How much does College Spark Washington give?

College Spark Washington reported 50 grants totaling $3,876,544 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 50 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does College Spark Washington fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (82%), Employment (3%), Civil Rights (3%).

Who are College Spark Washington's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Degrees of Change ($1.0M), Educational Service District 105 ($990k), Technology Access Foundation ($870k).

Does College Spark Washington fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does College Spark Washington accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as College Spark Washington?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gates Foundation, Seattle Foundation, School's Out Washington.

Where is College Spark Washington based?

College Spark Washington is based in WA.

Foundation Dossiers

Washington · Private foundation

College Spark Washington

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.9M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 50
Grants FY2025: 42
Organizations funded FY2024: 33%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $60,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $300,000
Organizations funded a year: 40 to 50; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 3
Total assets, FY2025: $124M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations College Spark Washington funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationCommunity ImprovementHealthPublic BenefitHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther

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
FY2025still arriving	38	$3.9M	26%
FY2024	42	$3.7M	33%
FY2023	44	$3.6M	50%
FY2022	40	$3.5M	45%
FY2021	47	$4.0M	51%
FY2020	50	$6.0M	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 2025.

Education$21MEmployment$835kCivil Rights$814kCommunity Improvement$745kEnvironment$510kYouth Development$390kPhilanthropy$368kCrime & Legal$360kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Degrees of Change	$1,015,951	4	18%
Educational Service District 105	$990,000	4	n/a
Technology Access Foundation	$870,000	4	9%
University of Washington	$687,700	4	n/a
The Washington STEM Center	$640,000	2	6%
Education Northwest	$525,000	4	2%
Lower Columbia College	$460,500	4	n/a
Oneamerica	$450,000	3	4%
North Seattle College	$432,500	4	n/a
Renton Technical College Foundation	$400,000	4	16%

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All grantees of College Spark Washington by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Degrees of Change	$1,015,951	4	18%
Educational Service District 105	$990,000	4	n/a
Technology Access Foundation	$870,000	4	9%
University of Washington	$687,700	4	n/a
The Washington STEM Center	$640,000	2	6%
Education Northwest	$525,000	4	2%
Lower Columbia College	$460,500	4	n/a
Oneamerica	$450,000	3	4%
North Seattle College	$432,500	4	n/a
Renton Technical College Foundation	$400,000	4	16%
Puget Sound Educational Service District	$376,000	4	n/a
TeamChild	$360,000	4	3%
Rural Alliance	$322,900	2	52%
Community Center for Education Results	$314,000	2	2%
Washington State University	$276,000	3	n/a
Seiu Healthcare 1199nw Multi-Employer Training & Education Fund	$250,000	1	1%
Clark College	$245,262	1	n/a
Alliance for a Just Society	$240,000	4	1%
Washington Ethnic Studies Now	$230,000	2	44%
Educational Service District 112	$200,000	3	n/a
Communities in Schools of Benton-Frankli	$180,000	3	2%
Southeast Seattle Education Coalition	$180,000	3	5%
Treehouse	$180,000	2	0%
Rvc Seattle	$180,000	2	1%
Community Initiatives	$175,000	1	0%
City Year Inc	$150,000	3	0%
Enlearn	$150,000	1	11%
Seattle Jobs Initiative	$150,000	1	3%
Equity in Education Coalition	$120,000	2	n/a
Claremont Graduate University	$108,515	2	0%
Center for Strengthening the Teaching Profession	$100,000	2	5%
BELONG Partners	$100,000	2	3%
Bethel School District 403	$100,000	2	n/a
Skagit Valley College	$99,808	2	n/a
University of Washington Foundation	$98,000	4	0%
Food Empowerment Education Sustainability Team	$90,000	1	n/a
Tacoma Public Schools	$90,000	3	n/a
Suquamish Foundation	$75,000	1	n/a
Spokane Public Schools Foundation	$75,000	1	60%
Michigan Public Health Institute	$75,000	1	0%
Edmonds College Foundation	$75,000	3	1%
Seattle Public Schools	$75,000	1	n/a
Yakima Rotary Charities	$75,000	1	7%
Northwest Education Access	$60,000	1	2%
LEV Foundation	$60,000	1	n/a
True Measure Collaborative	$60,000	1	3%
Yakima School District	$60,000	1	n/a
Philanthropy Northwest	$53,000	3	0%
Seattle University	$50,000	1	0%
Mabton School District #120	$50,000	1	n/a
Educ Svc Distr 114	$45,461	1	n/a
Muckleshoot Indian Tribe	$40,000	1	n/a
Big Bend Community College Foundation	$40,000	1	3%
Quileute Tribal School	$40,000	1	n/a
Pierce College Foundation	$38,390	1	4%
Ashho Cultural and Job Training Center	$35,000	1	11%
College Success Foundation	$25,500	3	0%
Kennewick School District	$25,000	1	n/a
Highline College Foundation	$25,000	1	1%
White Salmon Valley School District	$20,000	1	n/a
Children's Alliance	$16,950	5	0%
Woodland Park Zoological Society	$14,550	5	0%
Chelan Middle School	$13,500	1	n/a
Meridian School District #505	$12,000	1	n/a
Open Adoption & Family Services Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Page Ahead Childrens Literacy Prgm	$860	1	0%
Board of Trustees of Whitman College	$750	1	0%
Washington Cpa Foundation	$500	1	0%
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc	$500	1	0%
Seattle Colleges Foundation	$500	1	0%
Pacific Public Media	$375	1	0%
Washington State Opportunity Scholarship Foundation	$250	1	0%
Alliance for Education	$250	1	0%
Roosevelt High School Foundation	$250	1	0%
Southeast Youth & Family Services	$100	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 63 recipients with no EIN on record ($12M), not named here.

College Spark Washington supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 50 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 50.

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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.

Gates FoundationWA53.3× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gates Foundation · Seattle Foundation · School's Out Washington · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Inatai Foundation · Stolte Family Foundation · Medina 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 College Spark Washington

How much does College Spark Washington give?: College Spark Washington reported 50 grants totaling $3,876,544 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 50 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does College Spark Washington fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (82%), Employment (3%), Civil Rights (3%).
Who are College Spark Washington's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Degrees of Change ($1.0M), Educational Service District 105 ($990k), Technology Access Foundation ($870k).
Does College Spark Washington fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does College Spark Washington accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as College Spark Washington?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gates Foundation, Seattle Foundation, School's Out Washington.
Where is College Spark Washington based?: College Spark Washington is based in WA.