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Center for Community Service Fund

Center for community service dba chamber community foundation ("ccf") was formed in 1986 to provide support for selected community service programs in order to create lasting good in the region.

$931k
Granted FY2023
18
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$218k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Community Improvement$2.2MPublic Safety & Disaster$509kEmployment$218kPhilanthropy$160kHousing & Shelter$20k
02FY2023 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $218k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $689k
$22,653
Median grant
1
States reached
$507k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER SEATTLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$218,109
SYNCHRONOUS LLC$200,000
PUGET SOUND DRUG CORPORATION$118,109
MENSONIDES LLC$83,543
CADENCE CONSTRUCTION INC$68,982
WELLNESS PLAZA$45,441
YUNGYUNE SAKKET SIAM BISTRO$30,442
SEATTLEITE LLC$26,764
COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF WEST SEATTLE$22,653
HADAR IRON LLC$20,094
DOYON LLC$19,912
SEOUL TOFU & JJIM$14,223
HOT POT WORLD ROTARY LLC$14,119
FOGROSE LLC$12,191
LUCKY ELEPHANT FOODS SPC$12,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%GREATER SEATTLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $1.6M → 9%ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL PRINCIPALS: $21k → 9%GREATER SEATTLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $396k → 9%GREATER SEATTLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $218k → 9%HOUSING CONNECTOR: $20k → 9%WASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS: $160k → 9%YUNGYUNE SAKKET SIAM BISTRO: $30k → 9%FOGROSE LLC: $12k → 9%COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF WEST SEATTLE: $23k → 9%SEATTLEITE LLC: $27k → 9%SEOUL TOFU & JJIM: $14k → 9%DOYON LLC: $20k → 9%GINOS BISTRO MAPLE VALLEY: $9k → 9%PUGET SOUND DRUG CORPORATION: $118k → 9%HOT POT WORLD ROTARY LLC: $14k → 9%MENSONIDES LLC: $84k → 9%LUCKY ELEPHANT FOODS SPC: $12k → 9%TACOS MEXICO: $6k → 9%CADENCE CONSTRUCTION INC: $69k → 9%WELLNESS PLAZA: $45k → 9%BARRERAS ENTERPRISE LLC: $5k → 9%HADAR IRON LLC: $20k → 9%SYNCHRONOUS LLC: $200k → 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 field
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 21 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
5/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER SEATTLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $2,167,902 · OtherGREATER SEATTLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCESYNCHRONOUS LLC: $200,000 · OtherSYNCHRONOUS LLCPUGET SOUND DRUG CORPORATION: $118,109 · Other+15 more: $389,353 · Other+15 moreWASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS: $160,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY SCHOOL OF WEST SEATTLE: $22,653 · EducationHOUSING CONNECTOR: $20,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,875,364Philanthropy$160,000Education$22,653Housing & Shelter$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER SEATTLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $2,167,902 over 3y, 14% of budgetWASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS: $160,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY SCHOOL OF WEST SEATTLE: $22,653 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL PRINCIPALS: $21,175 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOUSING CONNECTOR: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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 GREATER SEATTLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF WEST SEATTLE ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL PRINCIPALS ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING CONNECTOR ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Center for Community Service Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Center for Community Service Fund. 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
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    How do I get to Center for Community Service Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Center for Community Service Fund 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 21 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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