Washington · Nonprofit
Jack Straw Foundation
Jack Straw Foundation (Washington) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $658,477 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($187,315). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $485k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $658k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Jack Straw Foundation does
Mission
Jack Straw Cultural Center exists to foster the creation and communication of arts, ideas, and information to diverse audiences through audio media. We keep art, culture, and heritage vital through sound.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
ARTS: We successfully completed the 32nd year of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, 29th year of the Jack Straw Writers Program, and the 26th year of the Jack Straw New Media Gallery and Gallery Residency Program. Over 180 artists created 32 new artworks, participated in 32 in person and streaming events, 4 exhibits, 1 anthology, and 39 radio programs or podcasts reaching over 6,000 audience members. We continue to develop new relationships and maintain longtime partnerships to keep our programming vital. We presented events with Seattle Public Library and Nepantla Cultural Arts Gallery; recorded a live audiobook with Wave Books; presented a series of talks with Jack Straw Writers Program as part of the Humanities Washington Speakers Bureau program; produced the audio component of a Public Art Storytelling project with 4Culture; presented an intensive audio description workshop with Seattle Cultural Accessibility Consortium and an oral history workshop with Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust; and produced podcasts with partners such as StoryBoards NW and Seattle Arts and Lectures. We also provided a variety of arts, heritage, and education organizations with production support.
$233,958 spent$47,471 earned by the program41% of program spendingEDUCATION: We served over 650 elementary, middle school, and high school students in hands-on creative and curriculum-based projects including creative writing, oral history, radio theater, family celebration stories, music, and audio production. We continued to expand and adapt our programs for online, in-person, and hybrid settings in collaboration with our partners Seattle School District, Kandelia, WA Department of Services for the Blind, Arts & Visually Impaired Audiences, and the WA State School for the Blind. We completed the 29th year of our Blind Youth Audio Program, serving 26 blind and visually impaired high school students from throughout Washington State. We presented three accessible art-making workshops for blind and visually impaired students, families, and sighted friends with our New Media Gallery artists. We continued our ongoing programs such as our guitar lessons with new refugees at the Seattle World School; poetry with elementary students at Genesee Hill Elementary, poetry and song with Concord, Lowell, Adams, and Hazelwood Elementary Schools; interview podcasts with John Muir Elementary; and Spanish-language poetry with sixth through eighth grade…
$193,067 spent$14,563 earned by the program34% of program spendingSTUDIO SERVICES: Our studio services, which we provide for a wide range of individuals and organizations, include music and spoken recording and production, remote recording, audio and video audition recording, podcast/radio production, audio book production, media digitization and preservation, audio mastering, sound design for film and performance, interpretive material production, oral history production, student and professional music recitals and performances, and radio theater. Music projects ranged from audition recordings for music students and professionals to album recordings for individuals and groups of all genres. We recorded and produced podcasts, radio theater, audio books, and other audio media for a variety of individuals and organizations, such as Imagination Theater, American Radio Theater, Shambhala Publications, Parley Productions, Opal Food & Body Wisdom, MacMillan Publishers, and EK Real Estate Group.
$146,213 spent$68,405 earned by the program26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $573,238.
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 2018 to 2019, from $1.1M to $1.4M (+22%).
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 26% · 2018 33% · 2019 11% · 2020 23% · 2021 43% · 2023 37% · 2024 15% · 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of Jack Straw Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $14k → $177k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Jack Straw Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
Jack Straw Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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 Jack Straw Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 24% · 2019 32% · 2020 52% · 2021 46% · 2022 36% · 2023 85% — 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
63% of Jack Straw Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
54% of Jack Straw Foundation's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $85k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Jack Straw Foundation's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Jack Straw Foundation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $330k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$330k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
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In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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 Jack Straw Foundation: 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 Jack Straw Foundation?
- Jack Straw Foundation (Washington) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $658,477 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($187,315). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Jack Straw Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $658,477 in grants to Jack Straw Foundation, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Jack Straw Foundation?
- ARTSFUND is the largest funder on record, with $187,315 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Jack Straw Foundation 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing