About Fuse Innovation Fund
We partner with local organizations to change the conversation on the state budget and identify solutions that strengthen our communities; we add organizing and communications capacity to key campaigns and provide communications training to help organizations tell their stories.
Focus Areas
Budget and state policyClimateCommunications trainingLocal organizingProgressive employment resources
Who They Fund
grassroots community organizationsvoters / general electorate
Funding Style
grassroots organizing supportadvocacy and civic engagement fundingcapacity building for community groups
About Fuse Innovation Fund
Fuse Innovation Fund’s largest recent grant was a $1,491,622 award to Common Power for voter education and outreach, a signal of how heavily the funder can concentrate support behind a single campaign. The foundation’s stated work centers on local organizations that want to change the conversation on the state budget and identify solutions that strengthen communities, while also adding organizing and communications capacity to key campaigns. Leadership is listed as Aaron Ostrom. Across the recent grants, the funder backs grassroots organizing, outreach, and communications-related work rather than broad unrestricted philanthropy. The portfolio includes awards to organizations in Seattle, Spokane, Philadelphia, Raleigh, Phoenix, and Milwaukee, showing a national reach with a strong base in Washington state. Recent grants also show support for a group tied to voter education and outreach, plus multiple smaller awards intended to help organizations tell their stories and build organizing capacity. The foundation’s funding profile fits a regular grantmaker with a relatively small set of grants compared with the size of one major award. Its tax filing history is current through 2025, and its giving pattern is shaped by advocacy, civic engagement, and community-organizing support.
What Fuse Innovation Fund Funds
Budget and state policy are central to the funder’s stated purpose: it works with local organizations to change the conversation on the state budget and identify solutions that strengthen communities. Communications also appears directly in the strategy, with the foundation describing support for communications capacity and training so organizations can tell their stories. In grassroots organizing, Fuse Innovation Fund gave $35,000 to PA Alliance Foundation for grassroots organizing support and $20,000 to Justice not Jails for the same purpose. It also backed Fuse Voters with $15,000 for grassroots organizing support. The foundation’s civic-engagement footprint includes $20,000 to Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane for outreach, along with smaller organizing grants to State Leadership Project, Fuerte Art Collective, and Forward Together Wisconson. Those awards show a mix of outreach, organizing, and campaign-capacity work.
How Fuse Innovation Fund Gives
Fuse Innovation Fund’s typical grant size is modest: the 25th percentile is $11,375, the median is $17,500, and the 75th percentile is $23,750. That distribution sits far below the funder’s largest recent award, indicating a portfolio with one very large grant and a cluster of smaller operating-style awards. The recent record also shows repeat giving across years and recipients, including a major 2023 grant and several 2025 awards. The foundation is a regular funder, not a fund for individuals, and it does not make program-related investments. The pattern in the available grants is direct support for organizing and outreach, rather than an application-based or competitive program described in the data.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$61K
Total Assets
$399K
Total Revenue
$1.2M
Total Expenses
$1.9M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $11K and $24K, with a median of $18K.
25th Percentile
$11K
Median
$18K
75th Percentile
$24K
Geographic Reach
National5 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
Aaron Ostrom
Accepts unsolicited proposals
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