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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 it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2023.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Pioneer Human Services$50,000
Family First Community Center Foundation$50,000
Cliff Avril Family Foundation$40,000
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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Its 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. Its 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
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

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
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.

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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
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
4
South Seattle Women's Health Foundation

We provide exceptional direct care to women and families to improve health outcomes including traditionally underserved communities. Out programs increase job capacity for providers of color and our services are based on…

Health
5
Family Access Fighting for Childrens Rights
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6
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
7
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
8
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
9
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
10
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
11
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
12
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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Children's Foundation; 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 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. 9 of the 10 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

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 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

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 Champions of Change funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Champions of Change. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's 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, 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.
    04Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 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.

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