Washington · Nonprofit
We Heart Seattle
We Heart Seattle (Washington) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,496,770 to it, the largest being THE CONRU FOUNDATION ($600,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
We Heart Seattle has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,426 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,426 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- Fales Foundation Trustlocalportfolio match
- Cedarmere Foundationlocalportfolio match
- The Foster Foundationshared funders
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.
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
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) — 22% 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 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 55%; half comes from just 3 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
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
85% 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 statesis 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. Your 38 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Fales Foundation Trustlocalportfolio matchMN · funds 92 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Cedarmere Foundationlocalportfolio matchWA · funds 51 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Foster Foundationshared fundersWA · backs 38 organizations that share your funders
- Reuben's Brews Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Becu Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Service Employees International Union Local 775portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tillie & Alfred Shemanski Testamentary Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Social Venture Partnersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ellis Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Washington Education Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Forterra Nwportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ordinary People 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 We Heart Seattle
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.
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.
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 We Heart Seattle?
- We Heart Seattle (Washington) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,496,770 to it, the largest being THE CONRU FOUNDATION ($600,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does We Heart Seattle have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $1,496,770 in grants to We Heart Seattle, 20 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.
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 38funders 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