· Private foundation
Lucky Seven Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k167 grants · $346k
- $10k–50k42 grants · $820k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $655k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $240,000 |
| COMMON POWER FUTURE | $125,000 |
| COMMON POWER FUTURE | $125,000 |
| HANFORD CHALLENGE | $65,100 |
| ROAD2HOME | $50,000 |
| SEATTLE CENTER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SAIL SAND POINT | $45,000 |
| INDIGENOUS CREATIVES COLLECTIVE | $45,000 |
| REAL CHANGE HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROJECT | $40,500 |
| NORTHWEST SCHOOL OF WOODEN BOAT BUILDING | $40,000 |
| SKAGIT PRE-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION AND RESOURCE CENTER | $25,000 |
| HUMMINGBIRD INDIGENOUS FAMILY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| RED EAGLE SOARING | $25,000 |
| URBAN AMERICAN INDIAN ALASKA NATIVE EDUCATION ALLI | $25,000 |
| CENTRUM FOUNDATION | $23,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Lucky Seven Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
263 repeat relationships: 129 still active in FY2024, 134 since wound down; 69 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $719k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +42%- LILOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE6× · 2019–2024 · $725k · revenue +153%
- NSNorthwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding6× · 2019–2024 · $285k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- LILEE INITIATIVE INCone grant, 2020 · $62k · revenue -62%
- SCSUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +90%
- HHOMESIGHTone grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue -37%
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.
Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.
Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…
KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…
To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
Seattle jobs initiative (sji) creates opportunities for people to support themselves and their families through living-wage careers.
The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
Founded in 2001, Spark Northwest accelerates the just transition to clean energy in the Pacific Northwest. Spark Northwest uses two primary strategies: (1) on-the-ground project consulting, focusing on communities with limited financial…
Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…
Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.
How this is measured
567 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. 567 of the 625 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding ↗
- Who funds Sanctuary Art Center ↗
- Who funds METHOW CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds COMMON POWER FUTURE ↗
- Who funds Hanford Challenge Corporation ↗
- Who funds Cancer Pathways ↗
- Who funds REAL CHANGE HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds The Greater Seattle Bureau of Fearless Ideas ↗
- Who funds RE SOURCES ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds Community Roots Housing Foundation ↗
- Who funds HERO HOUSE NW ↗
- Who funds STRATEGIES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds OPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Seattle Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 5TH AVENUE THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KENT YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds We Heart Seattle ↗
- Who funds SHORELINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DADS DIVINE ALTERNATIVES FOR DADS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MEALI INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WITHOUT HATE INC ↗
- Who funds INDIGENOUS CREATIVES COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds FOOD LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds WHATCOM LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST EFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds LEE INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH CHAPLAINCY ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC ABUSE WOMEN'S NETWORK ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds Sail Sand Point ↗
- Who funds THE MUSTARD SEED PROJECT OF KEY PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds Tune In To Nature org ↗
- Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
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 · Medina Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Seattle Foundation · United Way of King County · Garneau Nicon Family Foundation · Real Progress Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · Fales Foundation Trust · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · Credit Unions in the State of Washington
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lucky Seven Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lucky Seven Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Victory Programs Inc: 49% of income from government
- Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
- Willamette Riverkeeper: 42% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Strategies for Youth: 21% of income from government
- El Programa Hispano Catolico: 13% of income from government
- Growing Gardens: 6% of income from government
- Franklin W Olin College of Engineering Inc: 2% of income from government
- Mitchell College: 2% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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