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Seattle Pacific University

SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY is a christian university fully committed to engaging the culture and changing the world by graduating people of competence and character, becoming people of wisdom, and modeling grace-filled community.

$67M
Granted FY2020
12
Itemized grants FY2020
11
Organizations funded FY2020
9%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Itemized, FY2020
$168k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020
$13,450
Largest grant, FY2020
$23,450
Organizations funded a year
10 to 11
FY2019 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
2
Total assets, FY2020
$321M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 9% of the organizations Seattle Pacific University funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202011$144k9%
FY201910$190kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2020.

Religion$334kPhilanthropy$23k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lake Burien Prebyterian Church$34,0502n/a
Silverdale United Methodist Church$33,6502n/a
A Seattle Church$33,4502n/a
Rainier Ave Free Methodist Church$33,4502n/a
University Presbyterian Church$33,4502n/a
Westminster Presbyterian Church$33,4502n/a
New Earth Tierra Nueva$33,4502n/a
Lighthouse Christian Church$33,4502n/a
Redmond Foursquare Church$33,4502n/a
Renew Covenant Church - Seattle Wa$24,2502n/a
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All grantees of Seattle Pacific University by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lake Burien Prebyterian Church$34,0502n/a
Silverdale United Methodist Church$33,6502n/a
A Seattle Church$33,4502n/a
Rainier Ave Free Methodist Church$33,4502n/a
University Presbyterian Church$33,4502n/a
Westminster Presbyterian Church$33,4502n/a
New Earth Tierra Nueva$33,4502n/a
Lighthouse Christian Church$33,4502n/a
Redmond Foursquare Church$33,4502n/a
Renew Covenant Church - Seattle Wa$24,2502n/a
Presbyterian Church USA$8,2501n/a

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.

Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA8.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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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About Seattle Pacific University

How much does Seattle Pacific University give?
Seattle Pacific University reported 12 itemized grants totaling $167,800, out of $66,759,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 11 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2020.
What does Seattle Pacific University fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2020, its largest causes are Religion (93%), Philanthropy (7%).
Who are Seattle Pacific University's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2020: Lake Burien Prebyterian Church ($34k), Silverdale United Methodist Church ($34k), A Seattle Church ($33k).
Does Seattle Pacific University fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Seattle Pacific University?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Seattle Pacific University based?
Seattle Pacific University 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 12 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $43M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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