How much does 47th Avenue Foundation give?

47th Avenue Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $1,938,316 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does 47th Avenue Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (51%), Education (18%), Religion (13%).

Who are 47th Avenue Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Museum of Flight Foundation ($4.3M), Wake Forest University ($690k), Kindering Center ($292k).

Does 47th Avenue Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 88% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does 47th Avenue Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as 47th Avenue Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation, United Way of King County.

Where is 47th Avenue Foundation based?

47th Avenue Foundation is based in WA.

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Washington · Private foundation

47th Avenue Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 50
Grants FY2024: 32
Organizations funded FY2023: 88%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $300,000
Organizations funded a year: 3 to 32; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 3
Total assets, FY2024: $60M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 88% of the organizations 47th Avenue Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $855k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesEducationHealthAnimalsYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	50	$1.9M	64%
FY2023	32	$1.2M	88%
FY2022	4	$286k	100%
FY2020	3	$5.2M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$4.4MEducation$1.5MReligion$1.1MHealth$485kHuman Services$401kYouth Development$264kRecreation & Sports$120kInternational$100kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Museum of Flight Foundation	$4,350,000	3	22%
Wake Forest University	$690,093	3	0%
Kindering Center	$291,710	3	1%
Recovery Cafe	$190,000	3	2%
Boyer Children's Clinic	$160,000	2	1%
Rainier Scholars	$155,000	2	2%
Clooney Foundation for Justice	$100,000	1	2%
Family First Community Center Foundation	$100,000	1	6%
Hamlin Robinson School	$97,000	2	1%
Country Village Day School	$79,828	2	1%

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All grantees of 47th Avenue Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Museum of Flight Foundation	$4,350,000	3	22%
Wake Forest University	$690,093	3	0%
Kindering Center	$291,710	3	1%
Recovery Cafe	$190,000	3	2%
Boyer Children's Clinic	$160,000	2	1%
Rainier Scholars	$155,000	2	2%
Clooney Foundation for Justice	$100,000	1	2%
Family First Community Center Foundation	$100,000	1	6%
Hamlin Robinson School	$97,000	2	1%
Country Village Day School	$79,828	2	1%
Program for Early Parent Support	$68,333	2	2%
Woodland Park Zoological Society	$62,000	2	0%
St Monicas Parish	$53,095	1	n/a
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound	$51,000	2	1%
Rainier Athletes	$50,000	2	2%
Kidvantage	$45,000	1	1%
Swedish Medical Center Foundation	$45,000	1	0%
Hopecentral	$42,000	2	1%
Alliance for Education	$40,000	1	1%
Sports in Schools	$35,000	2	9%
The Service Board	$33,125	1	7%
Westside Baby	$30,000	2	0%
Families of Color Seattle	$30,000	1	3%
BELONG Partners	$30,000	1	2%
Route 21	$25,000	1	6%
Ruby Room	$25,000	1	18%
Open Arms Perinatal Services	$25,000	1	0%
LifeWire	$25,000	1	0%
Seattle Children's Foundation	$25,000	1	0%
Encompass Northwest	$22,500	1	0%
Wellspring Family Services	$20,000	1	0%
Building Changes	$20,000	1	0%
Childrens Home Society of Washington	$20,000	1	0%
Bellevue Boys & Girls Clubs Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Children and Youth Justice Center	$20,000	1	0%
Grassroot Projects	$20,000	1	3%
Associated Recreation Council	$20,000	1	0%
Zeno	$20,000	1	2%
Denise Louie Education center	$20,000	1	0%
Toys for Kids	$20,000	1	5%
Treehouse	$20,000	1	0%
Sammamish Animal Sanctuary	$20,000	2	2%
Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center	$20,000	1	1%
Vine Maple Place	$20,000	1	0%
Childhaven	$20,000	1	0%
Bellevue Art Museum	$15,000	1	1%
NW Childrens Foundation	$12,082	1	1%
Empower Youth Network	$10,000	1	1%
Mentoring Urban Students & Teens	$10,000	1	1%
Z Girls Foundation	$10,000	1	2%
United Way of King County	$10,000	1	0%
Parent Trust for Washington Children	$10,000	1	1%
No More Under	$10,000	1	3%
Youthcare	$5,000	1	0%
Community School of West Seattle	$5,000	1	0%
The Feels Foundation	$2,500	1	2%
Lucy Strong Foundation	$2,500	1	2%
Villa Comunitaria	$2,500	1	0%
Mercer Island Preschool Association	$2,500	1	5%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget 47th Avenue Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 58.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Seattle FoundationWA66× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Medina Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Windermere Foundation · Raikes Foundation · NW Childrens Foundation · Gates Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About 47th Avenue Foundation

How much does 47th Avenue Foundation give?: 47th Avenue Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $1,938,316 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does 47th Avenue Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (51%), Education (18%), Religion (13%).
Who are 47th Avenue Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Museum of Flight Foundation ($4.3M), Wake Forest University ($690k), Kindering Center ($292k).
Does 47th Avenue Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 88% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does 47th Avenue Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as 47th Avenue Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation, United Way of King County.
Where is 47th Avenue Foundation based?: 47th Avenue Foundation is based in WA.