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Champions of Change

To support and promote positive youth development, social justice, and related causes

$300k
Granted FY2023
5
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222023.

Youth Development$387kHealth$200kFood & Nutrition$100kHousing & Shelter$50kRecreation & Sports$50k
02FY2023 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $260k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$84k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
One Love Community Inc$100,000
Seattle Childrens Hospital Foundation$60,000
Family First Community Center Foundation$50,000
Pioneer Human Services$50,000
Cliff Avril Family Foundation$40,000
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 (FY22–23, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DADS: $70k → 9%WOMEN UNITED: $70k → 9%Pioneer Human Services: $50k → 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 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
Seattle Children's Guild Association

Seattle children's guild association advocates for seattle children's hospital through volunteer, philanthropic and community endeavors to ensure hope, excellent care and advanced cures for children.

2
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
3
Gay City Health Project

Gay city: seattle's lgbtq center cultivates access and connections to promote self-determination, liberation and joy in our communities.

Arts & Culture
4
United Way of Skagit County

United Way of Skagit County's mission is to build a positive and sustainable quality of life for all.

Philanthropy
5
St Francis House

St. Francis House provides food clothing and necessities at no cost to people with low income or experiencing homelessness in King County Washington. Single men women and families are welcome.

6
Families of Color Seattle

Families of Color Seattle (FOCS) connects families, caregivers, and children of color through peer-led parent groups, cultural resource sharing and racial justice education and advocacy.

Community Improvement
7
Seattle Children's Healthcare System

Seattle children's healthcare system (schs) is engaged in activities relating to the provision of health care services to infants, children, and adolescents, delivering and improving the delivery and the quality of those services through…

Health
8
Latino Community Fund of Washington State

Improve the well-being of the Latinos in Washington State

Human Services
9
Family Forward Oregon

We work collectively to educate and advocate for systems that elevate the vital work of care and caregiving in its many forms within our community.

Human Services
10
Family Forward Action

We build the collective power of mothers and caregivers to actualize their agency to fight for racial, gender, economic, and reproductive equity.

Community Improvement
11
Children's Retail

Children's retail bargain boutique thrift stores, using substantially all volunteer labor and donated merchandise, raise funds to support seattle children's healthcare system and its affiliates, primarily seattle children's hospital,…

Human Services
12
Parent Trust for Washington Children

Parent trust for washington children creates lasting change and hope for the future by promoting safe, healthy families and communities.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Children's Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Women United. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 10 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DADS DIVINE ALTERNATIVES FOR DADS SERVICES — $70,000 · Human ServicesDADS DIVINE ALTERNATIVES FOR DADS SER…DIGNITY FOR DIVAS — $70,000 · Human ServicesDIGNITY FOR DIVASWomen United — $70,000 · Human ServicesWomen UnitedPIONEER HUMAN SERVICES INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesPIONEER HUMAN SERVICES INCSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $140,000 · HealthSEATTLE CHILDREN'S H…HUMBLE BY DESIGN — $70,000 · OtherHUMBLE BY DESIGNSeattle Children's Foundation — $60,000 · OtherSeattle Children's…CLIFF AVRIL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $107,000 · Youth DevelopmentCLIFF AVRIL FAM…ONE LOVE COMMUNITY INC — $100,000 · Food & NutritionONE LOVE COMMU…FAMILY FIRST COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$260,000Health$140,000Other$130,000Youth Development$107,000Food & Nutrition$100,000Recreation & Sports$50,000

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 budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $140,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLIFF AVRIL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $107,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetONE LOVE COMMUNITY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetDADS DIVINE ALTERNATIVES FOR DADS SERVICES — $70,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetDIGNITY FOR DIVAS — $70,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetWomen United — $70,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation — $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY FIRST COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetPIONEER HUMAN SERVICES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 FoundationWA14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Champions of Change 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Champions of Change?

    Find your warmest path to Champions of Change 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 10 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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