· Private foundation
First Fed Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $498k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
Anchored by a single position: about 97% of reported assets are held in First Northwest Bancorp Stock.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PENINSULA COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| OLYMPIC PENINSULA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN | $30,000 |
| OLYMPIC HOUSING TRUST | $25,000 |
| CITY OF PORT ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT | $25,000 |
| CLALLAM COUNTY PUBLIC HOSPITAL DISTRICT #1 | $25,000 |
| PORT ANGELES FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| LIFEWIRE | $25,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EAST JEFFERSON COUNTY | $25,000 |
| THE SOPHIA WAY | $25,000 |
| FERNDALE FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| FORKS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| PENINSULA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | $25,000 |
| DOVE HOUSE ADVOCACY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| SEQUIM FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| YWCA OF KITSAP COUNTY | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $829k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
65 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $333k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TBTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE OLYMPIC PENINSULA4× · 2018–2023 · $160k · revenue +2%
- NMNORTHWEST MARITIME CENTER3× · 2019–2024 · $155k · revenue +128%
- OMOLYMPIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2023 · $126k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- MHMERCY HOUSING NORTHWESTone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +21%
- SSSequim Senior Services dba Shipley Centergraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +53%
- FWFORT WORDEN PUBLIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITYone grant, 2018 · $100k
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.
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.
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
Tenino Community Service Center/Tenino Food Bank Plus is a deep-rooted community-based service center dedicated to feeding those within the Tenino school district (Tenino and Bucoda) that may be disadvantaged. In addition, it is our…
Futurewise works throughout Washington state to encourage healthy, equitable and opportunity-rich communities, and to protect our most valuable farmlands, forests and water resources through wise land use policies and practices.
To increase the economic well-being and quality of life for all citizens of the region; to coordinate provincial, territorial, and state policies throughout the region; to identify and promote "models of success and to serve as a conduit…
Housing Counseling Services
Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.
Discover Your Northwest promotes the discovery of northwest public lands, enriches the experience of visitors and builds community stewardship of these special places today and for generations to come.
KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…
Foster Growth in the Community
House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…
Provide a safe, healing, and restorative community that empowers long-term transformation through human connection for those recovering from the trauma of homelessness, addictions, and mental health challenges.
Our mission is to provide food and key resources to help our neighbors and community thrive. we lead the effort to feed, educated and advocate ending hunger in the snoqualmie valley and beyond.
How this is measured
162 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 162 of the 214 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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
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 JEFFERSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE OLYMPIC PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST MARITIME CENTER ↗
- Who funds OLYMPIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Housing Resources Bainbridge ↗
- Who funds PORT ANGELES FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PORT ANGELES WATERFRONT CENTER DBA FIELD ARTS & EVENTS HALL ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSING NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds Sequim Senior Services dba Shipley Center ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INCLUSIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CLALLAM COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LYDIA PLACE ↗
- Who funds SERENITY HOUSE OF CLALLAM COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN SKLALLAM TRIBAL CAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PARKVIEW SERVICES ↗
- Who funds KULSHAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds RADIO PORT TOWNSEND ↗
- Who funds NORTH OLYMPIC HEALTHCARE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FORKS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ROXY BREMERTON ↗
- Who funds WHATCOM FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI ↗
- Who funds Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding ↗
- Who funds MAX HIGBEE COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds WHATCOM DISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Whatcom Center for Early Learning ↗
- Who funds OLYMPIC PENINSULA YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSN ↗
- Who funds CAMP BEAUSITE NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds COMPOSITE RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Central Stage Theatre of County Kitsap ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Medina Foundation · Whatcom Community Foundation · Bainbridge Community Foundation · Kitsap Community Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Washington Federal Foundation · Albert Haller Foundation · Jefferson Community Foundation · United Way of Clallam County
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization First Fed Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from First Fed Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Financial Beginnings: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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