2025 Grant Winners
Each year West Seattle Garden Tour, a 501(c)(3) organization, seeks out other nonprofits whose goals fit our mission—to promote horticulture, education, and the arts within West Seattle and neighboring communities. Your donations and purchase of garden tour and raffle tickets, along with the generous support of our sponsors, allow the West Seattle Garden Tour to fund horticultural, artistic and educational projects in our community.
We are proud to present the ten nonprofit organizations selected to receive a total of $53,250 in West Seattle Garden Tour grants this year. Be sure to visit their tables in the garden today.
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Photo courtesy of ArtsWest
ArtsWest, legacy grantee of the WSGT, is a professional theatre with a mission to produce artistic events that provoke conversation, incite the imagination and use live theatre as a powerful agent of change. The grant supported the production of Snowed In (Again), an original work inspired by classic holiday TV specials. From the production team to the cast, every artist involved was local to Seattle and thrilled to come together to create holiday magic in West Seattle.
A Cleaner Alki, a West Seattle cleanup group, offers weekly opportunities for creating cleaner, safer spaces and a culture of environmental stewardship in the Pacific Northwest. Over the past year they have done weekly restoration work with Seattle Forest Stewards removing invasive species from local greenspaces. Their project will focus on restoring a 3,000 square foot cleared area inside of the Duwamish Head Greenspace with native plants over the coming year.
Learn more at dnda.org
Photo courtesy of DNDA
The mission of the DNDA is to integrate art, nature and neighborhood to build and sustain a dynamic Delridge community. With funding from WSGT, they will offer free garden education at Louisa Boren K-8 School, the Delridge P-Patch Garden and support teen Environmental Justice Programming, using an “explore, explain, expand” approach. Participants will explore plant life cycles, habitats and adaptations through projects like garden food and art-making to foster nature connections and well-being.
Learn more at endolynechoir.org
Photo courtesy of Endolyne Children’s Choir
Endolyne Children's Choir provides high-quality choral music education and performance opportunities for children in grades K-12 throughout West Seattle. They foster creativity, confidence, and community engagement in a joyful, inclusive environment that supports emotional, social, and musical growth. With funds from the WSGT grant, they will expand their programs with additional ensembles, accompanist hours, and enhanced performance opportunities.
Learn more at grownorthwest.org
Photo courtesy of GROW
GROW promotes community gardening in the Puget Sound region. For nearly fifty years, the organization has purchased tools for low-income gardeners, advocated for Seattle's P-Patch program, purchased and maintained land for community gardens, published a newsletter and provided grants to foster organic, sustainable community gardening. WSGT funding will help them provide irrigation and other amenities for a community garden on land gifted to GROW in West Seattle.
Learn more at sharkgarden.org
Photo courtesy of New Start Community Garden
The New Start Community Garden, aka the Shark Garden, is a nonprofit teaching garden in northern Burien. They serve a diverse community with their half-acre food bank garden, community p-patch, and botanical garden focused on edible landscaping. They offer free public classes on gardening, cooking and more. The WSGT grant will support a new Tropical Style Edible Garden with outreach and education especially aimed at the large Southeast Asian community.
Learn more at rbcoalition.org
Photo courtesy of Rainier Beach Action Coalition
Rooted in the Rainier Beach Neighborhood Plan, the Rainier Beach Action Coalition fosters connection, growth, and access to fresh food in their local food swamp. The WSGT grant will provide funds for their “Garden Gremlins” program which empowers young adults by providing a space to apply ideas, to develop executive function skills, and experience pride of accomplishment. Funds will help build a greenhouse to overwinter crops and to help with community garden maintenance.
Learn more at shadowhabitat.org
Photo courtesy of Shadow Lake Nature Preserve
SHADOW Lake Nature Preserve, a 133-acre site located between Renton and Maple Valley, acquires and restores critical lands to permanently protect and steward dwindling wildlife habitat while engaging and educating all. With WSGT funding, they will enhance a demonstration Native Plant Garden with a focus on pollinator plants and create a Pocket Prairie to demonstrate a native alternative to lawn landscaping. The plants will serve as “species ambassadors” and will be accompanied by interpretive markers.
Learn more at urbanraptor.org
Photo courtesy of Urban Raptor Conservancy
Urban Raptor Conservancy supports a thriving population of urban raptors (falcons, hawks, osprey, eagles and owls) in the Puget Sound region through research and education. Their grant will help introduce West Seattle residents to the raptors that frequent their neighborhoods and educate them about the risk that window strikes pose to raptors and all of the birds that visit the gardens and parks in a thriving West Seattle ecosystem.
Learn more at wscorchestras.org
Photo courtesy of West Seattle Community Orchestra
Started in 2002, the West Seattle Community Orchestra is a group dedicated to musical education, welcoming over two hundred local musicians of all ages and abilities. They offer three free concerts annually at Chief Sealth International High School as well as a summer series in Lincoln Park.
With WSGT funding, the orchestra plans a year of focus on “Music in the Garden” with relevant theme music and an increase in venues for rehearsals and performances.