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Building Changes

BUILDING CHANGES advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. We work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public systems to promote racial equity and lasting solutions to homelessness through grantmaking,…

$5.4M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
29
Itemized grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
29%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$5.2M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$167,400
Largest grant, FY2024
$834,799
Organizations funded a year
10 to 191
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$7.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Building Changes funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $944k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterHealthYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving28$5.1M39%
FY202314$4.9M29%
FY202214$7.4M29%
FY202155$1.7M27%
FY2020191$4.2M90%
FY201914$6.6M86%
FY201816$5.9M75%
FY201710$3.1Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$20MYouth Development$4.7MHuman Services$4.3MInternational$3.2MCommunity Improvement$2.6MEducation$2.1MHealth$1.9MCivil Rights$230kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
King County Regional Housing Authority$5,618,1932n/a
Africatown International$4,942,512589%
Building Changes$1,679,710212%
Catholic Community Services of Western Washington$1,321,04831%
Snohomish Human Services Department$1,303,0423n/a
Panorama Global$1,185,61521%
Council for the Homeless$1,072,23242%
Northwest Youth Services$1,034,580517%
Samish Indian Nation$1,010,0002n/a
Mother Nation$1,009,57559%
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All grantees of Building Changes by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
King County Regional Housing Authority$5,618,1932n/a
Africatown International$4,942,512589%
Building Changes$1,679,710212%
Catholic Community Services of Western Washington$1,321,04831%
Snohomish Human Services Department$1,303,0423n/a
Panorama Global$1,185,61521%
Council for the Homeless$1,072,23242%
Northwest Youth Services$1,034,580517%
Samish Indian Nation$1,010,0002n/a
Mother Nation$1,009,57559%
Yakima Neighborhood Health Services$995,27161%
Cowlitz Indian Tribe$850,0002n/a
Tacoma Community House$723,95828%
Catholic Charities of Spokane$671,87923%
Shelton Family Center$630,000211%
United Way of Pierce County$623,3281n/a
Together$595,30047%
Serenity House of Clallam County$572,857318%
Comprehensive Mental Health Center of Tacoma-Pierce County$569,47321%
Foundation for Youth Resiliency and Enga$540,120325%
Interim Community Development Association$500,000121%
Freedom Project$500,00046%
Seattle Indian Health Board$500,00013%
Pelton Project$499,6802n/a
Volunteers of America Inc$427,6062n/a
The Coffee Oasis$352,091211%
Kent School District$350,0001n/a
Chief Seattle Club$349,57523%
The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Seattle (6871)$339,98240%
St Leos Parish$327,3741n/a
Quality Behavioral Health$310,00027%
Pos Port of Support & Pathwayz to Success$240,000289%
Readiness To Learn$221,719334%
Multi-Service Center$215,00021%
Share$200,00020%
Federal Way Public Schools$200,0001n/a
Triumph Teen Life Center$189,476129%
Mia Mujeres in Action$183,328110%
Communities of Color Coalition$179,900119%
New Americans Alliance for Policy and Re$175,333125%
Helping Hand House$174,81224%
Second Chance Outreach Hope for Homies$167,400113%
The Silent Task Force$166,680115%
Lasa$145,395213%
Housing Authority of Snohomish County$129,1501n/a
The Rescue Mission$128,64022%
Helping Hands Project Organization$122,688210%
United Way of King County$120,00010%
Chapin Hall Center for Children$106,00010%
The Salvation Army$102,0002n/a
Tacoma Ministerial Alliance$101,595238%
Multicultural Child and Family Hope Center$96,23122%
Metropolitan Development Council$88,11020%
Korean Women's Association$84,32010%
Financial Services Coalition- % Regus Business Center$80,000226%
Alliance for Education$73,00011%
Southeast Youth & Family Services$71,75023%
Wakulima USA$60,000217%
Bethel Community Services$51,696424%
Room One$51,01823%
Mha Speakout Speakup$50,000240%
Tukwila School District$48,6964n/a
Shelton School District$46,0713n/a
New School at Chambers Bay$40,495250%
Washington Kids in Transition$40,00022%
Rotary International$40,0002n/a
Dare2be Project$40,00019%
Share & Care House$40,0001n/a
Neighborhood House INC$40,00020%
Communities in School of Federal Way$40,00022%
Vancouver School District Foundation$40,00021%
Cham Refugees Community$40,00022%
East African Community Services$40,00021%
South Puget Sound Community College Foundation$40,00020%
Millennia Ministries$40,00026%
Sws Fund$40,000222%
Seattle Public Schools$40,0001n/a
Exodus Housing$40,00015%
Champion Kidz$40,0002n/a
Family Promise of Skagit Valley$35,00024%
Still Waters Services for Families in Transition$31,750219%
Abu-Bakr Islamic Center of Washington$31,7502n/a
Teenagers Plus$31,750211%
Moore Wright Group$31,7502n/a
Choose 180$31,75021%
Compass Health$31,01820%
Renton School District #403$30,6252n/a
Cis of Greater King County Dba Communities in Schools$29,00021%
The Bellingham Public School Foundation$26,07121%
Safe Harbor Crisis Nursery$25,87522%
Monroe School District$20,0001n/a
Pacific Islander Community Association of WA$20,00012%
Spruce Primary School Parent Faculty Club$20,0001n/a
Integration Family Services$20,00012%
Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle$20,00010%
