How much does College Success Foundation give?

College Success Foundation reported 6 itemized grants totaling $165,000, out of $5,962,846 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does College Success Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (93%), Youth Development (2%), Food & Nutrition (1%).

Who are College Success Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Seattle University ($1.9M), University of Washington ($1.9M), Washington Aerospace Scholars Foundation ($101k).

Does College Success Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as College Success Foundation?

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

Where is College Success Foundation based?

College Success Foundation is based in WA.

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Washington · Public charity

College Success Foundation

We provide a unique integrated system of supports and scholarships to inspire underserved, low-income students to finish high school, graduate from college and succeed in life.

$6.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 6
Itemized grants FY2025: 31
Organizations funded FY2024: 100%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $165k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $30,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $35,000
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 31; FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $33M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations College Success Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $781k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalScience & TechYouth 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	6	$165k	33%
FY2024	31	$781k	100%
FY2019	1	$10k	100%
FY2018	1	$10k	100%
FY2017	5	$3.8M	n/a

100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$4.5MYouth Development$75kFood & Nutrition$70kHuman Services$48kCommunity Improvement$45kInternational$35kCrime & Legal$29kEnvironment$14kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Seattle University	$1,889,437	1	1%
University of Washington	$1,889,437	1	n/a
Washington Aerospace Scholars Foundation	$100,807	1	41%
Foundation for Sustainable Community	$70,000	1	1%
Iurban Teen	$55,500	2	2%
Proyecto MoLE Leadership Foun	$50,000	1	n/a
Scholar Fund	$50,000	1	n/a
South Puget Sound Pathways	$45,000	2	n/a
Puget Sound Educational Service District	$40,500	1	n/a
Educational Service District 105	$40,000	2	n/a

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All grantees of College Success Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Seattle University	$1,889,437	1	1%
University of Washington	$1,889,437	1	n/a
Washington Aerospace Scholars Foundation	$100,807	1	41%
Foundation for Sustainable Community	$70,000	1	1%
Iurban Teen	$55,500	2	2%
Proyecto MoLE Leadership Foun	$50,000	1	n/a
Scholar Fund	$50,000	1	n/a
South Puget Sound Pathways	$45,000	2	n/a
Puget Sound Educational Service District	$40,500	1	n/a
Educational Service District 105	$40,000	2	n/a
African Young Dreamers Empowerment Program Intl	$36,840	2	10%
Congolese United Foundation	$35,000	1	22%
Heritage University	$34,000	1	0%
Choose 180	$34,000	1	1%
The Get Schooled Foundation	$31,500	1	1%
King County Department of Community & Human Services	$29,000	1	n/a
Unleash the Brilliance	$28,500	1	3%
Stemtac Foundation	$28,000	1	n/a
District of Columbia College Access Program	$25,000	1	0%
Washington State STEM Education Fdtn	$22,500	1	4%
Degrees of Change	$20,000	1	2%
Foundation for Academic Endeavors	$19,500	1	4%
STEM Paths Innovation Network	$18,500	1	2%
Greater Vancouver Chamber Foundation	$15,000	1	9%
Kent Chamber of Commerce	$15,000	1	4%
Pasco School District	$15,000	1	n/a
Greater Issaquah Chamber of Commerce	$15,000	1	2%
The Feels Foundation	$15,000	1	9%
EarthGen Fka WA Green Schools	$14,000	1	1%
Tacoma Community House	$12,500	1	0%
Washington Alliance for Better Schools	$12,000	1	0%
Greater Washington Urban League Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Mt Adams School District	$10,000	1	n/a
Harlem Children's Zone Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Russell Wilson Foundation	$10,000	1	1%
Safefutures Youth Center	$9,010	1	1%
Young Womens Christian Association of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County	$7,500	1	0%
Anacortes Family Center	$6,800	1	0%
United Negro College Fund Inc	$5,500	1	0%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

College Success Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 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 29.

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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 FoundationWA27.2× affinity12 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 · Medina Foundation · Raikes Foundation · United Way of King County · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Discuren Foundation · Stolte Family Foundation · Workforce Development Council Seattle-Ki · 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.

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About College Success Foundation

How much does College Success Foundation give?: College Success Foundation reported 6 itemized grants totaling $165,000, out of $5,962,846 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does College Success Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (93%), Youth Development (2%), Food & Nutrition (1%).
Who are College Success Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Seattle University ($1.9M), University of Washington ($1.9M), Washington Aerospace Scholars Foundation ($101k).
Does College Success Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as College Success Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gates Foundation, Seattle Foundation, School's Out Washington.
Where is College Success Foundation based?: College Success Foundation is based in WA.