Grantee History
Through individual and pooled giving, we have invested over $22 million in the community in 29 years. Click below to read more about our past grantees.
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By Year: 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 |
By Grant Category: Arts & Culture | Education | Environment | Health | Human Services | Partner Grant | Capacity Building Grant
2023
Early Childhood Education: Communities of Rooted Brilliance
Embracing traditional customs and values, CRB provides newcomers with community-inspired educational opportunities that create pathways for self-determination as they weave into the fabric of their newfound home. CRB’s Early Learning programs provide culturally, and linguistically matched home visiting services focused on child development, school readiness, caregiver advocacy and system navigation as well as connection and referral to relevant community services matched to families’ needs.
Food Sovereignty & Security: Global to Local
Global to Local (G2L) works to reduce health and social disparities in south King County, primarily in immigrant and refugee communities. G2L addresses systemic racism and inequity in food production and distribution and works toward food justice through its Food Innovation Network (FIN). They run the seasonal Tukwila Village Farmer’s Market and Spice Bridge, the Food Business Incubator for BIPOC women and immigrants to start and grow thriving cultural food businesses.
Reproductive Justice & Maternal Health: Ttáwaxt Birth Justice Center
The Ttáwaxt Birth Justice Center, created and led by Native women, serves families on and near the Yakama Nation Reservation. They offer pre and postnatal care, reproductive healthcare, breastfeeding support, childbirth education, cultural classes, plant medicine, and other support for families. They center the wisdom of Indigenous life-givers and protectors, and know their cultural practices are vital to the continuance of the next generation and the healing. They are carrying out their mission through the revitalization of Indigenous intergenerational matriarchal practices and systems and by creating safe, Indigenous spaces where families and communities can heal and thrive.
2022
Mental Health & Housing: Firelands Workers United/Trabajadores Unidos (Olympic Peninsula)
Firelands builds multiracial working-class power in rural disinvested counties in WA State to organize for a just, green economy that serves people and the land. Through bilingual base-building, outreach, workshops, leadership development, storytelling and cultural resilience, members fight for transformative policies and programs for the timber country region: living-wage green jobs, affordable healthy housing, tenant and worker rights, healthcare, childcare, and healthy ecosystems.
Community Cultural Preservation: Salish School of Spokane (Spokane)
Salish School of Spokane is a Salish immersion school offering childcare and elementary school for families in the City of Spokane and surrounding areas. They are a grassroots community-based organization working to preserve and revitalize Southern Interior Salish languages, the first languages of the Spokane region. Their mission is dynamic Salish Language Revitalization powering cultural renewal and building a stronger, healthier community.
School to Prison Pipeline: CHOOSE 180 (Burien)
CHOOSE 180 transform systems of injustice and support the young people who are too often impacted by these systems. They envision a future where youthful behavior is decriminalized and young people are offered restorative practices in lieu of traditional prosecution. In place of the school-to-prison pipeline, a community will exist to help young people realize their potential and provide them with the tools necessary to achieve their goals.
2021
Arts & Culture: Look, Listen, and Learn (Seattle)
Look, Listen and Learn (LL+L) inspires and advances learning in young children of color by offering locally produced television shows and other programming anchored in research about what works best to promote school readiness and success. LL+L will use the grant to produce three full episodes of their second season, which has been planned with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) communities in mind. The grant will also fund family focus groups and surveys to inform and strengthen their programming.
Education: Palmer Scholars (Tacoma)
Palmer Scholars helps underrepresented youth of color achieve their dreams and end generational cycles of poverty by helping them overcome financial, cultural, and social barriers in their pursuit of higher education. Recognizing that a college degree is not the only pathway to success, self-esteem, and a family wage, Palmer Scholars began serving young adults interested in pursuing the trades through their Palmer Pathways Program. This grant will help meet Scholars’ financial needs as they progress through the intensive Palmer Pathways Program. Funds will be used to cover the costs of trainings, certifications, and tuition, provide salary support for staff who will work alongside these youth, and support the cost of tools, PPE, and other supplies needed by the scholars.
