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Washington Women's Foundation

WASHINGTON WOMEN'S FOUNDATION is a strong and inclusive collective of informed women who together influence community transformation through individual and collective discovery, high-impact grant making and by listening to and respecting all voices in our community.

$530k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$105k
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.

Human Services$636kEducation$605kYouth Development$582kHealth$526kArts & Culture$466kCommunity Improvement$370kEnvironment$310kEmployment$308kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 12 grants below total $477,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $529,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $52,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $142k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $315k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTIMAN THEATRE$105,000
FYRE - FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH RESILIENCY & ENGAGEMENT$105,000
THE WAY TO JUSTICE$105,000
FREEDOM EDUCATION PROJECT PUGET SOUND$35,000
INCHELIUM LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL ASSN$30,000
DOWNTOWN EMERGENCY SERVICES CENTER$30,000
ARMS AROUND YOU$16,500
INNOVATIONS HUMAN TRAFFICKING COLLABORATIVE$15,000
UNDERSTORY ARTS$15,000
YWCA OF KITSAP COUNTY$8,000
HOPE STREET$6,500
SPARK CENTRAL$6,500
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, $680k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%INNOVATIONS HUMAN TRAFFICKING COLLABORATIVE: $15k → 9%HOPE STREET: $7k → 13%LA CASA HOGAR: $101k → 17%LA CASA HOGAR: $17k → 17%La Casa Hogar: $10k → 17%TTAWAXT BIRTH JUSTICE CENTER: $105k → 17%BEST: $102k → 9%OPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES: $18k → 9%PARA LOS NINOS: $8k → 9%MOTHER AFRICA: $10k → 9%OPEN DOORS TO MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES: $8k → 9%POWERFUL VOICES: $8k → 9%COMMUNITY CREDIT LAB: $100k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $100k → 9%ARMS AROUND YOU: $17k → 9%SOMALI HEALTH BOARD: $23k → 9%SOMALI HEALTH BOARD: $10k → 9%MUSLIMAH'S AGAINST ABUSE CENTER: $10k → 9%ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME: $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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 25% of Washington Women's Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 77% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Washington Women's Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

19%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$847k · 10 repeat orgs$3.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
61

Total granted

$847k
$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+21%

Still filing today

100%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $336k 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 & CultureHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther

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

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH RESILIENCY AND ENGA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $135k · revenue +31%
  • LC
    LA CASA HOGAR
    3× · 2017–2023 · $127k · revenue +328%
  • RVC SEATTLE
    3× · 2017–2022 · $123k · revenue ×18

Funded once

  • CHOOSE 180graduated
    one grant, 2022 · $135k · revenue +30%
  • TB
    TTAWAXT BIRTH JUSTICE CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $105k · revenue +33%
  • CO
    COMMUNITIES OF ROOTED BRILLIANCE
    one grant, 2023 · $105k · revenue +10%

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
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
3
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
4
Re Sources

RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.

Environment
5
Reclaiming Our Greatness

Reclaiming Our Greatness's mission is to create transformative outcomes for the families we serve by providing proactive case management coupled with creative resource development.

Housing & Shelter
6
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
7
Bike Works Seattle

Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.

Recreation & Sports
8
Spark Northwest

Founded in 2001, Spark Northwest accelerates the just transition to clean energy in the Pacific Northwest. Spark Northwest uses two primary strategies: (1) on-the-ground project consulting, focusing on communities with limited financial…

Environment
9
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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10
Gender Justice League

Gender Justice League's mission is to empower all people to eliminate discrimination and prejudice based on sex, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation in Washington State, and to ensure that trans and gender diverse…

Civil Rights
11
Refugee Womens Alliance

ReWA is a non-profit, multi-ethnic organization that promotes inclusion, independence, personal leadership, and strong communities by providing refugee and immigrant women and their families with culturally and linguistically appropriate…

Human Services
12
House Our Neighbors

House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rvc Seattle and the most unlike its peers is Understory Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAffordable Housing & Reside…Healthcare Systems and Serv…Live Performance & Arts Edu…Youth Sports ProgramsFaith-Based Hospital SystemsRegional Economic Developme…Independent Elementary Scho…Youth Support & Interventio…Education Access & Pathways
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%4%<5yr15%18%5–10yr19%34%10–20yr18%27%20–35yr12%11%35–55yr13%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%18%5–10yr19%38%10–20yr18%26%20–35yr12%11%35–55yr13%6%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%3/80
the rest of the field
13%
2,085/16,108

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.

