Recreation For All Fund
2025 Grant Information
Seattle Parks and Recreation (SPR) and the Seattle Municipal Park District is pleased to announce the 2025 Get Moving and Recreation for All grants. Community members, organizations, community groups, and small businesses can apply to receive up to $15,000 to provide recreation programming throughout Seattle.
Application Dates
- January 14, 2025 - application window opens at 8:00AM PST
- February 11, 2025 - application window closes at 11:59PM PST
How to Apply
- Please read the grant guidelines carefully: 2025 Guidelines
- When you are ready to apply, visit gosmart.org and create an account using the link on the top right of that page. GO Smart will then present the option to fill out an application. If you have any questions about the application process, please email SPRFunds4All@seattle.gov
Award announcements will be made approximately four weeks from the review date. The review timeline will be dependent on the number of applications the community panel has to read and score. Applicants will receive additional information about an award timeline once their application has been sent to the community review panel.
Information Sessions Available
Learn more at a drop-in information session! We can make interpreters available with 72 hours’ advance notice. Please contact SPRFunds4All@seattle.gov for more information.
General information sessions
- January 16 from 12:30pm-1:30pm. This will be a Virtual Session held on Microsoft Teams:
Recording from January 16 session embedded in the right sidebar.
- January 25 from 10:00am-12:00pm at Rainier Beach Library: 9125 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, WA 98118
- January 29 from 6:30pm-7:30pm. This will be a Virtual Session held on Microsoft Teams:
Microsoft Teams
Click here to join the virtual meeting on 1/29/2025 @ 6:30PM PST
Meeting ID: 296 837 131 658
Passcode: S9pn9iA3
Download Teams | Join on the web
- February 6 from 6:00pm-8:00pm at Garfield Community Center: 2323 E Cherry St, Seattle, WA 98122
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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