Environment: Nurturing Roots (Seattle)
Nurturing Roots builds community through farming and heals community through relationships. The heart of their work is a 1/4-acre urban farm in South Beacon Hill, a richly diverse BIPOC community with limited access to healthy food choices. Nurturing Roots uses this land to address inequities: the food they grow feeds food insecure community members, and the urban farm improves their environmental surroundings. This grant will make help pay a livable wage for the Executive Director and part-time Farm Ambassador. Our grant will also fund professional development training for staff and key volunteers.
Health: Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho (Yakima)
Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho (PPGWNI) provides exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education, and fearless advocacy. They operate 11 health centers spread across 9 counties in a medically underserved region. For many patients, PPGWNI is their only source of healthcare. This grant will support their Migrant Farmworker Health Clinic Initiative which provides free health clinics to Latinx agricultural workers and their families on farms and in rural communities.
Human Services: Community Credit Lab (Seattle)
Community Credit Lab (CCL) gets affordable credit to people who have been discriminated against by the traditional financial system so they can build personal, community, and generational prosperity. Historically, BIPOC communities have had inequitable access to affordable loans. CCL supports lending partners with designing lending programs that increase affordability and access and shift traditional power dynamics. This grant will be used to hire a Partnerships Manager who will steward CCL’s partner relationships in support of building an equitable community lending model in Washington State.
2020
Arts & Culture: Yakima Music en Acción (YAMA) (Yakima)
YAMA grows confident young leaders in Yakima by widening access to professional-level music learning, igniting collective pride, and empowering and unifying students and families. YAMA’s rigorous daily model emphasizes musical literacy and leadership development in neighborhoods with the greatest barriers to accessing high-quality after-school opportunities. Our grant will be used to strengthen the capacity of YAMA student leaders and team members, specifically by growing and improving their leadership development programming.
Education: University Beyond Bars (Seattle)
University Beyond Bars is a stakeholder-driven organization established by prisoners and volunteers to provide access to higher education for Washington State prisoners. Their mission is rooted in the belief that everyone has a right to education, regardless of identity, socioeconomic status, or circumstance. Our grant will help UBB sustain and grow their AA-degree pathway, build capacity for a robust BA-degree pathway, expand their enrichment courses, and provide opportunities for increasing post-incarceration employability.
Environment: Got Green (Seattle)
Got Green is a South Seattle-based grassroots organization led by people of color and low-income people that organizes for environmental, racial, and economic justice. They cultivate multigenerational community leaders to be central voices in the Green Movement in order to ensure that the benefits of the green movement and green economy reach low-income communities and communities of color. Our grant will enable Got Green to continue their powerful grassroots community organizing programs and create organizational sustainability.
Health: Sea Mar Community Health Centers (statewide)
Sea Mar Community Health Centers is committed to providing quality, comprehensive health, human, housing, educational and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to Latinos. Starting in 1978 with one clinic in South Seattle, today Sea Mar operates 34 medical, 27 dental, and 34 outpatient behavioral health clinics across 11 counties in WA State. Our grant will help expand their Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers Promotores Program in Whatcom and Skagit counties where there is a large farmworker community.
Human Services: Casa Latina (Seattle)
Casa Latina is an immigrant worker rights organization that advances the power and well-being of low-wage Latinx laborers through employment, education, and community organizing. Their vision is a Latinx community that participates fully in the economy and democracy of this country. Our grant will support the expansion of a new Worker Center in South King County, to respond to the needs to their community.
Capacity Building Grant: Ingersoll Gender Center (Puget Sound), KVRU (Southeast Seattle), Para Los Niños (Burien), Somali Health Board (King County)
2019
Arts & Culture: Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association (DNDA) (Seattle)
DNDA’s mission is focused on integrating art, nature, and neighborhood to build and sustain a dynamic Delridge. DNDA offers a variety of services to meet this goal, from affordable housing to early learning and outdoor education. Our grant will go to their capital campaign titled Elevate Youngstown, to provide urgent structural upgrades to the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, a Southwest Seattle community hub that houses key community-based organizations, including Arts Corps, Totem Star, REEL Grrls, and The Service Board.
