Washington · Public charity
Fuse Innovation Fund
To develop creative programs to educate and engage activists about critical issues in Washington State
- $111k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $61k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $34,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 6
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $399k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Fuse Innovation Fund 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; $98k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $61k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $98k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $154k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $1.5M | 50% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $38k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $56k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $31k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Common Power | $1,539,905 | 2 | n/a |
| Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane | $130,240 | 4 | n/a |
| Center for Voter Research | $95,824 | 1 | n/a |
| PA Alliance Foundation | $47,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Imagine North Carolina First | $34,000 | 1 | n/a |
| State Leadership Project | $27,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Justice Not Jails | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Latinos En Spokane | $17,556 | 2 | 2% |
| Fuse Washington | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Fuerte Art Collective | $8,000 | 1 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Common Power | $1,539,905 | 2 | n/a |
| Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane | $130,240 | 4 | n/a |
| Center for Voter Research | $95,824 | 1 | n/a |
| PA Alliance Foundation | $47,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Imagine North Carolina First | $34,000 | 1 | n/a |
| State Leadership Project | $27,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Justice Not Jails | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Latinos En Spokane | $17,556 | 2 | 2% |
| Fuse Washington | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Fuerte Art Collective | $8,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Forward Together Wisconsin | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Safe & Health Youth Washington | $6,500 | 1 | 0% |
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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Hopewell Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Fuse Innovation Fund
- How much does Fuse Innovation Fund give?
- Fuse Innovation Fund reported 3 itemized grants totaling $61,000, out of $111,295 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Fuse Innovation Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (89%), Human Services (6%), Civil Rights (2%).
- Who are Fuse Innovation Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Common Power ($1.5M), Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane ($130k), Center for Voter Research ($96k).
- Does Fuse Innovation Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fuse Innovation Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Tides Foundation, Hopewell Fund.
- Where is Fuse Innovation Fund based?
- Fuse Innovation Fund is based in WA.
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