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The Bullitt Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.4M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
56
Grants FY2024
138
Organizations funded FY2023
31%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$45,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$125,000
Organizations funded a year
125 to 157
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$46M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 31% of the organizations The Bullitt Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving48$2.4M10%
FY2023138$6.1M31%
FY2022139$5.6M29%
FY2021125$4.5M26%
FY2020157$5.9M32%
FY2019132$6.9M28%
FY2018132$4.9M62%
FY2017148$4.8Mn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$27MEducation$2.8MCommunity Improvement$2.3MPhilanthropy$1.5MCivil Rights$1.1MRecreation & Sports$1.1MFood & Nutrition$912kHousing & Shelter$835kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 317 grantees
All grantees of The Bullitt Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Earth Day Network Inc$3,050,375433%
University of Washington Foundation$1,618,34480%
Washington Conservation Action Education Fund$794,14068%
Nw Energy Coalition$661,485511%
Oregon Environmental Council$657,50076%
Transportation Choices Coalition$631,500711%
Seattle Parks Foundation$573,63074%
Futurewise$553,000610%
350 Seattle$545,518712%
Sunrise Movement Education Fund$500,00025%
Verde Inc$495,00054%
International Living Future Institute$495,00062%
Toxic-Free Future F/K/A Washington Toxics Coalition$480,07555%
Sightline Institute$475,00056%
Forterra Nw$455,21061%
BlueGreen Alliance Foundation$440,00062%
Climate Solutions$432,15073%
Sustainable Northwest$365,00063%
Ecotrust$340,50081%
Renewable Northwest Project Dba Renewable Northwest$326,80048%
Seattle 2030 District$322,000527%
Portland State University Foundation$315,00040%
Seattle Neighborhood Greenways$310,000518%
Coalition of Communities of Color$285,00055%
Earthjustice$280,45040%
Resource Media$280,00052%
Washington State University Foundation$275,00060%
Neighbors for Clean Air$275,000524%
Opal$265,000512%
350pdx$260,000614%
Spark Northwest$260,00057%
Center for Sustainable Infrastructure$260,000514%
Puget Sound Sage$255,00048%
Willamette Partnership$255,00053%
Health Care Without Harm$255,00051%
The Wilderness Society$253,75070%
Washington Conservation Action$250,65029%
InvestigateWest$245,000613%
Zero Waste Washington$245,00059%
Northwest Environmental Defense Center$245,000542%
Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG$240,00046%
Willamette Riverkeeper$237,12557%
Conservation Nw$231,45072%
Center for Sustainable Economy$225,000518%
Northwest Natural Resource Group$225,00059%
EarthGen Fka WA Green Schools$220,47559%
Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility$215,200711%
Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc$210,00051%
Fuse Innovation Fund$210,00035%
Latino Community Fund of Washington State$206,20032%
Clean Production Action Inc$202,70053%
Re Sources$200,00052%
The Intertwine Alliance Foundation$198,500521%
Communities for a Healthy Bay$195,750511%
Columbia Land Trust$185,00051%
Foundation for Western Washington University and Alumni$185,00050%
Community Roots Housing Foundation$180,00038%
Columbia Riverkeeper$180,00052%
Birds Connect Seattle$177,27565%
American Farmland Trust$175,00050%
Citizens Utility Board$175,00054%
Ecodistricts$175,000428%
The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust$175,00051%
Tualatin Riverkeepers Inc$170,000511%
Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility$170,000412%
Society of Environmental Journalists Inc$170,00026%
Sierra Club Foundation$170,00040%
Front and Centered$166,50034%
Housing Development Consortium of Seattle - King County$160,61145%
Urban Greenspaces Institute$160,150530%
Cascade Bicycle Club$160,00042%
Earth Ministry$160,000514%
Urban Sustainability Directors Network$155,00042%
1000 Friends of Oregon$155,00043%
Kuow Puget Sound Public Radio$151,48460%
Global Philanthropy Partnership$150,00012%
The Street Trust Community Fund$150,00054%
Forth Mobility Fund$150,00035%
Coltura$150,000426%
Organic Seed Alliance$140,00035%
Salmon-Safe Inc$140,00046%
Oneamerica$131,00022%
Puget Soundkeeper Alliance$130,00043%
Black Farmers Collective$125,000229%
Urban Forest Carbon Registry$125,000332%
Washington Community Action Network Education & Research Fund$125,00033%
Carpe Diem West$121,250364%
Environmental Protection Network$120,000216%
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators$120,00033%
Breach Collective$117,50037%
Got Green$110,07537%
Thurston Climate Action Team$110,000426%
Institute for Washingtons Future$110,00024%
River Network$105,00032%
Washington Wildlife & Recreation Coalition$105,00046%
