How much does Mount Baker Foundation give?

Mount Baker Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $3,743,294 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 36 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Mount Baker Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Youth Development (14%), Philanthropy (11%).

Who are Mount Baker Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Children of the Setting Sun Product ($2.8M), University of Washington Foundation ($1.5M), Mercy Housing Northwest ($1.0M).

Does Mount Baker Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Mount Baker Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Mount Baker Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Whatcom Community Foundation, Chuckanut Health Foundation, North Sound Accountable Community of Health.

Where is Mount Baker Foundation based?

Mount Baker Foundation is based in WA.

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Washington · Private foundation

Mount Baker Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.7M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 55
Grants FY2025: 36
Organizations funded FY2024: 47%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $6,500
Largest grant, FY2025: $2,500,000
Organizations funded a year: 12 to 36; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $38M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 47% of the organizations Mount Baker Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $949k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	41	$3.7M	51%
FY2024	36	$2.1M	47%
FY2023	26	$2.2M	54%
FY2022	13	$2.1M	77%
FY2021	24	$1.8M	71%
FY2020	12	$568k	n/a

76% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant grouped by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.8MYouth Development$780kPhilanthropy$616kHuman Services$605kHousing & Shelter$135kHealth$114kPublic Benefit$63kCivil Rights$37kOther$0

Where its grants go

Each grant at its grantee’s address, over the share of households in hardship around it.

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Children of the Setting Sun Product	$2,810,000	3	15%
University of Washington Foundation	$1,549,000	4	0%
Mercy Housing Northwest	$1,000,000	1	5%
Whatcom Family & Community Network	$756,205	4	36%
Chuckanut Health Foundation	$625,700	6	7%
Lighthouse Mission Ministries	$560,000	2	n/a
Opportunity Council	$380,000	5	0%
Lydia Place	$250,000	3	2%
Meridian School District #505	$227,045	2	n/a
Whatcom Center for Early Learning	$192,946	1	3%

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All grantees of Mount Baker Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Children of the Setting Sun Product	$2,810,000	3	15%
University of Washington Foundation	$1,549,000	4	0%
Mercy Housing Northwest	$1,000,000	1	5%
Whatcom Family & Community Network	$756,205	4	36%
Chuckanut Health Foundation	$625,700	6	7%
Lighthouse Mission Ministries	$560,000	2	n/a
Opportunity Council	$380,000	5	0%
Lydia Place	$250,000	3	2%
Meridian School District #505	$227,045	2	n/a
Whatcom Center for Early Learning	$192,946	1	3%
Whatcom Family Young Men's Christian Association	$189,000	3	1%
Common Threads Farm	$161,000	3	6%
Washington State Family And Community Engagement Trust	$144,200	3	11%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Whatcom County	$140,000	1	2%
Vamos Outdoors Project	$127,981	3	2%
Whatcom Council on Aging	$125,000	1	4%
Communities in School of Whatcom Skagit	$100,000	1	10%
Foundation for Western Washington University and Alumni	$100,000	1	1%
Northwest Indian College Foundation	$100,000	1	n/a
Whatcom Community College Foundation	$100,000	1	7%
Kulshan Community Land Trust	$100,000	1	14%
Interfaith Coalition of Whatcom County	$100,000	1	7%
The Bellingham Public School Foundation	$69,500	5	4%
Lhaq'Temish Foundation	$68,000	3	3%
Unity Care Northwest	$50,000	1	0%
Northwest Youth Services	$45,000	3	0%
Road2home	$36,775	2	8%
Wild Whatcom	$35,000	2	5%
Nooksack School District	$30,000	2	n/a
United Way of Whatcom County	$30,000	1	2%
Whatcom Human Rights Task Force	$27,000	2	18%
Lynden School District 504	$20,000	1	n/a
Blaine Elementary School	$20,000	1	n/a
Nooksack Indian Tribe	$20,000	1	n/a
Sent Ones Ministry	$20,000	2	n/a
Ferndale Public Schools Foundation	$19,000	2	4%
Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Services of Whatcom County	$17,500	2	0%
Bellingham Queer Collective	$15,000	1	n/a
Bellingham SeaFeast	$13,000	2	5%
Fatherhood the Foundation	$12,500	2	14%
Whatcom Waves	$10,000	2	n/a
Max Higbee Community Recreation Center	$10,000	1	1%
Restorative CommUnity Coalition	$10,000	1	32%
Intergenerational High School	$10,000	1	0%
The Whatcom Literacy Council	$10,000	1	3%
Northwest Washington Indian Health Board	$10,000	1	1%
Law Advocates	$8,000	1	1%
The AIROW Project	$8,000	1	4%
Recreation Northwest	$8,000	1	9%
Northwest Kidney Centers	$7,500	1	0%
Brothers to Brothers	$6,850	1	n/a
Health Ministries Network	$6,000	1	n/a
Salish Current	$5,500	2	3%
Nooksack Valley Food Bank Association	$5,000	1	1%
Bellingham Makerspace	$5,000	1	5%
Christian Hope Association	$5,000	1	0%
Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank	$5,000	1	n/a
American Diabetes Association	$5,000	1	0%
Celebrity Barber College	$5,000	1	n/a
Blaine Food Bank Association	$5,000	1	0%
Ferndale Community Services	$5,000	1	1%
Ferndale Food Bank	$5,000	1	0%
Point Roberts Food Bank	$5,000	1	n/a
Foothills Food Bank	$5,000	1	1%
Allied Arts of Whatcom County	$4,500	1	1%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.

Mount Baker Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 50 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 50.

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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.

Whatcom Community FoundationWA83.5× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Whatcom Community Foundation · Chuckanut Health Foundation · North Sound Accountable Community of Health · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · PeaceHealth · First Fed Foundation · Jerry H Walton Foundation · Mary H Storer Foundation · United Way of Whatcom County · Eleanor and Henry Jansen Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Mount Baker Foundation

How much does Mount Baker Foundation give?: Mount Baker Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $3,743,294 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 36 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Mount Baker Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Youth Development (14%), Philanthropy (11%).
Who are Mount Baker Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Children of the Setting Sun Product ($2.8M), University of Washington Foundation ($1.5M), Mercy Housing Northwest ($1.0M).
Does Mount Baker Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mount Baker Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mount Baker Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Whatcom Community Foundation, Chuckanut Health Foundation, North Sound Accountable Community of Health.
Where is Mount Baker Foundation based?: Mount Baker Foundation is based in WA.