Primary Job Title Member of the Board of Director Primary Organization 
Bullitt Foundation
Location Seattle, Washington, United States Regions Greater Seattle Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Female
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Martha Kongsgaard was born and raised in Napa, Calif., to a family of jurists, grape growers and cattle ranchers. Kongsgaard, a lawyer by training, married Peter Goldman in 1988 and collaborated with him to found the Kongsgaard-Goldman Foundation. The foundation gives grants to a variety of nonprofit environmental, social justice and arts
organizations in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, many of which affect Puget Sound. She is a founding board member of IslandWood and additionally currently serves on the boards of the Washington Women’s Foundation, the UW College of the Environment, UW Center for Human Rights, The Bullitt Foundation and the Ruckelshaus Center.
Martha has helped lead numerous political and community campaigns, including the Cascade Agenda, No on 933, the expansion of IslandWood, the building of the LEED-certified Community Center at the New High Point, the headquarters of Solid Ground, The Confluence Project, The Campaign for Equal Justice, and the Three Projects/One Community Campaign of the Delridge Neighborhood Development Association, among many. Kongsgaard has served as the president of Philanthropy Northwest and has spoken broadly about philanthropy and the environmental movement to wide and diverse audiences for the past 20 years.
She is currently serving as Chair of the Marine Resource Advisory Council which focuses on ocean acidification and chairs the Leadership Council of the Puget Sound Partnership, the agency she has been dedicated to since its inception in 2007. She has three grown sons and lives in W. Seattle with her husband Peter Goldman.
