Washington · Nonprofit
SEATTLE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
SEATTLE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,070,170 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ($910,170). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Sheng-Yen Lu Foundationshared funderslocal
- The Herbert Jones Foundationportfolio match
- Mg2 Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $335k → $85k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 UNIVERSITY 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 UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% 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
95% 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 UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 68% · 2022 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 UNIVERSITY 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. $110k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Sheng-Yen Lu Foundationshared funderslocalWA · backs 34 organizations that share your funders · funds 96 organizations near you
- The Herbert Jones Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mg2 Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Seattle College Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tillie & Alfred Shemanski Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert J and Leona DeArmond Public Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rotary International District 5030portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Seattle Prof Engineering Employees Assn Dba Soc of Prof Eng Empl in Aerospaceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tillie & Alfred Shemanski Testamentary Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Seattle Peoples Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Credit Unions in the State of Washingtonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gary & Connie Kunis Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like SEATTLE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SEATTLE UNIVERSITY 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
- SEATTLE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,070,170 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ($910,170). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEATTLE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,070,170 in grants to SEATTLE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEATTLE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
- UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $910,170 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEATTLE UNIVERSITY 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 FY2021 (financials across 2021–2021), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing