GIVING GUIDE 2025
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ABOUT US
Washington Women’s Foundation (WaWF) is a women’s collective giving organization that supports community transformation through learning, listening, and grant-making in Washington State.
Based in Seattle with a statewide reach, we’ve invested over 23 million dollars in Washington nonprofits since our founding in 1995. We're a participatory, communitybased collective. This means our hundreds of members collaborate to make funding decisions and we often invite the wider community to join our grantmaking work.
Through our unrestricted grantmaking programs, we support nonprofits, fiscallysponsored organizations, and individuals promoting racial and gender equity in Washington State.
THE GIVING GUIDE
In 2025, WaWF granted over $529,000 to nearly 40 nonprofits and fiscally-sponsored organizations in Washington State. We're proud of the work each of these organizations do and hope you'll be inspired to support them.
The WaWF Giving Guide is a tool to support your own individual giving. First, learn about each organization's work, impact, and leadership. Then, make a gift to one or more of the organizations featured here. For a collective giving experience, grab a friend, partner, or family member to join you in the process!
In 2025 the Foundation awarded 15 nonprofit organizations $20,000 grants each, with Merit Awards of $1,500 each, to be given to 13 additional organizations in the Learning Phase of our cycle. In response to the unique pressures on nonprofits we ending our grant process early and distributing our dollars to more organizations.
CLIMATE & AGRICULTURAL JUSTICE
2025 Priority: Mitigating the Impact of Climate Change
EDUCATION
2025 Priority: Adult Educational Opportunites
HEALTHCARE
2025 Priority: Youth Mental Health
Climate & Agricultural Justice
Mitigating the Impact of Climate Change
In 2025, our funding priority within the theme of Climate & Agricultural Justice was Mitigating the Impact of Climate Change. Our interest was in learning more about how climate change has impacted communities in Washington State and the solutions those communities are creating.
We sought to invest in organizations alleviating and reversing the effect of climate change on those communities most impacted by its effects in Washington State.
2025 Collective Grantees
FRONT & CENTERED
Front and Centered is a diverse and powerful coalition of communities of color-led groups across Washington State who come together to advance equity, climate justice, and environmental justice.
www.frontandcentered.org
HIP HOP IS GREEN
Hip Hop is Green (HHIG) is a Black-led and Seattle-based organization that uses the power and influence of Hip Hop culture to speak to youth and spark positive health and wellness changes in their lives.
www.hiphopisgreen.com
MASON COUNTY CLIMATE JUSTICE
Mason County Climate Justice envisions and co-creates local climate solutions that regenerate healthy ecosystems, benefit everyone in our rural community, and align with climate justice movements around the world.
TACOMA TREE FOUNDATION
www.masoncountyclimatejustice.org
The mission of Tacoma Tree Foundation is to empower, educate, and support equitable community greening to mitigate the effects of climate change on our region’s most impacted neighborhoods.
www.tacomatreefoundation.org
THE COMMON ACRE
The Common Acre is an Indigenous-led organization with a mission to connect BIPOC people to land and culture.
www commonacre org
FRONT & CENTERED
TACOMA TREE FOUNDATION
MASON COUNTY CLIMATE JUSTICE
THE COMMON ACRE
HIP HOP IS GREEN
Education
Adult Educational Opportunities
In 2025, our funding priority within the theme of Education was Adult Educational Opportunities. Our focus was on learning more about non-traditional adult education programs and services designed to support adults (ages 18 and older) as they navigate the requirements of employment and civic participation.
Through this priority, WaWF sought to invest in support of adults navigating the requirements of employment and civic participation (this may include immigrant and refugee education services).
2025 Collective Grantees
AFGHAN ADVANTAGE
*Featured on the cover
AA+ builds learning communities and functional literacy skills to bridge the gap between newcomers and opportunity AA+ nurtures communication, self-reliance, literacy and leadership by building community connections through increased access to information, experiences, and targeted life skills.
FEAST WORLD KITCHEN
www.afghanadvantage.org
Feast World Kitchen is a downtown Spokane restaurant that empowers Immigrants and former Refugees as leaders as they share their culture through excellent international cuisine.
www feastworldkitchen org
GLOBAL NEIGHBORHOOD
Global Neighborhood is a thrift store that offers job training, income, and a community of support for our neighbors who came to Spokane as refugees GN is proud to share that 80% of their job readiness program participants last year were women, some of whom had never held traditional jobs before.
LITERACY SOURCE
www.global-neighborhood.org
www.literacysource.org
Literacy Source partners with adults working to gain skills and education to create new opportunities for themselves, their families, and the community.