Education: Unloop (Seattle)
Unloop enables people who have been in prison to succeed in careers in the technology industry through education, training, and support. Unloop provides training both in prison and once individuals have been released. Our grant will help support Unloop Studio, their in-house development shop, training incarcerated individuals in coding and software development to create a viable career pathway for formerly incarcerated people in tech in King County.
Environment: Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition (Seattle)
The Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition/Technical Advisory Group (DRCC/TAG) works to ensure a cleanup of the Duwamish River that is accepted by and benefits the community and protects fish, wildlife, and human health. DRCC is involved in all aspects of the superfund site cleanup plans for the Duwamish River, working to ensure the cleanup meets community standards by restoring environmental health and protecting the fishers and families who use the river as well as reflecting the priorities, values, and will of the people who live and work in the region. Our grant would provide general operating support to strengthen DRCC’s programs.
Health: Cierra Sisters (Seattle)
Cierra Sisters’ mission is to break the cycle of fear and empower African American women and women from underserved communities with knowledge to detect, treat, and overcome breast cancer. Each year, over 100 Cierra Sisters community volunteers provide culturally relevant breast cancer education, support, and direct services to thousands of women in their community. Our grant will help Cierra Sisters build organizational capacity and hire staff, including a new Volunteer Coordinator to oversee the volunteers who annually support marketing, fundraising, and outreach efforts as well as provide in-home visits and transportation.
Human Services: Chief Seattle Club (Seattle)
Chief Seattle Club works to provide a sacred space to nurture, affirm, and renew the spirit of Urban Native Peoples. Chief Seattle Club serves over 1,400 club members, with over 100 members visiting the club for support every day. Services include hot food, medical, mental health, and traditional wellness support, housing assistance, legal aid, trauma-informed job training programs, a day center with showers and laundry, and a Native art program and gallery. Our grant will support their capital campaign to build a mixed-use facility adjacent to their current location in Pioneer Square, Seattle. The project is called ?al?al, which means “home” in Lushootseed.
Diversity Partner Grant in partnership with ArtsFund: Washington Center for Performing Arts (Olympia)
Diversity Partner Grant in partnership with Potlatch Fund: Inchelium Language & Culture Association and Salish School of Spokane
The Inchelium Language & Culture Association fosters and sustains a dynamic community of Salish Language speakers whose daily lives are expressed through a commitment to the Lakes and Colville culture and a connection to their traditional territories. Our grant will support the Upper Columbia Canoe Journey and Salmon Ceremony, a gathering of the people to pray for the return of Salmon that has been going on since time immemorial. Salish School of Spokane works towards dynamic Salish language revitalization powering cultural renewal and building a stronger, healthier community. In addition to its K-12 Salish immersion school, the School offers weekend and evening Salish classes for adults, cultural events, and supports native language revitalization for other native language communities. Our grant will support general operations at Salish School of Spokane.
2018
Arts & Culture: Spark Central (Spokane)
Spark Central’s mission is to ignite the creativity, innovation, and imagination necessary for people to forge the path to their best future. Their work is rooted in the power of creative expression and explores the intersection between STEM, the arts, and literacy. By removing barriers and equalizing access to creative learning, Spark Central creates the opportunity to interrupt inter-generational poverty. Our general operating grant will build their fund development capacity, which will enable programmatic growth to serve more residents in the West Central neighborhood of Spokane.
Education: La Casa Hogar (Yakima)
La Casa Hogar connects and educates Latino families, to transform lives in Yakima Valley. La Casa offers three primary programs: (1) adult education; (2) early learning; and (3) citizen education and legal services. Our funds will help tear down and transform the dilapidated garage in the backyard into a preschool for their successful and affordable preschool program. The current preschool space in the main house will be turned into a multi-use room for the leadership development program, doubling classroom time for women.
