Eligibility Requirements

Organization’s managing staff must be located in King County of Washington State. Applicants must be classified as a 501(c)(3) public charity. SVP will not consider grant requests from individuals, public schools or school districts^*, religious organizations for sectarian purposes, pure sports teams or any organization that discriminates on the basis of race, sexual orientation, gender, age, marital status, national origin or physical ability. SVP will not make grants to support auctions or fundraising events, debt reduction, endowment funds or capital campaigns.

*SVP will no longer make direct grants to individual public schools or school districts. We understand schools and school districts face significant challenges and offer many worthwhile programs. We have learned that our model of grantmaking is not structured to effectively provide capacity-building assistance that will sustain or strengthen these organizational structures. SVP remains fully committed to K-12 Education and seeks to work with nonprofit organizations that support our Giving Priorities.