Washington · Private foundation
Apex 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.
- $5.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 202
- Grants FY2024
- 147
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $750,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 147 to 164
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 25
- Total assets, FY2024
- $148M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Apex Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $734k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 148 | $5.5M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 147 | $6.0M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 156 | $6.2M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 157 | $5.3M | 43% |
| FY2020 | 164 | $5.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Jed Foundation | $5,062,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Museum of Flight Foundation | $1,669,220 | 5 | 3% |
| Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia | $1,400,000 | 4 | 1% |
| National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation | $1,002,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Whim WHim | $896,600 | 5 | 56% |
| The Seattle Aquarium Society | $652,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Swedish Medical Center Foundation | $541,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Congressional Medal of Honor Society of the United States of America | $516,455 | 5 | 6% |
| Northwest Maritime Center | $505,000 | 4 | 2% |
| The Aopa Foundation Inc | $502,500 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 276 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 98 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Apex Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Lucky Seven Foundation · Glassybaby White Light Fund · Artsfund · Real Progress Foundation · Thurston Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Apex Foundation
- How much does Apex Foundation give?
- Apex Foundation reported 202 grants totaling $5,707,914 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 147 and 164 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Apex Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (33%), Arts & Culture (28%), Philanthropy (6%).
- Who are Apex Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Jed Foundation ($5.1M), Museum of Flight Foundation ($1.7M), Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia ($1.4M).
- Does Apex Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Apex 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 Apex Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation.
- Where is Apex Foundation based?
- Apex Foundation is based in WA.
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