Environment: American Rivers (statewide)
The mission of American Rivers is to protect healthy rivers, restore damaged rivers, and conserve clean water for people and nature. Our grant will help them advance four goals over the next five years within Washington’s Puget Sound and Columbia River Basin: (1) to protect 1000 miles of wild rivers; (2) to improve and restore 3500 acres of floodplains and meadows; (3) to restore access to 200 miles of habitat for native fish by removing at least 5 dams and/or improving fish passage facilities; and (4) to educate decision-makers about the need for water management funding.
Health: Daybreak Youth Services (Brush Prairie)
Daybreak Youth Services promotes involved, healthy communities by offering hope and recovery solutions to youth and their families struggling with addiction and mental health issues. Our grant will help launch their successful Paths to Prosperity (P2P) program at their Brush Prairie facility. This program aims to connect youth in treatment with outside recreation, volunteer mentors, internships with local businesses, and higher education through the coordination of activities focused on recovery and healthy living.
Human Services: Sawhorse Revolution (Seattle)
Sawhorse Revolution’s mission is to foster confident, community-oriented youth through the power of carpentry and craft. They offer free holistic carpentry and design programs to vulnerable and diverse youth in Central and South Seattle. Sawhorse Revolution impacts not only the lives of the youth who participate in their programs, but they also address broader community needs around homelessness. Our general operating grant will help expand programs, upgrade their capital infrastructure, and extend program staffing hours.
International Partner Grant in partnership with Global Washington: Partners Asia (Seattle/Myanmar/Thailand)
Partners Asia supports community initiatives to improve the lives of Myanmar’s most vulnerable, many of whom live in unstable areas within Myanmar and along its borders. Our grant to Partners Asia will support two community initiatives: Fortune, and Beam Education Foundation. Fortune staff assist Shan migrants in legal counseling and work withe the local Thai government to guide refugees through legal procedures such as getting ID cards and work permits. Beam works to organize, train, and establish standardized curriculum and a transcript system for over 20,000 Mynamar children studying in 110 informal learning centers along the Thai-Myanmar border.
2017
Arts & Culture: The Seattle Globalist (Seattle)
The Seattle Globalist is a daily online publication that covers the connections between local and global issues here in Seattle. They highlight diverse voices and train the next generation of media makers. Our funding will help them continue to break down the barriers of entry into media for women and people of color, offering mentorship, guidance and connections as a powerful launchpad for new voices in Seattle.
Education: Tiny Trees Preschool (Seattle)
Tiny Tree’s mission is to use outdoor classrooms to make a quality education in reading, math and science affordable for families and to give children a joyful, nature rich childhood – one full of play, exploration and wonder. Our funding will help them continue to respond to the soaring costs of childcare and its disproportionate effects on low-income families and communities of color by leading the movement for affordable, high quality preschool.
Environment: ReUse Works (Bellingham)
ReUse Works was founded on the simple premise that there is economic opportunity in both the products and the people that our society has discarded. Our funding will help them continue to increase the Ragfinery program’s capacity to provide job training services, sustainable textile recycling, educational outreach about textile waste, and inspiration for creative reuse, while moving Ragfinery toward economic self-sufficiency.
Health: FEEST (Seattle)
FEEST empowers low income youth and youth of color in White Center and Delridge to become leaders for healthy food access, food justice and health equity. They organize 40-45 high school youth once a week to cook an improvised dinner using fresh vegetables from local markets. These community dinners serve as a pipeline to recruit and develop emerging food justice leaders for their year-long internship program. Interns develop and implement campaigns that seek to increase access to healthy foods for students and their families. Our general operating funding will support this work and the continued implementation of their ambitious strategic plan.
Human Services: Businesses Ending Slavery and Trafficking (Seattle)
Businesses Ending Slavery and Trafficking (BEST) aligns and equips leaders to use the power of business to prevent human trafficking. Through training, consultation and collaboration, they work with businesses to drive behavioral change and improve the lives of the victims involved. Our funding will help them continue to reduce trafficking in our region by changing the attitudes, perceptions and behaviors that enable human trafficking to flourish.
Emerging Issues Partner Grant in partnership with Women’s Funding Alliance: Para Los Niños (Burien), La Casa Hogar (Yakima)
Para Los Niños is a grassroots community organization dedicated to helping Latino families in Burien. Our funding helped them run their successful Latina Community Leadership for Change program, which includes curriculum about the U.S. education and political system, advocacy and community organizing, and individual leadership skills.
La Casa Hogar’s mission is to connect and educate Latino families, and to transform lives in Yakima Valley. La Casa provides a range of educational opportunities that are specifically suited to the immigrant population in Yakima. Our grant provided funding to develop a women’s leadership program.
2016
Arts & Culture: Terrain (Spokane)
Education: Team Read (Seattle)
Environment: Washington Water Trust (statewide)
Health: Encompass Northwest (North Bend)
Human Services: Coastal Harvest (Hoquiam)
Diversity Partner Grant in partnership with Social Justice Fund NW: Colectiva Legal del Pueblo (Seattle)
2015
Arts & Culture: Path with Art (Seattle)
Education: Freedom Education Project Puget Sound (Seattle)
Environment: Friends of the San Juans (Friday Harbor)
Health: Forefront: Innovations in Suicide Prevention (Seattle)
Human Services: Amara (Seattle)
International Partner Grant in partnership with Seattle International Foundation: Sahar (Seattle/Afghanistan)
Emerging Issues Partner Grant in partnership with Women’s Funding Alliance: Young Women Empowered (Y-WE) (Seattle)
2014
Arts & Culture: Shunpike (Seattle)
Education: The Martinez Foundation (now merged with Technology Access Foundation) (Bellevue)
Environment: Conservation Northwest (Bellingham)
Health: Open Arms Perinatal Services (Seattle)
Human Services: Community Youth Services (Olympia)
Diversity Partner Grant in partnership with The Seattle Foundation and AAPIP: API Chaya (Seattle)
International Partner Grant in partnership with Seattle International Foundation: Etta Projects (Tacoma/Bolivia)
2013
Arts & Culture: Burke Museum Association (Seattle)
Education: Literacy Council of Seattle (now merged with Literacy Source) (Seattle)
Environment: Washington State Parks Foundation (Seattle)
Health: The Health Center (Walla Walla)
Human Services: Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (Seattle)
Diversity Partner Grant in partnership with Pride Foundation: Gender Diversity (Seattle), Reteaching Gender and Sexuality (Seattle)
Innovation Partner Grant in partnership with Community Center for Education Results: Southeast Seattle Education Coalition (Seattle)
2012
Arts & Culture: Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras (Seattle)
Education: YouthCare (Seattle)
Environment: American Farmland Trust (statewide)
Health: Bailey-Boushay House (Seattle)
Human Services: Cocoon House (Everett)
International Partner Grant in partnership with Seattle International Foundation and Global Washington: Amigos de Santa Cruz (Seattle/Guatemala)
Diversity Partner Grant in partnership with Latino Community Fund of Washington: Children of the Valley (Mount Vernon)
Innovation Partner Grant in partnership with The Seattle Foundation: Latinos for Community Transformation (now Para Los Niños) (Burien)
2011
Arts & Culture: Seattle Shakespeare Company (Seattle)
Education: Seattle Education Access (Seattle)
Environment: WA Sustainable Food & Farming Network (now Food Action) (Seattle)
Health: Sound Mental Health (now Sound) (Tukwila)
Human Services: Family Law CASA of King County
International Partner Grant in partnership with Seattle International Foundation: One by One (now Worldwide Fistula Fund) (Seattle)
