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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.

$395k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $350,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $394,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $44,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FEAST WORLD KITCHEN$25,000
YAKIMA NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH SERVICES$20,000
AFGHAN ADVANTAGE$20,000
GLOBAL NEIGHBORHOOD$20,000
FRONT AND CENTERED$20,000
PALMER SCHOLARS$20,000
HIP HOP IS GREEN$20,000
MASON COUNTY CLIMATE JUSTICE$20,000
TACOMA TREE FOUNDATION$20,000
THE COMMON ACRE$20,000
YOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED$20,000
SOMALI HEALTH BOARD$20,000
WA THERAPY FUND FOUNDATION$20,000
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES$20,000
LITERACY SOURCE$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $735k) 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 its 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%AFGHAN ADVANTAGE: $20k → 9%BEST: $102k → 9%OPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES: $18k → 9%ORGANIZATION FOR PROSTITUTION SURVIVORS: $15k → 9%PARA LOS NINOS: $8k → 9%MOTHER AFRICA: $10k → 9%OPEN DOORS TO MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES: $8k → 9%POWERFUL VOICES: $8k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $100k → 9%COMMUNITY CREDIT LAB: $100k → 9%SOMALI HEALTH BOARD: $23k → 9%ARMS AROUND YOU: $17k → 9%SOMALI HEALTH BOARD: $20k → 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 25% of Washington Women's Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 77%.

Washington Women's Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

21%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$985k · 12 repeat orgs$3.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
68

Total granted

$985k
$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+11%

Still filing today

100%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • RM
    R MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP
    3× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +74%
  • RVC SEATTLE
    4× · 2017–2025 · $138k · revenue ×18
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH RESILIENCY AND ENGA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $135k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • CHOOSE 180graduated
    one grant, 2022 · $135k · revenue +30%
  • LC
    Latino Community Fund of Washington State
    one grant, 2022 · $105k · revenue -26%
  • TB
    TTAWAXT BIRTH JUSTICE CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $105k · revenue +33%
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.

04Its field

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.

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
Movimiento Afrolatino Seattle

MAS activates and strengthens communities through art, raising awareness of the history and cultural contributions of Black Latinos for social change and racial equity.

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
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
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
Asians for Collective Action

Asians for Collective Action (ACA) harnesses the strenghts of Asians and Asian Americans to drive systemic change to create a just, healthy, and thriving community for all.

Public Benefit
8
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
9
Bike Works Seattle

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

Recreation & Sports
10
We Heart Seattle

We Heart Seattle is an action-based, boots-on-the-ground movement that organizes trash cleanups in our public spaces and offers resources to those in need. Through our direct civic engagement we lead the way to a more compassionate and…

Community Improvement
11
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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12
Coast Salish Youth Coalition

To cultivate the next generation of culturally engaged environmental stewards.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rvc Seattle; 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.
05the grantee network

89 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. 89 of the 93 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/89
Grantees still filing
56/89
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LA CASA HOGAR: $127,000 · Human ServicesLA CASA HOGARLatino Community Fund of Washington State: $105,000 · Human ServicesLatino Community Fu…TTAWAXT BIRTH JUSTICE CENTER: $105,000 · Human ServicesTTAWAXT BIRTH JUSTI…Businesses Ending Slavery & Trafficking: $102,000 · Human ServicesBusinesses Ending S…COMMUNITY CREDIT LAB: $100,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY CREDIT LA…CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $100,000 · Human ServicesCHIEF SEATTLE CLUBSOMALI HEALTH BOARD: $52,500 · Human ServicesSOMALI HEALTH BOARD+12 more: $148,500 · Human Services+12 moreGLOBAL TO LOCAL HEALTH INITIATIVE: $105,000 · HealthGLOBAL TO LOCAL HE…Cierra Sisters: $100,000 · HealthCierra SistersDAYBREAK YOUTH SERVICES: $100,000 · HealthDAYBREAK YOUTH SER…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND NORTH IDAHO: $100,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD…BUILDING CHANGES: $100,000 · HealthBUILDING CHANGESSEA MAR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS: $100,000 · HealthSEA MAR COMMUNITY …PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY: $31,000 · HealthDowntown Emergency Service Center: $30,000 · HealthWA THERAPY FUND FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Health+4 more: $70,000 · Health+4 moreR MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP: $150,000 · EducationR MERLE PALMER …Salish School of Spokane: $115,185 · EducationSalish School o…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 …+4 more: $47,500 · Education+4 moreFOUNDATION FOR YOUTH RESILIENCY AND ENGA: $135,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR YOUTH RESILIENCY…Seattle Globalist: $101,000 · OtherSeattle GlobalistTINY TREES PRESCHOOL: $100,000 · OtherTINY TREES PRESCHOOLCASA LATINA INC: $100,000 · OtherCASA LATINA INCFEDERAL WAY BIRTH CENTER: $50,000 · OtherPHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST: $50,000 · OtherRVC SEATTLE: $137,500 · OtherRVC SEATTLEUNLOOP: $100,000 · OtherUNLOOPReUse Works Ragfinery: $100,000 · OtherReUse Works RagfineryTHE WAY TO JUSTICE: $105,000 · OtherTHE WAY TO JUSTICEFood Empowerment Education Sustainability Team: $100,500 · OtherFood Empowerment Education Sust…+14 more: $255,000 · Other+14 moreSpark 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 & CultureTHE COMMON ACRE: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $60,000 · Arts & Culture+5 moreDELRIDGE NEIGHBORHOODS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · EnvironmentDELRIDGE NE…AMERICAN RIVERS INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN RI…Got Green: $100,000 · EnvironmentGot GreenDuwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG: $100,000 · EnvironmentDuwamish Ri…MASON COUNTY CLIMATE JUSTICE: $20,000 · EnvironmentTACOMA TREE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EnvironmentFront and Centered: $20,000 · Environment+1 more: $10,000 · EnvironmentCHOOSE 180: $135,000 · Youth DevelopmentPEACEKEEPER SOCIETY: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentVOICES OF TOMORROW: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentYou Grow Girl: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTotem Star: $9,000 · Youth Development
Human Services$840,000Health$766,000Education$661,685Other$1,334,000Arts & Culture$484,185Environment$470,000Youth Development$234,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetR MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP: $150,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetRVC SEATTLE: $137,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR YOUTH RESILIENCY AND ENGA: $135,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetCHOOSE 180: $135,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetLA CASA HOGAR: $127,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetSalish School of Spokane: $115,185 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetSpark Central: $106,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetLatino Community Fund of Washington State: $105,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTTAWAXT BIRTH JUSTICE CENTER: $105,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetGLOBAL TO LOCAL HEALTH INITIATIVE: $105,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetCOMMUNITIES OF ROOTED BRILLIANCE: $105,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetINTIMAN THEATRE: $105,000 over 1y, 4.7% 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 budgetDELRIDGE NEIGHBORHOODS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CREDIT LAB: $100,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetYAKIMA MUSIC EN ACCION: $100,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetUNLOOP: $100,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRECLAIM: $100,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetDAYBREAK YOUTH SERVICES: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND NORTH IDAHO: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGot Green: $100,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetDuwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG: $100,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetBUILDING CHANGES: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSEA MAR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSOMALI HEALTH BOARD: $52,500 over 2y, 1.9% 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 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 budgetNEW BEGINNINGS: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDowntown Emergency Service Center: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWA THERAPY FUND FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetVOICES OF TOMORROW: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 budgetMASON COUNTY CLIMATE JUSTICE: $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetYAKIMA NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH SERVICES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY SOURCE A COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTACOMA TREE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Washington Women's Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Washington Women's Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 93 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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