Friends of Seattle Waterfront$105,00020%
Win Win Network$103,250110%
Northwest Earth Institute$100,000116%
My Green Lab$100,00023%
Power Shift Network$100,00025%
Friends of the Columbia Gorge$100,00042%
Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides$100,000311%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$100,00030%
Grow$100,000227%
The Common Acre$97,500315%
El Centro de la Raza$95,62420%
The Trust for Public Land$95,50040%
Tilth Alliance$95,00022%
Food Forest Collective$90,000258%
Apano Communities United Fund$90,00022%
Western Environmental Law Center$90,00031%
Stewardship Partners$90,00043%
Crag Law Center$90,00042%
Western Rivers Conservancy$90,00030%
University District Service League$86,75021%
WaterWatch of Oregon$85,00034%
Our Climate Education Fund$85,00037%
The Student Conservation Association Inc$85,00030%
Washington Association of Land Trusts$84,000412%
Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association$81,63822%
Institute for Sustainable Communities$80,00021%
Earth Economics$77,00023%
Sustainable Seattle$75,750410%
Northwest Ecobuilding Guild$75,000219%
Feed Seven Generations$75,000114%
The Forest Park Conservancy$75,00043%
Environment Washington Research & Policy Center Inc$70,0002n/a
Facing Homelessness$70,00023%
Sound Generations$66,00010%
Xerces Society Inc$65,00030%
Earthcorps$65,00031%
Chief Seattle Club$63,00020%
Somali Community Services of Seattle$61,87018%
Clean Energy Transition Institute$60,00027%
Climate Defense Project$60,000222%
Villa Comunitaria$60,00014%
South Seattle Emerald$60,00017%
Shunpike$60,00011%
Columbia Slough Watershed Council Inc$60,00034%
Unkitawa$60,00012%
Lake City Collective$60,000212%
Friends of the San Juans$60,00035%
Environmental Coalition of South Seattle$55,00013%
Na'ah Illahee Fund$50,23134%
National Audubon Society Inc$50,00010%
Northwest Community Bail Fund$50,00011%
Stand$50,00012%
Conservation Voters for Idaho Education Fund Inc$50,000113%
The Center for Impact Communications Inc$50,00017%
Apano$50,000116%
Asian Counseling and Referral Service$50,00010%
Tiny Trees Preschool$50,00013%
March on Maryland$50,00012%
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry$50,00010%
University of Oregon Foundation$50,00010%
Washington Water Trust$45,00013%
Pinchot Institute for Conservation$45,00015%
Lewis & Clark College$45,00010%
The Backpack Academy$43,300123%
Idaho Conservation League Inc$42,50012%
Refed Inc$40,00011%
EcoAdapt$40,00013%
The Oregon League of Conservation Voters Education Fund$40,00015%
Friends of Clark County$40,0002n/a
Renewable Energy Alaska Project$40,00015%
Interim Community Development Association$40,00011%
National Fisheries Conservation Center$40,000127%
The Funders Network Inc$40,00030%
Hmong Association of Washington$40,00019%
Black Dollar Days Task Force$40,0001n/a
Pcc Farmland Trust$40,00012%
Imagine Black$40,000119%
Northwest Film Forum$40,00013%
Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians$40,00013%
Key Tech Labs$36,625155%
Sawhorse Revolution$35,36214%
Grist Magazine Inc$35,00030%
The Great Land Trust Inc$35,00012%
Cook Inletkeeper$35,00013%
Wing Luke Memorial Foundation$33,81511%
Food Empowerment Education Sustainability Team$32,70013%
Somali Family Safety Task Force Somali Family Safety Task Force$32,12513%
SnoValley Tilth$30,1501n/a
Self Enhancement Inc$30,00010%
Institute for Food and Development Policy Inc$30,00014%
Muslimahs Against Abuse Center$30,00017%
Serve Ethiopians Washington$30,000112%
Craft3$30,00010%
Smart Growth America$30,00010%
Portland Parks Foundation$30,00023%
Partners for Livable Communities Inc$25,0001n/a
Seattle University$25,00020%
Friends of Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge$25,00025%
Montana Conservation Voters Education Fund$25,0001n/a
The Alaska Center Education Fund$25,00011%
Sustainable Connections$25,00012%
Green Lents$25,000113%
Trout Unlimited Inc$25,00010%
Colorado State University Foundation$20,37520%
Kachemak Heritage Land Trust Inc$20,00014%
Earth Creative$20,00045%
Environment Oregon Research and Policy Center Inc$20,0001n/a
Earth Guardians$20,00013%
Community Cycling Center$20,0001n/a
Charitable Partnership Fund$20,0001n/a
Trustees for Alaska$17,50011%
Recode$16,0001n/a
Advocates for the West Inc$15,00011%
The Center for Cultural Power$15,00010%
The Lands Council$15,00013%
Creative Visions Foundation$15,00010%
Clark Fork Coalition$15,00011%
Vashon Island Growers Association$15,0001n/a
Oceans Initiative$10,00021%
Feet First$10,000124%
Environmental Law Institute$10,00010%
Rocky Mountain Institute$9,50040%
Caldera Action$9,0003n/a
Washington Progress Fund$8,00030%
501 Commons$7,73230%
The Whidbey Institute$7,50011%
Cascadia Action$5,0001n/a
Puget Sound Restoration Fund$5,00010%
Sound Action$5,00014%
The Seattle Aquarium Society$5,00010%