Diversity Partner Grant in partnership with Potlach Fund: Native American Women’s Dialogue on Infant Mortality (Seattle)
Innovation Partner Grant in partnership with The Seattle Foundation: Kenyan Women’s Association (Seattle)
2010
Arts & Culture: Seattle Music Partners (Seattle)
Education: Healthy Start (Kirkland)
Environment: Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition (Seattle)
Health: Refugee Women’s Alliance (Seattle)
Human Services: Emergency Food Network (Lakewood)
International Partner Grant in partnership with Seattle International Foundation: PeaceTrees Vietnam (Seattle/Vietnam)
2009
Arts & Culture: Northwest African American Museum (Seattle)
Education: College Possible Washington (formerly College Access Now) (Seattle)
Environment: Cascade Land Conservancy (now Forterra) (Seattle)
Health: King County Sexual Assault Resource Center (Seattle)
Human Services: The Mockingbird Society (Seattle)
2008
Arts & Culture: Artist Trust (Seattle)
Education: Friends of the Children (Seattle)
Environment: PCC Farmland Trust (Seattle)
Health: First Place (Seattle)
Human Services: Girl Scouts of Western Washington (Seattle)
2007
Arts & Culture: Seattle Arts & Lectures (Seattle)
Education: Seattle MESA (Seattle)
Environment: Puget Soundkeeper Alliance (Seattle)
Health: Youth Suicide Prevention Program (now merged with Crisis Connections) (Seattle)
Human Services: Seattle Milk Fund (Seattle)
2006
Arts & Culture: The Vera Project (Seattle)
Education: Team Read (Seattle)
Environment: EarthCorps (Seattle)
Health: Pike Place Market Foundation (Seattle)
Human Services: WA Women’s Employment and Education (Tacoma)
2005
Arts & Culture: Academy of Children’s Theatre (Richland)
Education: Community for Youth (Seattle)
Environment: Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland (Mount Vernon)
Health: Okanogan Family Planning (Omak)
Human Services: Jubilee Women’s Center (Seattle)
2004
Arts & Culture: Arts Corps (Seattle)
Education: The New School Foundation (Seattle)
Environment: Washington Toxics Coalition (now Toxic-Free Future) (Seattle)
Health: Medical Teams International (Redmond)
Human Services: Children’s Home Society (Seattle)
2003
Arts & Culture: Town Hall Association (Seattle)
Education: Rainier Scholars (Seattle)
Environment: Bike Works (Seattle)
Health: UW Center, Women’s Lifetime Fitness (Seattle)
Human Services: Family & Adult Service Center (Seattle)
2002
Arts & Culture: Friends of Washington Music (Seattle)
Education: Daniel Bagley Elementary Montessori (Seattle)
Environment: Futurewise (Seattle)
Health: Pediatric Interim Care Center (Kent)
Human Services: Child Care Resources (Seattle)
2001
Arts & Culture: Rotary Boys & Girls Club (Seattle)
Education: Powerful Voices (Seattle)
Environment: People for Puget Sound (Seattle)
Health: Dr. J.L. Nelson: Autoimmune Disease (Seattle)
Human Services: Childhaven (Seattle)
2000
Education: City Year/Treehouse: Teen Time (Seattle)
Health: Puget Sound Neighbor Health Centers (Greater Seattle Area) / Planned Parenthood of the Greater NW (Seattle)
Human Services: Medina Children’s Services (now Amara) (Seattle)
1999
Health: Country Doctor (Seattle)
Human Services: STARS: King County Youth Services (Seattle) / Seattle Children’s Home (now merged with Navos) (Seattle)
1998
Environment: The Nature Conservancy (Washington)
Health: Children’s Hospital Brain Tumor Research (Seattle)
Human Services: Farestart (Seattle)
1997
Education: Alliance for Education: The Galef Project (Seattle)
Human Services: Washington Works (Seattle)
1996
Human Services: Mothers Against Violence in America (Puget Sound)
Arts & Culture
2021: Look, Listen, and Learn (Seattle)
2020: Yakima Music en Acción (Yakima)
