Washington · Private foundation
Seattle-Sonoran Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $390k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 57
- Grants FY2024
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 52 to 56
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Seattle-Sonoran Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 | 57 | $390k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $323k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 55 | $352k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 55 | $617k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 55 | $300k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 52 | $280k | 19% |
| FY2018 | 56 | $303k | 16% |
| FY2017 | 53 | $245k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seattle Children's Foundation | $150,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Eastern Washington University Foundation | $130,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Green Corps Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $88,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | $85,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $71,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Global Partnerships | $65,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Explorer West an Independent Middle School | $65,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Washington Junior Golf Association | $55,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $52,500 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 82 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($689k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Seattle-Sonoran Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · United Way of King County · Gates Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · Real Progress Foundation · Medina Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation
How this is measured
About Seattle-Sonoran Foundation
- How much does Seattle-Sonoran Foundation give?
- Seattle-Sonoran Foundation reported 57 grants totaling $390,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 52 and 56 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Seattle-Sonoran Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (21%), Health (14%), Environment (14%).
- Who are Seattle-Sonoran Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Seattle Children's Foundation ($150k), Eastern Washington University Foundation ($130k), Green Corps Inc ($100k).
- Does Seattle-Sonoran Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Seattle-Sonoran Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Seattle-Sonoran Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation.
- Where is Seattle-Sonoran Foundation based?
- Seattle-Sonoran Foundation is based in WA.
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