Washington · Public charity
Washington Music Educators Association
To support music educators in an effort to ensure that every student in washington state has access to a comprehensive, sequential music education taught by a highly qualified instructor and certified teacher.
- $343k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 81%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $260k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,924
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 32
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $256k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 81% of the organizations Washington Music Educators Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 72% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k 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 | 42 | $260k | 98% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $239k | 81% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $90k | 64% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $115k | 83% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $130k | 95% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $80k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $42k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seattle Public Schools | $53,681 | 3 | n/a |
| Bethel School District 403 | $38,472 | 4 | n/a |
| Tacoma Public Schools | $25,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Marysville School District Foundation | $24,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Moses Lake School District | $20,376 | 2 | n/a |
| Peninsula School District | $15,287 | 2 | n/a |
| Wapato High School | $12,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Quincy School District | $12,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Wahkiakum School District | $11,310 | 1 | n/a |
| Spokane Public Schools Parent Teacher Organization | $11,200 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seattle Public Schools | $53,681 | 3 | n/a |
| Bethel School District 403 | $38,472 | 4 | n/a |
| Tacoma Public Schools | $25,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Marysville School District Foundation | $24,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Moses Lake School District | $20,376 | 2 | n/a |
| Peninsula School District | $15,287 | 2 | n/a |
| Wapato High School | $12,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Quincy School District | $12,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Wahkiakum School District | $11,310 | 1 | n/a |
| Spokane Public Schools Parent Teacher Organization | $11,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Clover Park School District | $11,186 | 2 | n/a |
| Anacortes School District | $10,875 | 1 | n/a |
| Bonney Lake High School(Sumner Bonney Lake Sd) | $8,843 | 1 | n/a |
| Puyallup School District | $7,056 | 1 | n/a |
| Franklin Pierce School District No 402 | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lakewood School District | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mount Vernon School District | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Freeman School District | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mansfield Isd | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Toledo School District | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cashmere School District 222 | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mabton School District #120 | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mt Adams School District | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ridgefield School District | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tumwater School District No33 | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sultan School District | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Newport School District | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Aberdeen School District | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Northshore School District | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Suquamish Elementary | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bellingham School District 501 | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Liberty School District | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Monroe School District | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Orting School District | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| South Kitsap School District | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Olympia Education Foundation | $6,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Highland School District #203 | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Oak Harbor | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wake Forest University Health Sciences | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Oakville School District | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Brewster School District | $5,980 | 1 | n/a |
| Evergreen School District | $5,977 | 1 | n/a |
| Wenatchee School District | $5,917 | 1 | n/a |
| Nine Mile Falls School District No 325179 | $5,784 | 1 | n/a |
| Snohomish School District | $5,689 | 1 | n/a |
| Edmonds School District | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Eastmont School District | $5,430 | 1 | n/a |
| Enumclaw School District | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Spokane Public School District #81 | $4,170 | 1 | n/a |
| Chehalis School District | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Federal Way Public Schools | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lake Washington School Distri | $3,634 | 1 | n/a |
| West Valley School District 363 | $3,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Tahoma School District | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 74 recipients with no EIN on record ($471k), not named here.
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: Washington First Robotics · Invested · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Building Changes · Page Ahead Childrens Literacy Prgm · School's Out Washington · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington · Share Our Strength · Round It Up America Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · Twinstar Community Foundation
How this is measured
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About Washington Music Educators Association
- How much does Washington Music Educators Association give?
- Washington Music Educators Association reported 42 itemized grants totaling $259,986, out of $343,460 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 32 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Washington Music Educators Association fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (96%), Arts & Culture (1%).
- Who are Washington Music Educators Association's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Seattle Public Schools ($54k), Bethel School District 403 ($38k), Tacoma Public Schools ($26k).
- Does Washington Music Educators Association fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 81% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Washington Music Educators Association?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Washington First Robotics, Invested, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST).
- Where is Washington Music Educators Association based?
- Washington Music Educators Association is based in WA.
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