Olympia Ecosystems$4,5001n/a
United Way of King County$4,00010%
University of Washington$3,6752n/a
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project$3,15060%
Gig Harbor Now$3,08711%
El Morro Area Arts Council$2,8507n/a
Oh Be Dogful Rescue Inc$2,5255n/a
Social Venture Partners$2,50010%
College Success Foundation$2,50010%
The Humane Society for Seattleking County$2,44750%
350org$2,30030%
Washington Appleseed$2,25012%
Oregon Stewardship$2,10030%
Resilient Hearts Animal Sanctuary$2,10011%
Thornton Creek Parent Group$2,04060%
Hanford Challenge Corporation$2,00010%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc$2,00010%
Northwest Harvest Emm$1,80030%
Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance$1,79230%
Seattle Girls' School$1,65030%
The Living Breath Foundation$1,55050%
Old Dog Haven$1,53470%
Loyola High School of Los Angeles$1,5002n/a
Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle$1,50010%
Rvc Seattle$1,43520%
Physicians for Social Responsibility$1,20010%
Children & Nature Network$1,20010%
Highland Terrace PTA 6 12 25$1,2003n/a
Shepherd's Center of Greater Winston-Salem Inc$1,10060%
Soda Mountain Wilderness Council$1,07530%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$1,00010%
Room One$1,00010%
Summer Search$97530%
Empower Mt$92710%
Santa Fe Animal Shelter and Humane Society Inc$92540%
Friends of Missoula Parks Inc$90011%
The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Seattle (6871)$90010%
Animal Legal Defense Fund Inc$82530%
Community Day Center for Children$78110%
Maris Place$77020%
Chinatown International District Preservation and Development Assoc$75010%
Oso Vista Ranch$7501n/a
Open Arms Perinatal Services$75020%
Environmental Education Assoc of Nm$75011%
Corporation of Gonzaga University$67530%
Breakthrough T1d$66010%
Pro Publica Inc$60010%
Alliance for Gun Responsibility$60020%
Explorer West an Independent Middle School$60010%
Maui Humane Society$60010%
Siskiyou Mountain Club$54010%
Pacific Public Media$54010%
Native Plant Society of New Mexico$53040%
Queen Anne Helpline$50010%
Washington Trails Association$46530%
Westside Baby$45010%
Santa Fe Community Orchestra$40020%
Arte Noir$38010%
Technology Access Foundation$37510%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$37510%
Scholar Fund$37510%
Blood Cancer United Inc$37520%
Dysautonomia International Inc$37510%
We Need Diverse Books$37510%
Seattle Public Library Foundation$31510%
Pike Place Market Foundation$30910%
Low Income Housing Institute$30010%
Kind Inc$30010%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$30010%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$30010%
Cascade Public Media$30010%
Lymphoma Research Foundation$30010%
Our Children's Trust$30010%
Washington University$30010%
Alliance for Education$30010%
The Barack Obama Foundation$30010%
College Access Now$3001n/a
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc$30020%
History Ink$23310%
Path With Art$22510%
Friends of Cloud Mountain$18010%
Seattles Union Gospel Mission$1501n/a
NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc$15010%
Harmony Fund Inc$15010%
Anir Foundation$1501n/a
Magnuson Off-Leash Group$1501n/a
Kids in Concert Inc$15010%
Gay City Health Project$15010%
Higher Heights Leadership Fund$10510%
Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc$10010%
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center$1001n/a
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$7510%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 121 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Bullitt Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 14 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEarth Day Network Inc: $3,050,375 over 4y, 33% of budgetUniversity of Washington Foundation: $1,618,344 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetWashington Conservation Action Education Fund: $794,140 over 6y, 8.3% of budgetNw Energy Coalition: $661,485 over 5y, 11% of budgetOregon Environmental Council: $657,500 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetTransportation Choices Coalition: $631,500 over 7y, 11% of budgetSeattle Parks Foundation: $573,630 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetFuturewise: $553,000 over 6y, 10% of budget350 Seattle: $545,518 over 7y, 12% of budgetSunrise Movement Education Fund: $500,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetVerde Inc: $495,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetInternational Living Future Institute: $495,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetToxic-Free Future F/K/A Washington Toxics Coalition: $480,075 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetSightline Institute: $475,000 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetForterra