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· Public charity
Communities of Concern Commission
CoCC's mission is to assist various organizations serving communities of color in urban and rural areas in their efforts to conceive, design, finance, construct and manage assets essential to reducing poverty including affordable housing and community facilities.
$6k
Granted FY2024
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Grants
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Communities
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
0167% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Human Services$277kArts & Culture$261kPublic Benefit$97kHousing & Shelter$91kCommunity Improvement$40kCivil Rights$27kOther$396k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
farmupgrade securitypurchasepredevelopment associated
2021
homelessassociated
2022
homelessassociated
2023
educationcultural
2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 1 grant
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$500k
Total assets
Largest grants
- Asia Pacific Cultural Center$6,000
02The need
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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.
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Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $277k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 19% of Communities of Concern Commission’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 71% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Communities of Concern Commissionlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 23% directed abroad (not shown)Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Your edge
repeat funding
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$770k · 6 repeat orgs$420k to everyone else
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
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7
Total granted
$770k
$420k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+326%
+1450%
Still filing today
100%
71%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & CulturePublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsOther
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CSChief Seattle Club2× · 2021–2022 · $250k · revenue +747%
- ECEthiopian Community in Seattle4× · 2020–2023 · $201k · revenue +77%
- FFFoundation for Homeless & Poverty Management2× · 2021–2022 · $86k · revenue +326% · 36% of their budget
Funded once
- CTCommunity to Communitygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +2179%
- SOSurvival of American Indians Associationone grant, 2020 · $63k
- PFPartners for Rural Washingtongraduatedone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +238% · 53% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your 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.
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Seattle Indian Center
Human Services
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Central Washington Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
We increase access to economic opportunities for business owners, entrepreneurs, and individuals in Central Washington by connecting and providing them with resources, representation, and opportunities to build community.
Community Improvement
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Filipino Community of Seattle
To foster the well-being of filipinx through culturally appropriate services & gathering spaces.
Human Services
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Southwest Washington Equity Coalition
The Southwest Washington Equity Coalition advances racial equity through dismantling structural white supremacy, creating transformational action, and advocating for our community. We remain rooted in Re-Indigenization, Black Liberation,…
Civil Rights
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Washington African American Chamber of Commerce
Business development technical assistance policy for economic and societal justice programs
Human Services
6
Cowlitz Economic Development Council
Foster Growth in the Community
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Washington Fair Trade Coalition
Working for a fair global trading system
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Lao Community Service Center
Lao Community Service center's mission is to united the Lao Community in the Pacific Northwest. We assist the Lao Community with social, cultural, and educational services.
Human Services
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Duwamish Tribal Services
The mission of duwamish tribal services is to promote social, cultural, political and economic survival of the duwamish tribe, to revitalize duwamish culture and history in the community. the duwamish longhouse and cultural center houses…
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Seattle Latino Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce
Seattle Latino Chamber of Commerce's mission is to grow Latino business and help all our membership business owners and independent professionals advance their organizations. Our vision is to create business and help fertile ground for…
Community Improvement
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Coast Salish Youth Coalition
Empower Indigenous youth through cultural collaboration and environmental stewardship, centering on traditional foods and ancestral lands. We foster inter-tribal healing and inspire the next generation of leaders in cultural revitalization…
Environment
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Eritrean Association in Greater Seattle
Community Services
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is El Centro De La Raza and the most unlike its peers is Chief Seattle Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
06the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$396,421Human Services$277,001Arts & Culture$260,933Public Benefit$96,771Housing & Shelter$91,350Community Improvement$40,000Civil Rights$27,200
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Chief Seattle Club ↗
- Who funds Community to Community ↗
- Who funds Ethiopian Community in Seattle ↗
- Who funds Lhaq'Temish Foundation ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Homeless & Poverty Management ↗
- Who funds United Indian of All Tribes Foundation ↗
- Who funds Asia Pacific Cultural Center ↗
- Who funds Partners for Rural Washington ↗
- Who funds Latino Civic Alliance ↗
- Who funds El Centro de la Raza ↗
- Who funds African Community Housing & Development ↗
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 FoundationWA24.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Inatai Foundation · Philanthropy Northwest · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · One Roof Foundation · Medina Foundation · Northwest Harvest Emm · United Way of King County · Catholic Community Services of Western · Washington Progress Fund · Front and Centered · The Hugh and Jane Ferguson 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 organisation Communities of Concern Commission 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
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Partners for Rural Washington.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~11 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.4× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 383983361 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Partners for Rural Washington, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 53% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Communities of Concern Commission?
Find your warmest path to Communities of Concern Commission through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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By state
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines