Washington · Nonprofit
THE SEATTLE TIMES COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND
THE SEATTLE TIMES COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND (Washington) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,440,888 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,123,125). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $543k
What The Seattle Times Community Impact Fund does
Mission
The primary purpose of The Seattle Times Community Impact Fund is to distribute funds to organizations, exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code, for the organizations' use in aiding needy families and/or individuals who are members of the seattle community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Seattle Times Community Impact Fund collects contributions from the general public in the seattle area through two annual campaigns. It then allocates and distributes these funds to worthy organizations for their use in aiding needy families and needy individuals within the seattle community.
$4,867,839 spentof which $4,867,839 as grants93% of program spendingThe seattle times investigative journalism fund, a component of The Seattle Times Community Impact Fund, supports, protects, and expands local investigative journalism that has a direct impact on our community.
$375,595 spent7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,243,434.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $149k to $619k (+316%).
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.
100% of THE SEATTLE TIMES COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Frank A Blethen
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $170k → $834k.
19 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 THE SEATTLE TIMES COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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
THE SEATTLE TIMES COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
87% 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 THE SEATTLE TIMES COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 42% · 2019 39% · 2020 29% · 2021 25% · 2022 26% · 2023 48% — growing more concentrated.
“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
44% of THE SEATTLE TIMES COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
86% of THE SEATTLE TIMES COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $619k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
THE SEATTLE TIMES COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND has grown faster than half of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE SEATTLE TIMES COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Seattle Times Company · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SEATTLE TIMES COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND: 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 THE SEATTLE TIMES COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND?
- THE SEATTLE TIMES COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND (Washington) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,440,888 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,123,125). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE SEATTLE TIMES COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $4,440,888 in grants to THE SEATTLE TIMES COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SEATTLE TIMES COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,123,125 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SEATTLE TIMES COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 48 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