Washington · Nonprofit
RICK PANKOW FOUNDATION
RICK PANKOW FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $536 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($536). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $117k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $536
- Net assets
- $120k
What Rick Pankow Foundation does
Mission
The foundation was established in memory of rick pankow who was a devoted nurseryman and golfer who passed away october 24, 2001, who died of non- hodgkin's lymphoma. The purpose of the foundation is to: 1.provide financial support to families who have incurred substantial uninsured medical expenses and/or incurred substantial costs while caring for a medical patient being treated away from home (e.g. Travel, lodging, and meals). The foundation will provide support to families referred by medical treatment organizations such as fred hutchinson cancer research center and the university of washington. Support will be provided predominantly to families receiving treatment or living in the seattle metropolitan area. 2.provide financial support for students employed in the nursery of landscaping industry in need of funds to complete their college or technical education. 3.provide support to local or national charities and individuals as deemed appropriate by the officers of the foundation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provided financial support to individuals (not disqualified persons) for covering basic living expenses.
$47,387 spentof which $47,387 as grants89% of program spendingScholarships
$6,000 spentof which $6,000 as grants11% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $53,387.
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 2017 to 2018, from $229k to $182k (−21%).
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.
100% of RICK PANKOW FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $105 → $108.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 RICK PANKOW FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 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.
Where its funders are
100% of RICK PANKOW FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $536 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
RICK PANKOW FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RICK PANKOW FOUNDATION?
- RICK PANKOW FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $536 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($536). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RICK PANKOW FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $536 in grants to RICK PANKOW FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RICK PANKOW FOUNDATION?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $536 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RICK PANKOW 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 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