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Washington · Public charity

Rave Foundation

To build small fields for free play and invest in programs that use soccer as a vehicle to inspire youth and strengthen communities.

$230k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
17
Itemized grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$160k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 26
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Rave Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Housing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving17$160k94%
FY20233$24k33%
FY20221$15k100%
FY20214$40k100%
FY202026$187k100%
FY20191$10k0%
FY20181$8k100%
FY20174$29kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$139kPublic Safety & Disaster$88kYouth Development$42kCommunity Improvement$35kEducation$30kHousing & Shelter$30kArts & Culture$28kPublic Benefit$23kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Washington State Youth Soccer Association$35,00021%
Chinatown International District Preservation and Development Assoc$25,00012%
The Alliance for Pioneer Square$25,00011%
Cultures United$24,90526%
Positive Coaching Alliance$20,00020%
Dragons Fc$16,1451n/a
EarthGen Fka WA Green Schools$12,96020%
The Asia Foundation$12,0001n/a
SODO Business Improvement Area$10,00011%
Tacoma Public Schools$10,0001n/a
Show all 37 grantees
All grantees of Rave Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Washington State Youth Soccer Association$35,00021%
Chinatown International District Preservation and Development Assoc$25,00012%
The Alliance for Pioneer Square$25,00011%
Cultures United$24,90526%
Positive Coaching Alliance$20,00020%
Dragons Fc$16,1451n/a
EarthGen Fka WA Green Schools$12,96020%
The Asia Foundation$12,0001n/a
SODO Business Improvement Area$10,00011%
Tacoma Public Schools$10,0001n/a
Jimi Hendrix Park Foundation$10,000189%
Seattle Parks Foundation$10,00010%
Northwest African American Museum$10,00010%
Chief Leschi Schools$10,0001n/a
Experience Learning Community$10,00010%
Boys and Girls Clubs of King County$9,00010%
Cocreative Culture$7,50014%
City of Tukwila$7,5001n/a
Pasco Parks and Recreation Department$7,5001n/a
City of Burien$7,5001n/a
America Scores Seattle$7,50013%
Intercity Soccer League$7,5001n/a
Rat City Fc$7,5001n/a
African Young Dreamers Empowerment Program Intl$7,50015%
Congolese Integration Network$7,50010%
Washington Youth Soccer Foundation$7,50016%
The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Seattle (6871)$7,50010%
Young Men's Christian Association of Pierce and Kitsap Counties$7,48010%
90 Plus Project$6,02812%
Providence Health & Services - Washington$5,64510%
Washington State Legends of Soccer$5,41514%
America Scores$5,0001n/a
Lady Yum$5,0001n/a
Flatstick Pub$5,0001n/a
Collins Pub$5,0001n/a
World Pizza LLC$5,0001n/a
Campus of Learners Foundation$5,00015%

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($85k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Rave Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWashington State Youth Soccer Association: $35,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetChinatown International District Preservation and Development Assoc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetThe Alliance for Pioneer Square: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCultures United: $24,905 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetPositive Coaching Alliance: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEarthGen Fka WA Green Schools: $12,960 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSODO Business Improvement Area: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetJimi Hendrix Park Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 89% of budgetSeattle Parks Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNorthwest African American Museum: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetExperience Learning Community: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of King County: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCocreative Culture: $7,500 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetAmerica Scores Seattle: $7,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetAfrican Young Dreamers Empowerment Program Intl: $7,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCongolese Integration Network: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWashington Youth Soccer Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Seattle (6871): $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Pierce and Kitsap Counties: $7,480 over 1y, 0.0% of budget90 Plus Project: $6,028 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetProvidence Health & Services - Washington: $5,645 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWashington State Legends of Soccer: $5,415 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCampus of Learners Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budget

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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 23.

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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.

Seattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…ArtsfundSchool's Out Washingt…Good Sports IncDick's Sporting Goods…Mightycause Charitabl…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Seattle FoundationWA19.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Artsfund · School's Out Washington · Good Sports Inc · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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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How do I get to Rave Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Rave Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Rave Foundation

How much does Rave Foundation give?
Rave Foundation reported 17 itemized grants totaling $160,068, out of $229,959 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Rave Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (29%), Public Safety & Disaster (18%), Youth Development (9%).
Who are Rave Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Washington State Youth Soccer Association ($35k), Chinatown International District Preservation and Development Assoc ($25k), The Alliance for Pioneer Square ($25k).
Does Rave Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Rave Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation, Artsfund.
Where is Rave Foundation based?
Rave Foundation is based in WA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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