Washington · Nonprofit
SEATTLE NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS
SEATTLE NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS (Washington) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,200,781 to it, the largest being Bowline Fund ($1,037,704). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $924k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $941k
What Seattle Neighborhood Greenways does
Mission
Seattle Neighborhood Greenways organizes and mobilizes people to make every neighborhood a great place to walk, bike, roll and live.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Safer Streets Connected Communities: We continue to advocate for a city where everyone can walk, bike, and thrive. Through community engagement, thought leadership, and coalition building, we helped secure the largest investment in pedestrian and bike safety in Seattles history, ensuring better sidewalks, bike lanes, and safer streets for years to come. After years of community advocacy, we celebrated the completion of key projects like the MLK Jr. Way S Safety Project, improving walking and biking between the Central District and South Seattle. Construction began on key corridors, including Beacon Ave, Eastlake Ave, and E Marginal Way, while smaller projects included upgraded sidewalks, crossings, and greenways citywide, adding safety measures like speed cushions and all-way stops. Seattles first permanent School Streets set a precedent for safe access to schools. We also hosted events and workshops to bring people together.
$248,876 spent45% of program spendingVision Zero: We continue to hold the City of Seattle accountable to its Vision Zero goal of zero traffic fatalities or serious injuries by 2030. We organized in communities most impacted by traffic violence to fix dangerous streets and build safe places for people to walk, bike, and roll. The MLK Transportation Justice Team planned and held an event with community members and policymakers to raise awareness in the MLK corridor, one of Seattles most dangerous streets, for World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. Through our work, the city committed to fixing the five most dangerous streets as part of the Keep Seattle Moving Levy, and committed to prioritizing safety first in all transportation projects as part of the Seattle Transportation Plan.
$173,082 spent31% of program spendingMobility Justice: Whose Streets? Our Streets (WSOS) is a Black, Indigenous, and People of Color-led and focused workgroup that advances mobility justice for communities of color in Seattle. WSOS developed relationships with BIPOC communities, offered community workshops, hosted listening sessions, and conducted extensive outreach at BIPOC community events. Based on its participatory research, WSOS also released a report of findings detailing how the City of Seattle can advance more equitable policies related to automated speed cameras and create safer streets. The MLK Transportation Justice Team (MLK) is a Black-led, intergenerational group that formed to organize BIPOC communities along the MLK Jr Way S corridor for transportation safety. MLK hosted listening sessions with community members and policymakers, conducted outreach at BIPOC community events, and shared educational information with the community.
$134,464 spent24% of program spendingOther Programs
$2,087 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $558,509.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $793k to $990k (+25%).
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: 2020 5% · 2021 26% · 2022 10% · 2023 14% · 2024 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of SEATTLE NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Gordon Padelford
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $120k → $292k.
6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of SEATTLE NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS’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 NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 59% · 2020 50% · 2021 62% · 2022 50% · 2023 54% — 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
29% of SEATTLE NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
87% of SEATTLE NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $576k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,990 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,990 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SEATTLE NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
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 SEATTLE NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS: 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 NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS?
- SEATTLE NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS (Washington) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,200,781 to it, the largest being Bowline Fund ($1,037,704). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEATTLE NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $2,200,781 in grants to SEATTLE NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEATTLE NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS?
- Bowline Fund is the largest funder on record, with $1,037,704 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEATTLE NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 21 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing