Washington · Public charity
Seattle Symphony Foundation
The primary purpose of the SEATTLE SYMPHONY FOUNDATION is to aid and support the seattle symphony orchestra and benaroya hall music center endowments.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2024
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,636,035
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,636,035
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 2
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $49M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Seattle Symphony Foundation 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; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 2 | $1.7M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $1.5M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $1.4M | 50% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $1.3M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $1.5M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $1.5M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $1.5M | 0% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $1.5M | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Arts & Culture$12M
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 Symphony Orchestra Inc | $11,911,048 | 8 | 5% |
| B H Music Center | $48,111 | 3 | 0% |
About Seattle Symphony Foundation
- How much does Seattle Symphony Foundation give?
- Seattle Symphony Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $1,657,423 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Seattle Symphony Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (100%).
- Who are Seattle Symphony Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Seattle Symphony Orchestra Inc ($12M), B H Music Center ($48k).
- Does Seattle Symphony Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is Seattle Symphony Foundation based?
- Seattle Symphony Foundation is based in WA.
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