Washington · Nonprofit
We Heart Seattle
We Heart Seattle (Washington) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,521,770 to it, the largest being THE CONRU FOUNDATION ($600,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $948k
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $859k
What We Heart Seattle does
Mission
We Heart Seattle is an action-based, boots-on-the-ground movement that organizes trash cleanups in our public spaces and offers resources to those in need. Through our direct civic engagement we lead the way to a more compassionate and healthy community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025 We Heart Seattle WHS removed 270,000 pounds of trash from Seattle and bordering cities, public spaces parks, alleys, sidewalks, playgrounds, greenbelts, bike trails, vacant lots, and commercial zones, organized 52 individual debris cleanup events and accrued close to 3800 volunteer hours. Through our civic engagement, we involved 450 new volunteers, restored 24 degraded landmarks and parks, and partnered with park stewards who maintain these spaces long-term. Our organized large format debris removals not only contribute to a cleaner environment, but also foster system-wide changes for equity and civic engagement by bringing communities together. In 2025, we further supported civic engagement by hosting a city-wide voter awareness walkabout, along with voter registration and education events. During our daily boots-on-the-ground activities, we connected individuals living unhoused to a range of vital resources, including medical detox, recovery housing, and employment navigation, securing vital documents, removing a range of barriers and, ultimately, assisting 33 individuals to move off the streets in 2025, and uplifting the lives of thousands. Our Clean and Care model…
$732,052 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $732,052.
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 2023 to 2024, from $401k to $726k (+81%).
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.
99% of We Heart Seattle’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Stephen Morse
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $81k → $382k.
9 of 38 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 We Heart Seattle’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
We Heart Seattle has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 39% 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
25% 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 We Heart Seattle.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 37% · 2022 17% · 2023 26% — 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
84% of We Heart Seattle's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $323k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
We Heart Seattle has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,668 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,668 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like We Heart Seattle
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 We Heart Seattle: 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 We Heart Seattle?
- We Heart Seattle (Washington) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,521,770 to it, the largest being THE CONRU FOUNDATION ($600,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does We Heart Seattle have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $1,521,770 in grants to We Heart Seattle, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of We Heart Seattle?
- THE CONRU FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like We Heart Seattle 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 38 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