Washington · Private foundation
Thurston Charitable 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.
- $282k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 89
- Grants FY2025
- 92
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $16,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 71 to 93
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Thurston Charitable 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; $40k 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 | 86 | $280k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 92 | $270k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 93 | $294k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 78 | $272k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 78 | $228k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 71 | $224k | 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 recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sawtooth Botanical Garden | $68,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Kirkland Arts Center | $62,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Child Evangelism Fellowship Of Southern California Inc | $51,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Browns Valley Family Club | $51,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Seattle Opera | $50,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Overlake Hospital Foundation | $46,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Church of St Martin in the Fields | $41,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Culver Educational Foundation | $39,600 | 6 | 0% |
| Blaine County Hunger Coalition Inc | $39,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 116 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 65 recipients with no EIN on record ($431k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Thurston Charitable 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 · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Apex Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Wyman Youth Trust · United Way of King County · Bellevue Rotary Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Artsfund · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Overlake Medical Center & Clinics
How this is measured
About Thurston Charitable Foundation
- How much does Thurston Charitable Foundation give?
- Thurston Charitable Foundation reported 89 grants totaling $282,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 71 and 93 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Thurston Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (17%), Arts & Culture (15%), Education (12%).
- Who are Thurston Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Sawtooth Botanical Garden ($68k), Kirkland Arts Center ($62k), Child Evangelism Fellowship Of Southern California Inc ($51k).
- Does Thurston Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Thurston Charitable 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 Thurston Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation.
- Where is Thurston Charitable Foundation based?
- Thurston Charitable Foundation is based in WA.
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