How much does Seattle Peoples Fund give?

Seattle Peoples Fund reported 16 grants totaling $56,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Seattle Peoples Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (22%), Arts & Culture (21%), Human Services (16%).

Who are Seattle Peoples Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Rvc Seattle ($46k), Deaf Spotlight ($24k), Lao Senior Outreach ($15k).

Does Seattle Peoples Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Seattle Peoples 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 Seattle Peoples Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Inatai Foundation, Philanthropy Northwest.

Where is Seattle Peoples Fund based?

Seattle Peoples Fund is based in WA.

Foundation Dossiers

Washington · Private foundation

Seattle Peoples Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$56k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 16
Grants FY2025: 10
Organizations funded FY2024: 40%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $4,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $5,000
Organizations funded a year: 10 to 16; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $830k
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Seattle Peoples Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureInternationalOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	13	$56k	38%
FY2024	10	$45k	40%
FY2023	11	$52k	64%
FY2022	14	$54k	57%
FY2021	16	$37k	44%
FY2020	13	$38k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Community Improvement$61kArts & Culture$58kHuman Services$45kCivil Rights$28kEducation$25kInternational$15kFood & Nutrition$12kCrime & Legal$11kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Rvc Seattle	$46,000	6	0%
Deaf Spotlight	$23,500	6	2%
Lao Senior Outreach	$15,000	3	11%
Amigos de Seattle	$9,500	3	2%
Alimentando Al Pueblo	$9,000	2	3%
Radio Enthusiasts of Puget Sound	$8,000	2	4%
Iraqi Community Center of Washington	$7,500	3	n/a
Colectiva Legal del Pueblo	$7,500	1	0%
Na'ah Illahee Fund	$7,500	2	0%
Malawi Seattle Association - Msa	$5,500	2	n/a

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All grantees of Seattle Peoples Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Rvc Seattle	$46,000	6	0%
Deaf Spotlight	$23,500	6	2%
Lao Senior Outreach	$15,000	3	11%
Amigos de Seattle	$9,500	3	2%
Alimentando Al Pueblo	$9,000	2	3%
Radio Enthusiasts of Puget Sound	$8,000	2	4%
Iraqi Community Center of Washington	$7,500	3	n/a
Colectiva Legal del Pueblo	$7,500	1	0%
Na'ah Illahee Fund	$7,500	2	0%
Malawi Seattle Association - Msa	$5,500	2	n/a
Childstrive	$5,000	2	0%
New Hope Lutheran Church	$5,000	1	n/a
Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle	$5,000	1	0%
United Territories of Pacific Islanders Washington-Utopia Wa	$5,000	2	0%
Pacific Islander Community Association of WA	$5,000	2	0%
Food Empowerment Education Sustainability Team	$4,500	2	0%
Village of Hope	$4,500	2	1%
Shunpike	$4,500	2	0%
Asian Counseling and Referral Service	$4,500	1	0%
Women United	$4,000	1	4%
The Rhapsody Project	$4,000	1	n/a
Drivers Solidarity and Resource Center	$3,000	1	n/a
Brazil Center	$3,000	1	6%
Somali Family Safety Task Force Somali Family Safety Task Force	$3,000	1	0%
Evergreen Empowerment Group	$3,000	1	n/a
Scholar Fund	$2,500	1	0%
Southeast Seattle Education Coalition	$2,500	1	1%
Hmong Association of Washington	$2,500	1	1%
Organizacion Centroamericana Co Garinagu Houngua	$2,500	1	n/a
Tibetan Association of Washing	$2,000	1	1%
Integration Family Services	$2,000	1	1%
Northwest Film Forum	$1,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($63k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Seattle Peoples Fund supplied at peak.

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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 25.

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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 FoundationWA46.6× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Inatai Foundation · Philanthropy Northwest · Artsfund · United Way of King County · School's Out Washington · Gates Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Brant Foundation · Front and Centered · The Bullitt Foundation · Northwest Harvest Emm

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 Peoples Fund

How much does Seattle Peoples Fund give?: Seattle Peoples Fund reported 16 grants totaling $56,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Seattle Peoples Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (22%), Arts & Culture (21%), Human Services (16%).
Who are Seattle Peoples Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Rvc Seattle ($46k), Deaf Spotlight ($24k), Lao Senior Outreach ($15k).
Does Seattle Peoples Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Seattle Peoples 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 Seattle Peoples Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Inatai Foundation, Philanthropy Northwest.
Where is Seattle Peoples Fund based?: Seattle Peoples Fund is based in WA.