Washington · Nonprofit
FUTUREWISE
FUTUREWISE (Washington) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,457,413 to it, the largest being THE BULLITT FOUNDATION ($553,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $967k
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $624k
What Futurewise does
Mission
Futurewise works throughout Washington state to encourage healthy, equitable and opportunity-rich communities, and to protect our most valuable farmlands, forests and water resources through wise land use policies and practices.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Futurewise provides local technical assistance, education, policy analysis, and coalition management to advance healthy, climate resilient, and equitable outcomes for communities. In 2024, Futurewise used these tools to shape new comprehensive plans in the cities of Bellevue and Redmond and in Snohomish County. Futurewise also launched similar ongoing efforts in the cities of Seattle, Everett, Port Angeles, and Forks, and in Clallam and Jefferson Counties.
$516,855 spent50% of program spendingFuturewise takes legal action and advocates for healthy, climate resilient, and equitable local planning and land use decisions across the state. In 2024, Futurewise won legal cases protecting farmland, wildlife habitat, water resources, and addressing community needs in Okanogan and Ferry Counties. In 2024, Futurewise also won a landmark case at the Washington State Supreme Court that upholds farmland protections in King County and sets new precedent for regulating agritourism.
$279,102 spent27% of program spendingFuturewise advocates for healthy, climate resilient, and equitable planning and land use policies at the state level. In 2024, Futurewise led education, advocacy, policy analysis, and coalition management to promote a statewide framework for transit-oriented development and to protect water resources, wildlife habitat, and rural infrastructure.
$237,753 spent23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,033,710.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $707k to $1.1M (+51%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 20% · 2018 16% · 2019 28% · 2020 12% · 2021 31% · 2022 13% · 2023 16% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
106% of FUTUREWISE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $363k → $1.0M.
11 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of FUTUREWISE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
FUTUREWISE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
40% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FUTUREWISE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 45% · 2019 31% · 2020 37% · 2021 25% · 2022 21% · 2023 20% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
48% of FUTUREWISE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
65% of FUTUREWISE's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
FUTUREWISE's funding base is broadening — from 12 funders to 23 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,266 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FUTUREWISE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FUTUREWISE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FUTUREWISE?
- FUTUREWISE (Washington) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,457,413 to it, the largest being THE BULLITT FOUNDATION ($553,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FUTUREWISE have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $4,457,413 in grants to FUTUREWISE, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FUTUREWISE?
- THE BULLITT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $553,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FUTUREWISE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 44 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing