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Current Funding: $200,000 | Funded Since 2021 | Education - Strong Systems
This group of experienced policy consultants, funders, and advocates works together to build an equitable, sustainable early-learning system. SFF supports their advocacy with legislators and their outreach to families who are eligible for Washington’s early childhood education benefits. The distributions for this funding are administered through a grant to MomsRising. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $140,000 | Funded Since 2019 | Education - Family Engagement
Serving AAPI children and families in Pierce County, Asia Pacific Cultural Center provides culturally responsive wrap-around supports in communities to bridge the gap between families and the school system. SFF funds cultural navigators inside schools who help foster teacher-parent relationships and provide language and translation support for high-needs 8- to 12-year-olds and their families. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $52,500 | Funded Since 2023 | Education - Family Engagement
BELONG Partners instills dignity and agency in children by providing social-emotional learning tools that help them thrive in and out of school. SFF funds their Legacies of Love workshops, which help parents support their child’s problem-solving and self-regulation using skills taught in school, ultimately benefiting the whole family. Visit grantee site
Total Funding: $200,000 | Funded 2022 - 2023 | Civic Engagement - Other
Total Funding: $150,000 | Funded 2016 - 2019 | Education - Summer Learning Loss
Current Funding: $25,000 | Funded Since 2019 | Climate - National
The Carbon Leadership Forum at the University of Washington is driving a radical reduction in the embodied carbon in building materials and construction. SFF supports their work with design and construction professionals around the world, which include providing tools, sharing knowledge, and fostering collaboration. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $150,000 | Funded Since 2020 | Climate - Washington
The Center for Sustainable Infrastructure catalyzes state-of-the-art sustainable infrastructure solutions that help Pacific Northwest communities thrive economically, socially, and environmentally. SFF supports their work on the ground and in policy advocacy. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $300,000 | Funded Since 2023 | Education - Strong Systems
CCA not only helps families find quality child care, it works to make care more available, supporting early childhood educators and programs through research, advocacy, and more. SFF supports CCA’s multi-year campaign focused on policy solutions to lead to a more equitable and stable childcare workforce in WA state focused on recruitment and retention. Visit grantee site
Total Funding: $190,000 | Funded 2015 - 2019 | Education - Early Learning
Total Funding: $90,000 | Funded 2016 - 2019 | Education - Early Learning
Current Funding: $100,000 | Funded Since 2023 | Climate - Michigan
Citizens Utility Board of Michigan represents the interests of residential electricity and gas customers. SFF supports their advocacy work with a highly technical government oversight entity around rates increases, policies, outages, and a clean energy transition that works for all Michiganders. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $50,000 | Funded Since 2024 | Climate - Washington
The Clean & Prosperous Institute conducts research and analysis that reveal practical solutions for a low-carbon economy in Washington. SFF supports their work bridging the business and climate communities and engaging business voices in climate advocacy. The Clean & Prosperous Institute is a subsidiary of the Washington Business Alliance Fund, a Washington state 501(c)(3). Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $100,000 | Funded Since 2018 | Climate - Washington
Clean Energy Transition Institute researches and analyzes potential climate solutions and their implications on policy and other priorities. SFF supports their reliable, nonpartisan analysis of the technology pathways needed to reach climate goals in the Pacific Northwest. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $75,000 | Funded Since 2022 | Climate - Michigan
For labor by labor veterans, the Climate Jobs National Resource Center supports workers who care about labor and climate to advocate for policies and investments that are good for both. SFF supports their efforts to engage the labor movement in Michigan in advocating for climate policies that create equitable, high-quality career opportunities in the clean-energy economy. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $775,000 | Funded Since 2014 | Climate - Washington
Climate Solutions applies its advocacy experience, strategic chops, and policy know-how to achieve real long-term progress on clean energy. SFF supports their work advancing climate policy that will rapidly decarbonize Washington and Oregon. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $469,128 | Funded Since 2015 | Education - Family Engagement
Academic Parent Teacher Teams (APTT) is a national model facilitating deeper connections between teachers and families—improving children’s social, emotional, and academic outcomes. SFF partners with CCER and WestEd's efforts to scale and strengthen APTT in South King County school districts through evaluation, professional development, and relationship-building. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $150,000 | Funded Since 2019 | Education - Family Engagement
Community Network Council provides academic support for majority Black and Latino youth in Kent’s East Hill neighborhood, improving access to STEM education and cultivating family engagement in student learning. SFF supports their Scholars Program for students in grades K–5. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $50,000 | Funded Since 2020 | Civic Engagement - Rural
A women-led grassroots movement in Whatcom and Skagit Counties, C2C works to end structural racism. They advance cooperative models of food justice and participatory democracy by providing policy solutions and economic opportunities for farmworkers and immigrant communities. SFF supports their leadership development efforts and advocacy around climate justice and farmworker rights. C2C is fiscally sponsored by Institute for Washington's Future. Visit grantee site
Total Funding: $105,000 | Funded 2016 - 2019 | Education - Early Learning
Current Funding: $100,000 | Funded Since 2019 | Climate - National
E8 is growing a community of investors in climate solutions technology by helping people invest together in early-stage companies at the forefront of the climate tech revolution. SFF supports efforts to inspire new climate funders and cultivate their interest in climate policy. E8 is fiscally sponsored by the Cascadia CleanTech Prize. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $50,000 | Funded Since 2018 | Climate - Washington
EarthGen works with schools and teachers to raise student awareness of climate solutions and a healthy environment. SFF funds their collaborations with Washington educators, which develop science-based curriculum and empower youth to become leaders in in their communities. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $200,000 | Funded Since 2017 | Climate - Washington
An institute of the University of Washington, EarthLab connects academic researchers with governments, community organizations, and companies to solve real-world climate problems. SFF supports increasing the scale of their work developing these cross-sector partnerships. Visit grantee site
Total Funding: $117,900 | Funded 2016 - 2019 | Education - Summer Learning Loss
Current Funding: $40,000 | Funded Since 2023 | Climate - Michigan
Ecology Center advances environmental solutions in Michigan, addressing lead poisoning, plastic waste, air quality, clean energy, and more. SFF funds their technical and policy work focused on advancing clean transportation in Michigan. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $5,000 | Funded Since 2020 | Civic Engagement - Economic Policy
Economic Opportunity Institute advances policy ideas that help create an economy that works for everyone. SFF supports the research and economic modeling they use to raise awareness about policies that could address the needs of Washington workers. Visit grantee site
Total Funding: $60,000 | Funded 2016 - 2019 | Education - Early Learning
Total Funding: $204,753 | Funded 2016 - 2019 | Education - Early Learning
Current Funding: $200,000 | Funded Since 2022 | Climate - Michigan
Combining policy and communications expertise, Evergreen Collaborative educates state officials about the benefits and challenges of climate-solutions projects. SFF funds their work helping state governments access federal funding for climate solutions technologies that create jobs, leverage private-sector investments, and bolster local economies. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $25,000 | Funded Since 2020 | Civic Engagement - Economic Policy
The Fair Work Center ensures working people are protected under Washington state law, particularly essential workers, gig workers, immigrants and refugees, childcare workers, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ workers. SFF supports their statewide organizing around workers’ rights and economic security. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $50,000 | Funded Since 2020 | Civic Engagement - Rural
Firelands Workers United unifies working people and identifies policy solutions and investment opportunities that encourage economic development, healthy homes, and affordable housing. SFF supports their multi-racial, rural organizing and leadership development work in Grays Harbor County, as well as their climate-specific work. Firelands is fiscally sponsored by the Latino Community Fund. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $50,000 | Funded Since 2021 | Climate - Oregon
