Washington · Nonprofit
SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION
SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 112 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,670,200 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,867,178). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.3M
- Funders on record
- 112
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Seattle Parks Foundation does
Mission
We partner with community to champion thriving and equitable parks and public spaces.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Seattle Parks Foundation works with community groups to activate, improve and advance public spaces in seattle and king county. We had 8,500 community volunteers and over 250 corporate volunteers. We brought in 38 new partners and have over 100 existing partner groups working on projects throughout the city and region.
$6,714,245 spentof which $307,929 as grants$78,150 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,714,245.
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 2024 to 2025, from $12M to $15M (+23%).
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 13% · 2018 8% · 2019 21% · 2020 15% · 2021 27% · 2022 26% · 2023 31% · 2024 34% · 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Rebecca Bear
President & CEO
Board chair
Deb Guenther
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 41 funders, grant income rose $377k → $1.3M.
17 of 112 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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: $2.5M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Seattle Foundation); $20k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Seattle Parks Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 112 funders by total. 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 PARKS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
57% 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 PARKS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 31% · 2019 29% · 2020 49% · 2021 22% · 2022 13% · 2023 21% — 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
39% of SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
61% of SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 PARKS FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $45k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$45k
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 PARKS 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 PARKS 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 PARKS FOUNDATION?
- SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 112 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,670,200 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,867,178). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 112 organizations giving $10,670,200 in grants to SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION, 62 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,867,178 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEATTLE PARKS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 112 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