Washington · Nonprofit
SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,519,425 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,076,150). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $4.5M
What Seattle International Foundation does
Mission
Seattle International Foundation (sif) champions equity and rule of law in central america through good governance and a robust civil society. Sif works with other donors to the region to increase philanthropy and to promote collaboration, learning, and coordination of efforts to address inequality in central america. Sif was founded as a type I supporting organization under irc section 509(a)(3) to seattle foundation for the purpose of increasing and enhancing international philanthropy efforts and development efforts from the pacific northwest.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Since 2008, sif has granted more than $40 million to 275 organizations in 84 countries, including $18 million in grants to central america. Sif hosts the central america donors forum, the premier networking and learning space to advance philanthropy and development efforts incentral america. The event brings together leaders from business, philanthropy, international donors, and civil society to discuss priority issues and successful models of development, and to explore co-investment for social impact. Sif also hosts the central america & mexico youthfund which supports leaders in central america in designing and implementing projects to improves the lives of local youth and their communities.
$3,605,429 spentof which $1,919,022 as grants$347,670 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,605,429.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $7.4M to $4.7M (−36%).
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: 2021 6% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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
Adriana Beltran
Sif executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $695k → $2.8M.
6 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.2M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION’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
SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
34% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 61% · 2019 29% · 2020 23% · 2021 23% · 2022 23% · 2023 22% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
53% of SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Against its field
SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5k on record.
- Department of State$5k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 16 related entities
- Seattle Foundation · exempt
- George P Hardgrove Foundation · exempt
- Tsf Properties · exempt
- Tsf Services · exempt
- The Whitehorse Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: 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 SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,519,425 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,076,150). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $19,519,425 in grants to SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,076,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 23 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