The Lematta Foundation

Private foundation · EIN 91-1914392 · since 1999·Oregon, Washington·Updated 13 October 2026

At a glance

$1.2M
Annual giving, 2025 tax year
From the Form 990-PF filing
A small fraction of the prior year ($5.9M in 2024 tax year).
$10,000 to $365k
Grant range
From grants in the 990-PF filings
$62,500
Typical grant (median)
4 grants in the latest filing
Open to applications
Rolling, no deadlines · unsolicited applications welcome

Key takeaways

  • The foundation funds a varied set of charitable organisations, including art museums, performing-arts bodies, schools, a university, environmental and animal-welfare charities and community-service groups, so check that your work fits one of these areas.
  • Its filings record its purposes simply as charitable, and its grants are mainly to Oregon and Washington, but it states no geographic focus, so an organisation elsewhere should not assume it is excluded.
  • Across its recent filings, half of its 31 grants to organisations were $50,000 or less, so a request near that figure is a sensible starting point, although typical grants, about 8 in 10, fall between $10,000 and $365,000.
  • In its latest filing, 13% of grant dollars went to organisations it had also funded in earlier filings, and the filing gives no deadlines, so it is unclear when requests are considered.
  • Applications should state how the funds will be used, no prescribed form is required, and grantees must provide proof of their IRS classification for charitable status.

Overview

The Lematta Foundation is a US private foundation based in Seattle, WA.

What they fund

Profile based on the foundation's IRS Form 990-PF filings (TY2025, TY2024, TY2023) only: no website or other web source for the foundation was found. Every statement is checked against the filings. Sources read on 7 October 2026.

Priority Areas

The filed grants go to a varied set of charitable organisations: art museums and performing-arts bodies, schools and a university, environmental organisations, animal-welfare charities, and community-service organisations. The purposes in the filings are recorded simply as charitable, rather than under a more specific funding field. Recipient organisations are concentrated in Oregon and Washington, while the grant record also includes organisations in several other states. This account describes the recipients and purposes recorded in the filings; it does not assign a narrower mission or eligibility rule that the foundation has not stated.

Geographic Focus

No geographic focus is stated; the filings show grants mainly in Oregon and Washington.

How to apply

No prescribed form is required; applications should state how the requested funds will be used.

Application success factors

  • Repeat giving: In its TY2025 filing, 13% of its grant dollars to organisations went to organisations it had also funded in its TY2023 or TY2024 filing.
  • Grant size: Across its TY2023, TY2024 and TY2025 filings, half of its 31 grants to organisations were $50,000 or less.

What the foundation says:

  • The donee must provide proof of its IRS classification for charitable status.

Where grants go

From grants to organisations in the foundation’s filings for tax years 2023–2025.

Grant dollars by state

Oregon80%
Washington14%
Utah2%
Arizona1%
Hawaii<1%
Michigan<1%

3 other states: 1%

  • The largest single recipient received 70% of grant dollars to organisations.
  • In tax year 2025, 13% of grant dollars went to organisations The Lematta Foundation had funded in earlier filings.
  • No grants were paid directly to organisations outside the US.
  • 1% of grant dollars went to intermediaries that regrant to other organisations.

Grants

4 grants in the latest filing analysed · median $62,500

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

  • Washington Environmental Council · Charitable
    $1,010,0002025 tax year
  • COAFRICA · Charitable
    $75,0002025 tax year
  • Oregon Epispocal School · Charitable
    $50,0002025 tax year
  • Vancouver Symphony · Charitable
    $20,0002025 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Officers and directors

  • Gregory A Damico — Director
  • Nancy E Lematta — Director
  • Marci Ann Walsh — Treasurer
  • W Bart Lematta — Vice President
  • Nancy C Lematta — President

From the latest Form 990-PF filing

3 years of tax filings

YearTotal expensesGrants paidAssetsFiling document
2023 tax year$1,583,932$1,478,000$33,805,998Filing for 2023 tax year
2024 tax year$6,021,459$5,937,534$31,485,702Filing for 2024 tax year
2025 tax year$1,242,292$1,155,000$35,231,014Filing for 2025 tax year

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.

Sources

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