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Seattle Parks Foundation

We partner with community to champion thriving and equitable parks and public spaces.

$308k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$173k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Community Improvement$410kYouth Development$391kEnvironment$53kRecreation & Sports$26kArts & Culture$20kCivil Rights$6k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $220,776 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $307,929 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $87,153 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $48k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $173k
$27,876
Median grant
2
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KING COUNTY PLAY EQUITY COALITION$172,900
TILTH ALLIANCE$27,876
ASIAN ARTS INITIATIVE$20,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $410k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%POSSIBILITY LABS: $410k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Rainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalition

Rainier Beach Action Coalition is a grassroot, Black-led organization devoted to locally driven development. It promotes quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing, and building community capacity in…

Community Improvement
2
We Heart Seattle

We Heart Seattle is an action-based, boots-on-the-ground movement that organizes trash cleanups in our public spaces and offers resources to those in need. Through our direct civic engagement we lead the way to a more compassionate and…

Community Improvement
3
Coast Salish Youth Coalition

To cultivate the next generation of culturally engaged environmental stewards.

Environment
4
Washington Community Alliance

Washington Community Alliance WCA is a statewide network of over 70 organizations working to advance multiracial social democracy by coordinating values aligned civic engagement

Civil Rights
5
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
6
Washington Bikes

Washington Bikes works to ensure that all who ride a bicycle in Washington have safe comfortable and convenient places to ride. Organization advocates for bicyclists rights and shapes policies.

Recreation & Sports
7
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
8
Asians for Collective Action

Asians for Collective Action (ACA) harnesses the strenghts of Asians and Asian Americans to drive systemic change to create a just, healthy, and thriving community for all.

Public Benefit
9
Pathwaves Washington

Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.

Education
10
The Common Acre

The common Acre restores relationships between people and the land through ecology, agriculture and art.

Arts & Culture
11
Re Sources

RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.

Environment
12
The Alliance for Pioneer Square

Neighborhood revitalization and community economic development within the Pioneer Square district of Seattle

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Parks Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - Tag. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

POSSIBILITY LABS — $410,098 · Human ServicesPOSSIBILITY LABSKing County Play Equity Coalition — $382,900 · Youth DevelopmentKing County Play Equity CoalitionTILTH ALLIANCE — $27,876 · EnvironmentDuwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG — $20,000 · EnvironmentBraided Seeds — $5,375 · EnvironmentSEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsBike Works Seattle — $8,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTER FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE THROUGH SPORT — $5,500 · Recreation & SportsAsian Arts Initiative — $20,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED INDIANS OF ALL TRIBES FOUNDATION — $5,750 · Other
Human Services$410,098Youth Development$382,900Environment$53,251Recreation & Sports$33,500Arts & Culture$20,000Other$5,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPOSSIBILITY LABS — $410,098 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKing County Play Equity Coalition — $382,900 over 2y, 56% of budgetDuwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG — $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAsian Arts Initiative — $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBike Works Seattle — $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED INDIANS OF ALL TRIBES FOUNDATION — $5,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE THROUGH SPORT — $5,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBraided Seeds — $5,375 over 1y, 2.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Seattle FoundationWA14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · School's Out Washington · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Seattle Parks Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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