Our Grants

Chief Seattle Club envisions a future where the Native community is safe, healthy, housed, and connected to community that respects and celebrates Native cultures. At its Day Center in downtown Seattle, the organization provides food, primary health care, housing assistance, legal services, a Native art job training program, and opportunities for members to engage in cultural community-building.

Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC) envisions a community where no person is abandoned, ignored, or experiencing homelessness. The organization provides comprehensive services and solutions to help individuals achieve their highest potential and effectively address challenges related to homelessness, substance use disorders, and serious mental illness.

Enterprise Community Partners makes home and community places of pride, power, and belonging, as well as platforms for resilience and upward mobility for all. Our grant supports Enterprise Pacific Northwest’s goal to increase housing supply by preserving and producing affordable housing via the coordination and capacity-building of developers.

Housing Authority of the City of Tacoma provides high quality, stable, and sustainable housing and supportive services to people in need. Our grant supports expanded access to the 2Gen program. The program will continue to develop family-centered coaching practices into a supportive services model that recognizes the natural assets of multi-generational families and the importance of a multi-layered support ecosystem. It will integrate mental and emotional well-being into the model through social-emotional learning, mental health partnerships, and family-driven goal setting.

NorthStar Advocates centers the leadership of young people who have lived experience of behavioral health crises and homelessness. The organization educates state and local policy leaders to ensure that any young person entering inpatient behavioral health treatment is discharged to the community with safe housing options and responsive, supportive services.

Plymouth Housing works to eliminate homelessness and address its causes by preserving, developing, and operating safe, quality, supportive housing and by providing adults experiencing homelessness with opportunities to stabilize and improve their lives. Plymouth’s model of permanent housing, coupled with wraparound supportive services, gives their residents the solid base they need to rebuild their lives and leave homelessness behind forever.

The Tacoma-Pierce County Bar Foundation changes lives, fights systemic racism, and works against chronic poverty by providing access to timely, effective, professional civil legal aid services for low-income clients. Our grant supports its Housing Justice Project, which represents tenants in eviction hearings.

Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle empowers (ULMS) Black and other historically underserved people to thrive for generations through social and economic justice. ULMS implements its mission within the Seattle/King County service area through advocacy, direct programming, community outreach, and coalition building in seven major areas of focus: housing, education, workforce development, public health, entrepreneurship, civic engagement, and financial empowerment. Our grant supports the organization’s homeless programming and housing security work including its housing complex in partnership with the King County Regional Homeless Authority that has 36 units.

Wellspring Family Services prevents homelessness for families by removing barriers and providing key supports that allow families to remain stably housed in Washington state. Our grant provides support for Wellspring to continue proving their Family Services Program in King County, while also expanding the program to Pierce County and exploring potential expansion into Snohomish County.