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Seattle Children's Guild Association

Public charity · Grantmaker Seattle, WA EIN: 91-1394056 Website

Seattle Children's Guild Association advocates for seattle children's hospital through volunteer, philanthropic and community endeavors to ensure hope, excellent care and advanced cures for children.

Seattle Children's Guild Association at a glance

In short: Seattle Children's Guild Association gave $20.9M across 2 grants in 2025 (avg $10.5M), mostly in Washington. Source: 2025 IRS Form 990.

Annual giving (2025)
$20,916,806
+12.1% vs 2024
Grants made (2025)
2
+0.0% vs 2024
Average grant
$10,458,403
+12.1% vs 2024
Median grant
$10,458,403
Total assets
$242,324
+1.4% vs 2024
Primary geography
Washington (100% of itemized 2025 grant dollars)
Latest 990 filing
Form 990, 2025 View filing

Data from IRS Form 990, 2025; updated September 2026.

Who Seattle Children's Guild Association funds

How this funder distributes its grants

Top Recipients

Top 2 recipients in 2025

Seattle Children's Hospital: $20.9MSeattle Children's Hospital$20.9MSeattle Children's Healthcare System: $7KSeattle Children's HealthcareSystem$7K

The largest 2025 recipient was Seattle Children's Hospital ($20.9M). Together the top 2 received $20.9M.

Grant Size Distribution

10 grants across all recorded years

5<$50K$50–100K$100–250K$250–500K$500K–1M$1–5M5$5M+

The most common grant size was under $50K: 5 grants of 10 (50%).

Geographic Focus

Where this funder awards grants

Grant Distribution by State

1state

Share of 2025 grant dollars across all 2 itemized grants.

States

Cities

Seattle

How Seattle Children's Guild Association gives

  • Giving grew 42% from 2022 to 2025. Method

From the foundation's IRS Form 990 filings. Methodology.

Giving History

Giving Over Time

Total grant dollars and number of grants per year

$0$10M$20M$30M2 grants2019 2 grants2020 2 grants2021 2 grants2022 2 grants2023 2 grants2024 2 grants2025

From 2019 to 2025, annual grant giving ranged from $12.7M (2021) to $20.9M (2025). In 2025 it made 2 grants totaling $20.9M.

Grants by year

Grant recipients and amounts by year

RecipientPurposeAmount
Seattle Children's Hospital Seattle, WAPediatric Care, Medical Research, Teaching$20,910,055
Seattle Children's Healthcare System Seattle, WAPediatric Care, Medical Research, Teaching$6,751
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Financial History

Multi-year comparison from IRS filings

Figures from IRS filings, by filing year
Filing yearTotal AssetsRevenueExpensesGrants paidGrants
2025$242,324$22,887,327$22,887,327$20,916,8062
2024$239,075$20,533,868$20,533,868$18,658,5732
2023$200,129$18,850,833$18,850,833$17,089,0502
2022$186,683$16,211,346$16,211,346$14,747,5632
2021$199,221$14,058,030$14,058,030$12,675,8752
2020$157,330$16,797,192$16,797,192$15,226,1762
2019$212,903$19,293,262$19,293,262$17,590,3182

About Seattle Children's Guild Association

Based on IRS filings

Seattle Children's Guild Association is a public charity, based in Seattle, WA. IRS filing data is available from 2019 through 2025. As of 2025, the organization holds $242K in total assets. In 2025, it awarded 2 grants totaling $20.9M.

Leadership & Key People

Officers and directors from IRS filings

Seattle Children's Guild Association is led by Aileen Kelly, Vice President Development & Executive Director Guild Assn since 2025 (on filings since 2019); 4 of 22 officers listed in 2025 are compensated.

Officers on the 2025 filing

  • Aileen Kelly

    Vice President Development & Executive Director Guild Assn

    Executive Director → Vice President Development & Executive Director Guild Assn, 2025

    On filings since 2019

    44 hrs/week

    $214K (2019) → $261K (2025)

  • Jennifer Davis

    Chair

    Trustee → Chair, 2024

    On filings since 2020

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Ann Shanahan

    Trustee

    On filings since 2019

    2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Cheryl Avery

    Trustee

    Trustee → Treasurer, 2023

    Treasurer → Trustee, 2024

    On filings since 2019

    2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Debora Centioli

    Trustee

    Trustee → Secretary, 2020

    Secretary → Trustee, 2022

    On filings since 2019

    2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Michael Hirschler

    Trustee

    On filings since 2019

    2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Joanne Jones

    Trustee

    On filings since 2021

    1.5 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Monica Flory

    Trustee

    On filings since 2021

    2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Shireen Singh

    Trustee

    On filings since 2022

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Sophie Mecham Kinsella

    Trustee

    On filings since 2023

    2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Diana Curren

    Trustee

    On filings since 2024

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Ashley Jerath Tatum

    Trustee

    New on the 2025 filing

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Christine G. Frank

    Trustee

    New on the 2025 filing

    3 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Judy Wong

    Trustee

    New on the 2025 filing

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Kelly Kochman

    Trustee

    New on the 2025 filing

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Moya Vazquez

    Trustee

    New on the 2025 filing

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Dondi Cupp

    Senior Vice President & Chief Development Officer

    Foundation President → Foundation Senior Vice President & Chief Development Officer, 2023

