· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%- PSPACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +10%
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Washington Research Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Washington Research Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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