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Plinth

· Public charity

Byrd Barr Place

We are creating a more equitable future for all washingtonians through innovative programs and advocacy that empower people to live healthy, prosperous lives.

$9.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Community Improvement$2.8MHuman Services$486kFood & Nutrition$355kCrime & Legal$335kYouth Development$305kEducation$258kArts & Culture$239kCivil Rights$206kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 32 grants below total $2,048,420 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,028,442 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,980,022 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k16 grants · $486k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EQUITABLE RECOVERY AND RECONCILIATION ALLIANCE$500,000
MARJORIE RESTAURANT$150,000
SALIMA SPECIALTIES (SEATTLE GOOD BUSINESS NETWORK)$135,000
CHUMINH TOFU AND VEGAN DELI$130,000
Individual grant recipient$75,000
SE HABLA MEDIA LLC$66,920
SHARK BITE NW LLC$56,000
OUR ARK$50,000
SAFEFUTURES YOUTH CENTER$50,000
RAINIER SCHOLARS$50,000
PRESBYTERY OF THE NORTHWEST COAST$50,000
ENTRE HERMANOS$50,000
PEOPLE OF COLOR AGAINST AIDS NETWORK$50,000
INSPIRE WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$50,000
COLECTIVA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO$50,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $657k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%INNOVATIONS HUMAN TRAFFICKING COLLABORATIVE: $30k → 9%NUESTRA CASA: $53k → 11%LA CASA HOGAR: $15k → 17%THE MOORE WRIGHT GROUP: $40k → 18%INNOVATIONS HUMAN TRAFFICKING COLLABORATIVE: $23k → 9%OUR SISTER'S HOME: $15k → 9%OPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES: $53k → 9%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $40k → 9%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $26k → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE - ACRS: $6k → 9%ABUSED DEAF WOMEN'S ADVOCACY SERVICES: $53k → 9%COMUNIDAD: $40k → 9%OPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES: $36k → 9%OPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES: $29k → 9%THE SILENT TASK FORCE: $15k → 9%MOTHER NATION: $30k → 9%MOTHER NATION: $23k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $40k → 9%ARMS AROUND YOU FOUNDATION: $40k → 9%WASHINGTON IMMIGRANT SOLIDARITY NETWORK: $30k → 9%WASHINGTON IMMIGRANT SOLIDARITY NETWORK: $23k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.5M · 18 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
40

Total granted

$3.5M
$898k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+24%

Still filing today

94%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthHousing & ShelterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • UL
    URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE
    3× · 2019–2024 · $546k · revenue +647%
  • EC
    EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA
    2× · 2022–2024 · $66k · revenue +7%
  • OD
    OPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES
    2× · 2022–2023 · $65k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • WC
    WHITE CENTER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +647%
  • Food Empowerment Education Sustainability Team
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -19%
  • NC
    Nuestra CASAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $53k · revenue +29%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
2
Rainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalition

Rainier Beach Action Coalition is a grassroot, Black-led organization devoted to locally driven development. It promotes quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing, and building community capacity in…

Community Improvement
3
Washington Community Alliance

Washington Community Alliance WCA is a statewide network of over 70 organizations working to advance multiracial social democracy by coordinating values aligned civic engagement

Civil Rights
4
Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission

Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission is led by and for Indigenous people, and envisions a just society in which we are treated with honor, fairness and respect. Our mission is to uphold our individual civil rights through education…

Human Services
5
Pathwaves Washington

Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.

Education
6
Working Washington

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

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7
Asians for Collective Action

Asians for Collective Action (ACA) harnesses the strenghts of Asians and Asian Americans to drive systemic change to create a just, healthy, and thriving community for all.

Public Benefit
8
Washington African American Chamber of Commerce

WAACOC nonprofit organization focuses on promoting economic development by providing crucial business development and technical assistance services. Through strategic partnerships and targeted programs we support entrepreneurs and small…

Human Services
9
Black Owned Business Excellence

Help create a more equitable entrepreneurial ecosystem in Washington State.

Community Improvement
10
Reclaiming Our Greatness

Reclaiming Our Greatness's mission is to create transformative outcomes for the families we serve by providing proactive case management coupled with creative resource development.

Housing & Shelter
11
Somali Empowerment Circle

Sec provides culturally sensitive mental health resources, connects clients to professionals, offers education, emotional support, promotes maternal health, early childhold outcomes, and advocates for housing security for somali…

Community Improvement
12
Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund

The Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund elects candidates, educates voters and decision-makers, and amplifies the voices and priorities of people and communities most impacted by housing instability and homelessness.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle and the most unlike its peers is Not This Time. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySupportive Housing & Mental…Food Banks and Hunger ReliefWashington State Advocacy &…Youth Mentoring & Developme…Education Equity & PathwaysImmigrant & Refugee Communi…Youth Sports LeaguesChildren & Family Support F…Youth Civic Leadership Deve…Independent Elementary Scho…Faith-Based Healthcare Syst…Faith-Based International D…Regional Business & Communi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%8%<5yr15%24%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr19%29%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr13%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%41%<5yr15%10%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr19%15%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr13%14%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 41% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/80
the rest of the field
14%
2,245/16,483

