Recreation For All Fund
Recreation for All 2023 grant information coming soon; please watch this page.
About the Recreation for All Fund
The Recreation for All fund, through the Seattle Parks District, provides financial support to local nonprofit organizations, small businesses, community groups, and individuals to provide culturally relevant programs and events throughout the City of Seattle. Programs or events must be held in City of Seattle Parks and Recreation community centers, parks, or facilities in neighborhoods where health and enrichment disparities are prevalent and serve the funds priority populations and communities including adults, LGBTQIA+, immigrant and refugee populations, people of color, and people with disabilities.
Potential Partners
The fund opens for applications annually seeking new partners with innovative programs and events. Each year the fund seeks to work with 25 NEW partners to provide culturally relevant programming that meets the needs of the community they serve. Potential partners need to include information on sustainability and how they would maintain their programming after the one year of funding. Priority will be given to new projects that have not been funded by Recreation for All in prior years.
Recreation for All projects must:
- Take place in a City of Seattle Community Center, Park, or Facility (such as Pool or Environmental Learning Center)
- Provide recreation classes, projects, programs, or events to underserved communities
Who can apply?
- Individuals
- Local community groups
- Small businesses working within the identified neighborhoods*
- Non-profit and Not-for-profit organizations*
*Small businesses and non-profits must be under $150,000 in revenue.
2020 Recreation for All Awardees
Due to the pandemic, funding for 2020 was not distributed.
2019 Recreation for All Awardees
Aaron Brooks Foundation |
Adefua Cultural Education Worksop |
DeafThrive Day |
ENAT- Ethiopian Mothers for Women & Family |
Experience Education |
Faces of Expression |
Fitness For The Culture |
Hunger Intervention Project |
Inside Health Institute |
Inspired Child |
Katherine McCoy & Save our Sons Summit |
Marvin Thomas Memorial Fund |
Needs of the Community Society |
Northwest Black Pioneers |
Palmares Consulting Group, LLC |
Puget Sound Outcast Derby |
Rainier Valley Football Association |
Seattle Sluggers- Beep Baseball |
Shunpike with the Mahogany Project & The Queens Project |
Silver Kite Community Arts, LLC |
South End Effective Development & Detective Cookie Urban Chess Club |
The Dare2Be Project |
Van Lang Vietnamese Cultural School |
Wonder of Women |
Your House Boxing and Community Club |
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