Washington · Private foundation
Peakcu Foundation
Our focus is to erase school lunch debt. We also fund various college scholarships, teaching financial literacy, and classroom cash grants to elementary school teachers for their classrooms. Its fy2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $393k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 92
- Grants FY2025
- 54
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 54
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $773k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Peakcu Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $154k 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 | 90 | $389k | 56% |
| FY2024 | 54 | $265k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $108k | 39% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $121k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Together | $110,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Onward Eugene | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yelm School District No 2 | $67,068 | 4 | n/a |
| Eugene Public Library Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Homeless Backpacks Inc | $50,000 | 3 | 5% |
| North Thurston Public Schools | $25,626 | 4 | n/a |
| Public Schools of Hawaii Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Beaverton Education Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Aberdeen School District | $16,444 | 4 | n/a |
| Bridgeway House | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Together | $110,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Onward Eugene | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yelm School District No 2 | $67,068 | 4 | n/a |
| Eugene Public Library Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Homeless Backpacks Inc | $50,000 | 3 | 5% |
| North Thurston Public Schools | $25,626 | 4 | n/a |
| Public Schools of Hawaii Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Beaverton Education Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Aberdeen School District | $16,444 | 4 | n/a |
| Bridgeway House | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Washington | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $10,555 | 1 | 0% |
| League of Southeastern Credit Unions | $10,555 | 1 | 0% |
| 4 the Love Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| North Thurston Education Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Rotary Club of Yelm | $10,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Chehalis School District | $6,271 | 1 | n/a |
| Grays Harbor College Federation of Teachers | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| George Fox University | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Thurston County | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Washington State University | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hoquiam School District | $3,172 | 4 | n/a |
| South Lane School District | $2,200 | 2 | n/a |
| Bethel School District 403 | $2,024 | 4 | n/a |
| Lane Community College | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Southern Adventist University | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Linn-Benton Community College | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bushnell University Fka Northwest Christian University | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sacred Heart University Incorporated | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lower Columbia College | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Utah State University | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cornell University | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Brigham Young University | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Northwest Nazarene University Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Northwest University | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ridgefield School District | $1,942 | 3 | n/a |
| Clover Park School District | $1,200 | 2 | n/a |
| Korean Bethel Presbyterian Church | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cedar River Montessori School | $912 | 4 | 0% |
| Centralia Christian School | $848 | 3 | 0% |
| Tacoma Public Schools | $664 | 3 | n/a |
| Three Rivers School District | $600 | 2 | n/a |
| Grays Harbor Adventist Christian School | $512 | 2 | n/a |
| Agape Christian Academy Inc | $400 | 2 | 0% |
| Geneva Academy | $400 | 1 | 0% |
| Fife School District | $248 | 1 | n/a |
| Molalla River School District | $200 | 1 | n/a |
| Umpqua Valley Christian Schools | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Longview Public Schools | $200 | 1 | n/a |
| Toledo School District | $200 | 1 | n/a |
| Roseburg School District | $200 | 1 | n/a |
| Creswell School District | $200 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 80 recipients with no EIN on record ($274k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Peakcu Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 First Robotics · Building Changes · Share Our Strength · Invested · Washington Music Educators Association · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington · GenYOUTH Incorporated · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Peakcu Foundation
- How much does Peakcu Foundation give?
- Peakcu Foundation reported 92 grants totaling $392,567 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 54 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Peakcu Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (52%), Health (21%), Philanthropy (9%).
- Who are Peakcu Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Together ($110k), Onward Eugene ($100k), Yelm School District No 2 ($67k).
- Does Peakcu Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Peakcu Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Peakcu Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Washington First Robotics, Building Changes, Share Our Strength.
- Where is Peakcu Foundation based?
- Peakcu Foundation is based in WA.
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