Washington · Private foundation
The Costco Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $287k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 94
- Grants FY2025
- 81
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 81
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 24
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations The Costco Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $253k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 93 | $287k | 99% |
| FY2024 | 81 | $253k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 59 | $173k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 65 | $154k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $128k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $95k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest grants in FY2025.
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Leo Sebastian Orozco Serrano | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Ty and Victoria Hinzman | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,800 |
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About The Costco Foundation
- How much does The Costco Foundation give?
- The Costco Foundation reported 94 grants totaling $287,380 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 81 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Costco Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (82%), Public Safety & Disaster (11%).
- Does The Costco Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Costco Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is The Costco Foundation based?
- The Costco Foundation is based in WA.
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