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

65 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 84 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/65
Grantees still filing
34/65
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIREHOUSE 23 QALICB — $1,813,785 · Housing & ShelterFIREHOUSE 23 QALICB+3 more — $73,000 · Housing & ShelterURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE — $546,000 · OtherURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLEMARJORIE RESTAURANT — $190,000 · OtherMARJORIE RESTAURANTCHUMINH TOFU AND VEGAN DELI — $130,000 · OtherCHUMINH TOFU AND VEGAN DELIIndividual grant recipient — $75,000 · OtherCOLECTIVA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO — $102,500 · OtherFood Empowerment Education Sustainability Team — $75,000 · Other+39 more — $940,364 · Other+39 moreEL CENTRO DE LA RAZA — $66,000 · Human ServicesEL CENTRO DE …OPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES — $64,700 · Human ServicesOPEN DOORS FO…Nuestra CASA — $52,500 · Human ServicesNuestra CASAMother Nation — $52,500 · Human ServicesMother NationOPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES — $52,500 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS PER…ABUSED DEAF WOMEN'S ADVOCACY SERVICES — $52,500 · Human ServicesABUSED DEAF W…WASHINGTON IMMIGRANT SOLIDARITY NETWORK — $52,500 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON IM…Innovations Human Trafficking Collaborative — $52,500 · Human ServicesInnovations H…MOORE WRIGHT GROUP — $40,000 · Human ServicesMOORE WRIGHT …We Are Comunidad — $40,000 · Human ServicesWe Are Comuni…ARMS AROUND YOU FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Human ServicesARMS AROUND Y…CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB — $40,000 · Human ServicesCHIEF SEATTLE…+4 more — $51,000 · Human Services+4 moreIURBAN TEEN — $52,500 · EducationHILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE — $52,500 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS — $50,000 · EducationRAINIER SCHOLARS — $50,000 · EducationDenise Louie Education center — $40,000 · EducationSoutheast Seattle Education Coalition — $20,000 · EducationZeno — $15,000 · EducationEQUITY IN EDUCATION COALITION — $15,000 · EducationSeattle Good Business Network DBA Good Business Network of Washington — $135,000 · Community ImprovementWHITE CENTER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION — $100,000 · Community ImprovementLATINOS EN SPOKANE — $40,000 · Community ImprovementCommunities Rise — $150,000 · Crime & LegalSAFEFUTURES YOUTH CENTER — $50,000 · Crime & LegalSEATTLE CLEMENCY PROJECT — $30,000 · Crime & LegalMarvin Thomas Memorial — $52,500 · HealthMULTI-COMMUNITIES — $52,500 · HealthENTRE HERMANOS — $50,000 · HealthPeople of Color Against AIDS Network — $50,000 · HealthTUBMAN CENTER FOR HEALTH & FREEDOM — $25,000 · Health
Housing & Shelter$1,886,785Other$2,058,864Human Services$656,700Education$295,000Community Improvement$275,000Crime & Legal$230,000Health$230,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFIREHOUSE 23 QALICB — $1,813,785 over 2y, 100% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE — $546,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetCommunities Rise — $150,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetSeattle Good Business Network DBA Good Business Network of Washington — $135,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetCOLECTIVA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO — $102,500 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetWHITE CENTER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION — $100,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetFood Empowerment Education Sustainability Team — $75,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetEL CENTRO DE LA RAZA — $66,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES — $64,700 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetIURBAN TEEN — $52,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetNuestra CASA — $52,500 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITY HOUSING & DEVELOPMENT — $52,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMother Nation — $52,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetOPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES — $52,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMarvin Thomas Memorial — $52,500 over 1y, 76% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH — $52,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetABUSED DEAF WOMEN'S ADVOCACY SERVICES — $52,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCHOOSE 180 — $52,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWASHINGTON IMMIGRANT SOLIDARITY NETWORK — $52,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetInnovations Human Trafficking Collaborative — $52,500 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetNa'ah Illahee Fund — $52,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCASINO ROAD MINISTRIES — $52,500 over 2y, 30% of budgetHILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE — $52,500 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetPacific Islander Community Association of WA — $52,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMULTI-COMMUNITIES — $52,500 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetENTRE HERMANOS — $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE ARTS ALLIANCE FOUNDATIO — $50,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetPeople of Color Against AIDS Network — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSAFEFUTURES YOUTH CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOur Ark — $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetDenise Louie Education center — $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLATINOS EN SPOKANE — $40,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetWe Are Comunidad — $40,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetARMS AROUND YOU FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCHIEF SEATTLE CLUB — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD MIND CREATION ACADEMY — $40,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetHelping Link — $40,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSEATTLE CLEMENCY PROJECT — $30,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetPan African Center For Empowerment Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetTUBMAN CENTER FOR HEALTH & FREEDOM — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSoutheast Seattle Education Coalition — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFront and Centered — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMission Africa — $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetZeno — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Seattle FoundationInatai FoundationPhilanthropy NorthwestUnited Way of King Co…The Norcliffe Foundat…The Satterberg Founda…Gates FoundationSchool's Out Washingt…Raikes FoundationCredit Unions in the …Sheng-Yen Lu Foundati…Ken Birdwell Foundati…
Seattle FoundationWA73.7× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Inatai Foundation · Philanthropy Northwest · United Way of King County · The Norcliffe Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Gates Foundation · School's Out Washington · Raikes Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Sheng-Yen Lu Foundation · Ken Birdwell Foundation (Dba Magic Cabinet) C/O Clark Nuber Ps

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Byrd Barr Place funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 84 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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