Front and Centered
Seattle, WA · EIN 84-3336800. Reported 66 grants totalling $942,423 to 48 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 Front and Centered, the IRS classifies it under environment rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE C99) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 48 distinct organizations, with 9% 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. 32% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $9,250. Half of what it reported fell between $5,450 and $17,500; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $58,600. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Institute for Washingtons Future | Bellingham, WA | $83,170 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Duwamish River Cleanupcoalition-Technical Advisory Group | Seattle, WA | $68,323 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Food Oasis LLC | Seattle, WA | $58,600 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Na Ah Illahee Fund | Seattle, WA | $55,050 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Villa Comunitaria | Seattle, WA | $54,300 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Solid Ground Washington | Seattle, WA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Yakima Valley Community Foundation | Yakima, WA | $38,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Indigenous Creatives Collective | Seattle, WA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mother Africa | Kent, WA | $33,350 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Khmer Samaki Corporation | Seattle, WA | $31,600 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Puget Sound Sage | Seattle, WA | $28,400 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Disability Rights Washington | Seattle, WA | $27,950 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kitsap Black Student Union | Port Orchard, WA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Living Well Kent Collaborative | Kent, WA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pears People Empowerment and Renewal Services | Tacoma, WA | $25,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Nickelsville | Bellevue, WA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Drivers Union | Tukwila, WA | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sunyata Agency Inc | Renton, WA | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media & Education | Portland, OR | $15,450 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Washington State Coalition of African Community Leaders | Renton, WA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Latino Community Fund of Washingtonstate | Seattle, WA | $13,400 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Refugee & Immigrant Services Northwest | Everett, WA | $13,100 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Tacoma Ministerial Alliance | Tacoma, WA | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Asian Counseling and Referral Service | Seattle, WA | $11,800 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Washington State Family and Community Engagement Trust | Edmonds, WA | $11,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle | Seattle, WA | $11,450 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| NAACP Empowerment Programs Inc | Baltimore, MD | $10,900 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Asia Pacific Cultural Center | Tacoma, WA | $10,050 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Asian Counseling and Referral Service | Seattle, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Seattle Parks Foundation | Seattle, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sustainable Seattle | Seattle, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| United Territories of Pacific Islanders Washington-Utopia Wa | Kent, WA | $9,450 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Revive Center for Returning Citzens | Spokane, WA | $8,450 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| United Way of Kitsap County | Silverdale, WA | $6,880 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| A Philip Randolph Institute Tacoma Chapter | Tacoma, WA | $6,450 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Comite Civico Del Valle Inc | Brawley, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| CASA Latina | Yakima, WA | $5,450 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Familias Unidas Economy and Ecology Project | Burlington, WA | $5,450 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Key Tech Labs | Des Moines, WA | $5,450 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Peace Works United Inc | Lakewood, WA | $5,450 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Health Worker Coalition for Migrants and Refugees | Edmonds, WA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Eritrean Association in Greater Seattle | Seattle, WA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Global Rights Advocacy | Seattle, WA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Guanajuatenses En Washington | Lk Forest Pk, WA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Our Place Nuestra CASA Multicultural Center | Kelso, WA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Resource Media a Nonprofit Corporation | Beaverton, OR | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rainier Avenue Radio LLC | Seattle, WA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Kicheko Project | Shoreline, WA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
13 of 48 (27%) 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.
- Villa Communitaria
DVAHC NEW Fellowship grants and Villa Communitari participation grants - Yakima Valley Community Foundation
Impact Advocacy Grant and Uplift grants for APIC-Yakima - Disability Rights Washington
Transportation genera operating - Institute for Washington's Future
Just Transition, community council - Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle
Uplift projects grants for Urban League and Cap Bldg Grant for CIRCC - Na'ah Illahee Fund
Capacity Power Building Grant and Just Futures Grants for Young Warrior Society and Governance
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 32 of 48 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 | 24 | $262,230 | $5,450 |
| 2022 | 28 | $389,355 | $9,612 |
| 2023 | 14 | $290,838 | $17,500 |
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 $9,250 -- 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 Front and Centered'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.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 13 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1501 East Madison Ste 250, Seattle, WA, 98122.
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