Funding search · EIN 916013536 · Seattle, WA

Seattle Foundation

Name: Seattle Foundation grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

14,012
grants reported: $457.3M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $7,500
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

campaign education scholarship community center seattle building work

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

Puget Sound human services, housing, and basic needs nonprofits
Donor-advised pass-throughs and general operating support to King County institutions
Climate, clean energy, urban trees, and conservation projects
Education and economic opportunity, including AI-enabled workforce pathways
Capital campaigns for Seattle schools, churches, arts, and athletic facilities
Racial equity funds and Black- and Indigenous-led organizations

Typical grant

Half of all grants fall between $2,000 and $25,000 with a median of $7,500, because most of the volume is donor-advised checks flowing to Washington nonprofits. The seven-figure awards go to capital projects, United Way of King County, DAF intermediaries like Greater Horizons and DAFgiving360, and named initiatives such as REI Cooperative Action Fund. Repeat giving is heavy: Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle, Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services, Fred Hutchinson, and United Way each appear multiple times in a single year.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“TO PROVIDE GENERAL SUPPORT”
“TO SUPPORT THE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN”
“TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INITIATIVES THROUGH AI SOLUTIONS”
“CORE OPERATING SUPPORT”
“CLEAN ENERGY ECOPRENEURS”

Positioning adjacent work

Tie work to the AI-plus-education-and-economic-opportunity cohort; those grants were uniformly $333,333, a clear ask anchor.
For climate work, mirror their tree equity, clean energy access, and 'ecopreneur' framing rather than generic sustainability language.
Ask $25,000 or under for a first approach unless you carry a King County institutional partner.
Name a King County or Puget Sound service footprint explicitly; out-of-state grants usually attach to a national initiative.

Worth knowing: This is a community foundation, so most grants are donor-advised and follow existing donor relationships rather than open review; a Washington address or a Seattle-based fiscal partner matters more than program fit. Large sums also pass through intermediaries like Greater Horizons, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation, and New Venture Fund, which means the real decision-maker is often a specific fundholder or collaborative, not the foundation's staff.

17 grants matching “forestry” · $306,000

$25,000
Washington Conservation Action Education Fund · Seattle, WA · 2024
To support forestry programs
$10,000
The Wild Salmon Center · Portland, OR · 2024
Monitoring industrial forestry regulation
$40,000
Center for Responsible Forestry · Olympia, WA · 2023
State trust lands campaign
$25,000
Washington Environmental Council · Seattle, WA · 2023
Forestry programs.
$25,000
Washington Environmental Council · Seattle, WA · 2023
To support 1st quarter forestry programs.
$25,000
Washington Environmental Council · Seattle, WA · 2023
To support forestry programs.
$20,000
Center for Responsible Forestry · Tacoma, WA · 2023
To support work on state forests.
$10,000
Center for Responsible Forestry · Olympia, WA · 2023
To provide general support.
$10,000
Wild Salmon Center · Portland, OR · 2023
Monitoring industrial forestry regulation
$1,000
Sightline Institute · Seattle, WA · 2023
To support forestry and increase the age of harvest.
$25,000
Wild Fish Conservancy · Duvall, WA · 2022
To support the center for responsible forestry
$20,000
Center for Responsible Forestry · Tacoma, WA · 2022
To develop a fund to campaign to protect state forests
$20,000
Center for Responsible Forestry · Tacoma, WA · 2022
To help develop and implement a strategic campaign to protect old state forests
$12,500
Washington Environmental Council · Seattle, WA · 2022
To support 2nd quarter forestry programs
$12,500
Washington Environmental Council · Seattle, WA · 2022
To support 3rd quarter forestry programs
$12,500
Washington Environmental Council · Seattle, WA · 2022
To support 1st quarter forestry programs
$12,500
Washington Environmental Council · Seattle, WA · 2022
To support 4th quarter forestry programs

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

United Way of King County172 grants · $25.4M
University of Washington Foundation308 grants · $10.3M
University Lutheran Church2 grants · $10.0M
Schwab Charitable Fund10 grants · $9.4M
Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle45 grants · $8.7M
Greater Horizons2 grants · $6.3M
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center100 grants · $4.8M
Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund3 grants · $4.7M
Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services7 grants · $4.6M
King County Department of Community & Human Services4 grants · $4.3M

Giving over time

$147.8M

2022

$137.7M

2023

$171.8M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 14,012 grants.

