How much did Communities Rise grant in FY2024?

Communities Rise reported 7 grants totaling $56,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is Communities Rise based?

Communities Rise is based in WA.

Communities Rise

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· Public charity

Communities Rise

Communities Rise fosters movements to build power in communities impacted by systemic oppression.

$56k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$8k

Largest

01What you fund

0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2024.

Human Services$305kArts & Culture$145kCommunity Improvement$130kEducation$115kSocial Science$46kReligion$23kHealth$15kPhilanthropy$6kOther$61k

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

2021

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2022

northwest filmfilm forummediaartistholistichealingspace

2023

hopebusinessincreaseindiancommittededucationempower

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$8,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

Skyway Tutoring & Rites of Passage$8,000
Pan African Community Services$8,000
Northwest Film Forum$8,000
Vera Project$8,000
Seattle Rideshare Drivers Association$8,000
Cierra Sisters$8,000
Jubilee House Ministries$8,000

02The need

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 (FY21–23, $305k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 9%. 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.

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$684k · 9 repeat orgs$162k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$684k

$122k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

+285%

Still filing today

100%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementSocial ScienceReligionEducationOther

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

BB
Byrd Barr Place
3× · 2021–2023 · $155k · revenue +218%
Rainier Valley Corps (now called RVC Seattle)
3× · 2021–2023 · $123k · revenue +383%
LC
Latino Community Fund of Washington State
3× · 2021–2023 · $115k · revenue +75%

Funded once

PS
Puget Sound Sagegraduated
one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +81%
MC
Medhane-Alem Community Services
one grant, 2022 · $8k
AS
A Sacred Passing
one grant, 2022 · $8k

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.

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

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

Washington Community Alliance

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 Rights

Filipino Community of Seattle

To foster the well-being of filipinx through culturally appropriate services & gathering spaces.

Human Services

Washington Food Coalition

To strengthen hunger relief providers in Washington State

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Seattle Indian Center

Human Services

Re Sources

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.

Environment

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

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

Bike Works Seattle

Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.

Recreation & Sports

Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - Tag

Elevate the voice of those impacted by the Duwamish River pollution and other environmental injustices for a clean, healthy, equitable environment for people and wildlife. We promote place-keeping and prioritize communit

Environment

Futurewise

Futurewise works throughout Washington state to encourage healthy, equitable and opportunity-rich communities, and to protect our most valuable farmlands, forests and water resources through wise land use policies and practices.

Environment

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.

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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

4%1/27

the rest of the field

12%

1,486/12,712

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.

05the grantee network

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/20

Grantees still filing

12/20

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$305,000Arts & Culture$145,000Community Improvement$130,200Education$115,000Other$81,868Social Science$46,000Religion$23,150

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.

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 FoundationWA30.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Philanthropy Northwest · Inatai Foundation · Social Justice Fund Northwest · Proteus Fund Inc · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Artsfund · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 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.

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 · 0–75%

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: Center for Ethical Leadership.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 943154539 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 Center for Ethical Leadership, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 47% 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 Rise?

Find your warmest path to Communities Rise 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.

Communities Rise

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Communities Rise?

More from the funding graph

Communities Rise

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Communities Rise?

More from the funding graph