $240,000 · OtherLavender Rights ProjectNa'ah Illahee Fund — $186,550 · OtherNa'ah Illahee FundYAKIMA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $99,650 · Other+34 more — $763,925 · Other+34 moreThe Washington Bus Education Fund — $414,900 · Civil RightsSTATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE — $196,168 · Civil RightsPro-Choice Washington Foundation — $100,000 · Civil Rights+2 more — $23,700 · Civil RightsPUGET SOUND SAGE — $363,000 · Social Science
Human Services$2,484,993Environment$1,372,903Public Benefit$1,285,465Community Improvement$1,255,241Other$2,129,197Civil Rights$734,768Social Science$363,000

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 budgetFuse Innovation Fund — $1,342,903 over 8y, 34% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON STATE BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER — $937,465 over 8y, 27% of budgetWASHINGTON IMMIGRANT SOLIDARITY NETWORK — $775,170 over 3y, 14% of budgetWin Win Network — $585,725 over 6y, 19% of budgetLatino Community Fund of Washington State — $563,293 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetThe Washington Bus Education Fund — $414,900 over 7y, 12% of budgetPUGET SOUND SAGE — $363,000 over 8y, 8.2% of budgetRVC SEATTLE — $311,650 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetLA CASA HOGAR — $295,250 over 4y, 12% of budgetNuestra CASA — $295,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetSTATE ENGAGEMENT FUND — $295,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWashington Community Action Network Education & Research Fund — $283,500 over 6y, 9.2% of budgetERITREAN ASSOCIATION IN GREATER SEATTLE — $255,030 over 5y, 35% of budgetLavender Rights Project — $240,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetEQUITY IN EDUCATION COALITION — $212,009 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetEconomic Opportunity Institute — $206,666 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetSTATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE — $196,168 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetNa'ah Illahee Fund — $186,550 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE — $174,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPro-Choice Washington Foundation — $100,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetNATIVE ACTION NETWORK — $100,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetYAKIMA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $99,650 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBalance Our Tax Code — $92,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetKOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER — $56,200 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetInvest in Washington Now Campaign — $51,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCouncil On American-Islamic Relations — $48,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetFair Work Center — $40,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetRural Peoples Platform — $40,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetEASTSIDE PATHWAYS — $39,400 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetONEAMERICA — $37,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITY HOUSING & DEVELOPMENT — $36,700 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBRIDGING CULTURAL GAPS — $30,250 over 1y, 11% of budgetWAKULIMA USA — $29,500 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetNORTHWEST KENYAN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — $28,600 over 1y, 24% of budgetEthiopian Community in Seattle — $27,100 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSolid Ground Washington — $27,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCarl Maxey Center — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetOPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNO ON 2109 COMMITEE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMEYER MEMORIAL TRUST — $16,575 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSightline Institute — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOMALI FAMILY SAFETY TASK FORCE SOMALI FAMILY SAFETY TASK FORCE — $14,800 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWashington Community Alliance — $12,800 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFW BLACK COLLECTIVE — $10,900 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Seattle FoundationPhilanthropy NorthwestInatai FoundationStolte Family Foundat…The Satterberg Founda…School's Out Washingt…Front and CenteredColectiva Legal del P…Social Justice Fund N…United Way of King Co…Latino Community Fund…Gates Foundation
Seattle FoundationWA71.5× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Philanthropy Northwest · Inatai Foundation · Stolte Family Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · School's Out Washington · Front and Centered · Colectiva Legal del Pueblo · Social Justice Fund Northwest · United Way of King County · Latino Community Fund of Washington State · Gates 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 Progress Fund 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
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    26report 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, FY20–24

    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 73 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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