House of Matthew Permanent & Supportive Housing for the Homeles$20,0001n/a
Friends United to Shelter the Indigent Oppressed and Needy$20,0001n/a
Fife School District$20,0001n/a
Burlington-Edison School District$20,0001n/a
Abused Deaf Women's Advocacy Services$20,00011%
Iraqi Community Center of Washington$20,0001n/a
Westside Baby$20,00011%
Columbia Basin College Foundation$20,00011%
Evergreen School District Foundation 114$20,00014%
Somali Youth & Family Club$20,0001n/a
Villa Comunitaria$20,00011%
Escape to Peace$20,0001n/a
The Genesis Project Seattle$20,00018%
Harbor Hope Center$20,00012%
Somali Family Safety Task Force Somali Family Safety Task Force$20,00012%
The Goode Foundation$20,0001n/a
Atlantic Street Center$20,00010%
Tiny Tots Development Center$20,00011%
Battlefield Addiction$20,00017%
Abundance of Hope Center$20,00015%
Young Men's Christian Association of Pierce and Kitsap Counties$20,00010%
Mt Adams School District$20,0001n/a
Highline Schools Foundation for Excellence$20,00021%
Reclaiming Our Greatness$20,00019%
Bellevue Boys & Girls Clubs Inc$20,00010%
North Mason School District$20,0001n/a
Sequim School Duistrict$20,0001n/a
Horn of Africa Services$20,00011%
Hoquiam School District$20,0001n/a
Toledo School District$20,0001n/a
Kandelia$20,00011%
Grace City Outreach$20,00012%
Career Path Services Employment and Training$20,00010%
Mercy Housing Northwest$20,00010%
Dignity for Divas$20,00019%
Tacoma Urban League$20,00011%
Sheron Ann Foundation$20,0001n/a
Wenatchee School District$20,0001n/a
Tacoma Public Schools$20,0001n/a
Battle Ground Education Foundation$20,0001n/a
Yelm School District No 2$20,0001n/a
Community Health Worker Coalition$20,00014%
Community Passageways$20,00011%
Rod's House$20,00011%
Centralia College Foundation$20,00011%
The Skagit Valley Family YMCA$20,00010%
Gender Justice League$20,00019%
Riverton Park United Methodist Church of Seattle$20,0001n/a
Icna Relief USA Programs Inc$20,00010%
Spokane Area Workforce Development Council$20,00010%
Walla Walla Community College Foundation$20,00010%
Helping Hands Food Bank$20,00010%
Unkitawa$20,00012%
Communities in School of South King County$20,00012%
Legal Counsel for Youth and Children$20,00011%
Meet Me at the Well$20,0001n/a
Solid Ground Washington$20,00010%
House of Prayer Foundation$20,00016%
Mary's Place Seattle$20,00010%
Northwest Education Access$20,00011%
Franklin Pierce School District No 402$20,0001n/a
Burlington Edison Education Association$20,0001n/a
African Community Housing & Development$20,00011%
New Horizons Ministries$20,00011%
Clark College District 14 Foundation$20,00010%
Washington West African Center$20,00019%
Mead Education Association$20,000111%
Innovations Human Trafficking Collaborative$20,00015%
Mount Vernon School District$20,0001n/a
Duwamish Tribal Services Dba Duwamish Tribal Services Inc$20,00010%
Bellevue School District$20,0001n/a
Ryan's House$20,00013%
Lutheran Community Services Northwest$20,00010%
You Grow Girl$20,00011%
Snoqualmie Valley Shelter Services$20,00015%
Family Promise of Clark County$20,00015%
The Joseph Project$20,00016%
Whatcom Community College Foundation$20,00011%
Power of Two$20,0001n/a
Technology Access Foundation$20,00011%
Skagit Valley College Foundation$20,00011%
Olympia School District$20,0001n/a
Afghan Health Initiative$20,00013%
Real Escape From the Sex Trade$20,00011%
Foundation for Edmonds School District$20,00012%
Lake Burien Prebyterian Church$20,0001n/a
North Thurston Public Schools$20,0001n/a
Rainier Valley Food Bank$20,00010%
Rvc Seattle$20,00010%
Restore Assemble Produce$19,99915%
Wenatchee Valley College Foundation Inc$19,26812%
If You Could Save Just One$17,00016%
Puyallup Tribe of Indians$16,0001n/a
Junior Achievement of Washington$15,46011%
Royal School District$15,0001n/a
Mason County Housing Options for Students in Transition$15,00015%
Concrete School District$15,0001n/a
Washington Masonic Charities$15,00012%
Reading Foundation of the Quincy Valley$15,0001n/a
Marvin Thomas Memorial$15,00027%
Highline College Foundation$15,00011%
Lydia Place$15,00011%
Rebuilding Hope Sexual Assault Center$15,0001n/a
What a blessing street outreach$15,0001n/a
Longview Public Schools$15,0001n/a
Shoreline Council Ptsa 6 12$15,0001n/a
Coupeville School District$14,7391n/a
Kiona-Benton City School District$14,7391n/a
Sedro-Woolley STEM Network$14,7391n/a
Boys and Girls Clubs of King County$12,50010%
Mt Si High School$12,0001n/a
Resilient in Sustaining Empowerment$11,7501n/a
Lhaq'Temish Foundation$11,00010%
Assistance League of Seattle$10,87521%
Bonney Lake High School(Sumner Bonney Lake Sd)$10,6251n/a
Renton Technical College Foundation$10,00011%
Trinity Presbyterian Church$10,0001n/a
Fathers and Sons Together$10,0001n/a
Shared Housing Services$10,00012%
St Stephen Housing Association$10,00013%
Wapato High School$10,0001n/a
Compass Housing Alliance$10,00010%
Penny's Place$10,0001n/a
Tahoma School District$10,0001n/a
South Sudan Kuku Association of North America$10,0001n/a
Family Education & Support Services$10,00010%
Seattle's Home for All$9,0001n/a
Northshore School District$8,0001n/a
Provide Now$7,5001n/a
Wellpinit School District 49$7,0001n/a
Rainier Valley Leadership Academy$6,0711n/a
Granite Falls School District$6,0711n/a
Richland School District 400$6,0711n/a
Cornerstone$5,0001n/a
Overlake Service League$5,00010%
Interfaith Coalition of Whatcom County$5,00010%
Acres of Diamonds$5,00010%
Youth for Christtacoma Area Inc$5,00010%
Skagit River Poetry Project$5,0001n/a
Volunteers of America Western Washington$5,00010%
The Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula$5,00010%
