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Charlotte y Martin Foundation-Ima

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
58
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$312k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.9MEnvironment$1.3MArts & Culture$903kYouth Development$512kCivil Rights$400kHuman Services$238kAnimals$173kCommunity Improvement$155kOther$0
02FY2024 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k51 grants · $878k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $312k
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY$312,020
QIZHJEH VENA ALASKA QVA$100,000
PIEGAN INSTITUTE$45,000
INDIGENOUS CREATIVES COLLECTIVE$40,000
HOME RANGE WILDLIFE RESEARCH$35,000
RAINIER VALLEY CORP FISCAL SPONSOR$25,000
LIFE LEADERS INC$25,000
ARLEE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$20,230
FREE VERSE WRITING PROJECT$20,000
INDIGENOUS ROOTS & REPARATION FOUNDATION$20,000
COCOON HOUSE$20,000
THE ALASKA CENTER$20,000
CTR COU TLINGIT HAIDA INDIAN TRIBES OF A$20,000
HEARTS GATHERED$20,000
NIMIIPUU ECOSYSTEMS RESTORATION INC$20,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $230k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%CENTER POLE: $10k → 23%LIFE LEADERS INC: $25k → 21%SAMOA PACIFIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $15k → 12%NORTHWEST AMERICAN INDIAN COALITION: $20k → 14%ADELANTE MUJERES: $15k → 8%TTAWAXT BIRTH JUSTICE CENTER: $15k → 17%ADELANTE MUJERES: $10k → 8%TTAWAXT BIRTH JUSTICE CENTER: $10k → 17%ADELANTE MUJERES: $10k → 8%TTAWAXT BIRTH JUSTICE CENTER: $10k → 17%BLACK PARENT INITIATIVE: $5k → 12%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $20k → 9%REFUGEE WOMENS ALLIANCE: $15k → 9%REFUGEE WOMENS ALLIANCE: $15k → 9%UTOPIA SEATTLE: $20k → 9%REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE: $10k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB INC: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
ID
MT
MI
OR
CA
MO
AL
TX
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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 54 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
164

Total granted

$3.2M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+25%

Still filing today

87%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $598k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +36%
  • Salish School of Spokane
    4× · 2020–2024 · $90k · revenue +29%
  • PI
    PIEGAN INSTITUTE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • AP
    ASAIN PACIFIC AMERICAN NETWORK OF OREGON
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • IC
    IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -25%
  • SC
    SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +25%
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
Oregon Websites and Watershed Project Inc

Develop educational network to communicate historical and scientific information empasizing natural and cultural resources to pacific northwest.

Environment
2
Coast Salish Youth Coalition

To cultivate the next generation of culturally engaged environmental stewards.

Environment
3
10000 Years Institute

10,000 Years Institute evaluates the ecological effects of human activities on natural environments, and promotes the maintenance and restoration of ecological integrity through the integration of reliable scientific information, sound…

Unclassified
4
Magic Canoe

Magic Canoe is a champion of a reimagined future that is driven by local-based bottom-up regenerative solutions for a more equitable and healthier bioregion that is Salmon Nation.

Environment
5
Wis Teq Neemit

Promote and educate the heritage of the Nez Perce Tribe.

Community Improvement
6
The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation

We are a Native-led Indigenous rights organization. We are dedicated to our mission of protecting & revitalizing Indigenous cultures, empowering them in the direct application of their traditional knowledge & practices on their ancestral…

Arts & Culture
7
Wild Salmon Rivers

To conserve functioning salmon/steelhead eco-system at watershed levels, integrate angling activities with basic scientific research, collect raw data, monitor environmental functions, salmon/steelhead population dynamics, public…

Environment
8
Discover Your Northwest

Discover Your Northwest promotes the discovery of northwest public lands, enriches the experience of visitors and builds community stewardship of these special places today and for generations to come.

