Equity in Education Coalition
Seattle, WA · EIN 81-4447635. Reported 53 grants totalling $5,247,276 to 36 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Equity in Education Coalition, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B90) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 36 distinct organizations, with 40% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 51% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $45,000. Half of what it reported fell between $25,000 and $80,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $1,083,332. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Communities in Schools of Washington State | Tacoma, WA | $2,083,332 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Freshstart | Seattle, WA | $424,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northwest Center | Sea Tac, WA | $214,985 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Filipino Community of Seattle | Seattle, WA | $186,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Cambodian American Friendship Foundation | Olympia, WA | $185,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Candid | New York, NY | $185,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mission Africa | Federal Way, WA | $185,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Tribal Technology Training | Edmonds, WA | $181,872 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Latino Community Fund of Washingtonstate | Seattle, WA | $178,250 | 4 | 2 | 2022 |
| Unidos Nueva Alianza Foundation | Ephrata, WA | $166,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Equity in Education Coalition | Seattle, WA | $135,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Beacon Business Alliance | Seattle, WA | $107,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Organizacion Centroamericano | Seattle, WA | $100,400 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Khmer Community of Seattle-King County | Kent, WA | $95,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Yakima Valley Community Foundation | Yakima, WA | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Asotin County Library Foundation | Clarkston, WA | $78,253 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| House of Mercy | Federal Way, WA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mindsight Mentors | Everett, WA | $52,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fuse Innovation Fund | Seattle, WA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mother Africa | Kent, WA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cham Refugees Community | Seattle, WA | $47,034 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Dominion Faith Center | Puyallup, WA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Metropolitan Development Council | Tacoma, WA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Safe Homes International | Federal Way, WA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Network Council | Kent, WA | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $32,842 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jefferson County Library District | Port Hadlock, WA | $27,858 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sno-Isle Libraries | Marysville, WA | $27,100 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Beacon Hill Business Association Inc | Boston, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| DARE2BE | Renton, WA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Native Action Network | Seattle, WA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tukwila Childrens Foundation | Tukwila, WA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tacoma Healing Awareness | Tacoma, WA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Seattle Foundation | Seattle, WA | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rvc Seattle | Seattle, WA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| East African Community Services | Seattle, WA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
13 of 36 (36%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Communities in Schools Wa
DIGITAL EQUITY-DIGITAL NAVIGATION - Christina Ellis and Paul Ellis
ELIMINATING THE OPPORTUNITY GAP AND PROMOTING BIRTH-THROUGH-CAREER SUCCESS FOR ALL CHILDREN OF COLOR IN WASHINGTON STATE.ELIMINATING THE OPPORTUNITY GAPELIMINATING THE OPPORTUNITY GAPELIMINATING THE OPPORTUNITY GAP - Latino Unidos
DIGITAL EQUITY-DIGITAL NAVIGATIONDIGITAL EQUITY-DIGITAL NAVIGATION - Cham Refugee
Digital Equity Food Assistance - Covid relief - Native Action Network
Food Assistance - Covid Relief - Cambodian American Council of Wa
Digital Equity - Covid Relief
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 25 of 36 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 9 | $199,000 | $25,000 |
| 2022 | 21 | $1,995,909 | $32,842 |
| 2023 | 23 | $3,052,367 | $52,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
96% of its giving went to organizations in Washington. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $45,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Washington.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Equity in Education Coalition's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 1200 12TH Ave 830, Seattle, WA, 98144.
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