05the grantee network

77 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. 77 of the 80 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/77
Grantees still filing
50/77
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LA CASA HOGAR — $127,000 · Human ServicesLA CASA HOGARTTAWAXT BIRTH JUSTICE CENTER — $105,000 · Human ServicesTTAWAXT BIRTH JUSTIC…Latino Community Fund of Washington State — $105,000 · Human ServicesLatino Community Fun…Businesses Ending Slavery & Trafficking — $102,000 · Human ServicesBusinesses Ending Sl…CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB — $100,000 · Human ServicesCHIEF SEATTLE CLUBCOMMUNITY CREDIT LAB — $100,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY CREDIT LABSOMALI HEALTH BOARD — $32,500 · Human Services+10 more — $113,500 · Human Services+10 moreGLOBAL TO LOCAL HEALTH INITIATIVE — $105,000 · HealthGLOBAL TO LOCAL H…DAYBREAK YOUTH SERVICES — $100,000 · HealthDAYBREAK YOUTH SE…Cierra Sisters — $100,000 · HealthCierra SistersSEA MAR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS — $100,000 · HealthSEA MAR COMMUNITY…BUILDING CHANGES — $100,000 · HealthBUILDING CHANGESPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND NORTH IDAHO — $100,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOO…PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY — $31,000 · HealthDowntown Emergency Service Center — $30,000 · Health+2 more — $25,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR YOUTH RESILIENCY AND ENGA — $135,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR YOUTH RESILIENCY …Seattle Globalist — $101,000 · OtherSeattle GlobalistCASA LATINA INC — $100,000 · OtherCASA LATINA INCTINY TREES PRESCHOOL — $100,000 · OtherTINY TREES PRESCHOOLFEDERAL WAY BIRTH CENTER — $50,000 · OtherPHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST — $50,000 · OtherRVC SEATTLE — $122,500 · OtherRVC SEATTLEUNLOOP — $100,000 · OtherUNLOOPTHE WAY TO JUSTICE — $105,000 · OtherTHE WAY TO JUSTICEFood Empowerment Education Sustainability Team — $100,500 · OtherFood Empowerment Education Susta…ReUse Works Ragfinery — $100,000 · OtherReUse Works Ragfinery+12 more — $210,000 · Other+12 moreSalish School of Spokane — $115,185 · EducationSalish School o…R MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP — $110,000 · EducationR MERLE PALMER …COMMUNITIES OF ROOTED BRILLIANCE — $105,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES OF …Sawhorse Revolution — $101,500 · EducationSawhorse Revolu…RECLAIM — $100,000 · EducationRECLAIMPara Los Ninos de Highline — $42,500 · EducationPara Los Ninos …+3 more — $27,500 · EducationSpark Central — $106,500 · Arts & CultureSpark Centr…INTIMAN THEATRE — $105,000 · Arts & CultureINTIMAN THE…YAKIMA MUSIC EN ACCION — $100,000 · Arts & CultureYAKIMA MUSI…INCHELIUM LANGUAGE AND CULTURE ASSOCIATION — $40,185 · Arts & CultureINCHELIUM L…NORTHWEST FILM FORUM — $30,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST F…Ingersoll Gender Center — $22,500 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $60,000 · Arts & Culture+5 moreDELRIDGE NEIGHBORHOODS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION — $100,000 · EnvironmentDELRIDGE N…Got Green — $100,000 · EnvironmentGot GreenAMERICAN RIVERS INC — $100,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN R…Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG — $100,000 · EnvironmentDuwamish R…+1 more — $10,000 · EnvironmentCHOOSE 180 — $135,000 · Youth DevelopmentPEACEKEEPER SOCIETY — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentVOICES OF TOMORROW — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentYou Grow Girl — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTotem Star — $9,000 · Youth Development
Human Services$785,000Health$691,000Other$1,274,000Education$601,685Arts & Culture$464,185Environment$410,000Youth Development$214,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHOOSE 180 — $135,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR YOUTH RESILIENCY AND ENGA — $135,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetLA CASA HOGAR — $127,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetRVC SEATTLE — $122,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSalish School of Spokane — $115,185 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetR MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP — $110,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetSpark Central — $106,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetINTIMAN THEATRE — $105,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetTTAWAXT BIRTH JUSTICE CENTER — $105,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCOMMUNITIES OF ROOTED BRILLIANCE — $105,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetGLOBAL TO LOCAL HEALTH INITIATIVE — $105,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetLatino Community Fund of Washington State — $105,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE WAY TO JUSTICE — $105,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetBusinesses Ending Slavery & Trafficking — $102,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetSawhorse Revolution — $101,500 over 1y, 22% of budgetFood Empowerment Education Sustainability Team — $100,500 over 1y, 17% of budgetDAYBREAK YOUTH SERVICES — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNLOOP — $100,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetDELRIDGE NEIGHBORHOODS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION — $100,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetSEA MAR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING CHANGES — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND NORTH IDAHO — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYAKIMA MUSIC EN ACCION — $100,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetRECLAIM — $100,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCHIEF SEATTLE CLUB — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGot Green — $100,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CREDIT LAB — $100,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDuwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG — $100,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPara Los Ninos de Highline — $42,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetINCHELIUM LANGUAGE AND CULTURE ASSOCIATION — $40,185 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetFREEDOM EDUCATION PROJECT PUGET SOUND — $35,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetSOMALI HEALTH BOARD — $32,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSOUTHEAST EFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT — $32,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY — $31,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVOICES OF TOMORROW — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDowntown Emergency Service Center — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS — $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNORTHWEST FILM FORUM — $30,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTeamChild — $22,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetIngersoll Gender Center — $22,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES — $18,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT — $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR WASHINGTONS FUTURE — $16,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetARMS AROUND YOU FOUNDATION — $16,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalition — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Shades of Motherhood Network — $15,000 over 1y, 3.4% 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 FoundationThe Satterberg Founda…School's Out Washingt…Inatai FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…United Way of King Co…Gates FoundationArtsfundCredit Unions in the …Philanthropy NorthwestLucky Seven FoundationSocial Justice Fund N…
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

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 Women's 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    43report 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, FY20–25

    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 80 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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