Washington · Private foundation
Garneau Nicon Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $462k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 59
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 73%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 71
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $24M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 73% of the organizations Garneau Nicon Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 71% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $496k 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 | 34 | $462k | 71% |
| FY2024 | 59 | $696k | 73% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $324k | 74% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $45k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $81k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $681k | 76% |
| FY2019 | 60 | $1.0M | 70% |
| FY2018 | 71 | $1.0M | 89% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Encompass Northwest | $96,610 | 6 | 0% |
| Empower Youth Network | $81,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Snoqualmie Valley Shelter Services | $69,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Seattle Police Foundation | $69,000 | 3 | 4% |
| St Marys Catholic Church | $66,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Bridge Ministries Bridge Disability Ministries | $57,000 | 3 | 1% |
| St Joseph School | $56,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Vashon Maury Community Food Bank | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Greenlake Elementary School PTA | $50,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Reclaim | $50,000 | 2 | 6% |
Show all 200 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 94 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Garneau Nicon Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 156 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · United Way of King County · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Medina Foundation · Charis Fund · Dv & Ida McEachern Charitable Tr · Fales Foundation Trust · Artsfund
How this is measured
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About Garneau Nicon Family Foundation
- How much does Garneau Nicon Family Foundation give?
- Garneau Nicon Family Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $462,145 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 71 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Garneau Nicon Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (22%), Human Services (15%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Garneau Nicon Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Encompass Northwest ($97k), Empower Youth Network ($81k), Snoqualmie Valley Shelter Services ($69k).
- Does Garneau Nicon Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 73% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Garneau Nicon Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Garneau Nicon Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Norcliffe Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, Moccasin Lake Foundation.
- Where is Garneau Nicon Family Foundation based?
- Garneau Nicon Family Foundation is based in WA.
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