Past Grantees
Trusted Nonprofits, Lasting Impact
For decades, WaWF has supported outstanding nonprofit organizations making a meaningful difference in communities across Washington. While our grantmaking priorities have evolved over the years, our commitment to thoughtful, rigorous philanthropy has remained constant. We are pleased to share this record of trusted organizations with anyone looking to make a difference through charitable giving.
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2025 Grantees
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Feast World Kitchen is a downtown Spokane restaurant that empowers Immigrants and former Refugees as leaders as they share their culture through excellent international cuisine.
Front and Centered is a diverse and powerful coalition of communities of color-led groups across Washington State who come together to advance equity, climate justice, and environmental justice.
At Global Neighborhood, we offer pathways to employment for our neighbors who have come to the Inland Northwest as refugees.
Hip Hop is Green (HHIG) is a Black-led and Seattle-based organization that uses the power and influence of Hip Hop culture to speak to youth and spark positive health and wellness changes in their lives.
Deeply rooted in the Asian Pacific Islander community, ICHS provides culturally, and linguistically appropriate health and wellness services and promotes health equity for all.
Literacy Source partners with adults working to gain skills and education to create new opportunities for themselves, their families, and the community.
Mason County Climate Justice envisions and co-creates local climate solutions that regenerate healthy ecosystems, benefit everyone in our rural community, and align with climate justice movements around the world.
Palmer Scholars exists to bridge the gap between potential and opportunity for young adults of color in Pierce County.
The mission of Tacoma Tree Foundation is to empower, educate, and support equitable community greening to mitigate the effects of climate change on our region’s most impacted neighborhoods.
The Common Acre is an Indigenous-led organization with a mission to connect BIPOC people to land and culture.
YNHS’ mission is to improve the quality of life and equity in our communities by providing accessible and integrated health and social services, ending homelessness, and offering unique learning opportunities for students of health professions.
2024 Grantees
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(FYRE) advocates for equitable opportunities that allow all youth to thrive. FYRE offers services to ensure underserved youth, ages 12-24, have their needs met in four main areas: 1) education, 2) physical and mental health, 3) basic needs and 4) resiliency programming. This includes providing educational advocacy, supporting young parents, increasing accessibility to whole-person health services, providing referrals and resources to youth experiencing homelessness and those experiencing sexual exploitation, and more.
(SES) mission is to ignite joy and justice in classrooms and communities using arts-based learning, anti-racist education, and social activism. South End Stories runs a trauma-informed and anti-racist arts education program serving students and educators throughout King County. They encourage critical thought to stimulate artistic expression and exploration of identity at the highest level of learning.
The Way to Justice is a community non-profit legal aid organization led and created by women of color. Through direct representation, impact litigation, policy reform, and advocacy work, they address the barriers facing individuals who have been negatively impacted by our justice system. The Way to Justice envisions a legal and justice system that does not oppress, suffocate, and murder people of color; a system that does not see them as a threat, or view them as expendable. Their focus programs are driver’s relicensing/restoring driving privileges and post conviction relief, including restoring client rights, clearing criminal records and reducing/waiving legal fees.
2023 Grantees
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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.
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.
The Ttwaxt 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 Grantees
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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.
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.
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.
2021 Grantees
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2020 Grantees
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2019 Grantees
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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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
2018 Grantees
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2017 Grantees
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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.
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.
Para Los Nios 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.
Para Los Nios 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.
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.
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.
Tiny Tree’s mission is to use outdoor classrooms to make a quality education in reading, math and science affordable for families
Para Los Nios 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.