Washington First Robotics
Kent, WA · EIN 45-2443839. Reported 75 grants totalling $1,116,125 to 60 organizations across tax years 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. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 60 distinct organizations, with 6% 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 big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $12,001. Half of what it reported fell between $9,955 and $14,844; the smallest was $5,140 and the largest $59,637. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Federal Way School District | Federal Way, WA | $71,933 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Interlake Senior High School(bellevue Sd) | Bellevue, WA | $68,269 | 6 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cascade High School(everett Sd) | Everett, WA | $65,193 | 3 | 1 | 2023 |
| Seattle Public Schools | Seattle, WA | $59,659 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Auburn School District | Auburn, WA | $43,286 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Liberty SR High School(issaquah Sd) | Issaquah, WA | $36,272 | 3 | 1 | 2023 |
| Puyallup School District | Puyallup, WA | $33,179 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Highline School District | Burien, WA | $30,585 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Renton School District | Renton, WA | $29,976 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bethel School District | Spanaway, WA | $29,272 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tesla STEM High School( Lake Washington) | Redmond, WA | $28,663 | 3 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kent School District | Kent, WA | $28,297 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Port Townsend School District | Port Townsend, WA | $25,369 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oak Harbor School District | Oak Harbor, WA | $23,677 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Inglemoor High School(northshore Sd) | Bothell, WA | $23,156 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mountlake Terrace High School(edmondssd) | Lynwood, WA | $22,173 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tacoma School District | Tacoma, WA | $16,227 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Skyview High School Booster Club | Vancouver, WA | $16,068 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cedarcrest High School | Duvall, WA | $16,059 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northport School District | Northport, WA | $15,901 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kennewick High School | Kennewick, WA | $15,631 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kettle Falls School District | Kettle Falls, WA | $15,339 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pasco School District | Pasco, WA | $14,844 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sequim School District | Sequim, WA | $14,605 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Toutle Lake School District | Toutle Lake, WA | $14,194 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Arlington Education Association Arlington School District No 16 | Arlington, WA | $14,148 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| W F West High School(chehalis Sd) | Chehalis, WA | $13,726 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Spokane International Academy | Spokane, WA | $13,321 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| West Valley High School | Spokane, WA | $13,309 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Capital High School(olympia Sd) | Olympia, WA | $13,252 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wapato High School | Wapato, WA | $13,139 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Palouse School District | Palouse, WA | $12,921 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Medical Lake High School(medical Lake Sd ) | Medical Lake, WA | $12,830 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tukwila School District | Tukwila, WA | $12,537 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bremerton School District | Bremerton, WA | $12,523 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mount Vernon School District | Mount Vernon, WA | $12,361 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mabton School District | Mabton, WA | $12,001 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cheney School District | Cheney, WA | $11,398 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Shelton School District | Shelton, WA | $11,361 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Colfax School District | Colfax, WA | $10,841 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Battle Ground School District | Battle Ground, WA | $10,828 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Shoreline School District | Shoreline, WA | $10,706 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bonney Lake High School(sumner Bonney Lake Sd) | Sumner, WA | $10,667 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Monroe High School | Monroe, WA | $10,544 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ridgefield School District | Ridgefield, WA | $10,418 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tahoma Senior High School | Maple Valley, WA | $10,149 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Camas High School | Camas, WA | $9,998 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bainbridge High School(bainbridge Island Sd) | Bainbridge Island, WA | $9,687 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Glacier Peak High School( Snohomish Sd) | Snohomish, WA | $9,447 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mercer Island High School | Mercer Island, WA | $9,025 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Enumclaw SR High School(enumclaw Sd) | Enumclaw, WA | $8,978 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Spokane School District | Spokane, WA | $8,631 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North Thurston Public Schools | Lacey, WA | $8,109 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Evergreen School District (clark) | Vancouver, WA | $8,021 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chimacum School District | Chimacum, WA | $6,308 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Snoqualmie Valley School District | Snoqualmie, WA | $6,020 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fife School District | Milton, WA | $5,561 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lego Education | Enfield, CT | $5,223 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Central Valley School District | Liberty Lake, WA | $5,170 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ephrata School District | Ephrata, WA | $5,140 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
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.
- Federal Way School District
SUPPORT FOR AFTER SCHOOL STEM PROGRAMS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 2 of 60 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.
Where its money goes
100% 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 $12,001 -- 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 Washington First Robotics's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 76 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: 22426 72ND Ave S, Kent, WA, 98032.
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