Forth has deep experience implementing government and nonprofit electric vehicle programs, including those in rural communities and communities of color. SFF supports their work in advocacy as they push for policy wins in Oregon and Washington. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $100,000 | Funded Since 2018 | Climate - Washington
Front and Centered is a coalition of Washington groups led by communities of color working together at the intersection of equity, environmental and climate justice. SFF supports their advocacy efforts. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $90,000 | Funded Since 2018 | Civic Engagement - Organizing Muscle
Fuse helps people shape Washington state’s democracy by mobilizing grassroots activists, organizing coalitions, developing messaging, and producing high-quality research. SFF funds help fuel their strategic year-round organizing work, and role of providing communications leadership to progressive groups, lawmakers, and candidates. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $50,000 | Funded Since 2019 | Climate - Washington
Futurewise advances smart growth management that builds healthy, equitable Washington communities and cultivates a better environment for all. SFF supports their work with advocates to ensure that land-use and growth policies and practices align with a carbon-free future. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $100,000 | Funded Since 2021 | Education - Family Engagement
Greentrike champions learning through play, providing direct-service programs, community education, and policy advocacy. SFF supports the expansion of their Early Learning programs, in particular their efforts to facilitate Pierce County becoming a child- and family-centered county. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $100,000 | Funded Since 2019 | Climate - National
Grist is a fast-growing, award-winning nonprofit media organization focused on climate solutions. SFF supports their expansion in the Midwest, enabling journalists there to report on climate news in a way that resonates with local audiences. Visit grantee site
Total Funding: $50,000 | Funded 2021 - 2022 | Climate - Awareness
Current Funding: $100,000 | Funded Since 2023 | Climate - Michigan
The Institute for Energy Innovation promotes public understanding of advanced clean energy technology and its economic potential. SFF supports their efforts to analyze, develop, and advocate for clean energy policies, and to grow their capacity to advocate for clean transportation as well. Visit grantee site
Total Funding: $98,575 | Funded 2015 - 2018 | Education - Summer Learning Loss
Total Funding: $85,000 | Funded 2017 - 2018 | Climate - Other
Current Funding: $15,000 | Funded Since 2022 | Climate - Washington
As part of its mission to address the needs of Latinos in Washington, the Latino Community Fund engages state and local governments to improve environmental justice. SFF supports LCF’s engagement on implementation of the Climate Commitment Act. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $200,000 | Funded Since 2017 | Climate - National
One of oldest and most successful influencers on climate change in DC and states, the LCV Education Fund is a force for mobilizing the public around issues related to climate, climate justice, and democracy. SFF funds them to grow their capacity to pass state climate policy. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $50,000 | Funded Since 2020 | Education - Family Engagement
Look, Listen and Learn is an early learning television show that supports the social-emotional wellbeing of families of color by offering fun, in-home learning tools for 3- to 8-year-olds. SFF funds their work making widely accessible TV that focuses on representation and helps families foster radical joy. Look, Listen & Learn is fiscally sponsored by Building Changes. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $50,000 | Funded Since 2020 | Civic Engagement - Infrastructure
Media Matters counteracts misinformation and disinformation, with a proven track record of dismantling problematic media. SFF supports their work creating solutions related to news and social media. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $100,000 | Funded Since 2023 | Climate - Michigan
The Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition works to achieve a clean, healthy, and safe environment for Michigan residents most affected by the intersection of social injustices and environmental pollution. SFF supports their work advocating for equitable, inclusive climate policy processes and just decarbonization solutions that prioritize communities of color. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $180,000 | Funded Since 2022 | Climate - Michigan
With strong, well-established Michigan networks, the MLCV Education Fund is a leader among progressive advocacy organizations working at the state level. SFF supports their efforts to build and mobilize support for climate and clean energy solutions in Michigan. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $50,000 | Funded Since 2022 | Education - Family Engagement
