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Friends of Seattle Waterfront

To bring people, communities, and resources together to ensure waterfront park thrives as a vibrant gathering space - uplifting locals, fostering connections and honoring seattle's natural beauty and stories.

$20M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$35,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 3
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$25M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Friends of Seattle Waterfront funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$20M0%
FY20233$25M0%
FY20223$20Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Public Benefit$65MCommunity Improvement$140kEnvironment$90k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
City of Seattle$65,000,0003n/a
Pike Place Market Foundation$140,00032%
The Seattle Aquarium Society$90,00030%

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About Friends of Seattle Waterfront

How much does Friends of Seattle Waterfront give?
Friends of Seattle Waterfront reported 3 grants totaling $20,065,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 3 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Friends of Seattle Waterfront fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (100%), Community Improvement (0%), Environment (0%).
Who are Friends of Seattle Waterfront's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: City of Seattle ($65M), Pike Place Market Foundation ($140k), The Seattle Aquarium Society ($90k).
Does Friends of Seattle Waterfront fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Friends of Seattle Waterfront based?
Friends of Seattle Waterfront is based in WA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 3 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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