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RAIKES FOUNDATION

RAIKES FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $258,902 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$43M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$259k
Net assets
$91M
1/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Raikes Foundation does

Programs

  1. Education: to develop capacity for the systems change work necessary to build equitable schools and educational systems across the country.

    $1,550,884 spent
  2. Impact-driven philanthropy: to support collaboration and build capacity to influence donors to give with impact

    $235,042 spent
  3. Youth and young adult homelessness: to develop capacity for the systems change work necessary to prevent and end youth homelessness in washington state and at the national level.

    $298,162 spent
  4. Resourcing equity & democracy: to conduct a field level landscape scan of donor networks to assess interest in issue specific learning communities of donor networks and provide opportunities for collective professional development, shared priorities, and pursue opportunities for collaboration.

    $20,435 spent

The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($34M) Expenses 100 ($32M) Net assets 100 ($116M)2020 Revenue 194 ($66M) Expenses 106 ($34M) Net assets 103 ($120M)2021 Revenue 48 ($16M) Expenses 90 ($29M) Net assets 92 ($107M)2022 Revenue 107 ($37M) Expenses 83 ($26M) Net assets 77 ($89M)2023 Revenue 84 ($29M) Expenses 95 ($30M) Net assets 71 ($82M)2024 Revenue 125 ($43M) Expenses 56 ($18M) Net assets 79 ($91M)
201720202021202220232024
Revenue (125)Expenses (56)Net assets (79)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $117M to $96M (−18%).

$131M
$132M
$117M
$96M
$90M
$98M
201720202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

Chief executive

Dennis Quirin

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

201720202021202220232024
Listed445444
Joined··+1+0+0+0
No longer listed··0100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $200k → $50k.

From the IRS filings of RAIKES 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

RAIKES FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

97%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

97% of RAIKES FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Washington funders.

WA
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

RAIKES FOUNDATION's revenue grew 25% between 2017 and 2024.

Months of reserve2.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 828 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Organizations like RAIKES FOUNDATION

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RAIKES 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 RAIKES FOUNDATION?
RAIKES FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $258,902 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RAIKES FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $258,902 in grants to RAIKES FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RAIKES FOUNDATION?
GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RAIKES 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.

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 2 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