How much does Cedarmere Foundation give?

Cedarmere Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $1,684,224 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Cedarmere Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (47%), Community Improvement (19%), Crime & Legal (8%).

Who are Cedarmere Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Byrd Barr Place ($1.1M), Communities Rise ($193k), Rvc Seattle ($182k).

Does Cedarmere Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Cedarmere 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 Cedarmere Foundation?

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

Where is Cedarmere Foundation based?

Cedarmere Foundation is based in WA.

Foundation Dossiers

Washington · Private foundation

Cedarmere 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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 13
Grants FY2024: 27
Organizations funded FY2023: 22%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $90,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $1,000,000
Organizations funded a year: 20 to 31; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations Cedarmere Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationCrime & LegalEnvironmentArts & CultureOther

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	12	$1.7M	8%
FY2023	27	$132k	22%
FY2022	23	$184k	22%
FY2021	27	$264k	33%
FY2020	31	$242k	35%
FY2019	23	$141k	43%
FY2018	20	$123k	30%
FY2017	21	$117k	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, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$1.4MCommunity Improvement$550kCrime & Legal$244kInternational$136kEnvironment$135kHousing & Shelter$78kArts & Culture$75kEducation$71kOther$0

Top grantees

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

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Byrd Barr Place	$1,136,500	4	7%
Communities Rise	$192,500	7	5%
Rvc Seattle	$181,500	8	1%
Latino Community Fund of Washington State	$136,000	5	2%
Na'ah Illahee Fund	$136,000	5	2%
JustLead Washington	$135,000	4	11%
Front and Centered	$135,000	4	1%
Sound Child Care Solutions	$58,000	4	0%
Ventures	$51,069	5	1%
Eastside Legal Assistance Program	$50,500	4	1%

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All grantees of Cedarmere Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Byrd Barr Place	$1,136,500	4	7%
Communities Rise	$192,500	7	5%
Rvc Seattle	$181,500	8	1%
Latino Community Fund of Washington State	$136,000	5	2%
Na'ah Illahee Fund	$136,000	5	2%
JustLead Washington	$135,000	4	11%
Front and Centered	$135,000	4	1%
Sound Child Care Solutions	$58,000	4	0%
Ventures	$51,069	5	1%
Eastside Legal Assistance Program	$50,500	4	1%
Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association	$48,000	5	1%
Families of Color Seattle	$47,500	3	n/a
Green Plate Special	$38,000	3	2%
Kandelia	$35,000	4	1%
Community Credit Lab	$30,500	2	3%
West Seattle Helpline	$30,456	3	2%
Social Venture Partners	$30,000	2	1%
Shunpike	$27,500	3	0%
Homestead Community Land Trust	$27,069	7	1%
Common Future	$27,000	2	0%
Young Women Empowered	$23,149	4	0%
Friends of the Children - Seattle	$21,517	4	0%
Nonprofit Assistance Center	$20,000	2	n/a
The Healing Center	$19,355	2	3%
West Seattle Food Bank	$14,875	4	0%
Art With Heart	$10,500	1	1%
Philanthropy Northwest	$10,000	1	0%
Jubilee Women's Center	$9,000	4	0%
International District Emergency Center	$6,000	2	n/a
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences	$6,000	6	0%
Maris Place	$5,000	1	2%
Cocoon House	$5,000	1	0%
Boardsource	$4,000	1	0%
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations	$3,850	2	0%
Heritage University	$3,500	4	0%
Coalition Ending Gender-Based Violence	$3,115	4	0%
Boyer Children's Clinic	$3,000	3	0%
Seattle Unity Church	$3,000	2	n/a
Seattle Works	$2,970	6	0%
Washington Low Income Housing Alliance	$2,500	2	0%
SeattleKing County Coalition on Homelessness	$2,500	2	0%
White Center Community Development Association	$2,000	2	0%
Chief Seattle Club	$2,000	2	0%
Young Womens Christian Association of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County	$2,000	2	0%
Evergreen Treatment Services	$2,000	2	0%
Zeno	$1,500	2	0%
Oneamerica	$1,500	1	0%
Mary's Place Seattle	$1,500	1	0%
Northwest Harvest Emm	$1,500	2	0%
Alliance for Gun Responsibility Foundation	$1,000	1	0%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound	$1,000	1	0%
Thrive Washington	$1,000	1	0%
Red Eagle Soaring	$1,000	1	0%
Para Los Ninos	$1,000	1	0%
Washington Women in Need	$1,000	1	0%
Woodland Park Zoological Society	$1,000	1	0%
Powerful Voices	$500	1	0%
Family Law Casa of King County	$500	1	0%
Harmony Hill of Union	$500	1	0%
Open Doors for Multicultural Families	$500	1	0%
Food Lifeline	$500	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($131k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cedarmere 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 57.

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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 FoundationWA69.3× affinity42 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 · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Medina Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Gates Foundation · Inatai Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · School's Out Washington · Stolte Family Foundation · Laird Norton Family 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 Cedarmere Foundation

How much does Cedarmere Foundation give?: Cedarmere Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $1,684,224 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Cedarmere Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (47%), Community Improvement (19%), Crime & Legal (8%).
Who are Cedarmere Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Byrd Barr Place ($1.1M), Communities Rise ($193k), Rvc Seattle ($182k).
Does Cedarmere Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Cedarmere 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 Cedarmere Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation, United Way of King County.
Where is Cedarmere Foundation based?: Cedarmere Foundation is based in WA.