Washington · Nonprofit
TULALIP FOUNDATION
TULALIP FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,825,771 to it, the largest being LEGAL FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON ($750,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Tulalip Foundation does
Mission
The Tulalip Foundation is dedicated to empowering the well-being of the tulalip reservation and surrounding community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Tulalip Foundations was awarded a grant of $144,957 in 2021 from the bureau of indian affairs, office of trust services under the tribal resilience program with a goal of laying a foundation for unifying and then working towards a vision of food sovereignty and security for the tulalip tribes in the face of climate change. Work continued on this grant project in 2022. The project will work through three discreet objectives: 1) organizing staff and program coordination across several tulalip tribal departments and programs; 2) conducting and completing a food system assessment; and 3) developing a tulalip food sovereignty resilience climate adaptation plan. This proposal is designed to support building capacity within various tulalip tribal government departments and community programs to help grow the tribes' commitment to securing food systems and lifeways such that the community can meet the growing pressures of climate change and ecological instability with a plan for sustainability and security for generations to come.
$27,247 spentof which $27,247 as grants13% of program spendingThe Tulalip Foundation continued to partner with the hibulb cultural center (hcc) to on a donation campaign in support of the hcc's vision of "keeping the cultural fires burning." through their financial gifts, tribal members, tribal employees, and community members contributed to the legacy of hibulb cultural center, supporting its mission to keep the cultural fires burning and providing a foundation for life-long learning. In total, the greater tulalip community donated over $3,000 for the benefit of hcc education, conservation, cultural resources, rotating exhibitions, and the natural history preserve.
$40,834 spentof which $14,097 as grants20% of program spendingThe Tulalip Foundation was honored to be chosen as roy robinson subaru's hometown charity for the 2021 subaru share the love event, which ran from november 18, 2021 to january 3, 2022. During the event, subaru made a donation for every new vehicle sold or leased during the event timeframe to the purchaser's choice of four national charities or a local hometown charity. As a result, the organization received a generous donation of $25,000, which it then shared with some of its community partners.
$0 spentof which $19,021 as grants0% of program spendingThe Tulalip Foundation continues its partnership with nw salish recovery coaching in 2022, which is a group of community volunteers who are seeking to start a recovery cafe on the tulalup reservation based on the recovery cafe model designed by the recovery cafe network. The foundation is serving as the fiscal sponsor of the group as it becomes an emerging member of the recovery cafe network and will help provide a community of hope, healing, and life transformation by replicating the recovery cafe model at the facility operated by nw salish recovery coaching, tentatively called the tulalip/marysville recovery cafe. The tulalip/marysville was awarded a grant of $40,000 from the recovery cafe network to get this project off the ground.
$139,849 spentof which $147,565 as grants67% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $207,930.
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 2017 to 2018, from $694k to $2.0M (+182%).
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 15% · 2018 1% · 2019 7% · 2021 50% · 2022 28% · 2023 16% · 2024 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of TULALIP FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Melvin Sheldon Jr
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $20k → $189k.
5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 TULALIP FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 21 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
TULALIP FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 TULALIP FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 30% · 2021 33% · 2022 48% · 2023 74% — 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
29% of TULALIP FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
62% of TULALIP 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. $380k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
TULALIP FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding TULALIP FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $216k on record.
- Department of the Interior$216k
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 TULALIP FOUNDATION
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Tulalip Tribes (Tulalip Housing Assistance Program) · exempt
- Hibulb Cultural Center (Tulalip Tribes) · exempt
- Tulalip Tribes Charitable Fund · exempt
- Tulalip Resort Casino · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TULALIP 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TULALIP FOUNDATION?
- TULALIP FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,825,771 to it, the largest being LEGAL FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON ($750,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TULALIP FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,825,771 in grants to TULALIP FOUNDATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TULALIP FOUNDATION?
- LEGAL FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON is the largest funder on record, with $750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TULALIP 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 21 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