How much does Washington Women's Foundation give?

Washington Women's Foundation reported 18 itemized grants totaling $350,000, out of $394,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Washington Women's Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (14%), Education (14%), Youth Development (13%).

Who are Washington Women's Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: R Merle Palmer Minority Scholarship ($150k), Rvc Seattle ($138k), Foundation for Youth Resiliency and Enga ($135k).

Does Washington Women's Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Washington Women's Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, The Satterberg Foundation Inc, School's Out Washington.

Where is Washington Women's Foundation based?

Washington Women's Foundation is based in WA.

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Washington Women's Foundation

WASHINGTON WOMEN'S FOUNDATION (the foundation) is a nonprofit corporation that envisions an intentional community of women of all backgrounds united in building a just, equitable, and thriving washington. Their mission is to provide long-term, unrestricted capital, organizational support, and networking to social change efforts…

$395k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 18
Itemized grants FY2025: 12
Organizations funded FY2024: 75%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $350k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $25,000
Organizations funded a year: 10 to 15; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $5.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Washington Women's Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 70% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $336k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	17	$350k	76%
FY2024	12	$478k	75%
FY2023	12	$501k	92%
FY2022	15	$555k	87%
FY2021	10	$550k	80%
FY2020	13	$690k	92%
FY2019	10	$545k	90%
FY2018	11	$556k	73%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$636kEducation$605kYouth Development$582kHealth$526kArts & Culture$466kCommunity Improvement$370kEnvironment$310kEmployment$308kOther$0

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
R Merle Palmer Minority Scholarship	$150,000	3	9%
Rvc Seattle	$137,500	4	1%
Foundation for Youth Resiliency and Enga	$135,000	2	8%
Choose 180	$135,000	1	5%
La Casa Hogar	$127,000	3	15%
Salish School of Spokane	$115,185	2	4%
Spark Central	$106,500	2	2%
Latino Community Fund of Washington State	$105,000	1	1%
Ttawaxt Birth Justice Center	$105,000	1	16%
Global to Local Health Initiative	$105,000	1	7%

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All grantees of Washington Women's Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
R Merle Palmer Minority Scholarship	$150,000	3	9%
Rvc Seattle	$137,500	4	1%
Foundation for Youth Resiliency and Enga	$135,000	2	8%
Choose 180	$135,000	1	5%
La Casa Hogar	$127,000	3	15%
Salish School of Spokane	$115,185	2	4%
Spark Central	$106,500	2	2%
Latino Community Fund of Washington State	$105,000	1	1%
Ttawaxt Birth Justice Center	$105,000	1	16%
Global to Local Health Initiative	$105,000	1	7%
Communities of Rooted Brilliance	$105,000	1	8%
Intiman Theatre	$105,000	1	5%
The Way to Justice	$105,000	1	3%
Businesses Ending Slavery & Trafficking	$102,000	1	27%
Sawhorse Revolution	$101,500	1	22%
Seattle Globalist	$101,000	1	n/a
Food Empowerment Education Sustainability Team	$100,500	1	17%
Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association	$100,000	1	5%
Community Credit Lab	$100,000	1	19%
Yakima Music En Accion	$100,000	1	26%
Unloop	$100,000	1	24%
ReUse Works Ragfinery	$100,000	1	n/a
Tiny Trees Preschool	$100,000	1	n/a
American Rivers Inc	$100,000	1	0%
Reclaim	$100,000	1	20%
Cierra Sisters	$100,000	1	n/a
Daybreak Youth Services	$100,000	1	1%
Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho	$100,000	1	0%
Got Green	$100,000	1	7%
Casa Latina Inc	$100,000	1	n/a
Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG	$100,000	1	17%
Building Changes	$100,000	1	1%
Sea Mar Community Health Centers	$100,000	1	0%
Chief Seattle Club	$100,000	1	1%
Somali Health Board	$52,500	2	2%
Federal Way Birth Center	$50,000	1	n/a
Philanthropy Northwest	$50,000	1	0%
Para Los Ninos de Highline	$42,500	2	2%
Inchelium Language and Culture Association	$40,185	2	8%
Freedom Education Project Puget Sound	$35,000	1	7%
Southeast Effective Development	$32,500	1	1%
Planned Parenthood Great Northwest Hawaii Alaska Indiana and Kentucky	$31,000	3	0%
New Beginnings	$30,000	1	1%
Downtown Emergency Service Center	$30,000	1	0%
Wa Therapy Fund Foundation	$30,000	2	4%
Peacekeeper Society	$30,000	1	n/a
Voices of Tomorrow	$30,000	1	0%
Northwest Film Forum	$30,000	1	3%
Feast Collective	$25,000	1	n/a
TeamChild	$22,500	1	0%
Ingersoll Gender Center	$22,500	1	1%
Mason County Climate Justice	$20,000	1	2%
Yakima Neighborhood Health Services	$20,000	1	0%
Literacy Source a Community Learning Center	$20,000	1	1%
Tacoma Tree Foundation	$20,000	1	3%
Young Women Empowered	$20,000	1	1%
Afghan Advantage	$20,000	1	16%
The Common Acre	$20,000	1	n/a
Hip Hop Is Green	$20,000	1	n/a
Global Neighborhood	$20,000	1	n/a
Front and Centered	$20,000	1	n/a
Open Arms Perinatal Services	$18,000	1	0%
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project	$17,500	2	0%
Arms Around You Foundation	$16,500	1	1%
Institute for Washingtons Future	$16,500	1	1%
Elizabeth Home	$15,000	1	1%
Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment Advocacy and Leadership	$15,000	1	2%
Arts Impact	$15,000	1	1%
Innovations Human Trafficking Collaborative	$15,000	1	n/a
The Shades of Motherhood Network	$15,000	1	3%
Community Health Worker Coalition	$15,000	1	n/a
Understory Arts	$15,000	1	n/a
Organization for Prostitution Survivors	$15,000	1	n/a
Rainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalition	$15,000	1	0%
The Washington Center for the Performing Arts	$12,500	1	0%
Gender Odyssey Alliance	$10,000	1	2%
You Grow Girl	$10,000	1	1%
Muslimahs Against Abuse Center	$10,000	1	n/a
Seattle Public Schools	$10,000	1	n/a
Mother Africa	$10,000	1	1%
Environmental Coalition of South Seattle	$10,000	1	1%
Carl Maxey Center	$10,000	1	0%
Totem Star	$9,000	1	n/a
Young Womens Christian Association	$8,000	1	0%
Open Doors for Multicultural Families	$7,500	1	0%
Native Action Network	$7,500	1	1%
Para Los Ninos	$7,500	1	0%
New Connections	$7,500	1	13%
Powerful Voices	$7,500	1	1%
Denise Louie Education center	$7,000	1	0%
Hope Street	$6,500	1	2%
Casa Latina	$5,500	1	0%
Washington Youth Soccer Foundation	$5,500	1	4%

Washington Women's Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 74 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 74.

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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.

Seattle FoundationWA84× affinity57 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · School's Out Washington · Inatai Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Gates Foundation · Artsfund · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Philanthropy Northwest · Lucky Seven Foundation · Social Justice Fund Northwest

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Washington Women's Foundation

How much does Washington Women's Foundation give?: Washington Women's Foundation reported 18 itemized grants totaling $350,000, out of $394,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Washington Women's Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (14%), Education (14%), Youth Development (13%).
Who are Washington Women's Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: R Merle Palmer Minority Scholarship ($150k), Rvc Seattle ($138k), Foundation for Youth Resiliency and Enga ($135k).
Does Washington Women's Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Washington Women's Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, The Satterberg Foundation Inc, School's Out Washington.
Where is Washington Women's Foundation based?: Washington Women's Foundation is based in WA.