· Private foundation
Hickman Leona Educational Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION | $12,539 |
| RENTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $6,269 |
| SOUTH SEATTLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE & FDN | $6,269 |
| HIGHLINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE & FOUNDATION | $6,269 |
| SHORELINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE & FOUNDATION | $6,269 |
| LAKE WASHINGTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE & FDN | $6,269 |
| GREEN RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE & FDN | $6,269 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SCSEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $62k · revenue -24%
- RTRENTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2025 · $35k · revenue +386%
- SCSHORELINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2025 · $25k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- SCSEATTLE CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE & FDNone grant, 2018 · $7k
- NSNORTH SEATTLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE & FDNone grant, 2018 · $7k
- HCHIGHLINE COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +115%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Fundraising activities to support Seattle University
Our mission is to change lives by providing students with scholarships so they can pursue quality academic and vocational education. we do this through relationship building, fundraising and stewarding resources.
To support seattle central students, faculty and programs by raising and providing financial resources to help students achieve their fullest potential through quality education.
The Foundation for the Seattle Colleges exists to advance fundraising efforts for the Seattle Community College District. We seek to attract financial resources which support students so they may be successful; maintain the quality and…
See schedule ofounded in 1973, city university of seattle's mission is to change lives for good by offering high quality and relevant lifelong education to anyone with the desire to learn. city university's vision is to provide underserved…
The mission of the foundation is to engage community and build resources to support success for all students.
Secure donations to enhance education at Skagit Valley College through scholarships, grants, and institutional support.
To provide scholarships to students of southwestern community college and to provide grants to encourage and promote the academic development and fundamental growth of southwestern community college
We provide a unique integrated system of supports and scholarships to inspire underserved, low-income students to finish high school, graduate from college and succeed in life.
The foundation serves the students, faculty and staff at st. cloud state university by engaging interested alumni and friends in supporting the mission, programs, and goals of the university. st. cloud state university is a highly…
The purpose of the southwestern oregon community college foundation is to support the college in improving people's lives - socially, culturally, economically and educationally - through friend-raising and fundraising.
The Education Fund enriches lives by supporting students, faculty, staff, and programs at North Seattle College.
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RENTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHORELINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGHLINE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Herbert Jones Foundation · South Seattle College Foundation · Seattle Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hickman Leona Educational Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hickman Leona Educational Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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