Cusick School District #59$5,0001n/a
Boys & Girls Club of Skagit County$5,00010%
Youth and Family Link$5,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Building Changes supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 158 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAfricatown International: $4,942,512 over 5y, 89% of budgetBuilding Changes: $1,679,710 over 2y, 12% of budgetCatholic Community Services of Western Washington: $1,321,048 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPanorama Global: $1,185,615 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCouncil for the Homeless: $1,072,232 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetNorthwest Youth Services: $1,034,580 over 5y, 17% of budgetMother Nation: $1,009,575 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetYakima Neighborhood Health Services: $995,271 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTacoma Community House: $723,958 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetCatholic Charities of Spokane: $671,879 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetShelton Family Center: $630,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetTogether: $595,300 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetSerenity House of Clallam County: $572,857 over 3y, 18% of budgetComprehensive Mental Health Center of Tacoma-Pierce County: $569,473 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFoundation for Youth Resiliency and Enga: $540,120 over 3y, 25% of budgetInterim Community Development Association: $500,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetFreedom Project: $500,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetSeattle Indian Health Board: $500,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetThe Coffee Oasis: $352,091 over 2y, 11% of budgetChief Seattle Club: $349,575 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Seattle (6871): $339,982 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetQuality Behavioral Health: $310,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetPos Port of Support & Pathwayz to Success: $240,000 over 2y, 89% of budgetReadiness To Learn: $221,719 over 3y, 34% of budgetMulti-Service Center: $215,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetShare: $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTriumph Teen Life Center: $189,476 over 1y, 29% of budgetMia Mujeres in Action: $183,328 over 1y, 10% of budgetCommunities of Color Coalition: $179,900 over 1y, 19% of budgetNew Americans Alliance for Policy and Re: $175,333 over 1y, 25% of budgetHelping Hand House: $174,812 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetSecond Chance Outreach Hope for Homies: $167,400 over 1y, 13% of budgetThe Silent Task Force: $166,680 over 1y, 15% of budgetLasa: $145,395 over 2y, 13% of budgetThe Rescue Mission: $128,640 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHelping Hands Project Organization: $122,688 over 2y, 10% of budgetUnited Way of King County: $120,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChapin Hall Center for Children: $106,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTacoma Ministerial Alliance: $101,595 over 2y, 38% of budgetMulticultural Child and Family Hope Center: $96,231 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetMetropolitan Development Council: $88,110 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKorean Women's Association: $84,320 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFinancial Services Coalition- % Regus Business Center: $80,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetAlliance for Education: $73,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSoutheast Youth & Family Services: $71,750 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetWakulima USA: $60,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetBethel Community Services: $51,696 over 4y, 24% of budgetRoom One: $51,018 over 2y, 2.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 158.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

School's Out WashingtonWA129.1× affinity76 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: School's Out Washington · Medina Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Inatai Foundation · Philanthropy Northwest · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Northwest Harvest Emm · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Lucky Seven Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Building Changes

How much does Building Changes give?
Building Changes reported 29 itemized grants totaling $5,202,859, out of $5,369,526 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 191 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Building Changes fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (50%), Youth Development (12%), Human Services (11%).
Who are Building Changes's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: King County Regional Housing Authority ($5.6M), Africatown International ($4.9M), Building Changes ($1.7M).
Does Building Changes fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Building Changes?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include School's Out Washington, Medina Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation.
Where is Building Changes based?
Building Changes is based in WA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 242 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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