Delaware · Private foundation
Start It Foundation
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.
- $25k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $552k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Start It Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750 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 | 15 | $25k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $21k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $26k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $30k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $25k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $27k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $28k | 42% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $30k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5th Avenue Theatre Association | $44,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Seattle Theatre Group | $44,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Experience Learning Community | $34,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Village Theatre | $31,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Theatre Development Fund Inc | $14,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Pacific Science Center Foundation | $9,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Hispanic Federation Inc | $9,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Actors' Fund of America | $8,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Carl Safina Center Inc the Safina Center | $7,388 | 4 | 1% |
| Museum of Flight Foundation | $5,500 | 5 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5th Avenue Theatre Association | $44,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Seattle Theatre Group | $44,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Experience Learning Community | $34,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Village Theatre | $31,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Theatre Development Fund Inc | $14,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Pacific Science Center Foundation | $9,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Hispanic Federation Inc | $9,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Actors' Fund of America | $8,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Carl Safina Center Inc the Safina Center | $7,388 | 4 | 1% |
| Museum of Flight Foundation | $5,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Santa Clara County Kinship Adoptive & Foster Parent Association | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| A Broader Way Foundation | $3,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc | $3,400 | 5 | 0% |
| Living Computer Museum & Labs | $3,020 | 3 | 1% |
| Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Childhaven | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Broadway Bound Childrens Theatre | $1,687 | 3 | 0% |
| Seattle Art Museum | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| West Seattle Food Bank | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Book-It Repertory Theatre | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Vera Project | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| South Seattle Emerald | $750 | 1 | 0% |
| Equity in Education Coalition | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Start It 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 · Artsfund · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · United Way of King County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Raikes Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Ash Family Foundation · Dv & Ida McEachern Charitable Tr · Apex Foundation
How this is measured
About Start It Foundation
- How much does Start It Foundation give?
- Start It Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $24,888 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Start It Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (75%), Science & Tech (5%), Community Improvement (4%).
- Who are Start It Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: 5th Avenue Theatre Association ($44k), Seattle Theatre Group ($44k), Experience Learning Community ($34k).
- Does Start It Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Start It Foundation 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 Start It Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Artsfund, Mightycause Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Start It Foundation based?
- Start It Foundation is based in DE.
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