Recreation & Sports
9
Naa Kaani Native Program

The naa kaani native program strives to educate and empower native communities in the pacific norhtwest, with a focus on the salish sea territory. we support cultural events, advocate for tribal rights, and aim to improve lives and…

Community Improvement
10
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
11
Na'ah Illahee Fund

Naah Illahee Fund is an Indigenous-led organization rooted in the Northwest region of Turtle Island. Our mission is to catalyze the ongoing regeneration of Indigenous communities through participatory grantmaking, capacity building, and…

International
12
Confluence Environmental Center

Confluence Environmental Center's mission is to bring together streams of thought, action and people to make the environmental movement more robust, inclusive and effective.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native Conservancy; the most unlike its peers is Noble Foundation. 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

183 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 183 of the 253 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
62
Early backer (in before they grew)
175/183
Grantees still filing
119/183
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $1,401,249 · EducationCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITYSalish School of Spokane: $90,000 · EducationUrban American Indian Alaska Native Education Alli: $60,000 · Education+9 more: $164,275 · Education+9 morePIEGAN INSTITUTE: $80,000 · OtherINDIGENOUS CREATIVES COLLECTIVE: $75,000 · Other+90 more: $1,750,180 · Other+90 moreAhtna Intertribal Resource Commission: $50,000 · EnvironmentSoutheast Alaska Conservation Council Inc-SEACC: $50,000 · EnvironmentKLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER: $45,000 · EnvironmentCRAG LAW CENTER: $45,000 · EnvironmentYAAK VALLEY FOREST COUNCIL: $40,000 · EnvironmentCLARK FORK COALITION: $40,000 · EnvironmentNimiipuu Ecosystems Restoration Inc: $35,000 · EnvironmentALASKA MARINE COMMUNITY COALITION: $35,000 · EnvironmentSPOKANE RIVERKEEPER: $33,000 · Environment+31 more: $586,800 · Environment+31 moreQIZHJEH VENA ALASKA: $100,000 · Arts & CultureQIZHJEH VE…Terrain Programs: $40,000 · Arts & CultureTerrain Pr…Red Eagle Soaring: $25,000 · Arts & CulturePerseverance Theatre Incorporated: $25,000 · Arts & CultureKEY TO CHANGE: $25,000 · Arts & CultureINDIGENOUS ROOTS & REPARATION FND: $20,000 · Arts & CultureKOAHNIC BROADCAST CORPORATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTULALIP FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMIRACLE THEATRE GROUP: $20,000 · Arts & CultureQIZHJEH HERITAGE INSTITUTE: $20,000 · Arts & CultureNATIVE ACTION NETWORK: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMISSOULA WRITING COLLABORATIVE: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMAHCHIWMINAHNAHTIK CHIPPEWA AND CREE LANGUAGE REVITALIZATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureFree Verse Project: $18,940 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $162,000 · Arts & Culture+12 moreRefugee Womens Alliance: $40,000 · Human ServicesADELANTE MUJERES: $35,000 · Human ServicesTTAWAXT BIRTH JUSTICE CENTER: $35,000 · Human ServicesNORTH AMERICAN NATIVE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesLFE LEADERS INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesUNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS WASHINGTON-UTOPIA WA: $20,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST AMERICAN INDIAN COALITION INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesEL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $20,000 · Human ServicesSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesSamoa Pacific Development Corporation: $15,000 · Human ServicesCenter Pole: $10,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES: $10,000 · Human ServicesThe Service Board: $32,500 · Youth DevelopmentSEE STORIES: $28,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentVAMOS OUTDOORS PROJECT: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentPEACEKEEPER SOCIETY: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentMENTORING URBAN STUDENTS & TEENS: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentIDENTITY INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN CHEYENNE NATION: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentELEVATE OREGON: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT GIRL MENTORING PROGRAM: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentPongo Publishing Inc: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentEMERGING UNIDOS: $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentGEEKING OUT KIDS OF COLOR: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentNATIVE MOVEMENT: $75,000 · Community ImprovementARLEE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $20,230 · Community ImprovementFIRST ALASKANS INSTITUTE: $20,000 · Community ImprovementOPAL: $15,000 · Community ImprovementELDERBERRY WISDOM FARM: $15,000 · Community Improvement
Education$1,715,524Other$1,905,180Environment$959,800Arts & Culture$555,940Human Services$275,000Youth Development$242,500Community Improvement$145,230

