Funding search · EIN 916027795 · Seattle, WA

The Bullitt Foundation

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

359
grants reported
$14.4M
total given
2022–2024
filing years
$40,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20222024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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6 grants matching “environmental justice · $325,000

  • $60,000

    Shunpike · Seattle, WA · 2023

    To create awareness about environmental justice issues through various media including long form videos, audio vignettes, and community meetings to highlight the disparate ways in which communities are impacted by envir read all
  • $60,000

    South Seattle Emerald · Seattle, WA · 2023

    To grow their capacity by contracting more freelance reporters who will specifically cover community-centered and community-rooted environmental justice stories

  • $50,000

    Opal Environmental Justice Oregon · Portland, OR · 2023

    As an exit grant for general support.

  • $75,000

    Front and Centered · Seattle, WA · 2022

    To advance environmental justice.

  • $50,000

    Opal Environmental Justice Oregon · Portland, OR · 2022

    As an exit grant for general support.

  • $30,000

    Serve Ethiopians Washington · Seattle, WA · 2022

    To conduct outreach to raise awareness of environmental justice issues amonth the east african community

Top recipients

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

  • Earth Day Network1 grant · $1.0M
  • University of Washington Foundation8 grants · $788,338
  • Seattle Parks Foundation8 grants · $390,530
  • Nw Energy Coalition2 grants · $305,000
  • Futurewise3 grants · $275,000
  • Washington Conservation Action5 grants · $250,650
  • Toxic-Free Future2 grants · $250,000
  • Verde2 grants · $240,000
  • 350 Seattle3 grants · $230,000
  • Seattle Foundation2 grants · $200,000

Giving over time

$5.7M
2022
$6.3M
2023
$2.4M
2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 359 grants.

  • $1.0M

    Earth Day Network · Washington, DC · 2023

    Support for the earth day network's plastic campaign

  • $550,000

    University of Washington Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2022

    To design and pilot a fellowship training program for undergraduate students from unrepresented backgrounds at the university of washington college of built environments.

  • $170,000

    Nw Energy Coalition · Seattle, WA · 2022

    For capacity support to hire a full-time development and communications manager.

  • $150,000

    Seattle Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2023

    To support the seattle times' multi-year initiative focused on the climate crisis.

  • $140,000

    Verde · Portland, OR · 2022

    To plan a clean materials campus campus in ne portland, oregon. For general support

  • $135,000

    Nw Energy Coalition · Seattle, WA · 2023

    For capacity support to hire a full-time development and communications manager.

  • $130,000

    Seattle Parks Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2023

    General support grant

  • $130,000

    Washington Evn Council · Seattle, WA · 2023

    For general support.

  • $130,000

    Washington Environmental Council (Washington Conservation Action) · Seattle, WA · 2022

    For general support.

  • $125,000

    Toxic-Free Future · Seattle, WA · 2024

    To advocate for the elimination of toxics in the emerald corridor while promoting the use of safer alternative products and inherently nontoxic chemicals.

  • $125,000

    Washington Conservation Action · Seattle, WA · 2023

    General support grant

  • $125,000

    Toxic-Free Future · Seattle, WA · 2022

    To advocate for the elimination of toxics in the emerald corridor while promoting the use of safer alternative products and inherently nontoxic chemicals.

  • $108,775

    Seattle Parks Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2022

    For an exit grant to support the emerald alliance for people, nature and community.

  • $100,000

    Futurewise · Seattle, WA · 2024

    For a general support exit grant.

  • $100,000

    Transportation Choices Coalition · Seattle, WA · 2024

    To build organizational capacity and advocate for new revenue sources to support public transit.

  • $100,000

    University of Washington Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2024

    Harrison endowment at the evans school

  • $100,000

    Verde · Portland, OR · 2024

    To plan a clean materials campus campus in ne portland, oregon. For general support

  • $100,000

    Washington Conservation Action · Seattle, WA · 2024

    Bullitt prize endowment

  • $100,000

    Sustainable Northwest · Portland, OR · 2023

    To develop and advance wood procurement policies that recognize and reward responsible forest stewardship.

  • $100,000

    Transportation Choice Coalition · Seattle, WA · 2023

    General support grant

  • $100,000

    Futurewise · Seattle, WA · 2022

    For a general support exit grant.

  • $100,000

    International Living Future Institute · Seattle, WA · 2022

    For general support.

  • $100,000

    Transportation Choices Coalition · Seattle, WA · 2022

    To build organizational capacity and advocate for new revenue sources to support public transit.

  • $95,000

    Oregon Environmental Council · Portland, OR · 2024

    For general support.

  • $95,000

    Sightline Institute · Seattle, WA · 2024

    For a general support exit grant.

  • $95,000

    350 Seattle · Seattle, WA · 2023

    General support grant

  • $95,000

    Oregon Environmental Council · Portland, OR · 2023

    General support grant

  • $95,000

    Sightline Institute · Seattle, WA · 2022

    For a general support exit grant.

