Washington · Private foundation
Raven Trust Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $3.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 65
- Grants FY2024
- 66
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,570,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 72
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $53M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations Raven Trust Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 62 | $3.9M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 66 | $4.1M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 67 | $3.5M | 6% |
| FY2021 | 72 | $2.2M | 11% |
| FY2020 | 71 | $2.2M | 99% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $1.2M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $1.1M | 0% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $850k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oxbow Center for Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment | $12,943,000 | 7 | 74% |
| The Seattle Aquarium Society | $525,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | $128,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Discovery Institute | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Washington | $116,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Woodland Park Zoological Society | $96,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Stewardship Partners | $95,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Pacific Science Center Foundation | $91,000 | 5 | 0% |
| United Way of King County | $60,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Rainier Scholars | $56,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 72 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Raven Trust Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 70 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Gates Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · United Way of King County · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Artsfund · Medina Foundation
How this is measured
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About Raven Trust Fund
- How much does Raven Trust Fund give?
- Raven Trust Fund reported 65 grants totaling $3,866,227 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 72 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Raven Trust Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (64%), Human Services (18%), Philanthropy (7%).
- Who are Raven Trust Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Oxbow Center for Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment ($13M), The Seattle Aquarium Society ($525k), Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ($128k).
- Does Raven Trust Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Raven Trust Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Raven Trust Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation, M J Murdock Charitable Trust.
- Where is Raven Trust Fund based?
- Raven Trust Fund is based in WA.
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