Multicultural Child and Family Hope Center provides an array of critical human services in Pierce County. SFF supports their programs that empower families as the driver of success for children and youth to ensure that every family they serve is given the opportunity to thrive Visit grantee site
Total Funding: $205,000 | Funded 2015 - 2019 | Education - Early Learning
Current Funding: $100,000 | Funded Since 2017 | Civic Engagement - Infrastructure
New Media Ventures invests in entrepreneurs and activists wrestling with the biggest challenges facing our democracy, providing technical support and venture funds for new media solutions. SFF supports their efforts to identify and fund these solutions. Visit grantee site
Total Funding: $20,000 | Funded 2018 - 2019 | Civic Engagement - Infrastructure
Current Funding: $50,000 | Funded Since 2023 | Climate - Washington
The NW Energy Coalition advances clean, equitable, and affordable energy policies by leveraging their analytic expertise and convening a broad alliance of people and organizations. SFF funds their efforts to implement transitions from gas to electric by helping utilities and government to adopt practical solutions. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $75,000 | Funded Since 2020 | Civic Engagement - Organizing Muscle
OneAmerica builds leadership and organizes for policy change, civic engagement, and systems that welcome and include immigrants at every level. SFF funds their organizing and power-building work with key voting populations in Washington State—immigrants, young people, working people, and communities of color. Visit grantee site
Total Funding: $180,000 | Funded 2016 - 2019 | Education - Early Learning
Current Funding: $140,000 | Funded Since 2019 | Education - Family Engagement
Open Doors for Multicultural Families serves families of color, including immigrant and refugee families, who are caring for children and young adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities. SFF supports their work providing culturally responsive leadership trainings that teach families effective ways to advocate for inclusive statewide policies. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $60,000 | Funded Since 2021 | Climate - Oregon
Oregon Environmental Council has been organizing for clean air, water, and land since 1968. SFF funds putting their expertise to work for equitable carbon-free transportation policy and investment in Oregon. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $140,000 | Funded Since 2016 | Education - Family Engagement
Founded by parents and driven by community, Para Los Niños delivers family learning programming for Latino families in South King County. SFF funds their parent leadership work, helping Latino parents feel more visible in their community and more connected to their children’s experiences in school. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $135,000 | Funded Since 2022 | Education - Strong Systems
Pathwaves WA advances leadership for people of color in early-learning policy, creating paid opportunities for early-learning professionals to get hands-on experience within advocacy and policy organizations. SFF supports their efforts to increase representation from communities of color in policy spaces. Pathwaves WA is fiscally sponsored by the Southeast Seattle Education Coalition. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $65,000 | Funded Since 2013 | Education - Family Engagement
PEPS creates a place for parents of young children to connect, decreasing feelings of isolation and increasing feelings of validation. SFF funds their parent support groups, expansion of partnerships with community organizations, and efforts to serve diverse families. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $1,333,000 | Funded Since 2018 | Climate - PRI
Prime Coalition partners with philanthropists to channel catalytic capital to companies, projects, and funds that have significant potential to mitigate gigaton-scale greenhouse gas emissions and aren’t attracting mainstream investment. SFF supports Prime through a program-related investment (PRI). Visit grantee site
Total Funding: $240,000 | Funded 2016 - 2022 | Education - Early Learning
Current Funding: $160,000 | Funded Since 2022 | Climate - National
Rural Climate Partnership connects rural leaders with funding for climate-oriented infrastructure projects that spur sustainable job development and help communities protect and support what they love about where they live. SFF supports their work leveraging investments in small towns and rural communities nationwide. RCP is a project of the Heartland Fund at the Windward Fund. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $100,000 | Funded Since 2019 | Civic Engagement - Rural
With trusted relationships nationwide, the Rural Democracy Initiative supports rural organizations and people working to transform their lives and communities in service of shared prosperity and democracy. SFF supports their national civic infrastructure and fundraising for rural organizing efforts in key states. RDI is a project of the Heartland Fund at the Windward Fund. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $50,000 | Funded Since 2023 | Civic Engagement - Rural
