· Private foundation
Washington Research Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $244k
- $50k–250k62 grants · $6.5M
- $250k+10 grants · $9.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEATTLE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $3,180,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $1,431,809 |
| FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER | $1,000,000 |
| ALLEN INSTITUTE | $1,000,000 |
| FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER | $937,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $387,050 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $350,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $275,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $275,000 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $249,950 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $237,500 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $236,300 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $232,171 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $199,314 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those 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.
20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
- FHFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER3× · 2023–2025 · $6.9M · revenue +27%
- IFINSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY6× · 2019–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +17%
- BRBENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA5× · 2020–2024 · $551k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- BBLOODWORKSone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -16%
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $145k · revenue +42%- PNPACIFIC NORTHWEST DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTEone grant, 2024 · $100k
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 conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…
To promote and perform biomedical research to advance the understanding and treatment of underserved medical conditions.
To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…
Perform basic research and preclinical efficacy assessments of new molecular entities being developed for the prevention and treatment of cancer and infectious disease. Discover new pathways and targets for the design and development of…
The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
At la jolla institute for immunology, our scientists focus on understanding how the immune system works in order to promote human health and prevent disease. our discoveries apply to many diseases, ranging from diabetes to heart disease,…
The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…
Life science washington is a non-profit trade and professional association dedicated to promoting innovation and responsible growth in the life sciences and biomedical industries in the state of washington. promotion and education are…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pacific Northwest Research Institute and the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 35 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 FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON RESEARCH LICENSING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY ↗
- Who funds ALLEN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BLOODWORKS ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIFE SCIENCES RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACCESS TO ADVANCED HEALTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON STEM CENTER ↗
- Who funds NUCLEATE BIO INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON GLOBAL HEALTH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Refugee Womens Alliance ↗
- Who funds THE OSTEOSARCOMA INSTITUTE ↗
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: Gates Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Seattle Children's Hospital · United Way of King County · Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center · Emory University · The Norcliffe Foundation · Johns Hopkins University · Seattle Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Research Foundation 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.
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