Meet our 2026 We See You Grantees!
This round of funding for our 2026 cohort was entirely community-driven. Each grantee was nominated by an existing We See You grantee. All leaders who were a part of the nomination process come from across the state and work across sectors, each one dedicated to improving the lives of Black people and putting in the daily work of creating a radically free Black future.
Artists in Activism
Artists in Activism (also known as Think Ideas) centers and amplifies Black experience in Snohomish County by creating safe spaces for members of the Black community to express their concerns and drive our narrative through the use of the multi-media arts.
Cierra Sisters
Cierra Sisters is working to break the cycle of fear and increase knowledge concerning breast cancer in the African-American and underserved communities; the Black women-led nonprofit is a wellspring of support and life-saving information for African American women living with breast cancer.
Community Passageways
Community Passageways creates alternatives to the carceral system for youth and young adults by rebuilding our communities through committed relationships centered on love, compassion, and consistency.
Community Reconstruction Collective
The Community Reconstruction Collective is creating a bridge between education, industry, and community by connecting college and high school students to internships and job pathway opportunities.
Divine Alternatives for Dads Services (DADS)
DADS helps fathers navigate relational and legal barriers that separate them from their children and families, encourages fathers to become agents of change in their communities, and works to improve the capacity of government agencies and community resources to support families.
ForFortyTwo
ForFortyTwo are an organizing collective of Black youth, Indigenous youth, and youth of color working to combat systemic racism through equity and education. Projects include creating safe spaces for youth and students, defunding the police and abolition, and healing and mutual aid.
Fresh Soul
Fresh Soul is a job training program in restaurant and food service, where youth ages 14 to 18 learn the many aspects of employment, including time management, resume building, overcoming personal barriers to success, and career planning.
Friends of the Children – Tacoma
Friends of the Children empowers youth who are facing the greatest obstacles by pairing them with professional mentors.
Glover EmpowerMentoring (G.E.M.)
G.E.M. offers mentoring, case management services, academic tutoring, and life skills development with a social-emotional support lens to youth and young adults in and around King and Pierce counties.
Graduate Tacoma
Graduate Tacoma is a community-wide movement on a mission to help every child achieve success — from cradle to college and career.
Greentrike
Greentrike’s Tacoma Out of School Time Intermediary (OSTI) project offers aligned, equitable, and high-quality social, emotional, and academic development programming to students in 16 elementary students across Tacoma.
Heal Spokane
Heal Spokane organizes monthly donations drives and community service projects, as well as supports other local charitable organizations in Spokane that serve the homeless and underprivileged.
iUrban Teen
iUrban Teen is building an educational community rooted in trust, empowerment, inclusivity, and community, and supporting BIPOC students to succeed, not only in science and technology programs, but also in their long-term careers.
KD Hall Foundation
KD Hall Foundation is an incubator to prepare young women and girls for the workforce by providing opportunities, support, mentorship, and sponsorship through their journey of education and their lifelong journey of leadership.
Kent Black Action Commission
Kent Black Action Commission promotes the social, political, educational, and economic conditions of the Black/African-American community in Kent and South King County.
Legally BLACK (Brave, Lifted, Altruistic, Creative, and Keen)
Legally BLACK is dedicated to eradicating racism and discrimination in all governed areas of society and strengthening communities through education, narrative change work, political networking, media outreach, and advocacy.
Martin Luther King Jr. Family Outreach Center
The Martin Luther King Jr. Family Outreach Center exists to improve the quality of life for children, youth, and families in Spokane through an array of culturally responsive educational and social services within the framework of Dr. King’s vision of equal respect, treatment, and accessibility for all people.
Mentoring Urban Students and Teens (MUST)
Through long-term mentoring, MUST helps Black youth vulnerable to dropping out of high school and/or becoming involved in the juvenile justice system spring free from the hardest generational cycles of poverty — successfully graduate high school, attend college, become established in stable careers, and reach their full potential.
NAACP Snohomish County
NAACP Snohomish County is securing the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights; eliminating race-based discrimination; and ensuring the health and well-being of all persons.
