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Communities Rise

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

$56k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Human Services$298kCommunity Improvement$144kPhilanthropy$135kEducation$131kArts & Culture$44kSocial Science$40kHealth$30kEmployment$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Pan African Community Services$8,000
Skyway Tutoring & Rites of Passage$8,000
Vera Project$8,000
Northwest Film Forum$8,000
Jubilee House Ministries$8,000
Seattle Rideshare Drivers Association$8,000
Cierra Sisters$8,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Byrd Barr Place: $85k → 9%Byrd Barr Place: $45k → 9%Byrd Barr Place: $25k → 9%The Village of Hope Seattle: $7k → 9%Khmer Community of Seattle King County: $7k → 9%Essentials First: $6k → 9%Latino Community Fund of Washington State: $45k → 9%West Hill Community Association: $8k → 9%Latino Community Fund of Washington State: $45k → 9%West Hill Community Association: $7k → 9%Latino Community Fund of Washington State: $25k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$684k · 9 repeat orgs$162k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -16% since the first grant, against -18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
13

Total granted

$684k
$122k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-16%
-18%

Still filing today

100%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationSocial ScienceReligionOther
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

  • RVC SEATTLE
    3× · 2021–2023 · $123k · revenue +72%
  • NF
    NORTHWEST FILM FORUM
    2× · 2022–2024 · $16k · revenue +16%
  • WEST HILL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • PS
    PUGET SOUND SAGE
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -44%
  • AS
    A SACRED PASSING
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
  • MC
    MEDHANE-ALEM COMMUNITY SERVICES
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
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
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
2
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
3
Civil Survival Project

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.

Community Improvement
4
Seattle Indian Center
Human Services
5
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
6
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

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…

Education
7
Rainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalition

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…

Community Improvement
8
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
9
Bike Works Seattle

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

Recreation & Sports
10
We Are Comunidad

Comunidad seeks to build community, cultural pride, and economic opportunities for the Latino community on Vashon Island and its neighboring communities.

Human Services
11
Community Cafe Collaborative

Community based work, focused on strengthening families and youth through community cafe sessions.

Public Benefit
12
House Our Neighbors

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rvc Seattle; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 27 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
4/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BYRD BARR PLACE: $155,000 · Human ServicesBYRD BARR PLACELatino Community Fund of Washington State: $115,000 · Human ServicesLatino Community Fund of Washington Stat…WEST HILL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · Human Services+3 more: $20,000 · Human Services+3 morePOTLATCH FUND: $115,000 · Arts & CulturePOTLATCH FUNDNORTHWEST FILM FORUM: $16,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST FILM FORU…The Vera Project: $8,000 · Arts & CultureThe Vera ProjectINDIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $6,000 · Arts & CultureRVC SEATTLE: $123,200 · Community ImprovementRVC SEATTLEFISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC: $7,000 · Community ImprovementFISCAL SPONSORSHI…CENTER FOR ETHICAL LEADERSHIP: $115,000 · EducationCENTER FOR ETHIC…A SACRED PASSING: $8,000 · EducationA SACRED PASSINGSKYWAY TUTORING & ROP: $8,000 · OtherSKYWAY TU…PAN AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $8,000 · OtherPAN AFRIC…MEDHANE-ALEM COMMUNITY SERVICES: $8,000 · OtherMEDHANE-A…DRIVERS SOLIDARITY AND RESOURCE CENTER: $8,000 · OtherDRIVERS S…THE YARROW PROJECT: $7,733 · OtherTHE YARRO…HOUSE OF HOPE 360: $7,000 · OtherHOUSE OF …VC BYNUM ARTS & EDUCATION: $6,000 · OtherVC BYNUM …Cierra Sisters: $15,000 · OtherCierra Si…BIGHUG: $6,135 · OtherBIGHUGPUGET SOUND SAGE: $40,000 · Social ScienceGlobal Social Business Partners: $6,000 · Social ScienceCASA SURYA HEALINGS: $15,150 · ReligionJUBILEE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $8,000 · Religion
Human Services$305,000Arts & Culture$145,000Community Improvement$130,200Education$123,000Other$73,868Social Science$46,000Religion$23,150

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBYRD BARR PLACE: $155,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetRVC SEATTLE: $123,200 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPOTLATCH FUND: $115,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetLatino Community Fund of Washington State: $115,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER FOR ETHICAL LEADERSHIP: $115,000 over 3y, 47% of budgetPUGET SOUND SAGE: $40,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNORTHWEST FILM FORUM: $16,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCASA SURYA HEALINGS: $15,150 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetCierra Sisters: $15,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetWEST HILL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetThe Vera Project: $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJUBILEE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $8,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetFISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVILLAGE OF HOPE: $7,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetKHMER COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE KING COUNTY: $7,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBIGHUG: $6,135 over 1y, 11% of budgetINDIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetESSENTIALS FIRST: $6,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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 FoundationPhilanthropy NorthwestInatai FoundationThe Satterberg Founda…Social Justice Fund N…Proteus Fund IncUnited Way of King Co…ArtsfundWashington State Micr…Northwest Area Founda…Credit Unions in the …Gates Foundation
Seattle FoundationWA35.1× affinity17 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 · 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.

    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 27 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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