$8.0M
Schwab Charitable Fund · Orlando, FL · 2022
To support burns mccabe family charitable fund
$7.0M
University Lutheran Church · Seattle, WA · 2024
To support project a: accessibility addition and project p: new electrical service.
$6.9M
United Way of King County · Seattle, WA · 2022
To provide general support
$6.8M
United Way of King County · Seattle, WA · 2023
To provide general support.
$6.7M
United Way of King County · Seattle, WA · 2024
To provide general support
$6.1M
Greater Horizons · Kansas City, MO · 2024
To support the niel04 fund.
$3.8M
Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund · Boston, MA · 2023
To support the bundrant charitable giving fund.
$3.5M
Washington Policy Center · Seattle, WA · 2024
To provide general support
$3.1M
Skagit Valley College Foundation · Mount Vernon, WA · 2023
To support the ss mcintyre jr. Scholarship fund
$3.1M
Dafgiving360 · Omaha, NE · 2024
Od fisher charitable fund
$3.1M
The Skagit Community Foundation · Mount Vernon, WA · 2023
To support the sidney s. Mcintyre sr. Scholarship fund.
$3.0M
University Lutheran Church · Seattle, WA · 2024
To support phase 2 project costs
$2.6M
Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle · Seattle, WA · 2024
To support the 2024 we see you awards.
$2.2M
Quilcene-Brinnon Dollars for Scholars · Quilcene, WA · 2023
The bob and maggie bergamn scholarship fund.
$1.7M
King County Department of Community & Human Services · Seattle, WA · 2023
Trueblood iv housing
$1.6M
Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services · Seattle, WA · 2023
The nest implementation, year 1
$1.5M
Ymca of Greater Seattle · Seattle, WA · 2022
To support the acquisition of the beebee property on orcas island as an addition to camp orkila
$1.5M
Fulcrum Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2022
To support the endowment fund for fulcrum early childhood education
$1.4M
Rei Cooperative Action Fund · Pasadena, CA · 2023
To support the rei cooperative action fund.
$1.4M
Rei Cooperative Action Fund · Pasadena, CA · 2024
To provide general support
$1.3M
King County Department of Community & Human Services · Seattle, WA · 2022
Trueblood iv housing
$1.3M
University of Washington Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2023
To support the on-time autism intervention fund
$1.3M
King County Department of Community & Human Services · Seattle, WA · 2022
Trueblood iv housing
$1.3M
Partnership for Learning · Seattle, WA · 2022
To transition funding to the partnership for learning at the washington roundtable's fiscal sponsorship
$1.3M
The Redford Center · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To provide support for the production of groundswell documentary
$1.2M
Rei Cooperative Action Fund · Pasadena, CA · 2024
To provide general support
$1.0M
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
Resource equity funders collaborative fiscal sponsorship.
$1.0M
Crohn'S and Colitis Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
To support the ibd ventures incubator.
$1.0M
Denver Film Society · Denver, CO · 2024
To support exposure labs.
$1.0M
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center · Seattle, WA · 2024
To provide general support
$1.0M
Global Greengrants Fund · Boulder, CO · 2024
To support agroecology
$1.0M
Sign Fracture Care International · Richland, WA · 2024
To provide general support
$1.0M
University of Washington Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2024
Football enhancement fund
$1.0M
Utah Film Center · Salt Lake City, UT · 2024
To support 'porcelain war'.
$1.0M
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2023
Watson fund/robert '62 hall
$1.0M
Crohn'S & Colitis Foundation of America · New York, NY · 2023
To provide general support.
$1.0M
Denver Film Society · Denver, CO · 2023
Exposure labs.
$1.0M
Fulcrum Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2023
To support the early childhood education endowment.
$1.0M
The Trust for Public Land · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To support the tribal and indigenous lands program and endow the tribal and indigenous lands director position.
$1.0M
Crohn'S & Colitis Foundation of America · New York, NY · 2022
To support ibd ventures incubator
$1.0M
Hillsdale College · Hillsdale, MI · 2022
To support the c. Arlene regis endowed scholarship
$1.0M
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
This is general support funding for campaign for our shared future
$994,239
Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services · Seattle, WA · 2024
The nest implementation
$966,596
Columbia River Mental Health Services · Vancouver, WA · 2023
Trueblood iv housing
$955,748
Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund · Boston, MA · 2023
Cloud nine fund
$900,000
Sign Fracture Care International · Richland, WA · 2023
To provide general support.
$880,000
Sign Fracture Care International · Richland, WA · 2024
To provide general support
$859,194
The Residency · Seattle, WA · 2024
To provide general support
$858,160
American Endowment Foundation · Hudson, OH · 2024
Reeve family charitable fund
$850,000
American Forests · Washington, DC · 2024
