Mms Giving Foundation
Burien, WA · EIN 81-4169231. Reported 104 grants totalling $1,196,100 to 67 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Mms Giving Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $200 and the largest $258,100. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seattle Aquarium | Seattle, WA | $354,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| See Attached | Not Applicable, WA | $258,100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Moisture Festival | Seattle, WA | $43,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Planned Parenthood | St Paul, MN | $38,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| West Seattle Food Bank | Seattle, WA | $32,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Consejo Counseling and Referral Services | Renton, WA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Gay City Health Project | Seattle, WA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| White Center Food Bank | Seattle, WA | $26,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Country Doctor Community Health Centers | Seattle, WA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Earthcorps | Seattle, WA | $20,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Highline Food Bank | Burien, WA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Seattle Goodwill Industries | Seattle, WA | $20,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| SR3 | Des Moines, WA | $20,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Farestart | Seattle, WA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Outdoors for All Foundation | Bellevue, WA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bainbridge Island Parks & Trails Foundation | Bainbridge Island, WA | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Marys Place Seattle | Seattle, WA | $12,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Associated Recreational Council | Seattle, WA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ballard Food Bank | Seattle, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Club of King County | Seattle, WA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Children and Youth Justice Center | Seattle, WA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Familyworks | Seattle, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Northwest Folklife | Seattle, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Residency | Seattle, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mode Music and Performing Arts | Seattle, WA | $8,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sound Generations | Seattle, WA | $8,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra | Seattle, WA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Highland Food Bank | Tieton, WA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cocoon House | Everett, WA | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Highline College Foundation | Des Moines, WA | $6,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Uw Dentistry | Seattle, WA | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Associated Recreation Council | Seattle, WA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boys and Girls Club King County | Seattle, WA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Coastal Interpretive Center | Ocean Shores, WA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Consejo Counseling and Referral Service | Renton, WA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Country Doctor Community Clinic | Seattle, WA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sound Mental Health | Tukwila, WA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Washington State Hospice & Palliative Organization | Camas, WA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Washington State Hospice & Palliative Organization(wshpco) | Camas, WA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Vashon Maury Community Food Bank | Vashon, WA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Western Washington University Foundation | Bellingham, WA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| White Center Emergency Food Association | Seattle, WA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| YMCA | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kexp | Seattle, WA | $4,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Kuow Puget Sound Public Radio | Seattle, WA | $4,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Vashon Events | Vashon, WA | $3,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Seattle Public Library Foundation | Seattle, WA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Washington State Hospice and Palliative | Camas, WA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Progressive Animal Welfare Society | Aberdeen, WA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Seattle Mental Health Clinic | Seattle, WA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bellevue Collage Foundation | Bellevue, WA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cascade Public Media | Seattle, WA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Classical King | Seattle, WA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Garfield Jazz Foundation | Seattle, WA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Seattle Jazzed | Seattle, WA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Uw School of Dentistry | Seattle, WA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friends of Kexp | Seattle, WA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bellevue College Foundation | Bellevue, WA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Childstrive | Everett, WA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Path | Seattle, WA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Room Circus Medical Clowning | Seattle, WA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Southwest Youth and Family Services | Seattle, WA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Treehouse Washington | Seattle, WA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Whale Trail | Seattle, WA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| West Seattle Tool Library | Seattle, WA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Helper Project | Helper, UT | $300 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fauntleroy Watershed | Seattle, WA | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
25 of 67 (37%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 64%, across 2 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Seattle Aquarium
BEACH NATURALIST PROGRAM, CEDAR RIVER SALMON JOURNEY PROGRAM, EXPANSION FUND - Moisture Festival
IN FURTHERANCE OF 501(C)(3) CHARITABLE PURPOSE - Sound Generations
SENIOR CENTER OF WEST SEATTLE
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 65 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | $258,100 | $258,100 |
| 2022 | 38 | $223,000 | $2,500 |
| 2023 | 23 | $256,500 | $5,000 |
| 2024 | 42 | $458,500 | $6,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 96% of this one's giving went to organizations in Washington. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal 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 foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Washington.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Mms Giving Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 609 Sw 150TH St Unit 66135, Burien, WA, 98166. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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