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Cedarmere Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $630k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Byrd Barr Place | $1,000,000 |
| Byrd Barr Place | $90,000 |
| RVC Seattle | $90,000 |
| Communities Rise | $90,000 |
| Latino Community Fund | $90,000 |
| JustLead Washington | $90,000 |
| Na'Ah Illahee Fund | $90,000 |
| Front And Centered | $90,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| Sound Child Care Solutions | $12,000 |
| Common Future | $12,000 |
| Shunpike | $12,000 |
| PEPS | $6,224 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CRCommunities Rise7× · 2018–2024 · $193k · revenue +267%
RVC SEATTLE8× · 2017–2024 · $182k · revenue ×18- NINa'ah Illahee Fund5× · 2020–2024 · $136k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- AWART WITH HEARTone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue -18%
- PNPHILANTHROPY NORTHWESTone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -33%
- CHCOCOON HOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +55%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
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…
RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.
Washington Community Alliance WCA is a statewide network of over 70 organizations working to advance multiracial social democracy by coordinating values aligned civic engagement
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…
We Heart Seattle is an action-based, boots-on-the-ground movement that organizes trash cleanups in our public spaces and offers resources to those in need. Through our direct civic engagement we lead the way to a more compassionate and…
Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.
House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…
Washington Progress Fund is building a permanent and powerful social change movement in Washington state supported by a network of committed donors. WPF envisions a Washington state where government serves the public interest and we all…
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…
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…
To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Womens Christian Association of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County and the most unlike its peers is Maris Place. 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.
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 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
58 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. 58 of the 69 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BYRD BARR PLACE ↗
- Who funds Communities Rise ↗
- Who funds RVC SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds Na'ah Illahee Fund ↗
- Who funds Latino Community Fund of Washington State ↗
- Who funds JustLead Washington ↗
- Who funds Front and Centered ↗
- Who funds SOUND CHILD CARE SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds VENTURES ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE LEGAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds DELRIDGE NEIGHBORHOODS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Families of Color Seattle ↗
- Who funds GREEN PLATE SPECIAL ↗
- Who funds KANDELIA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CREDIT LAB ↗
- Who funds West Seattle Helpline ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds SHUNPIKE ↗
- Who funds HOMESTEAD COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds COMMON FUTURE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds THE HEALING CENTER ↗
- Who funds West Seattle Food Bank ↗
- Who funds ART WITH HEART ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds COCOON HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Maris Place ↗
- Who funds BOARDSOURCE ↗
- Who funds GRANTMAKERS FOR EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATIONS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Medina Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Gates Foundation · Inatai Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · School's Out Washington · Stolte Family Foundation · Laird Norton Family Foundation
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 Cedarmere Foundation 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.
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.
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