    Foundation Senior Vice President & Chief Development Officer → Senior Vice President & Chief Development Officer, 2025

    On filings since 2022

    5.5 hrs/week

    $14K (2023) → $71K (2025)

  • Emily Downing

    Manager & Guild Association

    Membership Program Manager → Manager & Guild Association, 2025

    On filings since 2024

    45 hrs/week

    $108K (2024) → $122K (2025)

  • Marie Jones

    Guild Development Manager

    New on the 2025 filing

    45 hrs/week

    $110K (2025)

  • Laurin Sleeth

    Vice Chair

    Vice Chair → Trustee, 2024

    Trustee → Vice Chair, 2025

    On filings since 2019

    2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Patti Byers

    Treasurer

    Trustee → Chair, 2022

    Chair → Treasurer, 2024

    On filings since 2019

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Lauri Bingham

    Secretary

    Trustee → Secretary, 2024

    On filings since 2023

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

Former officers (24)
  • Former: Corene Moses (2019–2024) — Vice Chair
  • Former: Douglas Picha (2019–2024) — Former Officer
  • Former: Julie Patrick (2019–2024) — Trustee
  • Former: Sherrelle Walker (2021–2024) — Trustee
  • Former: Christy Frank (2024) — Trustee
  • Former: Andrea Stiles (2019–2023) — Trustee
  • Former: Jim Jaquish (2019–2023) — Trustee
  • Former: Matthew Messina (2019–2023) — Trustee
  • Former: Judith Pierce (2023) — Trustee
  • Former: Joy Roush (2019–2022) — Trustee
  • Former: Judy Gaffney (2019–2022) — Trustee
  • Former: Kendy Sasaki-Ross (2019–2022) — Trustee
  • Former: Mebie Thompson (2019–2022) — Treasurer
  • Former: Barbara Defreest (2020–2022) — Guild Development Manager
  • Former: Jessica Devine (2020–2022) — Trustee
  • Former: Mary Pat Iaci (2019–2021) — Vice Chair
  • Former: Patricia Thompson (2019–2021) — Trustee
  • Former: Wendy Funicello (2021) — Guild Development Manager
  • Former: Darcy Hollie (2019–2020) — Trustee
  • Former: Debra Cady (2019–2020) — Trustee
  • Former: Erin Cordry (2019–2020) — Trustee
  • Former: Carol Fleck (2019) — Trustee
  • Former: Judy Ogden (2019) — Trustee
  • Former: Leslie Groberman (2019) — Trustee

Data from IRS Form 990 filings, 2019–2025. "On filings since" is the earliest filing we hold that lists the person; hours are average hours per week as reported.

Compensation Overview

From 2025 IRS filing

Aileen Kelly — VP Development/Exec DIR Guild Assn: $261KAileen KellyVP Development/Exec DIR Guild…$261KEmily Downing — Manager, Guild Association: $122KEmily DowningManager, Guild Association$122KMarie Jones — Guild Development Manager: $110KMarie JonesGuild Development Manager$110KDondi Cupp — Sr Vice Pres & Chief Dev Officer: $71KDondi CuppSr Vice Pres & Chief Dev Officer$71K

The highest reported compensation on the 2025 filing was $261K, to Aileen Kelly (VP Development/Exec DIR Guild Assn). 4 officers or directors reported compensation on that filing.

Frequently asked questions about Seattle Children's Guild Association

How much does Seattle Children's Guild Association give each year?

Seattle Children's Guild Association gave $20.9M across 2 grants in 2025, according to its 2025 IRS Form 990. In 2024 it gave $18.7M across 2 grants.

How large is Seattle Children's Guild Association?

Seattle Children's Guild Association reported $242K in total assets on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Its revenue that year was $22.9M.

Where does Seattle Children's Guild Association operate?

Seattle Children's Guild Association has awarded grants in Washington.

What is Seattle Children's Guild Association's EIN?

Seattle Children's Guild Association's EIN (Employer Identification Number) is 91-1394056. IRS Form 990 filing data is available on this page for 2019–2025.

Data last updated September 2026. Sourced from IRS Form 990 filings.

Data update history

(7)

When this profile's IRS filing data changed on Grantable

  1. Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2024 (received by the IRS October 2, 2025)
  2. Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2025 (received by the IRS July 7, 2026)
  3. Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2019 (received by the IRS August 13, 2020)
  4. Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2020 (received by the IRS July 30, 2021)
  5. Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2021 (received by the IRS August 11, 2022)
  6. Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2022 (received by the IRS July 20, 2023)
  7. Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2023 (received by the IRS July 11, 2024)

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