GrantmakersWashington

Oneamerica

Seattle, WA · EIN 20-0384893. Reported 61 grants totalling $2,864,720 to 22 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

22organizations funded
$36,647median reported grant
$2,864,720granted, 2021-2024
92%of grantees funded again the next year
10%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Oneamerica, by its IRS classification it is an alliance or advocacy organization in public & societal benefit (NTEE W01).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 22 distinct organizations, with 10% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 92% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $36,647. Half of what it reported fell between $23,193 and $70,088; the smallest was $5,224 and the largest $108,915. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
4 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
13 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
19 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
19 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
6 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Korean Womens AssociationLakewood, WA$295,896442024
Missio Dei Church of the NazareneWenatchee, WA$291,567442024
Asian Counseling and Referral ServiceSeattle, WA$289,822442024
La CASA HogarYakima, WA$279,344442024
Horn of Africa ServicesSeattle, WA$255,925442024
Tacoma Community HouseTacoma, WA$242,068332024
World Relief Corporation O NationalBaltimore, MD$241,522442024
Chinese Information and ServiceSeattle, WA$230,724442024
Nuestra CASASunnyside, WA$180,193442024
Lutheran Community Services NorthwestTacoma, WA$128,300442024
Refugee & Immigrant Services NorthwestEverett, WA$121,010442024
Northwest Immigrant Rights ProjectSeattle, WA$93,681442024
Kitsap Immigrant Assistance CenterBremerton, WA$35,063222022
Community for the Advancement of Family EducationWenatchee, WA$34,217222024
Catholic Charities of SpokaneSpokane, WA$29,134112024
West African Community CouncilSeattle, WA$26,500112023
Somali Family Safety Task ForceSeattle, WA$19,667222024
United Territories of Pacific Islanders Washington-Utopia WaKent, WA$19,248112023
Korean Community Service CenterEdmonds, WA$17,667112024
Catholic Community Services of Western WashingtonSeattle, WA$14,062112024
Literacy SourceSeattle, WA$10,777222024
Korean Community Service Center ofAnnandale, VA$8,333112023

16 of 22 (73%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 19 of 22 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.

Human Services
14 orgs
Education
2 orgs
International Affairs
1 org
Arts & Culture
1 org
Community Improvement
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202112$481,121$36,532
202213$438,459$27,933
202318$912,879$44,619
202418$1,032,261$54,570

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

91% 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.

Washington
$2.6M
Maryland
$242K
Virginia
$8K

Down to the city

Seattle, WA
$941K
Tacoma, WA
$370K
Wenatchee, WA
$326K
Lakewood, WA
$296K
Yakima, WA
$279K
Baltimore, MD
$242K

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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.

Seattle Foundation19 shared recipientsInatai Foundation13 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc13 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund13 shared recipientsSchool's Out Washington10 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc10 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $36,647 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Washington.
  4. 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 Oneamerica's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 18 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: 1225 S Weller St 430, Seattle, WA, 98144.

EIN 20-0384893 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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