How much does Forest Foundation give?

Forest Foundation reported 56 grants totaling $1,009,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 52 and 57 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.

What does Forest Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (32%), Education (23%), Human Services (12%).

Who are Forest Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: University of Washington Foundation ($575k), Museum of Glass ($530k), Tacoma Art Museum ($200k).

Does Forest Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Forest Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

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

Which funders back the same organizations as Forest Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai, The Bamford Foundation.

Where is Forest Foundation based?

Forest Foundation is based in WA.

Foundation Dossiers

Washington · Private foundation

Forest Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 56
Grants FY2025: 56
Organizations funded FY2024: 34%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $100,000
Organizations funded a year: 52 to 57; FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $19M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 34% of the organizations Forest Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $286k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEnvironmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationFood & NutritionOther

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	53	$1.0M	17%
FY2024	56	$953k	34%
FY2023	56	$1.2M	32%
FY2022	57	$988k	33%
FY2021	52	$1.0M	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, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.6MEducation$1.2MHuman Services$602kHealth$376kYouth Development$341kHousing & Shelter$160kCivil Rights$148kRecreation & Sports$122kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Washington Foundation	$575,000	5	0%
Museum of Glass	$530,000	5	3%
Tacoma Art Museum	$200,000	4	4%
Tacoma Arts Live	$195,000	5	1%
Fuller Theological Seminary	$150,000	3	0%
Symphony Tacoma	$140,000	5	3%
R Merle Palmer Minority Scholarship	$130,000	5	2%
College Success Foundation	$105,000	3	0%
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project	$100,000	5	0%
United Way of Pierce County	$100,000	2	1%