Reforest wildfire-affected and degraded lands
$850,000
Child Care Aware of Washington · Tacoma, WA · 2023
Childcare workforce
$825,125
Schwab Charitable Fund · Orlando, FL · 2023
To support sharon coleman's donor advised fund.
$800,000
Seattle Preparatory School · Seattle, WA · 2022
To provide general support
$800,000
Seattle Preparatory School · Seattle, WA · 2022
To support the level the field campaign
$800,000
Sign Fracture Care International · Richland, WA · 2022
To provide general support
$767,826
Swedish Medical Center Foundation · Portland, OR · 2024
To provide general support
$750,000
Elemental Excelerator · Honolulu, HI · 2024
To support climate technology ecopreneurs
$750,000
Elevate Energy · Chicago, IL · 2024
Increase access to green jobs
$750,000
Giving Compass Network · Union, WA · 2024
Core operating support.
$750,000
Giving Compass Network · Union, WA · 2024
To provide general support
$750,000
University of Washington Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2024
Haring center renovation
$750,000
National Network of Abortion Funds · Beaverton, OR · 2022
To provide general support where needed most.
$700,000
Arbor Day Foundation · Lincoln, NE · 2024
Local communities in planting trees
$659,000
Lisc · New York, NY · 2024
Construction finance for lisc puget sound.
$624,488
King County Behavioral Health and Recovery Division · Seattle, WA · 2022
Trueblood phase iii
$600,000
Bishop Blanchet High School · Seattle, WA · 2024
To support the capital campaign
$600,000
Friends of Lopez Island Pool · Lopez Island, WA · 2024
To support the capital campaign
$600,000
Housing Connector · Seattle, WA · 2023
To provide general support.
$594,840
Frontier Behavioral Health · Spokane, WA · 2023
Trueblood iv housing
$581,250
Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services · Seattle, WA · 2024
The nest gbi
$575,000
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center · Seattle, WA · 2024
To provide general support
$562,963
Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle · Seattle, WA · 2022
To support the polik family philanthropic fund
$562,500
Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services · Seattle, WA · 2024
The nest gbi
$550,000
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
To support seek common ground
$540,136
United Way of King County · Seattle, WA · 2024
To provide general support
$526,745
Seattle Children'S Hospital Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2023
To provide general support.
$506,250
Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services · Seattle, WA · 2024
The nest implementation
$500,000
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
To support the higher edforward fund.
$500,000
Calcef Innovations Dba New Energy Nexus · Berkeley, CA · 2024
Clean energy ecopreneurs
$500,000
Conservation International Foundation · Boston, MA · 2024
Mangrove conservation
$500,000
Fulcrum Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2024
$490,000 to support the early childhood education fund, and $10,000 for gereral operations.
$500,000
Kuow Puget Sound Public Radio · Seattle, WA · 2024
To provide general support
$500,000
Sacred Heart Schools · Louisville, KY · 2024
To support the jean frazier leadership institute.
$500,000
Seattle International Soccer Local Organizing Committee · Seattle, WA · 2024
Small business development
$500,000
Seattle Parks Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2024
To provide $250k for garfield super block, and $250k for tree equity network
$500,000
Seattle University · Seattle, WA · 2024
For a new athletic performance center.
$500,000
Sustainable Markets Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
To support clean energy development.
$500,000
The 5th Avenue Theatre Association · Seattle, WA · 2024
To provide one-time emergency funding match.
$500,000
Empire Health Foundation · Spokane, WA · 2023
Healing families together spokane
$500,000
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center · Seattle, WA · 2023
To provide general support.
$500,000
King County Parks and Recreation · Seattle, WA · 2023
To aid in the completion of the wilburton trestle project.
$500,000
Sacred Heart Schools - Louisville · Louisville, KY · 2023
Jean frazier leadership institute.
$500,000
State University of Iowa Foundation · Iowa City, IA · 2023
To support the mark j. Gilbert, m.d. And karen h. Simmonds, j.d. Medical student scholarship fund.
$500,000
The Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Tacoma, WA · 2023
Bhi capacity building fund
$500,000
Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2023
Office of race and equity research (orer)
$500,000
Aclu Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
To provide general support
$500,000
Equal Justice Initiative · Montgomery, AL · 2022
For general support and to support criminal justice reform
$500,000
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center · Seattle, WA · 2022
To provide general support
$500,000
Future Generations University · Franklin, WV · 2022
To support the permanent leadership fund endowment as a challenge match
$500,000
Hopewell Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.