College Success Foundation
Bellevue, WA · EIN 91-2036088. Reported 31 grants totalling $780,957 to 31 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. For College Success Foundation, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for education (NTEE B122).
- How spread out its giving is. 31 distinct organizations, with 13% 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 $16,840. Half of what it reported fell between $14,000 and $31,500; the smallest was $6,800 and the largest $100,807. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Aerospace Scholarsfoundation | Tukwila, WA | $100,807 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Foundation for Sustainable Community | Snohomish, WA | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Proyecto Mole Leadership Foun | Tacoma, WA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Scholar Fund | Seattle, WA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Puget Sound Educational Servi | Renton, WA | $40,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Choose 180 | Burien, WA | $34,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Heritage University | Toppenish, WA | $34,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Get Schooled Foundation | Seattle, WA | $31,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| King County Ceco | Shoreline, WA | $29,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Unleash the Brilliance | Kent, WA | $28,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Stemtac Foundation | Redmond, WA | $28,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Washington State STEM Education Foundation | Richland, WA | $22,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Iurban Teen | Tukwila, WA | $20,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Foundation for Academic Endeavors | Mount Vernon, WA | $19,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| STEM Paths Innovation Network | Renton, WA | $18,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| African Young Dreamers Empowerment Program Intl | Federal Way, WA | $16,840 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Educational Service District | Yakima, WA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Feels Foundation | Renton, WA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Greater Issaquah Chamber of Commerce | Issaquah, WA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Greater Vancouver Chamber Foundation | Vancouver, WA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kent Chamber of Commerce | Kent, WA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pasco School District No 1 | Pasco, WA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| South Puget Sound Pathways | Shelton, WA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Earthgen | Seattle, WA | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tacoma Community House | Tacoma, WA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Washington Alliance for Better Schools | Shoreline, WA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mt Adams School District 209 | White Swan, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pateros School District | Pateros, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Safefutures Youth Center | Seattle, WA | $9,010 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Young Womens Christian Association of Seattle-King County-Snohomish C | Seattle, WA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Anacortes Family Center | Anacortes, WA | $6,800 | 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.
- Foundation for Sustainable Co
Support Secondary Students
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 18 of 31 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
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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 $16,840 -- 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 College Success Foundation'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 25 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 6 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: 15500 Se 30TH Place 200, Bellevue, WA, 98007.
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