Washington · Nonprofit
Seattle Police Pipes and Drums
Seattle Police Pipes and Drums (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,085 to it, the largest being Warm Foundation ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $17k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $127k
What Seattle Police Pipes and Drums does
Mission
Seattle Police Pipes and Drums is organized to operate as a bagpipe band of performing musicians providing free performances to honor the memory of all law enforcement officers at funerals, memorials and other such ceremonies and functions; is dedicated to strenghtening and maintaining a positive relationship with the citizens of Seattle, and other communities througout the Pacific Northwest, through performances and community outreatch; and to support other qualifying exempt organizations.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
To operate as a bagpipe band of performing musicians providing free performances to honor the memory of all law enforcement officers at funerals, memorials and other such ceremonies and functions.
$50,090 spent100% of program spendingTo strenghten and maintain a positive relationship with the citizens of Seattle, and other communities througout the Pacific Northwest, through performances and community outreach.
$20 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $50,110.
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 2021 to 2022, from $161k to $127k (−21%).
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.
99% of Seattle Police Pipes and Drums’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $21.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 Police Pipes and Drums’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 Police Pipes and Drums leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of Seattle Police Pipes and Drums's grant income comes from Washington funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $85 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 Police Pipes and Drums's revenue fell 28% between 2020 and 2022.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,184 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like Seattle Police Pipes and Drums
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.
Public support
100%
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 Police Pipes and Drums: 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 Police Pipes and Drums?
- Seattle Police Pipes and Drums (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,085 to it, the largest being Warm Foundation ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Seattle Police Pipes and Drums have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,085 in grants to Seattle Police Pipes and Drums, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Seattle Police Pipes and Drums?
- Warm Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Seattle Police Pipes and Drums 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 FY2022 (financials across 2020–2022), and the filings of 2 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