Led by working people in North Central Washington, Rural People's Platform identifies, trains, and works to elect leaders who will champion the economies of rural communities. SFF funds their general operations and climate-specific work, supporting both leadership development and organizing efforts that engage more workers, youth, and seniors in democracy. Visit grantee site
Total Funding: $375,000 | Funded 2017 - 2023 | Education - Strong Systems
Current Funding: $50,000 | Funded Since 2019 | Climate - Washington
Sightline analyzes climate challenges that aren’t well addressed by other climate advocates—such as urban density and geo-grid heat pumps—and puts its insights to work to win better policy. SFF supports their work around Pacific Northwest climate issues and decarbonization of the economy. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $50,000 | Funded Since 2023 | Climate - Michigan
Soulardarity is working to install solar-powered streetlights in Michigan communities where utilities stopped lighting the streets, residents contend with blackouts, and energy bills soar. SFF supports their efforts to organize, build power, and advocate for safe, consistent, and just energy delivery solutions. Visit grantee site
Total Funding: $10,000 | Funded 2018 - 2019 | Education - Strong Systems
Total Funding: $223,750 | Funded 2015 - 2019 | Education - Summer Learning Loss
Current Funding: $25,000 | Funded Since 2018 | Climate - Washington
Spark Northwest helps overburdened communities benefit from clean technologies by aiding with the adoption of those technologies and assisting with efforts to leverage federal funding. SFF supports their work increasing equitable access to clean energy and applying their on-the-ground experience to policy solutions. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $150,000 | Funded Since 2020 | Education - Home Visiting
Start Early serves as Washington’s essential statewide early-learning advocate and intermediary—a hub uniquely positioned to receive public and private funding. SFF supports their work to build statewide capacity for ParentChild+, strengthen systems and partnerships, and give more of a policy voice to families. Visit grantee site
Total Funding: $35,000 | Funded 2019 - 2022 | Civic Engagement - Infrastructure
Current Funding: $135,000 | Funded Since 2018 | Education - Family Engagement
A go-to expert on best practices in community engagement, SPEB advocates for education systems to better serve immigrants and other communities of color. SFF funds their work helping parents, educators, and youth work together to build racially equitable systems and policies. SPEB is fiscally sponsored by RVC. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $75,000 | Funded Since 2021 | Climate - Washington
Sustainable Northwest brings together leaders from throughout the rural economy to identify clean energy solutions they can all get behind. SFF funds their work helping rural Oregon communities adopt solutions that meet the needs of people in their own communities. Visit grantee site
Total Funding: $65,000 | Funded 2015 - 2019 | Education - Other
Current Funding: $150,000 | Funded Since 2019 | Climate - Washington
In Washington state, the Nature Conservancy’s long history working on conservation issues gives them advocacy savvy and deep relationships all across the state, including rural and urban communities. SFF supports their advocacy for equitable climate and clean energy policy. Visit grantee site
Total Funding: $65,000 | Funded 2017 - 2020 | Climate - Research
Total Funding: $55,000 | Funded 2015 - 2018 | Education - Early Learning
Current Funding: $75,000 | Funded Since 2021 | Climate - Washington
Transportation Choices Coalition advocates for transit, bike, and pedestrian investment and improvements that make transportation accessible to everyone in Washington. SFF funds their advocacy for clean transportation and equitable transit policies. Visit grantee site
Total Funding: $35,000 | Funded 2013 - 2019 | Education - Other
Current Funding: $602,500 | Funded Since 2014 | Education - Home Visiting
United Way of King County, a proven intermediary in the field, reaches families whose children aren’t attending formal daycares and preschools, and provides those families with high-quality supports through ParentChild+ home visiting programs. SFF funds their goal to serve more families in King County and empower grassroots care providers to deliver high-quality ParentChild+ programs. Visit grantee site
Total Funding: $36,200 | Funded 2016 - 2019 | Education - Summer Learning Loss
Total Funding: $100,000 | Funded 2016 - 2019 | Education - Early Learning
Current Funding: $150,000 | Funded Since 2021 | Climate - Oregon