  • $90,000

    350 Seattle · Seattle, WA · 2024

    As an exit grant for the activities of the amazon employees for climate justice program.

  • $80,000

    Bluegreen Alliance Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

    To leverage the strength of the labor-environmental alliance to achieve greenhouse gas reductions needed to meet state climate goals.

  • $80,000

    Renewable Northwest Project · Portland, OR · 2024

    For general support.

  • $80,000

    Bluegreen Alliance Foundation · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

    To leverage the strength of the labor-environmental alliance to achieve greenhouse gas reductions needed to meet state climate goals.

  • $80,000

    Capitol Hill Housing - Community Roots · Seattle, WA · 2023

    A 1:1 challenge match

  • $80,000

    Renewable Northwest Project · Portland, OR · 2023

    General support grant

  • $75,000

    Center for Sustainable Infrastructure · Olympia, WA · 2024

    For general support.

  • $75,000

    Earthjustice · Seattle, WA · 2024

    To support the northwest regional office whose attorneys provide free legal advice and representation.

  • $75,000

    Earthjustice · Seattle, WA · 2023

    To support the northwest regional office whose attorneys provide free legal advice and representation

  • $75,000

    Feed Seven Generations · Enumclaw, WA · 2023

    Support the organizations native youth-led project.

  • $75,000

    Futurewise · Seattle, WA · 2023

    General support grant

  • $75,000

    Georgia Strait Alliance · 2023

    General support grant

  • $75,000

    Rivershed Society of British Columbia · 2023

    For support of the organization's leadership role in the lower fraser adapting for ecological resilience network.

  • $75,000

    Watershed Watch Salmon Society · 2023

    In support of the organization's connected waters campaign.

  • $75,000

    Willamette Riverkeeper · Portland, OR · 2023

    General support grant

  • $75,000

    Beacon Arts (Beacon Hill Council) · Seattle, WA · 2022

    To mitigate air and noise pollution

  • $75,000

    Center for Sustainable Infrastructure · Olympia, WA · 2022

    For general support.

  • $75,000

    Communities for a Healthy Bay · Tacoma, WA · 2022

    An exit grant in the form of general support.

  • $75,000

    Friends of Waterfront Seattle · Seattle, WA · 2022

    For an exit grant to friends of seattle waterfront to raise the funds necessary to complete the construction for waterfront park.

  • $75,000

    Front and Centered · Seattle, WA · 2022

    To advance environmental justice.

  • $75,000

    Northwest Film Forum (Wa Na Wari) · Seattle, WA · 2022

    For a garden redesign with a learning lab and workshop with access to green space

  • $75,000

    Puget Sound Sage · Seattle, WA · 2022

    As an exit grant to advocate for energy efficiency measures and expand utility bill relief for low-income customers in king county.

  • $75,000

    Seattle Neighborhood Greenways · Seattle, WA · 2022

    For general support.

  • $75,000

    Sustainable Seattle (Duwamish Valley Sustainability Association) · Seattle, WA · 2022

    For a youth-led community project to establish a biofuel and solar energy system

  • $75,000

    Young Women Empowered Y-We · Seattle, WA · 2022

    To support the nature connections program

  • $74,500

    United Indians of All Tribes · Seattle, WA · 2023

    To support capacity building by funding a newly developed position at uiatf called the bernie whitebear land restoration coordinator.

  • $70,000

    Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition · Seattle, WA · 2024

    General support grant

  • $70,000

    Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition · Seattle, WA · 2023

    General support grant

  • $70,000

    Zero Waste Washington · Seattle, WA · 2022

    To increase fundraising capacity.

  • $69,826

    Khmer Community of Seattle and King County · Seattle, WA · 2022

    To bring youth to the high point p-patch and learn from khmer elders

  • $66,000

    Sound Generations · Seattle, WA · 2023

    To expand their programming for east african elders from ne seattle and rainier beach who attend the rainier beach urban farm and wetlands

  • $65,000

    Black Farmers Collective · Seattle, WA · 2023

    To build organizational structure for the long-term sustainability of their work to support black farmers and the broader community

  • $64,450

    University District Service League (the Doorway Project) · Seattle, WA · 2022

    To expand the bloom urban gardening interneship

  • $61,870

    Somali Community Services of Seattle · Seattle, WA · 2023

    Sharing information about how to prevent, manage, and recover from harm caused by climate change-related disasters.

  • $61,050

    Sustainable Seattle (Basilica Bio) · Seattle, WA · 2022

    Gardening under the microscope project

  • $60,000

    Institute for Washington'S Future · Bellingham, WA · 2024

    For general support.

  • $60,000

    Seattle Neighborhood Greenways · Seattle, WA · 2024

    For general support.

  • $60,000

    Washington State University Foundation · Pullman, WA · 2024

    For continued support of the bread lab, a project of washington state university.

