Washington · Nonprofit
Town Hall Association
Town Hall Association (Washington) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,819,444 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($1,348,938). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.9M
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $8.8M
- Net assets
- $32M
What Town Hall Association does
Mission
A vibrant gathering place in the heart of Seattle, Town Hall fosters an engaged community through civic, arts, and educational programs that reflect and inspire our regions best impulses: creativity, empathy, and the belief that we all deserve a voice.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Town Hall Productions: Town Hall Seattle typically produces 150+ programs annually, spanning science, civics, the arts, and culture. From chamber, world, and family concerts to public policy forums and scientific discovery, Town Halls season is a present-tense reflection of life on the Puget Sound. With wide-open doors and deeply affordable ticket prices, Town Hall is where our community comes together to be informed and inspired, and to consider the future of our city. 187 events were produced on the Town Hall stage in FY25.
$2,048,498 spent$755,670 earned by the program54% of program spendingTown Hall Seattle is a shared resource for nearly 90 community organizations that rely on the facility as an affordable performance and meeting home, as well as a source of production and promotional support. 183 rentals were hosted from the Town Hall stage in FY25.
$1,724,818 spent$874,532 earned by the program46% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,773,316.
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 2018 to 2019, from $25M to $41M (+62%).
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 1% · 2019 25% · 2020 1% · 2021 27% · 2022 10% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of Town Hall Association’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 28 funders, grant income fell $2.0M → $835k.
15 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 Town Hall Association’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 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
Town Hall Association has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
58% 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 Town Hall Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 33% · 2019 21% · 2020 46% · 2021 20% · 2022 38% · 2023 20% — 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
53% of Town Hall Association's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
52% of Town Hall Association'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 $4.2M that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
Town Hall Association receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $8.8M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Town Hall Association receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $175k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$175k
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 Town Hall Association
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Town Hall Association: 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 Town Hall Association?
- Town Hall Association (Washington) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,819,444 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($1,348,938). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Town Hall Association have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $8,819,444 in grants to Town Hall Association, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Town Hall Association?
- SEATTLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,348,938 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Town Hall Association 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 65 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