2019: Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association (Seattle)
2018: Spark Central (Spokane)
2017: The Seattle Globalist (Seattle)
2016: Terrain (Spokane)
2015: Path with Art (Seattle)
2014: Shunpike (Seattle)
2013: Burke Museum Association (Seattle)
2012: Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras (Seattle)
2011: Seattle Shakespeare Company (Seattle)
2010: Seattle Music Partners (Seattle)
2009: Northwest African American Museum (Seattle)
2008: Artist Trust (Seattle)
2007: Seattle Arts & Lectures (Seattle)
2006: The Vera Project (Seattle)
2005: Academy of Children’s Theatre (Richland)
2004: Arts Corps (Seattle)
2003: Town Hall Association (Seattle)
2002: Friends of Washington Music (Seattle)
2001: Rotary Boys & Girls Club (Seattle)
Education
2021: Palmer Scholars (Tacoma)
2020: University Beyond Bars (Seattle)
2019: Unloop (Seattle)
2018: La Casa Hogar (Yakima)
2017: Tiny Trees Preschool (Seattle)
2016: Team Read (Seattle)
2015: Freedom Education Project Puget Sound (Seattle)
2014: The Martinez Foundation (now merged with Technology Access Foundation) (Bellevue)
2013: Literacy Council of Seattle (now merged with Literacy Source) (Seattle)
2012: YouthCare (Seattle)
2011: Seattle Education Access (Seattle)
2010: Healthy Start (Kirkland)
2009: College Possible Washington (formerly College Access Now) (Seattle)
2008: Friends of the Children (Seattle)
2007: Seattle MESA (Seattle)
2006: Team Read (Seattle)
2005: Community for Youth (Seattle)
2004: The New School Foundation (Seattle)
2003: Rainier Scholars (Seattle)
2002: Daniel Bagley Elementary Montessori (Seattle)
2001: Powerful Voices (Seattle)
2000: City Year/Treehouse: Teen Time (Seattle)
1997: Alliance for Education: The Galef Project (Seattle)
Environment
2021: Nurturing Roots (Seattle)
2020: Got Green (Seattle)
2019: Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition (Seattle)
2018: American Rivers (statewide)
2017: ReUse Works (Bellingham)
2016: Washington Water Trust (statewide)
2015: Friends of the San Juans (Friday Harbor)
2014: Conservation Northwest (Bellingham)
2013: Washington State Parks Foundation (Seattle)
2012: American Farmland Trust (statewide)
2011: WA Sustainable Food & Farming Network (now Food Action) (Seattle)
2010: Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition (Seattle)
2009: Cascade Land Conservancy (now Forterra) (Seattle)
2008: PCC Farmland Trust (Seattle)
2007: Puget Soundkeeper Alliance (Seattle)
2006: EarthCorps (Seattle)
2005: Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland (Mount Vernon)
2004: Washington Toxics Coalition (now Toxic-Free Future) (Seattle)
2003: Bike Works (Seattle)
2002: Futurewise (Seattle)
2001: People for Puget Sound (Seattle)
1998: The Nature Conservancy (Washington)
Health
2021: Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho (Yakima)
2020: Sea Mar Community Health Centers (statewide)
2019: Cierra Sisters (Seattle)
2018: Daybreak Youth Services (Brush Prairie)
2017: FEEST (Seattle)
2016: Encompass Northwest (North Bend)
2015: Forefront (Seattle)
2014: Open Arms Perinatal Services (Seattle)
2013: The Health Center (Walla Walla)
2012: Bailey-Boushay House (Seattle)
2011: Sound Mental Health (now Sound) (Tukwila)
2010: Refugee Women’s Alliance (Seattle)
2009: King County Sexual Assault Resource Center (Seattle)
2008: First Place (Seattle)
2007: Youth Suicide Prevention Program (now merged with Crisis Connections) (Seattle)
2006: Pike Place Market Foundation (Seattle)
2005: Okanogan Family Planning (Omak)
2004: Medical Teams International (Redmond)
2003: UW Center, Women’s Lifetime Fitness (Seattle)
2002: Pediatric Interim Care Center (Kent)
2001: Dr. J.L. Nelson: Autoimmune Disease (Seattle)
