FOI Community Grants

Each year, through our IHS Community Grants program, Friends of Ingraham manages multiple grant cycles. In 2025-2026, the grant cycles occur in October, January, and April.

Teachers and staff are encouraged to submit grant requests which are evaluated by the FOI Board and Principal Elvig, and then voted on by FOI Members. 

The Community Grants are entirely funded by donations from IHS families and community members. Your support helps to provide all of these important resources and activities for our students and staff!

See the grants that have been funded by your generous donations so far! (below)

As a reminder, the next and last FOI Community Grants Cycle for the school year will be April 2-22. Submitted applications will be reviewed at the FOI meeting on Thursday, April 23rd.

JANUARY FOI GRANT AWARDS

In January, FOI voted to approve 15 grant requests from teachers and staff, for a total of $10,000 in support of programs and activities at Ingraham!

$1,500 | Additional cozy seating for the library

$1,470 | Advanced spectrophotometer - closing the gap in a Donor’s Choose campaign

$900 | Piano lab instruments and equipment

$850| Project to refresh trophy cabinet and welcome signs

$800 | Health Occupation Students of America (HOSA) competition study materials

$730 | Large whiteboard for math instruction

$600 | Materials for Ram pride hallway murals

$500 | History books for research projects

$500 | Special education experiential learning / outings

$430 | Cricut machine

$400 | Soap making supplies (Chemistry class activity)

$370 | IXL student membership accounts

$365 | Books for Proyecto Saber classroom

$300 | Book club books

$250 |Vernier video analysis access

$150 | Additional bus expense

OCTOBER 2025 GRANT AWARDS

We are pleased to announce that in October 2025, FOI awarded more than $18,800 to support the following requests by Ingraham teachers and staff:  

$3,500 | Scientific probes for Physics, Biology, and IB Sports Medicine classes

$1,600 | Nutritional support for staff during meetings throughout the year 

$1,500 | Incentive initiative to improve attendance for chronically absent students

$1,400 | Student shopping budgets for culinary arts classes 

$1,300 | PE Equipment 

$1,112 | School spirit t-shirt awards for staff

$1,000 | Dinner and translated materials for Multilingual Resource Night

$1,000 | Bus transport to Seattle Aquarium for multilingual students

$1,000 | Library copies of books/dictionaries to support Language Arts curricula and multilingual learning

$820 | Digital balances for science classes

$800 | Author visit fees (Library/Language arts program)

$800 | Snacks for testing days (SAT/PSAT, WIDA, SBA, AP, etc)

$609 | Sensors for science software that deepens study of force, momentum, and more!

$550 | Proyecto Saber art supplies and snacks

$500 | Swimming pool fees for distinct program students

$400 | Microphones that translate teacher lecture/instructions for multilingual students

$300 | Special Education classroom supplies

$250 | Craft supplies for HOSA students/Seattle Children’s Hospital patients

$200 | Career Fair snacks

$180 | Math classroom supplies

$100 | History classroom supplies

If you would like to learn more about Friends of Ingraham Community Grants, reach out to FOI Grants foigrants@gmail.com