Noble Foundation
The Noble Foundation provides nonprofit infrastructure for its BIPOC-led sister organizations in Southwest Washington, namely Southwest Washington Communities United for Change and Our Place Nuestra Casa Multicultural Center.
Odyssey World International Education Services
Odyssey World International Education Services is an all-volunteer organization that collaboratively and compassionately advocates for social justice and serves marginalized people who are impacted by poverty and discrimination by providing emergency assistance, resources referrals, advocacy, and community engagement opportunities.
Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC) of Washington
Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC) of Washington provides education and career, nutrition and health, housing and financial, and community services so all people can live with greater human dignity.
OurGEMS (Girls Empowered Through Mentoring and Service)
OurGEMS is the premier mentoring source to empower girls and boys to reach their fullest potential by promoting self-confidence, the value of education, leadership development, critical thinking, and strong communication skills.
Palmer Scholars
Palmer Scholars is committed to supporting underrepresented Pierce County students of color to overcome financial, cultural, and social barriers in their pursuit of higher education.
Peace Community Center
Peace Community Center creates transformational educational experiences for Tacoma’s Hilltop youth and families of promise empowering future success in college, career, and community leadership.
Project Girl Mentoring Program
Project Girl Mentoring Program is a group mentoring program that fosters the advancement of young women of color to make positive life choices and maximize their authentic potential.
Raze Development
Raze is a Black-American early learning and development center in Spokane working to eradicate biases driven by stereotypes that perpetuate the preschool to prison pipeline.
Reparative Action Institute
Reparative Action Institute works to foster an ecosystem that supports and sustains the businesses, wealth building, and well-being of Black women entrepreneurs.
Tabor 100
Tabor 100 is an association of entrepreneurs and business advocates who are committed to economic power, educational excellence, and social equity for African-Americans and the community at large.
Tacoma Urban Performing Arts Center (T.U.P.A.C.)
The Tacoma Urban Performing Arts Center (T.U.P.A.C.) cultivates world class opportunities for youth to achieve artistic excellence while developing character, poise, and generosity of spirit.
Takeall Foundation
Takeall Foundation encourages young people to be lifelong learners, inspiring them to challenge the historical narrative of the American Dream through a true power shift of resources from bureaucracies and systems to uplifting our communities and equipping them with the tools to strengthen our communities.
Terrain
Terrain works to ensure artists, makers, and culture creators thrive by building community through art and creativity, supporting artists and the arts, advocating for the arts, and catalyzing creative businesses.
The Carl Maxey Center
The Carl Maxey Center is working to uplift, empower, and transform Spokane’s African-American community from the inside out by addressing four focus areas: racial and social justice and equity; business and workforce development; education and advocacy; and cultural enrichment.
The HOPE Club (Hold On Pain Ends)
The HOPE Club provides foundational community support, employment stability, healthcare access support, stable housing support, peer support, and behavioral counseling to BIPOC and low-income community members.
The Institute for Black Justice
The Institute for Black Justice is an advocate for fairness and equity, an accelerator of justice system transformation, and an accomplice to credible social justice influencers and the communities they serve.
The Moore Wright Group
The Moore Wright Group works to break the cycle of poverty, abuse, and abandonment in our community by providing a one-stop shop of food and basic necessities to individuals coming out of homelessness, as well as by working with nonprofits, tribes, school districts, and government agencies in 31 counties to offer quality goods for youth, adults, and families in need.
The Tacoma/Pierce County Black Collective
The Tacoma-Pierce County Black Collective is a community of Black people dedicated to civic engagement through volunteer service — and promoting the interests of Black people.
The Tubman Center for Health & Freedom
The Tubman Center for Health & Freedom addresses health and wellness from both systemic and clinical approaches by providing primary and preventative care, community resources, social services, political education, and advocacy.
Tri-Cities Diversity & Inclusion Council
The Tri-Cities Diversity & Inclusion Council seeks to provide safe spaces and programs that support the mental, emotional, physical, and financial well-being of BIPOC residents living in a predominantly homogenous community.
Yakima County NAACP
The Yakima County NAACP Branch 1140 was established in 1944 to secure political, educational, social, and economic equality to eliminate race-based discrimination and ensure the health and well-being of all persons.