STEM grants for nonprofits in Washington
130 private foundations reported 278 stem grants to organizations in Washington on IRS 990-PF returns for tax year 2022 or later, $35.4M in all. 56 of them are based in Washington.
Foundations that fund stem in Washington
20 of the 130: profiles in our foundation directory first, then by the number of stem grants to Washington organizations on their latest return. Each shows its largest such grants.
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Amazonsmile Foundation
Seattle, WA · latest return: tax year 2023- Center for Whale Research, Friday Harbor - General support$1,264
- Riseup Labs, Seattle - General support$562
- Knok, Enumclaw - General support$243
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Gave $116.6M in 2024
M J Murdock Charitable Trust
Vancouver, WA · latest return: tax year 2024- Community Health Association of Spokane, Spokane - Equipment and technology$425,000
- World Vision Inc, Federal Way - New digital technology$250,000
- Washington Trails Association, Seattle - New technology staff$185,500
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Gave $6.3B in 2024
Gates Foundation
Seattle, WA · latest return: tax year 2024- Spire Health Technology Pbc, Seattle - Create novel technology platform capabilities$1,500,000
- Phase Genomics Inc, Seattle - Create novel technology platform capabilities$1,497,808
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle - Create novel technology platform capabilities$925,512
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Gave $2.2M in 2025
The Avista Foundation
Spokane, WA · latest return: tax year 2025- Washington State University Foundation, Pullman - Power Systems Engineering Program & 4H Science Day Kits & Rural Clubs Support$27,150
- Evergreen Bioscience Innovation Cluster, Spokane - Bioscience Business Incubator$5,000
- Launchpad Inland Northwest Foundation, Spokane - WE Collective: Powering Economic Growth$5,000
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Gave $56.5M in 2024
The Norcliffe Foundation
Seattle, WA · latest return: tax year 2024- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle - South lake union campus expansion: exceptional space enables extraordinary science$4,820,920
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle - South lake union campus expansion: exceptional space enables extraordinary science$179,080
- Port Townsend Marine Science Center, Port Townsend - General operating$20,000
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Gave $350M in 2024
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Los Altos, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- University of Washington, Seattle - Environment and Science$175,000
- University of Washington, Seattle - Fellowships for Science and Engineering$175,000
- University of Washington, Seattle - Fellowships for Science and Engineering$175,000
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The Simons Foundation Inc
New York, NY · latest return: tax year 2024- University of Washington, Seattle - Simons investigator in computer science$192,000
- University of Washington, Seattle - Simons investigator in computer science$192,000
- Washington State University, Pullman - Mathematics of infectious disease dynamics$8,400
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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation
Palo Alto, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- University of Washington, Seattle - Science: cell science$5,000,000
- University of Washington, Seattle - Science: science in society$2,500,000
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Washington Research Foundation
Seattle, WA · latest return: tax year 2024- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle - Fhcrc: technology commercialization$1,000,000
- Washington State University, Pullman - Wsu: technology gap fund$250,000
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Gave $30.1M in 2024
James S Mcdonnell Foundation
St Louis, MO · latest return: tax year 2024- University of Washington, Seattle - Preparing teachers to facilitate asset-based science & literacy discourse in dual and multilingual elementary…$503,325
- University of Washington, Seattle - Preparing teachers to facilitate asset-based science & literacy discourse in dual and multilingual elementary…$36,163
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Gave $49.3M in 2024
The Henry Luce Foundation Inc
New York, NY · latest return: tax year 2024- University of Washington Tacoma, Tacoma - Support for 24 Clare Boothe Luce undergraduate STEM research awards$150,000
- Eastern Washington University, Cheney - Support for attracting and retaining undergraduate STEM students$83,333
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Islands Foundation
Boise, ID · latest return: tax year 2024- Pacific Science Center, Seattle - STEM outreach and mercer slough scholarships$70,000
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Tenacre Foundation
Princeton, NJ · latest return: tax year 2024- Sunrise Haven, Kent - Christian science programs$64,383
- Sunrise Haven, Kent - Christian science nursing facilities$28,224
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Gave $50.6M in 2024
Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc
Boston, MA · latest return: tax year 2024- Pacific Science Center, Seattle - Pacific science center fy25 sensory-friendly programming$40,000
- Refugee Women's Alliance, Seattle - Youth steam (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) program$30,000
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Musk Foundation
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The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation
Palo Alto, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- University of Washington Foundation, Seattle - Support for the lincc analysis framework: an open, scalable system for science with the lsst$1,291,650
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The Gilbert Family Foundation
Detroit, MI · latest return: tax year 2024- Sage Bionetworks, Seattle - Vision restoration initiative$511,172
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Gave $622.6M in 2024
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Princeton, NJ · latest return: tax year 2024- Sage Bionetworks, Seattle - Developing a tool to encourage researchers to inform their work by positively considering community interests…$245,560
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Annie E Casey Foundation Inc
Baltimore, MD · latest return: tax year 2024- Seattle Foundation, Seattle - Support for adolescent science translation collaborative$200,000
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William K Bowes Jr Foundation
San Francisco, CA · latest return: tax year 2024- Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle - New faculty support$200,000
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Organizations several of these foundations fund
Washington organizations that received stem grants from two or more of the foundations above, on the same returns.
| Organization | Funders | Grants total |
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| University of Washington Seattle | 4 | $9,035,988 |
| Sage Bionetworks Seattle | 3 | $917,232 |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Seattle | 2 | $6,000,000 |
| University of Washington Foundation Seattle | 2 | $2,201,403 |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Seattle | 2 | $1,188,012 |
| Washington State University Pullman | 2 | $258,400 |
| Institute for Systems Biology Seattle | 2 | $200,024 |
| Washington State University Foundation Pullman | 2 | $141,150 |
| Pacific Science Center Seattle | 2 | $110,000 |
| Glacier Peak Institute Darrington | 2 | $109,225 |
How to use this list
A foundation is listed because its own latest tax return itemizes grants to organizations in Washington that we classify as stem, by the purpose the foundation wrote or by the recipient's IRS activity code. Their typical grant is the middle of the funders' own typical grants across everything they fund. Start with funders whose typical grant is close to what you need and whose past recipients look like your organization, then open the profile for all of its grants and any application instructions.
Of these 130 foundations, 44 describe how to apply on their latest return; many others give only to organizations they already know. A badge such as Gave $1.2M in 2024 repeats what the latest return reports; it does not mean the foundation is accepting proposals now.
Facts on this page come from the foundation's own IRS Form 990-PF filings as published by the IRS. Grantvello does not know whether a foundation is accepting proposals right now: a past grant is not an open opportunity. Always confirm current guidelines with the funder before applying.