· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k41 grants · $248k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Yelm School District | $11,924 |
| Highland Middle School | $9,000 |
| Frontier Middle School | $7,440 |
| PUYALLUP SCHOOL DISTRICT | $7,056 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Mount Rainer High School | $6,000 |
| Oroville School District | $6,000 |
| Aberdeen School District | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Franklin Pierce School Distri | $6,000 |
| TOPS K-8 School | $6,000 |
| Lake Stevens Middle School | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Emerson Elementary | $6,000 |
| Peperzal Middle School | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 41 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPSeattle Public Schools3× · 2018–2020 · $54k
- BSBethel School District 4034× · 2019–2024 · $38k
- TPTACOMA PUBLIC SCHOOLS3× · 2020–2024 · $26k
Funded once
- WSWAHKIAKUM SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2024 · $11k
- SPSPOKANE PUBLIC SCHOOLS PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATIONone grant, 2024 · $11k
- GSGRANDVIEW SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2019 · $11k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1 of the 128 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Washington Music Educators Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Washington Music Educators Association. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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