Gesa Community Foundation
Richland, WA · EIN 88-2053935. Reported 80 grants totalling $1,282,077 to 64 organizations across tax years 2022-2024, 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 Gesa Community Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 64 distinct organizations, with 8% 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. 27% 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 $11,610. Half of what it reported fell between $9,937 and $20,000; the smallest was $5,309 and the largest $50,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dress for Success Seattle | Seattle, WA | $99,577 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Service Peace Warriors | Eltopia, WA | $95,543 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sunnyside Police Department | Sunnyside, WA | $52,550 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Columbia Basin College Foundation | Pasco, WA | $50,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Friends of Disabled Veterans | Kennewick, WA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ciy of Union Gap | Union Gap, WA | $46,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| City of Walla Walla | Walla Walla, WA | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Innovia Foundation | Spokane, WA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Whitworth University | Spokane, WA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Columbia Walla Walla Fire District 2 | Waitsburg, WA | $33,289 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Medic One Foundation | Bellevue, WA | $31,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Invested | Renton, WA | $27,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Grant County Fire District 13 | Ephrata, WA | $25,119 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Valhalla Flag Project | Tacoma, WA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Peacehealth Southwest Medical Center Foundation | Vancouver, WA | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Yakima County Department of Emergency | Yakima, WA | $21,893 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| West Richland Police Department | West Richland, WA | $21,220 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Laerdal Medical Corporation | Wappingers Falls, NY | $20,192 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kootenai County Fire & Rescue | Post Falls, ID | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Hope Resource Center | Colbert, WA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Therapeutic Riding of Tri-Cities | Kennewick, WA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Trios Health | Kennewick, WA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tri-Cities Chaplaincy | Richland, WA | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kingspoint Christian School | Pasco, WA | $17,753 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chelan County Mountain Rescue Association | E Wenatchee, WA | $17,292 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Seattle Stand Down | Bothell, WA | $16,933 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Highline Medical Center Foundation | Burien, WA | $16,420 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Granger Fire Department | Granger, WA | $15,027 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bremerton Chamber of Commerce | Bremerton, WA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Chelan County Regional Justice Center | Chelan, WA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Eastern Washington State Historical Society | Spokane, WA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Grant County Fire Protection Dist 3 | Quincy, WA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Marcus Whitman Middle School Parent Teacher Student Association | Seattle, WA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra | Seattle, WA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hospitality House and Nutrition Center | Wenatchee, WA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Washington State University Foundation | Pullman, WA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mead Hs Chemistry | Mead, WA | $10,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Benton County Fire District #2 | Benton City, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bethel School District | Graham, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Blue Hero Project | Kirkland, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Free Rein Therapeutic Riding | Spokane, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Heroes Homestead | Clayton, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lakewood Police Department | Lakewood, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The American Legion Cathay Post #186 | Seattle, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United We Rescue | Spokane Valley, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Yakima Valley Veterans Coalition | Yakima, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Martha and Mary Lutheran Services | Poulsbo, WA | $9,937 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Belong Partners | Seattle, WA | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| City of Colfax | Colfax, WA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Memorial Foundation | Yakima, WA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Highland School District #203 | Cowiche, WA | $8,953 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Blue Mountain Action Council Inc | Walla Walla, WA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Eastern Washington University Foundation | Cheney, WA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| La Salle High School Yakima Inc | Union Gap, WA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Yakima Valley Crime Lab | Yakima, WA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Young Officers on Fire LLC | Pasco, WA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| City of Covington | Covington, WA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Inw Dyslexia Alliance | Spokane, WA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Seattle Public Schools No 1 | Seattle, WA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Volunteers Love Serving Veterans | Walla Walla, WA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | Seattle, WA | $6,420 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Leona Libby Ms | West Richland, WA | $5,750 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| City of Kennewick | Kennewick, WA | $5,400 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $5,309 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
13 of 64 (20%) 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.
- Friends of Disabled Veterans
DIRECT SUPPORT FOR VETERANS - Service Peace Warriors
ASSISTANCE TO VETERANS LOCAL HEROES - Ciy of Union Gap
DIRECT SUPPORT FOR POLICE OFFICERS - Innovia Foundation
DONATIONS FOR WILDFIRE RELIEF (WASHINGTON STATE 2023) - Dress for Success Seattle
ASSISTANCE TO VETERAN'S LOCAL HERO'S - City of Walla Walla
DIRECT SUPPORT FOR FIRE FIGHTERS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 31 of 64 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 25 | $423,460 | $12,000 |
| 2023 | 27 | $422,747 | $11,220 |
| 2024 | 28 | $435,870 | $11,000 |
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
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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 $11,610 -- 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 Gesa Community Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2022-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 24 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 4 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: Po Box 500, Richland, WA, 99352.
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