Nw: $455,210 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetBlueGreen Alliance Foundation: $440,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetClimate Solutions: $432,150 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetSustainable Northwest: $365,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetEcotrust: $340,500 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetRenewable Northwest Project Dba Renewable Northwest: $326,800 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetSeattle 2030 District: $322,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetPortland State University Foundation: $315,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSeattle Neighborhood Greenways: $310,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetCoalition of Communities of Color: $285,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetEarthjustice: $280,450 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetResource Media: $280,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetWashington State University Foundation: $275,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNeighbors for Clean Air: $275,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetOpal: $265,000 over 5y, 12% of budget350pdx: $260,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetSpark Northwest: $260,000 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetCenter for Sustainable Infrastructure: $260,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetPuget Sound Sage: $255,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetWillamette Partnership: $255,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetHealth Care Without Harm: $255,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetThe Wilderness Society: $253,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWashington Conservation Action: $250,650 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetInvestigateWest: $245,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetZero Waste Washington: $245,000 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetNorthwest Environmental Defense Center: $245,000 over 5y, 42% of budgetDuwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG: $240,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetWillamette Riverkeeper: $237,125 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetConservation Nw: $231,450 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetCenter for Sustainable Economy: $225,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetNorthwest Natural Resource Group: $225,000 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetEarthGen Fka WA Green Schools: $220,475 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetWashington Physicians for Social Responsibility: $215,200 over 7y, 11% of budgetBird Alliance of Oregon Inc: $210,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budget

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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 200.

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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 FoundationWA95.6× affinity121 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · The Russell Family Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Norcliffe Foundation · Stolte Family Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment · Kaleidoscope Foundation · Social Justice Fund Northwest · Ridge Road Foundation · United States Energy Foundation

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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How do I get to The Bullitt Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Bullitt Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Bullitt Foundation

How much does The Bullitt Foundation give?
The Bullitt Foundation reported 56 grants totaling $2,441,654 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 125 and 157 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Bullitt Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (64%), Education (7%), Community Improvement (5%).
Who are The Bullitt Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Earth Day Network Inc ($3.1M), University of Washington Foundation ($1.6M), Washington Conservation Action Education Fund ($794k).
Does The Bullitt Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Bullitt 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 The Bullitt Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, The Satterberg Foundation Inc, The Russell Family Foundation.
Where is The Bullitt Foundation based?
The Bullitt Foundation is based in WA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 446 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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