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Artsfund

ARTSFUND strengthens the community by supporting the arts through leadership, advocacy, and grant making.

$12M
Granted FY2025still arriving
434
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$860k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$47MCommunity Improvement$4.7MYouth Development$1.0MRecreation & Sports$821kEducation$738kHuman Services$684kCivil Rights$483kEnvironment$342kOther$0
02FY2025 · 434 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 434 grants below total $10,834,914, the rows itemized in this filing. The $12,277,413 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,442,499 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k404 grants · $7.7M
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$17,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHUNPIKE$860,000
NORTHWEST FILM FORUM$264,260
PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET$170,021
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM$151,170
SEATTLE OPERA$146,510
SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$143,710
SEATTLE REP$112,937
ACT THEATRE$111,447
WING LUKE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$106,504
THE 5TH AVENUE THEATRE$104,497
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE$90,907
VILLAGE THEATRE$89,740
HENRY ART GALLERY$88,130
SEATTLE THEATRE GROUP$86,631
TACOMA ARTS LIVE$70,250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $983k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES: $23k → 9%OLYMPIA FAMILY THEATER: $24k → 9%METHOW VALLEY RIDING UNLIMITED: $18k → 17%BACKBONE CAMPAIGN: $18k → 9%ART SALVAGE: $18k → 12%OLYMPIA FAMILY THEATER: $18k → 9%SPECTRUM CENTER: $25k → 12%ALL ABOARD AMERICA 1: $23k → 9%KOKUA SERVICES: $25k → 9%ALL ABOARD AMERICA 1: $18k → 9%MI CENTRO: $23k → 9%FILIPINO-AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF THE INLAND EMPIRE: $18k → 12%FLYSTART: $18k → 9%ART SALVAGE: $23k → 12%POWERFUL VOICES: $25k → 9%UNEXPECTED PRODUCTIONS: $23k → 9%KHMER COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE KING COUNTY: $24k → 9%SENIORS CREATING ART: $38k → 9%SENIORS CREATING ART: $30k → 9%UNEXPECTED PRODUCTIONS IMPROV: $23k → 9%KHMER COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE KING COUNTY: $18k → 9%SENIORS CREATING ART: $23k → 9%KHMER COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE KING COUNTY: $18k → 9%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $28k → 9%ERITREAN ASSOCIATION IN GREATER SEATTLE: $24k → 9%ERITREAN ASSOCIATION IN GREATER SEATTLE: $23k → 9%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $20k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON STATE: $18k → 9%FREE2LUV: $25k → 9%FREE2LUV: $18k → 9%FREE2LUV: $15k → 9%COMUNIDAD LATINA DE VASHON: $23k → 9%WOMEN UNITED: $18k → 9%WOMEN UNITED: $18k → 9%UNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS ALLIANCE - WASHINGTON: $25k → 9%UNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS ALLIANCE-WASHINGTON: $25k → 9%UTOPIA WASHINGTON: $25k → 9%UTOPIA WA (UNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS ALLIANCE - WASHINGTON): $20k → 9%FILIPINO COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE: $25k → 9%REAL CHANGE HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $23k → 9%FILIPINO COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE: $23k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $18k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $18k → 9%FILIPINO COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE: $18k → 9%FILIPINO COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE: $18k → 9%SOMALI HEALTH BOARD: $18k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$61M · 625 repeat orgs$6.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

625 repeat relationships: 365 still active in FY2025, 260 since wound down; 68 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

625
375

Total granted

$61M
$5.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+13%

Still filing today

92%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsEducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AF
    ARTSFUND FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $7.3M · revenue +19% · 93% of their budget
  • SA
    SEATTLE ART MUSEUM
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +0%
  • PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • JF
    JAKT FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $43k · revenue +60% · 28% of their budget
  • NT
    NORTHWEST TAP CONNECTION
    one grant, 2020 · $35k
  • BD
    BAILADORES DE BRONCE
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue +13%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Southwest Washington Center for the Arts
Philanthropy
2
Pacific Northwest Music Project
Arts & Culture
3
Willapa Bay AiR
Arts & Culture
4
Northwest Balboa Festival
Arts & Culture
5
Philharmonia Northwest

Philharmonia Northwest contributes to the vitality of the classical music community in the Pacific Northwest by presenting professional concerts highlighting the diverse past and present repertoire for chamber orchestra. It is also…

Arts & Culture
6
Seattle Artists

Musical and other cultural performances and music education for youth

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7
Washington Community Theatre

Provide a low cost theatre options for the community of washington

Arts & Culture
8
Seattle Chamber Orchestra

Gather diverse and talented musicians, professionals and amateurs, to curate and perform orchestral repertoire that uplifts, inspires, and celebrates live performances, as well as offer educational activities concerning music.

Arts & Culture
9
Sound Studios Olympia

We offer music lessons which are part of a cultural education for students. Along with these lessons we also offer and encourage students to perform multiple times a year in a variety of venues including the Washington Center for the…

Arts & Culture
10
18th & Union

18th & Union's mission is to sustain an affordable, inclusive, and intimate space that nurtures art and community. 18th & Union maintains a 48-seat performance space, including lobby, restrooms, storage, and theatrical lighting, sound, and…

Arts & Culture
11
Ncw Arts Alliance

NCW Arts nurtures our region by uplifting and connecting artists and communities throughout North Central Washington.

Arts & Culture
12
Arx Music Association

Arx Duos mission is to inspire the creation of new music through equal collaboration with artists, highest quality presentation from the stage, and authentic engagement with audiences and communities everywhere.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tacoma Arts Live; the most unlike its peers is Encanto Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

946 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 946 of the 1,069 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

74
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
297
Early backer (in before they grew)
926/946
Grantees still filing
582/946
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $1,795,257 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE ART MUSEUMPACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $1,759,532 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATIONSEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $1,655,733 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCSEATTLE OPERA: $1,593,955 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE OPERASHUNPIKE: $1,534,500 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE: $1,180,714 · Arts & Culture5TH AVENUE THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $1,029,983 · Arts & Culture+119 more: $18,702,647 · Arts & Culture+119 moreARTSFUND FOUNDATION: $7,274,670 · PhilanthropyARTSFUND FOUNDATIO…+2 more: $140,000 · PhilanthropyWING LUKE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $739,468 · OtherWING LUKE MEM…ON THE BOARDS: $478,146 · OtherON THE BOARDSSEATTLE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $475,499 · OtherSEATTLE SHAKE…CHARLES & EMMA FRYE FREE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM: $228,747 · OtherBook-It Repertory Theatre: $189,909 · OtherTasveer: $190,990 · Other+38 more: $3,141,792 · Other+38 moreSEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $840,644 · EducationHILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE: $202,608 · EducationCOYOTE CENTRAL: $115,000 · EducationInspired Child Community: $100,000 · Education206 UNIVERSAL DBA 206 ZULU: $97,500 · EducationPort Townsend School of Wood- working: $82,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $78,730 · EducationCAMAS FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationHERITAGE RANCH INC: $70,000 · EducationIURBAN TEEN: $67,500 · EducationSIFF: $253,071 · Youth DevelopmentTotem Star: $182,108 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH IN FOCUS: $125,000 · Youth DevelopmentPongo Publishing Inc: $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentMaris Place: $88,500 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF KEXP: $68,400 · Youth DevelopmentRVC SEATTLE: $211,500 · Community ImprovementSOUTHEAST EFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT: $125,000 · Community ImprovementWHITE CENTER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $75,000 · Community ImprovementRefugee Artisan Initative: $67,500 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF LITTLE SAIGON: $62,500 · Community ImprovementUNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS WASHINGTON-UTOPIA WA: $95,000 · Human ServicesSENIORS CREATING ART: $90,000 · Human ServicesFILIPINO COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE: $82,500 · Human ServicesFREE2LUV INC: $69,500 · Human ServicesUnexpected Productions Inc: $67,500 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$29,252,321Philanthropy$7,414,670Other$5,444,551Education$1,729,482Youth Development$882,079Community Improvement$541,500Human Services$404,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARTSFUND FOUNDATION: $7,274,670 over 3y, 93% of budgetSEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $1,795,257 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $1,759,532 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetSEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $1,655,733 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetSEATTLE OPERA: $1,593,955 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetSHUNPIKE: $1,534,500 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetSEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE: $1,180,714 over 9y, 1.5% of budget5TH AVENUE THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $1,029,983 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetA CONTEMPORARY THEATRE INC: $962,331 over 9y, 7.8% of budgetTHE HENRY GALLERY ASSOCIATION INC: $951,412 over 9y, 4.9% of budgetVILLAGE THEATRE: $898,997 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $840,644 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetSEATTLE THEATRE GROUP: $768,920 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetWING LUKE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $739,468 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetTACOMA ARTS LIVE: $696,421 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetNORTHWEST FILM FORUM: $666,797 over 9y, 23% of budgetTacoma Art Museum: $526,442 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetON THE BOARDS: $478,146 over 9y, 6.9% of budgetSEATTLE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $475,499 over 9y, 4.6% of budgetTown Hall Association: $365,907 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetThe Vera Project: $339,928 over 9y, 7.8% of budgetEXPERIENCE LEARNING COMMUNITY: $336,661 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetSpectrum Dance Theater: $329,109 over 9y, 6.0% of budgetNational Nordic Museum: $327,611 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetSeattle Chamber Music Festival: $312,225 over 9y, 4.1% of budgetArtist Trust: $286,127 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetEarshot Jazz Society of Seattle: $263,470 over 9y, 7.0% of budgetBURKE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $259,684 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetSIFF: $253,071 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetSEATTLE JAZZ ORCHESTRA DBA SEATTLE REPERTORY JAZZ ORCHESTRA: $240,049 over 9y, 14% of budgetRICHARD HUGO HOUSE: $238,691 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetVelocity Dance Center: $238,586 over 9y, 13% of budgetCHARLES & EMMA FRYE FREE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM: $228,747 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetINTIMAN THEATRE: $221,644 over 9y, 5.6% of budgetFlying House Productions: $211,787 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetRVC SEATTLE: $211,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetNORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $203,390 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetSEATTLE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS: $203,070 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetHILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE: $202,608 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetSYMPHONY TACOMA: $197,295 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetSEATTLE ARTS AND LECTURES: $196,917 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetTasveer: $190,990 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetBook-It Repertory Theatre: $189,909 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetJack Straw Foundation: $187,315 over 9y, 8.4% of budgetTotem Star: $182,108 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetTHE TAPROOT THEATRE: $173,474 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetAllied Arts Foundation: $169,500 over 3y, 30% of budgetRed Eagle Soaring: $165,225 over 7y, 9.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds ARTSFUND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE OPERA ↗
  • Who funds SHUNPIKE ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds 5TH AVENUE THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds A CONTEMPORARY THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HENRY GALLERY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VILLAGE THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE THEATRE GROUP ↗
  • Who funds WING LUKE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TACOMA ARTS LIVE ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST FILM FORUM ↗
  • Who funds Tacoma Art Museum ↗
  • Who funds ON THE BOARDS ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds Town Hall Association ↗
  • Who funds The Vera Project ↗
  • Who funds EXPERIENCE LEARNING COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds Spectrum Dance Theater ↗
  • Who funds National Nordic Museum ↗
  • Who funds Seattle Chamber Music Festival ↗
  • Who funds Artist Trust ↗
  • Who funds Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle ↗
  • Who funds BURKE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SIFF ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE JAZZ ORCHESTRA DBA SEATTLE REPERTORY JAZZ ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds RICHARD HUGO HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Velocity Dance Center ↗
  • Who funds CHARLES & EMMA FRYE FREE PUBLIC ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds INTIMAN THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds Flying House Productions ↗
  • Who funds RVC SEATTLE ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS ↗
  • Who funds HILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE ↗
  • Who funds SYMPHONY TACOMA ↗

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.

Humanities WashingtonThe Norcliffe Foundat…School's Out Washingt…Raynier Institute & F…Dv & Ida McEachern Ch…The Conru FoundationPhilanthropy NorthwestWyman Youth TrustSeattle FoundationLucky Seven FoundationCredit Unions in the …Inatai Foundation
Humanities WashingtonWA128.9× affinity71 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Humanities Washington · The Norcliffe Foundation · School's Out Washington · Raynier Institute & Foundation · Dv & Ida McEachern Charitable Tr · The Conru Foundation · Philanthropy Northwest · Wyman Youth Trust · Seattle Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Inatai 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Artsfund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Artsfund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    98report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 1069 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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