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Gesa Community Foundation
The foundation's charitable purpose is improving the lives of its community members and the communities it serves by supporting organizations that focus on projects that support schools, local heroes, financial wellness/education, and general community sustainability.
- $506k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 28
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 69%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $436k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $45,650
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 26
- FY2022 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $491k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 69% of the organizations Gesa Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 68% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 28 | $436k | 71% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $383k | 69% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $423k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dress for Success Seattle | $99,577 | 3 | 5% |
| Service Peace Warriors | $95,543 | 2 | 24% |
| City of Sunnyside | $52,550 | 2 | n/a |
| Columbia Basin College Foundation | $50,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Friends of Disabled Veterans | $50,000 | 1 | 31% |
| Ciy of Union Gap | $46,500 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Walla Walla | $45,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Whitworth University | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Columbia Walla Walla Fire District 2 | $33,289 | 3 | n/a |
| Medic One Foundation | $31,000 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dress for Success Seattle | $99,577 | 3 | 5% |
| Service Peace Warriors | $95,543 | 2 | 24% |
| City of Sunnyside | $52,550 | 2 | n/a |
| Columbia Basin College Foundation | $50,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Friends of Disabled Veterans | $50,000 | 1 | 31% |
| Ciy of Union Gap | $46,500 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Walla Walla | $45,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Whitworth University | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Columbia Walla Walla Fire District 2 | $33,289 | 3 | n/a |
| Medic One Foundation | $31,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Invested | $27,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Grant County Fire District 13 | $25,119 | 1 | n/a |
| Valhalla Flag Project | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Peacehealth Southwest Medical Center Foundation | $24,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Yakima Co Sheriffs Office | $21,893 | 1 | n/a |
| City of West Richland | $21,220 | 2 | n/a |
| Laerdal Medical Corporation | $20,192 | 1 | n/a |
| New Hope Resource Center | $20,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Therapeutic Riding of Tri-Cities | $20,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Trios Health | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kootenai County Fire & Rescue | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tri-Cities Chaplaincy | $18,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kingspoint Christian School | $17,753 | 1 | 2% |
| Chelan County Mountain Rescue Association | $17,292 | 2 | n/a |
| The Seattle Stand Down | $16,933 | 1 | n/a |
| Highline Medical Center Foundation | $16,420 | 2 | 1% |
| Granger Fire Department | $15,027 | 1 | n/a |
| Whitman Middle School Ptsa | $15,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Eastern Washington State Historical Society | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Grant County Fire Protection Dist 3 | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras | $15,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Chelan County | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bremerton Area Chamber of Commerce | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Washington State University Foundation | $12,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hospitality House and Nutrition Center Dba Wenatchee Rescue Mission | $12,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Mead High School | $10,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Heroes Homestead | $10,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Benton County Fire District #2 | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yakima Valley Veterans Coalition | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Lakewood | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The American Legion Cathay Post #186 | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| United We Rescue | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bethel School District 403 | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Blue Hero Project | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Free Rein Therapeutic Riding | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Martha and Mary Lutheran Services | $9,937 | 1 | 0% |
| BELONG Partners | $9,500 | 1 | 1% |
| The Memorial Foundation | $9,000 | 1 | 0% |
| City of Colfax | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Highland School District #203 | $8,953 | 1 | n/a |
| La Salle High School Yakima Inc | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Blue Mountain Action Council | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Young Officers on Fire LLC | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yakima Valley Conference of Governments | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Eastern Washington University Foundation | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| City of Covington | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| INW Dyslexia Alliance | $7,500 | 1 | 10% |
| Seattle Public Schools | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Volunteers Love Serving Veterans | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | $6,420 | 1 | 0% |
| Richland School District 400 | $5,750 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Kennewick | $5,400 | 1 | n/a |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $5,309 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Gesa Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 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: Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · School's Out Washington · The Avista Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Glassybaby White Light Fund · Seattle Foundation · Artsfund · 3 Rivers Community Foundation · Greater Columbia Accountable Community of Health
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About Gesa Community Foundation
- How much does Gesa Community Foundation give?
- Gesa Community Foundation reported 28 itemized grants totaling $435,870, out of $506,069 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 26 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
- What does Gesa Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (35%), Human Services (18%), Education (17%).
- Who are Gesa Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Dress for Success Seattle ($100k), Service Peace Warriors ($96k), City of Sunnyside ($53k).
- Does Gesa Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 69% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gesa Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, M J Murdock Charitable Trust.
- Where is Gesa Community Foundation based?
- Gesa Community Foundation is based in WA.
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