  • $60,000

    Center for Animal Law Studies at L&C · Portland, OR · 2023

    To address the environmental harms caused by concentrated animal feeding operations

  • $60,000

    El Centro De La Raza · Seattle, WA · 2023

    To conduct outreach and education to beacon hill residents, primarily bipoc, immigrants and refugees, about the environmental and health impacts of oil-heating and to connect them to resources that can support future co read all
  • $60,000

    Neighbors for Clean Air · Portland, OR · 2023

    As an exit grant in the form of general support.

  • $60,000

    Oregon Physicians for Soc Resp · Portland, OR · 2023

    For capacity support to hire a dedicated fundraising and development staff member.

  • $60,000

    Seattle Neighborhood Greenways · Seattle, WA · 2023

    General support grant

  • $60,000

    Shunpike · Seattle, WA · 2023

    To create awareness about environmental justice issues through various media including long form videos, audio vignettes, and community meetings to highlight the disparate ways in which communities are impacted by envir read all
  • $60,000

    South Seattle Emerald · Seattle, WA · 2023

    To grow their capacity by contracting more freelance reporters who will specifically cover community-centered and community-rooted environmental justice stories

  • $60,000

    Washington State University Foundation · Pullman, WA · 2023

    For the bread lab

  • $60,000

    Coalition of Communities of Color · Portland, OR · 2022

    To partner with the city of portland and green building advocates to secure adoption and implementation of equitable residential building standards.

  • $60,000

    Neighbors for Clean Air · Portland, OR · 2022

    As an exit grant in the form of general support.

  • $60,000

    Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility · Portland, OR · 2022

    For capacity support to hire a dedicated fundraising and development staff member.

  • $57,500

    Ecotrust · Portland, OR · 2024

    To advance a climate resilient food system in oregon and washington.

  • $56,012

    Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association · Seattle, WA · 2022

    To connect youth with paid environmental connection opportunities

  • $55,000

    Northwest Environmental Defense Center · Portland, OR · 2024

    For continued advocacy to secure regulations and accountability that result in improved air quality and decarbonization benefits for traditionally disadvantaged communities.

  • $55,000

    Environmental Coalition of South Seattle · Seattle, WA · 2023

    To engage the latinx immigrant/refugee communities, to co-create outdoor experiences that meet their needs and interests.

  • $55,000

    Northwest Environmental Defense Center · Portland, OR · 2023

    For continued advocacy to secure regulations and accountability that result in improved air quality and decarbonization benefits for traditionally disadvantaged communities.

  • $50,000

    Cascadia Policy Solutions (Wwf) · Washington, DC · 2024

    To support the pacific coast collaborative a regional collaborative that has adopted a goal to reduce food waste.

  • $50,000

    Climate Solutions · Seattle, WA · 2024

    General support grant

  • $50,000

    Coalition of Communities of Color · Portland, OR · 2024

    To partner with the city of portland and green building advocates to secure adoption and implementation of equitable residential building standards.

  • $50,000

    Health Care Without Harm · Reston, VA · 2024

    To continue encouraging hospitals to reduce food waste, decrease meat purchases and provide plant-forward meals.

  • $50,000

    Kristina Chu · Seattle, WA · 2024

    Bullitt prize award winner

  • $50,000

    Seattle Parks Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2024

    For an exit grant to support the emerald alliance for people, nature and community.

  • $50,000

    Spark Northwest · Seattle, WA · 2024

    For general support.

  • $50,000

    350 Pdx · Portland, OR · 2023

    General support grant

  • $50,000

    Axcelle Bell · Seattle, WA · 2023

    Environmental prize winner

  • $50,000

    Bethany United Church of Christ · Seattle, WA · 2023

    To identify culturally and linguistically competent organizations with facilities in beacon hill that can serve as community climate resiliency centers

  • $50,000

    Cascadia Policy Solutions (Wwf) · Olympia, WA · 2023

    To support the pacific coast collaborative a regional collaborative that has adopted a goal to reduce food waste

  • $50,000

    Climate Solutions · Seattle, WA · 2023

    General support grant

  • $50,000

    Coalition of Communities of Color · Portland, OR · 2023

    To partner with the city of portland and green building advocates to secure adoption and implementation of equitable residential building standards.

  • $50,000

    Conservation Northwest · Seattle, WA · 2023

    Matching grants

  • $50,000

    David Suzuki Foundation · 2023

    As an exit grant to advance climate-friendly transportation policy and to value natural capital assets as infrastructure in british columbia.

  • $50,000

    Disability Rights Wa · Seattle, WA · 2023

    For broad program support to advocate for an equitable transit system and safe public transportation infrastructure in washington state

  • $50,000

    Ecojustice Canada · 2023

    In support of work in the vancouver metropolitan region, including the lower fraser river and estuary

  • $50,000

    Forest Stewardship Council · Atlanta, GA · 2023

    As an exit grant for support of the organization's pacific northwest programs.

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