About Seattle Parks Foundation
We partner with community to champion thriving and equitable parks and public spaces.
Focus Areas
Parks and public spacesCommunity-led projectsFiscal sponsorshipTree equity / urban forestryClimate resilienceEnvironmental justiceCivic engagement and community building
Who They Fund
Indigenous peoples / Native communitiesnonprofit sponsees and sponsoring organizationsorganizational staff and leaders receiving trauma-informed coachingparticipants in shared learning/action teams
Funding Style
About Seattle Parks Foundation
A defining part of Seattle Parks Foundation’s recent grantmaking is support for organizational transition, including a $410,098 distribution of funds tied to Possibility Labs’ offboarding to a new sponsoring organization. The foundation also made a $210,000 distribution of funds to the King County Play Equity Coalition as part of an offboarding process, showing that it funds both large-scale fiscal transitions and smaller project support. Alongside those structural grants, the foundation continues to back community-centered work in parks, public spaces, tree equity, climate resilience, and civic engagement. Recent recipients include United Indians of All Tribes Foundation for Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Center for Healing & Justice Through Sports for trauma-informed coaching, and Braided Seeds for shared learning action team participation. The pattern suggests a funder that combines sponsorship transition support with place-based community work, especially where parks, equity, and public space intersect. Its stated partnership model centers community and thriving, equitable parks and public spaces, and the grant record reflects that mix of infrastructure support and targeted program funding.
What Seattle Parks Foundation Funds
Seattle Parks Foundation supports a mix of park-related, equity-focused, and capacity-building work. In Indigenous cultural recognition and celebration, it gave $5,750 to United Indians of All Tribes Foundation for Indigenous Peoples’ Day. In workforce and leadership support, it awarded $5,500 to Center for Healing & Justice Through Sports for trauma-informed coaching. It also funded peer-learning activity with $5,375 to Braided Seeds for shared learning action team participation. The foundation’s active Tree Equity Network Granting Program adds another clear thread: tree equity, urban forestry stewardship, neighborhood-based climate resilience, community stewardship, and environmental justice. Across these grants, the work leans toward community-led projects and organizational support rather than a narrow single-program model.
How Seattle Parks Foundation Gives
Typical grant size is tightly clustered at the low end for most awards, with a p25 of $5,500, median of $5,750, and p75 of $210,000. That spread reflects a mix of small program grants and much larger distribution-of-funds transactions. The recent record shows repeated support in 2025, but to different recipients and for different purposes, which points more to ongoing transactional and project-based giving than repeated multiyear grants to the same organization. Seattle Parks Foundation is a regular funder, not a DAF, and it does not fund individuals. Unsolicited applications are not part of the Tree Equity Network Granting Program.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$637K
Total Assets
$12.5M
Total Revenue
$6.3M
Total Expenses
$7.8M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $6K and $210K, with a median of $6K.
25th Percentile
$6K
Median
$6K
75th Percentile
$210K
Geographic Reach
Regional3 states funded
About 60% of grants go to recipients in IL.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
REBECCA BEAR
Accepts unsolicited proposals
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