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All grantees of Forest Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Washington Foundation	$575,000	5	0%
Museum of Glass	$530,000	5	3%
Tacoma Art Museum	$200,000	4	4%
Tacoma Arts Live	$195,000	5	1%
Fuller Theological Seminary	$150,000	3	0%
Symphony Tacoma	$140,000	5	3%
R Merle Palmer Minority Scholarship	$130,000	5	2%
College Success Foundation	$105,000	3	0%
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project	$100,000	5	0%
United Way of Pierce County	$100,000	2	1%
Northwest Sinfonietta Inc	$85,000	5	5%
YWCA Pierce County	$70,000	4	0%
Degrees of Change	$65,000	5	1%
Comprehensive Mental Health Center of Tacoma-Pierce County	$63,500	2	0%
Tacoma Community House	$63,000	4	0%
Catholic Community Services of Western Washington	$60,000	2	0%
Greentrike	$56,000	5	1%
Tacoma Opera Association Professional Services	$55,000	3	10%
New Phoebe House	$52,000	4	2%
Mary Bridge Children's Foundation	$50,000	1	n/a
Hilltop Artists in Residence	$50,000	5	1%
Foundation for Tacoma Students	$50,000	3	1%
Tacoma Youth Chorus	$50,000	5	4%
Pierce County Center for Dispute Resolut	$47,500	4	1%
South Sound Outreach Services	$46,000	5	1%
Edge Foundation	$43,000	5	2%
Foss Waterway Seaport	$41,000	5	1%
Tacoma Youth Symphony Association	$40,000	2	2%
Tacoma Pierce County Chaplaincy	$40,000	3	5%
Tacoma Urban League	$40,000	3	2%
Eatonville Area Council DBA Eatonville Family Agency	$40,000	4	1%
Grand Tacoma Cine Club Dba the Grand Cinema	$40,000	1	n/a
Rebuilding Hope Sexual Assault Center	$35,000	2	1%
Washington Trails Association	$35,000	5	0%
American Leadership Forum Tacoma Pierce County Chapter	$34,000	3	3%
Brightspark Early Learning Services	$30,000	3	0%
TeamChild	$30,000	3	0%
ForeverGreen Trails	$30,000	3	11%
Homes First	$30,000	2	1%
Foothills Rails-to-Trails Coalition	$30,000	2	1%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound	$25,000	1	1%
A Step Ahead in Pierce County	$25,000	5	0%
Gig Harbor Peninsula Fish	$25,000	2	0%
Multicultural Child and Family Hope Center	$25,000	1	0%
Tacomapierce County Habitat for Humanit	$25,000	1	0%
Emergency Food Network of Tacoma and Pierce County	$25,000	1	0%
Valeo Vocation	$25,000	1	0%
Goodwill of the Olympics and Rainier Region	$25,000	1	0%
The Mockingbird Society	$24,000	4	0%
Trinity Presbyterian Church	$21,500	4	n/a
Northwest Hospitality	$20,000	3	6%
Friends of Lakewood	$20,000	2	1%
Bethel Community Services	$20,000	4	12%
Communities in Schools of Tacoma	$20,000	2	2%
Community Youth Services	$20,000	1	0%
Exodus Housing	$20,000	2	1%
Northwest Trek Foundation	$20,000	1	2%
Nourish Pierce County	$20,000	1	0%
Partners for Parks	$20,000	1	4%
Tacoma Community Boat Builders Inc	$20,000	2	2%
Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation	$20,000	1	0%
Amara	$20,000	2	0%
St Francis House	$15,000	3	1%
Morningside	$15,000	2	0%
Making a Difference Foundation	$15,000	1	0%
Helping Hand House	$15,000	1	0%
Associated Ministries of Tacoma-Pierce County	$15,000	1	0%
Seattle Repertory Theatre	$14,000	4	0%
Ted Brown Music Outreach	$12,000	3	3%
Chambers Creek Foundation	$11,600	1	32%
Peace Community Center	$10,000	1	1%
Grays Harbor Historical Seaport Authority	$10,000	1	1%
The Coffee Oasis	$10,000	1	0%
Next Chapter Foundation	$10,000	2	n/a
Nw Furniture Bank	$10,000	1	0%
Washington Trafficking Prevention	$10,000	1	4%
Pierce County Aids Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
White River Senior Housing	$10,000	1	n/a
Scarlet Road	$10,000	2	1%
The Saint's Pantry Food Bank	$10,000	2	0%
Connections a Center for Healthy Families	$10,000	1	1%
Neighborhood Clinic	$10,000	1	2%
7th Street Theatre Association	$10,000	1	2%
Third Sector New England Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Rainier Scholars	$10,000	1	0%
Turning Point Shelter Association	$10,000	1	n/a
Dispute Resolution Center	$10,000	1	1%
Tacoma Tree Foundation	$9,000	2	1%
Northwest Natural Resource Group	$8,000	1	1%
Northwest Cooperative Development Center	$8,000	1	0%
Diabetes Assoc of Pierce County	$7,000	5	1%
Refugee Choir Project	$6,500	2	1%
Tacoma Urban Performing Arts Center	$5,000	1	n/a
Communities for a Healthy Bay	$5,000	1	1%
Your Money Matters	$5,000	1	1%
Mount St Helens Institute	$5,000	1	0%
Safeplace	$3,300	1	0%
Write253	$3,000	1	2%
Reach Ministries	$2,000	1	1%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($661k), not named here.

Forest Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 92 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 92.

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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.

Greater Tacoma Community FoundationWA123.2× affinity61 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · The Bamford Foundation · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · The Norcliffe Foundation · Sequoia Foundation · Woodworth Family Foundation · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine · Heidner Marco J Char Trust · June & Julian Foss Foundation · Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc · Puget Sound Energy 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 Forest Foundation

How much does Forest Foundation give?: Forest Foundation reported 56 grants totaling $1,009,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 52 and 57 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Forest Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (32%), Education (23%), Human Services (12%).
Who are Forest Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: University of Washington Foundation ($575k), Museum of Glass ($530k), Tacoma Art Museum ($200k).
Does Forest Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Forest Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Forest Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai, The Bamford Foundation.
Where is Forest Foundation based?: Forest Foundation is based in WA.