How do I find funders for a science nonprofit in Washington?

Start with the funders already giving to science in Washington, currently Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum, Alfred P Sloan Foundation, Gates Foundation. Then look at who funds the science organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Washington from out of state.

Who is the largest science funder in Washington?

Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum gives the most to science organizations in Washington, $54M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to science in Washington?

$200M reached 127 science organizations in Washington, from 347 funders. 42% came from funders also based in Washington.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Washington · Science

Who funds science in Washington

$200M reached 127 science organizations in Washington, from 347 funders, with no single one dominating.

$200M

granted

127

organizations

42%

from in-state

The short version

347 funders gave $200M to 127 science organizations in Washington across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
42% of that came from funders also based in Washington; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of science in Washington is Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum, at $54M.
The science organization drawing the most is Fund for Art Science and Technology, at $54M.

Largest funders of science in Washington

The funders giving the most to science organizations in Washington, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum$54M 2Alfred P Sloan Foundation$21M 3Gates Foundation$9M 4University of Pittsburgh$7M 5Cancer Research Institute Inc$7M 6Emory University$7M 7The Scripps Research Institute$6M 8Northwestern University$6M 9The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia$4M 10Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$4M

Science organizations in Washington that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

Fund for Art Science and Technology$54M Sage Bionetworks$39M

117 other science organizations$23M

Astrophysical Research Consortium$23M Institute for Systems Biology$21M University of Washington Foundation$12M

How to find science funders in Washington

1
Start with the funders already active in Washington
The funders giving the most to science in Washington are Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum, Alfred P Sloan Foundation, Gates Foundation. A funder already writing science checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the science organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
58% of science money in Washington comes from funders elsewhere, so national science funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Washington.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a science nonprofit in Washington?: Start with the funders already giving to science in Washington, currently Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum, Alfred P Sloan Foundation, Gates Foundation. Then look at who funds the science organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Washington from out of state.
Who is the largest science funder in Washington?: Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum gives the most to science organizations in Washington, $54M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to science in Washington?: $200M reached 127 science organizations in Washington, from 347 funders. 42% came from funders also based in Washington.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.