2000: Puget Sound Neighbor Health Centers (Greater Seattle Area) / Planned Parenthood of the Great NW (Seattle)
1999: Country Doctor (Seattle)
1998: Children’s Hospital Brain Tumor Research (Seattle)
Human Services
2021: Community Credit Lab (Seattle)
2020: Casa Latina (Seattle)
2019: Chief Seattle Club (Seattle)
2018: Sawhorse Revolution (Seattle)
2017: Businesses Ending Slavery and Trafficking (Seattle)
2016: Coastal Harvest (Hoquiam)
2015: Amara (Seattle)
2014: Community Youth Services (Olympia)
2013: Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (Seattle)
2012: Cocoon House (Everett)
2011: Family Law CASA of King County (Seattle)
2010: Emergency Food Network (Lakewood)
2009: The Mockingbird Society (Seattle)
2008: Girl Scouts of Western Washington (Seattle)
2007: Seattle Milk Fund (Seattle)
2006: WA Women’s Employment & Education (Tacoma)
2005: Jubilee Women’s Center (Seattle)
2004: Children’s Home Society (Seattle)
2003: Family & Adult Service Center (Seattle)
2002: Child Care Resources (Seattle)
2001: Childhaven (Seattle)
2000: Medina Children’s Services (now Amara) (Seattle)
1999: STARS: King County Youth Services (Seattle) / Seattle Children’s Home (now merged with Navos) (Seattle)
1998: Farestart (Seattle)
1997: Washington Works (Seattle)
1996: Mothers Against Violence in America (Puget Sound)
Partner Grants
2019: Diversity Partner Grant in partnership with ArtsFund: Washington Center for Performing Arts (Olympia); Diversity Partner Grant in partnership with Potlatch Fund: Inchelium Language & Culture Association (Inchelium) and Salish School of Spokane (Spokane)
2018: International Partner Grant in partnership with Global Washington: Partners Asia (Seattle/Myanmar/Thailand)
2017: Emerging Issues Partner Grant in partnership with Women’s Funding Alliance: Para Los Niños (Seattle), La Casa Hogar (Yakima)
2016: Diversity Partner Grant in partnership with Social Justice Fund: Colectiva Legal del Pueblo (Seattle)
2015: International Partner Grant in partnership with Seattle International Foundation: Sahar (Seattle/Afghanistan); Emerging Issues Partner Grant in partnership with Women’s Funding Alliance: Young Women Empowered (Seattle)
2014: Diversity Partner Grant in partnership with The Seattle Foundation and AAPIP: API Chaya (Seattle); International Partner Grant in partnership with Seattle International Foundation: Etta Projects (Tacoma/Bolivia)
2013: Diversity Partner Grant in partnership with Pride Foundation: Gender Diversity (Seattle), Reteaching Gender and Sexuality (Seattle); Innovation Partner Grant in partnership with Community Center for Education Results: Southeast Seattle Education Coalition (Seattle)
2012: International Partner Grant in partnership with Seattle International Foundation and Global Washington: Amigos de Santa Cruz (Seattle/Guatemala); Diversity Partner Grant in partnership with Latino Community Fund of Washington: Children of the Valley (Mount Vernon); Innovation Partner Grant in partnership with The Seattle Foundation: Latinos for Community Transformation (now Para Los Niños) (Burien)
2011: International Partner Grant in partnership with Seattle International Foundation: One by One (now Worldwide Fistula Fund) (Seattle); Diversity Partner Grant in partnership with Potlach Fund: Native American Women’s Dialogue on Infant Mortality (Seattle); Innovation Partner Grant in partnership with The Seattle Foundation: Kenyan Women’s Association (Seattle)
2010: International Partner Grant in partnership with Seattle International Foundation: PeaceTrees Vietnam (Seattle/Vietnam)
Capacity Building
2020: Ingersoll Gender Center (Puget Sound), KVRU (Southeast Seattle), Para Los Niños (Burien), Somali Health Board (King County)