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $1,401,249 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetQIZHJEH VENA ALASKA: $100,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetSalish School of Spokane: $90,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetPIEGAN INSTITUTE: $80,000 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetINDIGENOUS CREATIVES COLLECTIVE: $75,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetNATIVE MOVEMENT: $75,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUrban American Indian Alaska Native Education Alli: $60,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetAhtna Intertribal Resource Commission: $50,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSoutheast Alaska Conservation Council Inc-SEACC: $50,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetMONTANA TWO SPIRIT SOCIETY: $50,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetKLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER: $45,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetCRAG LAW CENTER: $45,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetRefugee Womens Alliance: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTerrain Programs: $40,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetWESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHearts Gathered: $40,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetYAAK VALLEY FOREST COUNCIL: $40,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetCLARK FORK COALITION: $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetChief Joseph Foundation: $35,500 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetHome Range Wildlife Research: $35,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetINDIAN LAW RESOURCE CENTER: $35,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetADELANTE MUJERES: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALASKA MARINE COMMUNITY COALITION: $35,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTTAWAXT BIRTH JUSTICE CENTER: $35,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetSPOKANE RIVERKEEPER: $33,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetThe Service Board: $32,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTodos Juntos Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetKACHEMAK HERITAGE LAND TRUST INC: $30,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetBLUE MOUNTAINS BIODIVERSITY PROJECT: $30,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetTRUSTEES FOR ALASKA: $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetIDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFUTUREWISE: $30,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetWASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARK FUND: $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSEE STORIES: $28,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetSnake River Waterkeeper Inc: $28,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetCASCADES CARNIVORE PROJECT: $27,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetThe Alaska Community Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRed Eagle Soaring: $25,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetElakha Alliance: $25,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetPACIFIC RIVERS: $25,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetNORTH AMERICAN NATIVE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetLFE LEADERS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetPerseverance Theatre Incorporated: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetKEY TO CHANGE: $25,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetTAKSHANUK WATERSHED COUNCIL: $21,500 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetARLEE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $20,230 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetPUGET SOUND SAGE: $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.

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.

Potlatch FundMeyer Memorial TrustInatai FoundationPatagoniaorgFirst Nations Develop…Seattle FoundationSchool's Out Washingt…Na'ah Illahee FundMarie Lamfrom Charita…The Collins FoundationThe Satterberg Founda…Artsfund
Potlatch FundWA60.4× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Potlatch Fund · Meyer Memorial Trust · Inatai Foundation · Patagoniaorg · First Nations Development Institute · Seattle Foundation · School's Out Washington · Na'ah Illahee Fund · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Collins Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Artsfund

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 Charlotte y Martin Foundation-Ima funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charlotte y Martin Foundation-Ima. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Siuslaw Watershed Council Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Klamath Bird Observatory: 100% of income from government
  • Marys River Watershed Council: 100% of income from government
  • Todos Juntos Inc: 64% of income from government
  • Elderberry Wisdom Farm: 56% of income from government
  • Black Parent Initiative: 45% of income from government
  • Emerging Unidos: 44% of income from government
  • Adelante Mujeres: 31% of income from government
  • Samoa Pacific Development Corporation: 28% of income from government
  • Elevate Oregon: 28% of income from government
  • College Dreams Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Ophelia's Place: 22% of income from government
  • Cascades Carnivore Project: 16% of income from government
  • Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians: 10% of income from government
  • Elakha Alliance: 10% of income from government
  • Oregon Natural Desert Association: 9% of income from government
  • Write Around Portland: 6% of income from government
  • Miracle Theatre Group: 6% of income from government
  • Hunters of Color: 4% of income from government
  • Bark: 2% of income from government
  • Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild: 2% of income from government
  • Caldera: 1% of income from government
  • Western Rivers Conservancy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
53report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to Charlotte y Martin Foundation-Ima 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 253 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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