Washington · Nonprofit
Foundation for the Seattle Colleges
Foundation for the Seattle Colleges (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,004,477 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($525,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $12
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $0
What Foundation for the Seattle Colleges does
Mission
The Foundation for the Seattle Colleges exists to advance fundraising efforts for the Seattle Community College District. We seek to attract financial resources which support students so they may be successful; maintain the quality and deepen the expertise of our faculty and staff and sustain an array of educational programs using state-of-the-art equipment and technology in modern facilities.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Pacific Tower is Seattle College's newest home for health education programs and a dynamic hub for some of the most vital and innovative community nonprofits. Pacific Tower fosters an exciting model for cross-organizational collaboration in health care, education, social services, and job creation. Through management of State capital funding, federal tax credits, and local government contributions, the Foundation for Seattle Colleges plays a critical, time limited, supporting role with several other partners.
$1,131,175 spentof which $1,094,957 as grants100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,131,175.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $41M to $1.2M (−97%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2018 20% · 2019 0% · 2021 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Traci Russell
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $991k → $5k.
From the IRS filings of Foundation for the Seattle Colleges’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Foundation for the Seattle Colleges leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 100% · 2022 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
Foundation for the Seattle Colleges draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like Foundation for the Seattle Colleges
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
11%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Foundation for the Seattle Colleges: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Foundation for the Seattle Colleges?
- Foundation for the Seattle Colleges (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,004,477 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($525,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Foundation for the Seattle Colleges have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,004,477 in grants to Foundation for the Seattle Colleges, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Foundation for the Seattle Colleges?
- JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $525,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Foundation for the Seattle Colleges find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing