2025

in Review

Grateful for You

✦

Grateful for You ✦

Dear
Friends,

As we continue our journey toward sunsetting the Medina Foundation, 2025 was the last year of our regular grantmaking. We awarded 226 grants totaling $6.2 million.   

As always, we can’t overstate how much we admire the work of the organizations listed in this report. We recognize the immense challenges facing the nonprofit sector right now, and we are continually inspired by the ways agencies still meet urgent needs, strengthen communities, and expand on their vital work every day.

In 2025, we made the final round of our professional development grants. While these were smaller grants (up to $5,000), they were in addition to other Medina funding organizations received, and they were appreciated for their flexibility. Grantees used them to strengthen staff, improve retention, and enhance effectiveness in ways that made the most sense for their teams. The creativity of the requests—for trainings, conferences, convenings, leadership development, and more—was impressive. In total, we funded 124 of these proposals over five years, investing more than $550,000.

We also commemorated the fourth year of our Impact Initiative, launched in 2022 to honor 75 years of Medina’s giving. This $1,000,000 commitment over five years supported five grantees focused on youth development and skills building: Bike Works, Center for Inclusive Entrepreneurship, Community Boat Project, Grays Harbor Youth Works, and Speak With Purpose. Funded in addition to our regular grantmaking, this initiative included professional development funding as well as general operating support. Leaders from the five organizations created a cohort that continues to share ideas and learn together—demonstrating the power of long-term, unrestricted support.

Beyond our regular grantmaking in 2025, Medina Trustees made a record investment in our long-time partners by pledging nearly $14 million in exit grants to 195 organizations. So many of these organizations are ones Medina has funded for decades. There was no proposal process for this funding—no applications or status reports required. It was simply meant to show our deep gratitude and provide a runway after our grantmaking ends. In the spirit of Medina’s giving, we leaned into our belief in general operating support, and 90% of these pledges were unrestricted.

The Medina Foundation celebrated its 78th year in 2025. It is definitely a time of reflection as we look towards sunsetting over the next couple of years. In 2026, we will be shifting our grantmaking to focus on fewer, larger grants as we invite in bold, transformative proposals, and we look forward to this final chapter of our giving.

With admiration and gratitude,

Jennifer Teunon
Executive Director

Margaret Clapp
Board President

We can’t overstate how much we admire the work of the organizations listed in this report.

Grants

Economic Opportunities

Positive Pathways for Youth

Africatown Community Land Trust | $20,000
Arts Corps | $15,000
BELONG Partners | $30,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound | $40,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Skagit County | $40,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of South Puget Sound | $40,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula | $25,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Thurston County | $35,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Whatcom County | $30,000
CCS - Youth Tutoring Program | $25,000
Center for Children & Youth Justice | $10,000
Children of the Valley | $30,000
City Year, Inc. | $35,000
College Success Foundation | $70,000
Communities In Schools of Greater King County | $20,000
Communities In Schools of Peninsula | $20,000
Communities in Schools of Puyallup | $25,000
Communities in Schools of Tacoma | $25,000
Communities in Schools of Whatcom-Skagit | $25,000
Community for Youth | $25,000
Community Network Council | $20,000
Coyote Central | $20,000
Dylan Jude Harrell Kids and Community Center | $30,000
Foundation for Academic Endeavors | $25,000
Foundation for Tacoma Students | $60,000
Friends of the Children Seattle | $185,000
Friends of Youth | $50,000
Funhouse Commons | $20,000
Girl Scouts of Western Washington | $20,000
Hilltop Artists in Residence | $15,000
Jefferson Teen Center | $5,000
Kandelia | $25,000
Mercy Housing Northwest | $30,000
National Scouting America Council | $50,000
New Horizons Ministries | $40,000
Northwest Education Access | $35,000
Northwest Youth Services | $30,000
Powerful Voices | $20,000
Rainier Prep | $30,000
Rainier Scholars | $50,000
Sawhorse Revolution | $30,000
Skagit Valley Family YMCA | $25,000
STEM Paths Innovation Network | $30,000
Summer Search Seattle | $40,000
Tacoma Community House | $25,000
Team Read | $35,000
Technology Access Foundation | $40,000
Teen Feed | $35,000
The Answer For Youth | $25,000
The Benji Project | $25,000
The Garage, A Teen Cafe | $20,000
The Mockingbird Society | $40,000
TOGETHER! | $30,000
Washington Business Week | $20,000
Whatcom Family YMCA | $25,000
YMCA of Grays Harbor | $25,000
YMCA of Pierce & Kitsap Counties | $25,000
Young Women Empowered | $25,000
Youth in Focus | $30,000