PALMER SCHOLARS
Palmer Scholars exists to bridge the gap between potential and opportunity for young adults of color in Pierce County.
www palmerscholars org
LITERACY SOURCE GLOBAL NEIGHBORHOOD
Healthcare
Youth Mental Health
In 2025, WaWF's funding priority within the theme of Healthcare was Youth Mental Health. We are interested in learning about systems of mental healthcare and how young people (ages 26 and younger) interact and heal within these systems
Through this priority, WaWF sought to invest in culturally relevant mental health and connection-building services for young people (ages 26 and younger) including organizations with counseling staff or working with a network of external providers.
2025 Collective Grantees
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES
Deeply rooted in the Asian Pacific Islander community, ICHS provides culturally and linguistically appropriate health and wellness services and promotes health equity for all.
www.ichs.com
SOMALI HEALTH BOARD
The Somali Health Board’s mission is to reduce health disparities in King County’s Somali community.
WA THERAPY FUND FOUNDATION
www.somalihealthboard.org
WA Therapy’s mission is to eliminate barriers to Black healing for those who have been historically excluded throughout the diaspora, by providing mental health education, advocacy, and therapeutic services at no cost to the client therapyfundfoundation.org
YAKIMA NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH SERVICES
YNHS’ mission is to improve the quality of life and equity in our communities by providing accessible and integrated health and social services, ending homelessness, and offering unique learning opportunities for students of health professions.
www.ynhs.org
YOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED
Young Women Empowered cultivates the power of diverse young women* to be creative leaders and courageous changemakers through transformative programs within a collaborative community of belonging. *those who are women or girls or were assigned female at birth
www.youngwomenempowered.org
SOMALI HEALTH BOARD
YOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED
WA THERAPY FUND
www.marysplaceseattle.org
www.waterfrontfoundation.org
www.vamosoutdoorsproject.com
www.aclspokane.org
Women & Girls
Supported by the WFA Fund for Women, WaWF offers the Women & Girls Grant to organizations focused on women and girls.
We define women and girls as individuals whose gender identity, or internal, deeply held sense of their gender, is as a woman or girl. With this grant, we support organizations fostering more equitable opportunities for women and girls, and work with an intersectional lens
2025 Women & Girls Grant Finalists
Mitigating the Impact of Climate Change
COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER COALITION FOR MIGRANTS
CHW serves migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees. They work with trusted community members who become Community Health Workers (CHWs), dedicating themselves to serving underserved populations by reducing environmental injustice, health disparities, and social injustice. www chwcoalition org
MOTHER AFRICA
Mother Africa advances racial equity through supporting African refugee and immigrant women and their families through direct outreach and grassroots programming.
www.motherafrica.org
SOAPBOX PROJECT
Soapbox Project’s mission, is to transform climate anxiety and loneliness through community-led climate action that's rooted in art, music, plant-based food, joyful connection, and activism that feels good
www.soapboxproject.org
FEAST WORLD KITCHEN
Educational Opportunities
Feast World Kitchen helps women develop their employment skills and set them up with resources to flourish The majority of staff and volunteers at FWK are women
www.feastworldkitchen.org
FREEDOM EDUCATION PROJECT PUGET SOUND
FEPPS provides an accredited college program for incarcerated women, transgender, and gender nonconforming people in Washington and creates pathways to higher education after students are released from prison
www.fepps.org
MUJER AL VOLANTE
The Mujer al Volante mission is to support low income immigrant and refugee women and mothers by providing access to driving courses, financial literacy, DV support and more.
www.mujeralvolante.org
Youth Mental Health
GIRLS ON THE RUN of SPOKANE COUNTY
Girls on the Run inspires individuals of all abilities to discover, build, and grow their self-confidence. Volunteer coaches facilitate lessons that blend physical activity with life skill development, including managing emotions, fostering friendships, and expressing empathy. www gotrspokane org
ORGANIZATION FOR PROSTITUTION SURVIVORS
OPS serve all women who are survivors of commercial sexual exploitation (CSE) OPS facilitates recovery from the harms of prostitution, trafficking, and CSE through trauma-informed services.
www.seattleops.org
POWERFUL VOICES
Powerful Voices creates brave spaces with girls and gender expansive youth of color to take charge of their own power as leaders, igniting their abilities to confidently express themselves, build community, and act against injustices affecting their lives
BECOME A WAWF MEMBER
and be part of a bold community of changemakers driving collective impact across Washington State. Your annual membership opens the door to exclusive education programming, a spot on our grantmaking committees, voting rights on our collective grantees, and more! Connect with a dynamic network of women and gender expansive people committed to equity, generosity, and joy. Whether you're new to philanthropy or a seasoned advocate, there's a place for you here.
GIVE TO OUR WORK
. It keeps us agile, curious, and ready to meet the moment whether that’s launching new grantmaking initiatives, deepening member connections, or sparking transformative learning. Every step we take is powered by the generosity of our community. When you give, you’re investing in women’s leadership, collective philanthropy, and a future shaped by equity.
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Yakima Neighborhood Health Services, YNHS is a 2025 Grantee in Youth Mental Health, featured on Page 6!
Thank you for your support!
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