How much does The Foster Foundation give?

The Foster Foundation reported 59 grants totaling $2,297,792 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 57 and 61 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does The Foster Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (38%), Health (17%), Human Services (8%).

Who are The Foster Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: University of Washington ($1.6M), The Overlake School ($1.1M), St Thomas School ($700k).

Does The Foster Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Foster Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Foster Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, United Way of King County.

Where is The Foster Foundation based?

The Foster Foundation is based in WA.

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Washington · Private foundation

The Foster Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 59
Grants FY2024: 61
Organizations funded FY2023: 5%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $750,000
Organizations funded a year: 57 to 61; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $57M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 5% of the organizations The Foster Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

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	58	$2.2M	3%
FY2023	61	$2.1M	5%
FY2022	60	$1.8M	15%
FY2021	57	$1.7M	5%
FY2020	60	$2.3M	n/a

98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$4.1MHealth$1.8MHuman Services$835kPhilanthropy$654kHousing & Shelter$490kArts & Culture$300kFood & Nutrition$210kAnimals$173kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Washington	$1,645,000	2	n/a
The Overlake School	$1,050,000	5	1%
St Thomas School	$700,000	3	2%
Swedish Medical Center Foundation	$600,000	5	1%
Overlake Hospital Foundation	$325,000	5	1%
Seattle Art Museum	$250,000	5	0%
Together Center	$205,000	5	4%
Northwest Harvest Emm	$155,000	5	0%
Outdoors for all Foundation	$107,500	5	1%
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	$90,000	5	0%

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All grantees of The Foster Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Washington	$1,645,000	2	n/a
The Overlake School	$1,050,000	5	1%
St Thomas School	$700,000	3	2%
Swedish Medical Center Foundation	$600,000	5	1%
Overlake Hospital Foundation	$325,000	5	1%
Seattle Art Museum	$250,000	5	0%
Together Center	$205,000	5	4%
Northwest Harvest Emm	$155,000	5	0%
Outdoors for all Foundation	$107,500	5	1%
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	$90,000	5	0%
Youthcare	$65,000	5	0%
The Big Table	$60,000	5	1%
Tilth Alliance	$55,000	5	0%
Kindering Center	$55,000	5	0%
Northwest Center	$55,000	5	0%
Low Income Housing Institute	$55,000	5	0%
Ryther	$55,000	5	0%
Jubilee Women's Center	$55,000	5	1%
Youth Eastside Services	$55,000	5	0%
Mary's Place Seattle	$55,000	5	0%
Compass Housing Alliance	$55,000	5	0%
Downtown Emergency Service Center	$55,000	5	0%
Treehouse	$55,000	5	0%
New Beginnings	$55,000	5	0%
Amara	$55,000	5	0%
Farestart	$55,000	5	0%
Hopelink	$55,000	5	0%
Boyer Children's Clinic	$55,000	5	0%
Bellevue Schools Foundation	$50,000	5	1%
Rainier Scholars	$50,000	5	0%
Neighborcare Health	$50,000	5	0%
Cancer Lifeline	$50,000	5	1%
Wellspring Family Services	$50,000	5	0%
Upower	$50,000	5	2%
Healthpoint	$50,000	5	0%
Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer	$50,000	5	1%
Seattle Opera	$50,000	5	0%
The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Seattle (6871)	$50,000	5	0%
Providence Hospice of Seattle Foundation	$50,000	5	1%
Hamlin Robinson School	$50,000	5	0%
Camp Korey	$45,000	4	0%
Childhaven	$45,000	4	0%
Medic One Foundation	$40,000	4	0%
Evergreen Goodwill of Northwest Washington	$35,000	2	0%
Pacific Science Center Foundation	$30,000	3	0%
Sound Generations	$30,000	3	0%
Jubilee REACH	$29,409	3	0%
Catholic Community Services of Western Washington	$25,000	3	0%
Conservation International Foundation	$22,000	2	0%
America Scores Seattle	$20,000	2	7%
Lifelong Health for All	$20,000	2	0%
Rise Above	$15,000	2	1%
Bellevue Boys & Girls Clubs Inc	$15,000	2	0%
Lahai Health	$10,000	1	0%
Pasado's Safe Haven	$10,000	1	0%
Maddie's Place	$10,000	1	1%
Full Life Care	$10,000	1	0%
Childrens Home Society of Washington	$10,000	1	0%
Hatch School	$10,000	1	2%
Friends of Hoop Seattle	$5,000	1	2%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Foster Foundation supplied at peak.

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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 59.

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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 FoundationWA65.8× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · United Way of King County · The Norcliffe Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Grousemont Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Medina Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Elizabeth a Lynn Foundation · Lucky Seven 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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About The Foster Foundation

How much does The Foster Foundation give?: The Foster Foundation reported 59 grants totaling $2,297,792 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 57 and 61 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Foster Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (38%), Health (17%), Human Services (8%).
Who are The Foster Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: University of Washington ($1.6M), The Overlake School ($1.1M), St Thomas School ($700k).
Does The Foster Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Foster Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Foster Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, United Way of King County.
Where is The Foster Foundation based?: The Foster Foundation is based in WA.