Stabilization for Families and Individuals

A Step Ahead in Pierce County | $20,000
African Community Housing & Development | $25,000
Akin | $40,000
Alimentando al Pueblo | $30,000
Anacortes Family Center | $25,000
Armed Services YMCA | $20,000
Assistance League of Everett | $20,000
Assistance League of Seattle | $15,000
Bayside Housing & Services | $40,000
Bellingham Food Bank | $40,000
Beyond Survival | $15,000
Black Healing Fund | $15,000
Boyer Children's Clinic | $50,000
Bridge Receiving Center | $35,000
CCS - Arrest and Jail Alternatives | $15,000
CCS - ASSET Program | $25,000
CCS - Family Housing Network | $25,000
CCS - Hope House | $10,000
CCS - Katherine's House & Rita's House | $20,000
CCS - Kinship Care | $25,000
CCS - Network Builder Program | $15,000
CCS - The Community Kitchen | $25,000
Chief Seattle Club | $105,000
Child Advocacy Center of Snohomish County at Dawson Place | $30,000
Child Care Action Council of Thurston County | $35,000
ChildStrive | $25,000
Coastal Harvest | $35,000
Community Action Council of Lewis, Mason & Thurston Counties | $30,000
Community Action of Skagit County | $40,000
Connect Casino Road | $30,000
Connections | $15,000
Consejo Counseling & Referral Service | $25,000
Domestic Abuse Women's Network | $35,000
Domestic Violence Services of Snohomish County | $25,000
Dove House Advocacy Services | $30,000
DOVE Project | $20,000
Eatonville Family Agency | $15,000
El Centro de la Raza | $40,000
Encompass | $30,000
Everett Recovery Cafe | $20,000
Exodus Housing | $40,000
Family Education and Support Services | $30,000
Family Promise of Skagit Valley | $25,000
First Step Family Support Center | $40,000
Food Lifeline | $50,000
Greentrike | $30,000
Harvest Against Hunger | $40,000
Holly Ridge Center | $40,000
Interfaith Association of Northwest Washington | $25,000
Interim CDA | $25,000
Jewish Family Service | $30,000
Kindering | $50,000
LifeWire | $30,000
Lopez Island Family Resource Center | $25,000
Lutheran Community Services Northwest | $40,000
Lydia Place | $30,000
Marvin Williams Recreation Center | $20,000
Mary's Place | $35,000
Metropolitan Development Council | $40,000
Mother Africa | $20,000
Mother Mentors of Whidbey Island | $20,000
Multicultural Child and Family Hope Center | $50,000
Multi-Service Center | $40,000
Neighborhood House | $50,000
New Beginnings | $40,000
New Phoebe House Association | $30,000
Northwest Harvest | $50,000
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project | $50,000
NW Furniture Bank | $20,000
Olive Crest | $40,000
Open Arms Perinatal Services | $25,000
Opportunity Council | $40,000
Orcas Community Resource Center | $25,000
Path with Art | $25,000
Pike Place Market Foundation | $35,000
Readiness to Learn | $15,000
Real Change | $25,000
Rescue Mission | $35,000
Rochester Organization of Families | $25,000
SafePlace | $40,000
Sarge's Veteran Support | $30,000
SeaShare | $40,000
Skagit Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Services | $20,000
Skookum Kids | $30,000
Southwest Youth & Family Services | $30,000
St. Stephen Housing Association | $25,000
St. Vincent de Paul of Bremerton | $20,000
Stanwood Camano Food Bank | $25,000
Step By Step Family Support Center | $50,000
Steps | $20,000
Tacoma Urban League | $20,000
Treehouse | $50,000
Vine Maple Place | $45,000
Vision House | $45,000
Volunteers of America Western Washington | $45,000
Wellspring Family Services | $55,000
Wonderland Child & Family Services | $20,000
YWCA Kitsap County | $30,000
YWCA of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County | $25,000
YWCA Pierce County | $35,000

Miscellaneous/Other

Professional Development Grants

Impact Initiative Grants

*CCS = Catholic Community Services

2025 Grants Summary

2025 Financial Summary

Unaudited summary from January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Board of Trustees

Margaret Clapp, President
Stephen Gant, Vice President
Gail Gant, Treasurer
Elizabeth Williams, Secretary 
Andrew Clapp, Trustee
Edelveis Clapp, Trustee
Jean Gardner, Trustee
Jill Gardner, Trustee
Piper Henry-Keller, Trustee
​Kate Nunn, Trustee
Trevor Nunn, Trustee
Marion Rawlinson, Trustee

Staff

Jessica Case, Senior Program Officer
Alexia Casiano, Grants and Operations Manager
Aana Lauckhart, Senior Program Officer
Jennifer Teunon, Executive Director