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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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$1.4MCommunity Improvement$550kCrime & Legal$244kInternational$136kEnvironment$135kHousing & Shelter$78kArts & Culture$75kEducation$71kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $630k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$90,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Byrd Barr Place$1,000,000
Front And Centered$90,000
Byrd Barr Place$90,000
RVC Seattle$90,000
Communities Rise$90,000
Latino Community Fund$90,000
Na'Ah Illahee Fund$90,000
JustLead Washington$90,000
Common Future$12,000
Individual grant recipient$12,000
Sound Child Care Solutions$12,000
Shunpike$12,000
PEPS$6,224
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PARA LOS NINOS: $1k → 14%Byrd Barr Place: $1.0M → 9%Byrd Barr Place: $90k → 9%BYRD BARR PLACE: $16k → 9%BYRD BARR PLACE: $15k → 9%Byrd Barr Place: $15k → 9%POWERFUL VOICES: $500 → 9%Byrd Barr Place: $500 → 9%YWCA OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $1k → 9%YWCA OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $1k → 9%Latino Community Fund: $90k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND: $15k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND: $15k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND: $15k → 9%Latino Community Fund: $1k → 9%OPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES: $500 → 9%COMMUNITY CREDIT LAB: $16k → 9%COMMUNITY CREDIT LAB: $15k → 9%VIETNAMESE FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION FOR GREATER SEATTLE: $10k → 9%VIETNAMESE FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION FOR GREATER SEATTLE: $10k → 9%SEATTLE-KING COUNTY COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS: $1k → 9%SEATTLE-KING COUNTY COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS: $1k → 9%VIETNAMESE FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION FOR GREATER SEATTLE: $10k → 9%Chief Seattle Club: $1k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $1k → 9%KANDELIA: $5k → 9%FAMILY LAW CASA: $500 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 47 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
21

Total granted

$2.8M
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+9%

Still filing today

81%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationHealthHousing & ShelterCrime & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CR
    Communities Rise
    7× · 2018–2024 · $193k · revenue +267%
  • RVC SEATTLE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $182k · revenue ×18
  • NI
    Na'ah Illahee Fund
    5× · 2020–2024 · $136k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • AW
    ART WITH HEART
    one grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue -18%
  • PN
    PHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -33%
  • MP
    Maris Placegraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +80%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
Re Sources

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.

Environment
4
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
5
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…

—
6
We Heart Seattle

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…

Community Improvement
7
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
8
House Our Neighbors

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…

—
9
Washington Progress Fund

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…

Philanthropy
10
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…

Health
11
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
12
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Womens Christian Association of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/58
Grantees still filing
39/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BYRD BARR PLACE: $1,136,500 · Human ServicesBYRD BARR PLACELatino Community Fund of Washington State: $136,000 · Human ServicesLatino Community Fund of Washington State+10 more: $76,000 · Human Services+10 moreRVC SEATTLE: $181,500 · Community ImprovementRVC SEATTLEJustLead Washington: $135,000 · Community ImprovementJustLead Washin…Families of Color Seattle: $47,500 · Community ImprovementFamilies of Col…COMMON FUTURE: $27,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMON FUTURE+2 more: $3,000 · Community ImprovementIndividual grant recipient: $57,000 · OtherIndividual grant r…GREEN PLATE SPECIAL: $38,000 · OtherGREEN PLATE SPECIA…West Seattle Helpline: $30,456 · OtherWest Seattle Helpl…SEATTLE ARTS AND CULTURE FOR ANTI-RACISM: $30,000 · OtherSEATTLE ARTS AND C…Individual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant r…NONPROFIT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $20,000 · OtherYOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED: $23,149 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SEATTLE: $21,517 · OtherHOMESTEAD COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $27,069 · OtherHOMESTEAD COMMUNIT…SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS: $30,000 · OtherSOCIAL VENTURE PAR…SHUNPIKE: $27,500 · OtherSHUNPIKETHE HEALING CENTER: $19,355 · Other+28 more: $109,919 · Other+28 moreCommunities Rise: $192,500 · Crime & LegalCommuniti…EASTSIDE LEGAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $50,500 · Crime & LegalEASTSIDE …+1 more: $3,115 · Crime & LegalFront and Centered: $135,000 · EnvironmentDELRIDGE NEIGHBORHOODS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $48,000 · EnvironmentNa'ah Illahee Fund: $136,000 · InternationalSOUND CHILD CARE SOLUTIONS: $58,000 · EducationVENTURES: $51,069 · EducationTHE SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $6,000 · Education+2 more: $5,000 · Education
Human Services$1,348,500Community Improvement$394,000Other$458,965Crime & Legal$246,115Environment$183,000International$136,000Education$120,069

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBYRD BARR PLACE: $1,136,500 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetCommunities Rise: $192,500 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetRVC SEATTLE: $181,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetLatino Community Fund of Washington State: $136,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetNa'ah Illahee Fund: $136,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetJustLead Washington: $135,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetFront and Centered: $135,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSOUND CHILD CARE SOLUTIONS: $58,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVENTURES: $51,069 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetEASTSIDE LEGAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $50,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetDELRIDGE NEIGHBORHOODS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $48,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGREEN PLATE SPECIAL: $38,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetKANDELIA: $35,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY CREDIT LAB: $30,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetWest Seattle Helpline: $30,456 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSHUNPIKE: $27,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHOMESTEAD COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $27,069 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMON FUTURE: $27,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED: $23,149 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SEATTLE: $21,517 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HEALING CENTER: $19,355 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetWest Seattle Food Bank: $14,875 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetART WITH HEART: $10,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER: $9,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMaris Place: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCOCOON HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOARDSOURCE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRANTMAKERS FOR EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATIONS: $3,850 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHERITAGE UNIVERSITY: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION ENDING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE: $3,115 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBoyer Children's Clinic: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Works: $2,970 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWashington Low Income Housing Alliance: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSeattleKing County Coalition on Homelessness: $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWHITE CENTER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVERGREEN TREATMENT SERVICES: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZeno: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetONEAMERICA: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF PUGET SOUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHRIVE WASHINGTON: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

  • Who funds BYRD BARR PLACE ↗
  • Who funds Communities Rise ↗
  • Who funds RVC SEATTLE ↗
  • Who funds Latino Community Fund of Washington State ↗
  • Who funds Na'ah Illahee Fund ↗
  • 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 Maris Place ↗
  • Who funds COCOON HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds BOARDSOURCE ↗
  • Who funds GRANTMAKERS FOR EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATIONS ↗

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.

Seattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…United Way of King Co…The Satterberg Founda…Medina FoundationCredit Unions in the …Gates FoundationInatai FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…School's Out Washingt…Stolte Family Foundat…Laird Norton Family F…
Seattle FoundationWA69.3× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cedarmere Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cedarmere Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Cedarmere Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Cedarmere Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 69 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-PF 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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