Washington · Nonprofit
SEATTLE RECREATIVE
SEATTLE RECREATIVE (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,044 to it, the largest being THE CONRU FOUNDATION ($15,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $575k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $23k
- Net assets
- $59k
What Seattle Recreative does
Mission
Seattle ReCreative promotes creativity, community and environmental stewardship through creative reuse and arts education. We collect traditional and non-traditional art supplies and sell them in our retail store and use them in our arts programming.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Arts Programming - providing arts programming to adults and children using donated materials. During 2024, Seattle ReCreative provided in person programming for adults, children and groups of all sizes.
$142,222 spent$61,351 earned by the program23% of program spendingCreative Reuse Center - We accept donated materials to be reused for artistic purposes. In 2024, we kept over 113,000 pounds of materials out of the landfill.
$469,570 spent$425,250 earned by the program76% of program spendingSeattle Recycled Arts - Promoting zero waste through the arts. In 2024, Seattle Recycled Arts hosted several events including a pop-up market and a fashion show.
$1,425 spent$242 earned by the program0% of program spendingArtist Marketplace - income from selling reuse artist works and expense of paying artists for their work.
$2,188 spent$3,361 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $615,405.
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 2022 to 2023, from $171k to $88k (−49%).
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 16% · 2021 11% · 2022 17% · 2023 6% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of SEATTLE RECREATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Jenna Boitano
Executive Director
Board chair
Jamie Bartalamay
Board President/ Secretary
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $50 → $5k.
1 of 4 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 RECREATIVE’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 RECREATIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% 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
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 RECREATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 71% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of SEATTLE RECREATIVE's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $442 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 RECREATIVE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SEATTLE RECREATIVE
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
16%
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 RECREATIVE: 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 RECREATIVE?
- SEATTLE RECREATIVE (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,044 to it, the largest being THE CONRU FOUNDATION ($15,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEATTLE RECREATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $23,044 in grants to SEATTLE RECREATIVE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEATTLE RECREATIVE?
- THE CONRU FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEATTLE RECREATIVE 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 4 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