Washington · Private foundation
Sequoia Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 61
- Grants FY2025
- 66
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 51 to 67
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Sequoia Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $233k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 60 | $1.5M | 12% |
| FY2024 | 66 | $1.5M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 59 | $1.7M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 67 | $1.8M | 36% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $1.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Americas Automotive Trust | $850,000 | 5 | 10% |
| University of Washington Foundation | $545,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Tacoma Arts Live | $515,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Tacoma Art Museum | $420,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Museum of Glass | $280,000 | 4 | 2% |
| United Way of Pierce County | $270,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The University of Puget Sound | $250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Foundation for Tacoma Students | $200,000 | 3 | 4% |
| College Success Foundation | $150,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Northwest Immigrant Rights Project | $150,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 94 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sequoia Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 86 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · The Bamford Foundation · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · Forest Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Woodworth Family Foundation · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine · Heidner Marco J Char Trust · Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc · The Russell Family Foundation · Medina Foundation
How this is measured
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About Sequoia Foundation
- How much does Sequoia Foundation give?
- Sequoia Foundation reported 61 grants totaling $1,528,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 67 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Sequoia Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (37%), Education (22%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Sequoia Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Americas Automotive Trust ($850k), University of Washington Foundation ($545k), Tacoma Arts Live ($515k).
- Does Sequoia Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sequoia Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sequoia Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, The Bamford Foundation, Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn.
- Where is Sequoia Foundation based?
- Sequoia Foundation is based in WA.
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