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Communities Rise
Communities Rise fosters movements to build power in communities impacted by systemic oppression.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Northwest Film Forum | $8,000 |
| Cierra Sisters | $8,000 |
| Skyway Tutoring & Rites of Passage | $8,000 |
| Jubilee House Ministries | $8,000 |
| Pan African Community Services | $8,000 |
| Vera Project | $8,000 |
| Seattle Rideshare Drivers Association | $8,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $305k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of -16% since the first grant, against -18% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
RVC SEATTLE3× · 2021–2023 · $123k · revenue +72%- NFNORTHWEST FILM FORUM2× · 2022–2024 · $16k · revenue +7%
WEST HILL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- PSPUGET SOUND SAGEone grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -44%
- MCMEDHANE-ALEM COMMUNITY SERVICESone grant, 2022 · $8k
- ASA SACRED PASSINGone grant, 2022 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
Washington Community Alliance WCA is a statewide network of over 70 organizations working to advance multiracial social democracy by coordinating values aligned civic engagement
Civil Survival organizes system-impacted people, provides legal representation and reentry support, and advocates for policy reform to restore opportunity to communities harmed by the criminal legal system in Washington State.
RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.
Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…
Rainier Beach Action Coalition is a grassroot, Black-led organization devoted to locally driven development. It promotes quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing, and building community capacity in…
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…
Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.
Comunidad seeks to build community, cultural pride, and economic opportunities for the Latino community on Vashon Island and its neighboring communities.
Community based work, focused on strengthening families and youth through community cafe sessions.
House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rvc Seattle and the most unlike its peers is Casa Surya Healings. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 10 years old; the field is 15. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 16% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 27 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 BYRD BARR PLACE ↗
- Who funds RVC SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ETHICAL LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds POTLATCH FUND ↗
- Who funds Latino Community Fund of Washington State ↗
- Who funds PUGET SOUND SAGE ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST FILM FORUM ↗
- Who funds CASA SURYA HEALINGS ↗
- Who funds Cierra Sisters ↗
- Who funds WEST HILL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Vera Project ↗
- Who funds DRIVERS SOLIDARITY AND RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC ↗
- Who funds KHMER COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds BIGHUG ↗
- Who funds Global Social Business Partners ↗
- Who funds INDIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ESSENTIALS FIRST ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Philanthropy Northwest · Inatai Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Social Justice Fund Northwest · Proteus Fund Inc · United Way of King County · Artsfund · Washington State Microenterprise Association · Northwest Area Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Gates 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 Communities Rise 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.
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.