Letter to Our Community

DEAR FRIENDS,

With immense gratitude, we are pleased to present to you this report outlining our community’s support for Seattle Academy for the 2021-22 school year. With your generous gifts last year, we were able to invest in the foundational programs and new innovations we needed to create the best possible experience for our students.

Last year’s Annual Fund effort, dubbed Impact:SAAS, garnered a record $1.56 million for our general operating expenses, while the SAAS in the City community event resulted in more than $1.1 million raised for our financial aid program. We are also thankful for $300,000 donated to our ongoing South Park initiative and more than $270,000 received for our Endowment. In total, our community donated more than $3.5 million in philanthropic support for SAAS.

These financial contributions are just one piece of our culture of philanthropy. Last year, we were fortunate to have 314 new donors to SAAS. Thank you to everyone—new donors and those who have supported SAAS for years—for making our school a philanthropic priority. We are also appreciative of the many volunteers who sustained our community through their work for the Family Association, our diversity and inclusion initiatives, and for our Admissions and Development efforts.

As we embark on our 40th year this fall, Seattle Academy continues to develop and strengthen the curriculum and programs that fulfill the SAAS mission to challenge students to question, imagine and create to contribute boldly to a changing world.

The pages that follow recognize the breadth of support that SAAS has received from parents, alumni families, faculty and staff, grandparents and friends. Your contributions as volunteers and donors create a lasting impact on the lives of our students. Thank you in particular to our outgoing Board Chair David Sheppard, who led our trustees for the past three years. We are immensely grateful for his service. We look forward to the leadership of our new Board Chair Matt Echohawk Hayashi, who began his service in July 2022.

Thank you to everyone for their meaningful contributions to Seattle Academy.

With Appreciation,

Rob Phillips Head of School