Quilters Anonymous

What Quilters Anonymous does

Quilters Anonymous is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit quilting guild founded in 1977 in Washington State, serving approximately 450 members across the Puget Sound area with educational programming, community events, and charitable quilt donations. The guild operates a recurring calendar of monthly meetings (second Tuesday evening and second Wednesday morning) at Ronald United Methodist Church in Shoreline, WA, featuring nationally and locally known guest speakers, supplemented by workshops, day camps, and two multi-day retreats per year at Camp Huston in Gold Bar. The flagship event is the annual quilt show held each March at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe, WA, which displays 400+ member-made quilts and draws more than 2,000 visitors from across the United States and Canada. The show includes a merchant mall, vendor booth rentals, and a printed program with paid advertising slots.

The organization's core technology stack is minimal: it relies on Wild Apricot association-management software (hosted on AWS) to power the public website, membership administration, online store, event registration, and payment processing, with no proprietary software, mobile app, or AI/ML components of its own. Products and services center on the membership program, workshops, retreats, day camps, the annual quilt show, an online store selling Quilt Show Memories USB cards ($6-$16), and an annual raffle quilt. A significant portion of organizational output is philanthropic: since 1986 the guild has donated more than 26,700 preemie quilts to hospital NICUs, more than 31,300 Christmas stockings to Atlantic Street Center since 2001, more than 3,800 quilts to Seattle-area nursing homes since 2007, and additional quilts and comfort items to Evergreen Hospice, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, and Fisher House.

Revenue is not publicly disclosed but is generated through annual membership dues, merchant mall booth rentals (priced at $3.00 per square foot), show-program advertising (from $55-$75 for a business-card slot up to $500 for a full back cover), workshop and retreat fees (workshops $55 member / $65 non-member; retreats $256-$656 per attendee), raffle quilt proceeds, Quilt Show Memories USB sales, and monetary and in-kind donations. Go-to-market is community-led, relying on word-of-mouth, monthly meetings, the annual show, and a modest social media presence on Facebook and Instagram. The customer base is split between individual quilters (members and show attendees) and institutional recipients of charitable donations; no enterprise anchor customers, no equity investors, and no parent company exist.

Name

Quilters Anonymous

Legal name

Quilters Anonymous

Website

https://quiltersanonymous.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1977

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Quilters Anonymous is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit quilting guild founded in 1977, serving ~450 Puget Sound members through monthly meetings, workshops, retreats, an annual quilt show, and a large-scale charitable quilt donation program to hospitals, hospices, and military families.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Lynnwood

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Membership Dues: Annual membership fees that provide access to meetings, workshops, retreats, library, satellite groups, and member resources
2. Merchant Mall Booth Rentals: Vendors pay booth fees at the annual quilt show (up to 400 sq ft booths at $3.00 per square foot)
3. Program Advertising: Sale of advertising space in the annual quilt show program (business card size $75 to full page back cover $500)
4. Quilt Show Memories USB Sales: Sale of USB cards containing photos and information from annual quilt shows
5. Raffle Quilt Proceeds: Proceeds from annual raffle quilt sales go into general fund supporting mission and educational programs
6. Monetary Donations: Tax-deductible donations from individuals supporting the guild's mission and charity projects
7. Non-Monetary Donations: Acceptance of fabric, quilting supplies, finished quilts, books, and patterns for charity projects or sale at quilt show

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Quilters Anonymous is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit quilting guild that sells annual memberships providing access to monthly meetings, workshops, retreats, day camps, satellite groups, and an extensive quilt library. It also operates an annual quilt show at Evergreen State Fairgrounds with a merchant mall and program advertising, and runs a portfolio of charitable quilting projects donating comfort quilts to hospitals, nursing homes, hospice programs, and military families.

Product overview

Quilters Anonymous is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit quilting guild offering a membership-based program centered around education and community service. The core offerings include monthly meetings with guest speakers, an annual quilt show, and various charitable quilting projects. Additional programs include workshops taught by nationally-known speakers, twice-yearly retreats at Camp Huston, and day camps. The guild also operates an online store selling Quilt Show Memories USB cards and manages an annual Raffle Quilt program. Members receive access to the library, satellite groups, and can participate in charity initiatives including Preemie Quilts, nursing home quilts, and military family support programs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Membership Program
• Annual Quilt Show
• Workshops

Quantifiable outcome

• 70,000+ charitable items donated since inception
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• Connecting Threads: Online quilting fabric, pattern, and kit retailer with educational content and an active customer community. Theme-adjacent retailer serving the same quilters QA's members shop with; not a direct membership peer but part of the broader quilt ecosystem.
• General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC): National federation of women's volunteer clubs focused on community service, education, and civic engagement. Comparable organizational model (membership-based nonprofit with chapters, programs, and charitable giving) though thematically broader than quilts specifically.

Emerging players

• Fat Quarter Shop: Online quilting fabric and supplies retailer with a strong educational video library and engaged online community. Emerging digital-first player intersecting with QA's community-and-education mission via a different delivery model.
• The Quilt Show: Online quilting show and community platform produced by Ricky Tims and Alex Anderson, offering master-class style education and a global quilter community. Adjacent / emerging digital peer in quilting education and community-building.

Broad incumbents

• Missouri Star Quilt Company: Largest quilting-focused retailer and educational content hub in the US, headquartered in Hamilton, MO. For-profit broad incumbent operating in the same quilting community/education/commerce ecosystem, representing the commercial scale-up of QA's domain.

Direct peers

• Quilt Alliance: National nonprofit dedicated to documenting, preserving, and sharing the stories and artistry of quilts. Direct comparable as a mission-driven quilting heritage and community nonprofit.
• Minnesota Quilters: State-level nonprofit quilt guild serving Minnesota quilters with meetings, retreats, and educational programming. Closely mirrors QA's regional guild structure, revenue model (dues, events, donations), and community service orientation.
• Modern Quilt Guild: A national nonprofit membership organization for modern quilters with 10,000+ members across 200+ chapters. Direct peer as a quilting-focused nonprofit membership guild offering meetings, education, and community programming.

Regional players

• Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum: Quilting-focused cultural museum located in the Pacific Northwest. Regional peer with overlapping quilting-heritage mission and serving a comparable geographic audience to QA's Puget Sound base.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/quiltersanonymousguild
• Instagraminstagram.com/quilters_anonymous_guild
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/quilters-anonymous

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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