Verde builds environmental wealth and climate resilience through community-based programs that strengthen community voices in Oregon policymaking. SFF funds their advocacy around clean transportation and increased investment in equitable mobility access, especially in communities of color. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $135,000 | Funded Since 2019 | Education - Family Engagement
Voices of Tomorrow helps families become skilled, confident advocates for their children's educational needs, working primarily with African immigrant families in dual-language environments. SFF supports their parent-to-parent learning model to strengthen learning at home and at school. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $50,000 | Funded Since 2023 | Climate - Michigan
Vote Solar fights for a clean energy future that puts the interests, health, and well-being of people at its center. SFF funds their advocacy work bringing climate and energy-justice groups together to advance government policy and empower people and communities to make energy decisions. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $100,000 | Funded Since 2019 | Education - Family Engagement
In several schools across Snohomish and South King County, WA Alliance for Better Schools provides training to parents to take ownership of the needs in their school communities. SFF supports their efforts to deepen family engagement, preparing parents to train one another and directly disseminate critical information to students and families. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $25,000 | Funded Since 2018 | Civic Engagement - Economic Policy
WA Budget & Policy Center works with cross-sector partners and grassroots coalitions to advance budget and tax policies that eliminate economic disparities and help working people. SFF funds their leadership in research and education as well as their efforts to build alignment around economic policy solutions. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $120,000 | Funded Since 2019 | Education - Family Engagement
WA Family Engagement helps children and parents to build skills they can use to make positive change in their Snohomish County schools and communities. SFF supports their work implementing a national leadership model that fosters two-generation learning, including advocacy training that focuses on public speaking and civic engagement. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $150,000 | Funded Since 2017 | Civic Engagement - Infrastructure
Supported by a network of committed donors, WA Progress Alliance is building a permanent and powerful social change movement in Washington state by bolstering organizations that keep people engaged, informed, and active. SFF supports their efforts to fund organizations directly while providing coaching and technical assistance. Visit grantee site
Total Funding: $10,000 | Funded 2017 - 2019 | Education - Other
Current Funding: $50,000 | Funded Since 2020 | Civic Engagement - Organizing Muscle
Washington Community Action Network (WA CAN) mobilizes their large statewide base to drive multi-year campaigns focused on priority issues such as housing and mass liberation. SFF funds their advocacy work as well as the maintenance and expansion of their statewide organizing. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $125,000 | Funded Since 2022 | Civic Engagement - Infrastructure
Washington Community Alliance uses data to advance justice, influence policy, and improve lives. SFF funds their efforts to maintain infrastructure and outreach channels developed during the 2020 Census, and to align their coalition of 70+ members around collective policy priorities. WCA is fiscally sponsored by the Latino Community Fund. Visit grantee site
Current Funding: $150,000 | Funded Since 2021 | Climate - Washington
With a long history of successful environmental advocacy, Washington Conservation Action advocates for ambitious climate policy and engages with Indigenous people and communities of color in its efforts to protect the planet for all people. SFF funds their advocacy for climate policy that will rapidly decarbonize the Pacific Northwest. Visit grantee site
Total Funding: $100,000 | Funded 2018 - 2023 | Civic Engagement - Infrastructure
Total Funding: $45,000 | Funded 2016 - 2018 | Education - Summer Learning Loss
Current Funding: $135,000 | Funded Since 2019 | Education - Family Engagement
World Relief of Western WA brings visibility to the needs of newly arrived immigrant and refugees’ families, and supports those needs by building agency, trust, and community connections. SFF funds their literacy program for parents and children, their home-visiting program, and their social and emotional learning supports. Visit grantee site
Total Funding: $85,000 | Funded 2015 - 2019 | Education - Summer Learning Loss
Total Funding: $30,000 | Funded 2017 - 2019 | Education - Strong Systems
Current Funding: $50,000 | Funded Since 2015 | Education - Family Engagement
Zeno strives for a racially just world where families of color have a positive relationship with math. SFF supports their work bringing early math education games and training to the teachers and caregivers who work closely with children in their communities. Visit grantee site
