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Becu Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$478k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
22
Organizations funded FY2023
36%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$355,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$355,000
Organizations funded a year
22 to 153
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$9.5M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Becu Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $780k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalEducationOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$478k0%
FY202322$2.1M36%
FY202230$2.3M93%
FY202189$724k100%
FY2020129$468k53%
FY2019153$390k53%
FY201880$201k100%
FY201780$240kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$3.3MHuman Services$738kCommunity Improvement$719kEnvironment$610kHousing & Shelter$439kCrime & Legal$309kInternational$209kCivil Rights$209kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
College Success Foundation$707,50021%
Refugee Artisan Initative$250,000214%
Spokane Neighborhood Action Partners$224,37520%
Solid Ground Washington$209,37520%
Rebuilding Together South Sound$209,375210%
King County Bar Foundation$209,375210%
Multi-Service Center$209,37520%
El Centro de la Raza$209,37521%
Byrd Barr Place$209,37521%
Center for Inclusive Entrepreneurship$190,00029%
Show all 33 grantees
All grantees of Becu Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
College Success Foundation$707,50021%
Refugee Artisan Initative$250,000214%
Spokane Neighborhood Action Partners$224,37520%
Solid Ground Washington$209,37520%
Rebuilding Together South Sound$209,375210%
King County Bar Foundation$209,375210%
Multi-Service Center$209,37520%
El Centro de la Raza$209,37521%
Byrd Barr Place$209,37521%
Center for Inclusive Entrepreneurship$190,00029%
Emerald Cities Collaborative Inc$190,00021%
Washington Wild$125,000217%
Seattle Good Business Network DBA Good Business Network of Washington$109,23624%
Northwest Justice Project$100,00010%
Ecothrive Housing$100,000178%
Harbor Wildwatch$90,000135%
EarthGen Fka WA Green Schools$90,00017%
Black Farmers Collective$90,000115%
Our Climate Education Fund$80,00018%
Bike Works Seattle$80,00013%
Northwest Innovation Resource Ctr$60,000220%
Community Credit Lab$50,00019%
International Scholarship and Tuition Services Inc$46,3791n/a
Our Climate$25,0001n/a
Mi Centro$15,00020%
Abused Deaf Women's Advocacy Services$10,00011%
Neighbors Together Inc$10,00010%
Be Project$10,0001n/a
Tacoma Urban League$10,00011%
Interim Community Development Association$10,00010%
Forterra Nw$10,00010%
Parkview Services$10,00010%
Mini Mart City Park$10,00013%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 402 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Becu Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCollege Success Foundation: $707,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetRefugee Artisan Initative: $250,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetSpokane Neighborhood Action Partners: $224,375 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSolid Ground Washington: $209,375 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRebuilding Together South Sound: $209,375 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetKing County Bar Foundation: $209,375 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetMulti-Service Center: $209,375 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEl Centro de la Raza: $209,375 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetByrd Barr Place: $209,375 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCenter for Inclusive Entrepreneurship: $190,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetEmerald Cities Collaborative Inc: $190,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWashington Wild: $125,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetSeattle Good Business Network DBA Good Business Network of Washington: $109,236 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetNorthwest Justice Project: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEcothrive Housing: $100,000 over 1y, 78% of budgetHarbor Wildwatch: $90,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetEarthGen Fka WA Green Schools: $90,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetBlack Farmers Collective: $90,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetOur Climate Education Fund: $80,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetBike Works Seattle: $80,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNorthwest Innovation Resource Ctr: $60,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetCommunity Credit Lab: $50,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetMi Centro: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAbused Deaf Women's Advocacy Services: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNeighbors Together Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTacoma Urban League: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetInterim Community Development Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetForterra Nw: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetParkview Services: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMini Mart City Park: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budget

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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 30.

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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.

Credit Unions in the …Seattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…The Satterberg Founda…United Way of King Co…Medina FoundationInatai FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…Kaiser Foundation Hea…The Russell Family Fo…Lucky Seven FoundationWashington Federal Fo…
Credit Unions in the State of WashingtonWA48.4× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · United Way of King County · Medina Foundation · Inatai Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington · The Russell Family Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Washington Federal 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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How do I get to Becu Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Becu Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Becu Foundation

How much does Becu Foundation give?
Becu Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $478,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 153 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Becu Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (48%), Human Services (11%), Community Improvement (10%).
Who are Becu Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: College Success Foundation ($708k), Refugee Artisan Initative ($250k), Spokane Neighborhood Action Partners ($224k).
Does Becu Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Becu Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Becu Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Credit Unions in the State of Washington, Seattle Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation.
Where is Becu Foundation based?
Becu Foundation is based in WA.

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 435 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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