The First Fed Foundation is seeking applications for its grant program to improve the quality of life in the communities in which First Fed maintains full-service branches.
Donor Name: First Fed Foundation
State: Washington
County: Clallam County (WA), Jefferson County (WA), Kitsap County (WA), Whatcom County (WA)
City: Bellevue
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/01/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
FFF prioritize the giving based on criteria that includes but may not be limited to: alignment with the giving priorities and the needs and opportunities of the regions where they make grants; breadth of impact and intended outcomes of the project; strength and stability of the applicant organization, and perceived potential for the project’s success; funding commitments from other sources, including the organization’s reserves, to fulfill the goals of the grant; the impact on low- to moderate-income, disadvantaged, and/or marginalized persons or families; and the extent to which the proposal advances the Foundation’s mission of improving the quality of life in its communities.
Funding Priorities
- Community Support: They contribute to eligible community and human service organizations that improve the quality of life within the communities they serve. They give priority to programs and projects that build capacity to better serve the broader community, and efforts that benefit low- to moderate-income, disadvantaged, and/or marginalized persons or families.
- Housing & Homelessness: They support programs and projects that address homelessness and expand the availability of and access to decent, safe, and affordable housing for low- and moderate-income, disadvantaged, and/or marginalized persons and/or families in the communities they serve.
- Economic Development: They fund initiatives that encourage and expand economic development and living-wage job opportunities in the target communities, with emphasis on collaborative and public/private initiatives sponsored by local organizations dedicated to economic development.
- Community Development: They support capital projects and other community development efforts that offer valuable benefits to broad segments of the communities they serve, with emphasis on collaborative and public/private initiatives featuring multiple funding sources.
Funding Information
- Community Support grants range from $5,000 minimum to $25,000 maximum
- Housing & Homelessness, Economic Development and Community Development grants range from $25,000 minimum to $100,000 maximum.
Grant Period
Projects funded by Community Support grants must be completed within twelve months of the grant award date.
Eligibility Criteria
- Tax-exempt organizations under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3), including public charities as described in IRC 509(a)(1)-(4) and 170(b)-(c). Government units, school districts, and tribes are also eligible to receive grants from the Foundation.
- The proposals they fund must benefit communities in Clallam, Jefferson, Kitsap, Whatcom Counties, and/or the city of Bellevue, in Washington state.
For more information, visit FFF.
