Fund for Inclusive Recovery

Driving Investments to Create a Pathway for Inclusive Recovery

The Fund for Inclusive Recovery, launched in 2021, was created to drive investments to communities hardest hit by the pandemic.  

The Fund for Inclusive Recovery is a pooled fund, guided by a Community Advisory Group, that helps meet the critical needs of people most impacted by the pandemic. The Fund drives investments to BIPOC organizations, movements, and communities, creating a pathway for Greater Seattle’s inclusive recovery.  

Grantmaking To-Date

Community & Power Building (Phase I & II)

With the leadership and decision-making from the Community Advisory Group, we made two rounds of multi-year grants to BIPOC-led and serving organizations in the Spring of 2022 and Fall of 2024. Each organization received $200,000 for three to four years, totaling $18.4 million throughout the grant period. These grants aim to support Community Power and Base Building approaches that create the necessary foundation for system transformation. At a high level, the types of work funded are:

• Preparing for Transformation: bringing together stakeholders, developing shared principles and approaches, assessing current capacity and developing shared capacity and systems, developing shared approaches and/or convening with efficacy and efficiency 
• Building Knowledge and Public Will: conducting policy research and analysis, community participatory research, publications, events or digital content campaigns that engage the public and key stakeholders on policy and systems change efforts.  
• Advancing Policy and Systems Change: engaging community partners and individuals in dialogue and advocacy with decision makers, developing policy approaches guided by community and/or holding decisionmakers accountable to decisions and agreements.  

Read more about Phase I

Cross-Cultural Coalition Advocacy (Phase III)

The Community Advisory Group designed the next round of funding to support cross-cultural and cross-racial coalitions advancing policy advocacy efforts. Phase III awards were granted to ten organizations in 2025: seven will receive $200,000 per year for two years to support their established policy advocacy efforts, while three will receive one-year capacity-building grants totaling $350,000. These grants aim to further enhance their efforts in building cross-community coalitions that promote justice and well-being throughout the region.

Read more about Phase I & III

Stay tuned for any upcoming rounds of funding. For additional questions, please email [email protected]. 

Learning & Evaluation 

Intentional in the design of the Fund for Inclusive Recovery is a commitment to reinventing philanthropy to be in alignment with the needs of community-rooted nonprofits. With that in mind, we are co-creating the Fund’s learning & evaluation efforts in partnership with grantees and funders. Read about grantees’ learnings from the first year.