Washington · 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.
- $16M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 86
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $101,680
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,180,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 15
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $341M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Washington Research Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $405k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $16M | 23% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $17M | 40% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $10M | 58% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $14M | 10% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $16M | 20% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $10M | 38% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $9.7M | 73% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $8.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Washington | $55,183,221 | 8 | n/a |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | $6,947,712 | 3 | n/a |
| Washington Research Licensing Foundation | $2,007,244 | 3 | 2% |
| Institute for Systems Biology | $1,933,392 | 6 | 1% |
| Allen Institute | $1,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia | $551,412 | 5 | 0% |
| Pacific Northwest Research Institute | $170,838 | 2 | 2% |
| Seattle University | $159,597 | 1 | 0% |
| Bloodworks | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Washington State University Foundation | $145,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Washington | $55,183,221 | 8 | n/a |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | $6,947,712 | 3 | n/a |
| Washington Research Licensing Foundation | $2,007,244 | 3 | 2% |
| Institute for Systems Biology | $1,933,392 | 6 | 1% |
| Allen Institute | $1,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia | $551,412 | 5 | 0% |
| Pacific Northwest Research Institute | $170,838 | 2 | 2% |
| Seattle University | $159,597 | 1 | 0% |
| Bloodworks | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Washington State University Foundation | $145,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Life Sciences Research Foundation | $130,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Access to Advanced Health Institute | $113,542 | 2 | 0% |
| Pacific Science Center Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Battelle Memorial Institute | $93,750 | 1 | 0% |
| The Washington STEM Center | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Nucleate Bio Inc | $18,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Washington Global Health Alliance | $7,500 | 2 | 2% |
| Refugee Womens Alliance | $1,030 | 1 | 0% |
| The Osteosarcoma Institute | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($33M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Washington Research Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Washington Research Foundation
- How much does Washington Research Foundation give?
- Washington Research Foundation reported 86 grants totaling $15,846,563 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Washington Research Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (68%), Health (20%), Science & Tech (8%).
- Who are Washington Research Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Washington ($55M), Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ($6.9M), Washington Research Licensing Foundation ($2.0M).
- Does Washington Research Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Washington Research Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Washington Research Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gates Foundation, M J Murdock Charitable Trust, Seattle Children's Hospital.
- Where is Washington Research Foundation based?
- Washington Research Foundation is based in WA.
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