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Community Center for Education Results
Ccer drives systems change in education by centering student experiences, propelling robust research, and partnering with communities to transform washington state schools.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $654k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EDUCATION NORTHWEST (EDNW) | $171,019 |
| WEST ED | $156,500 |
| OPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES | $99,817 |
| EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES (EACS) | $91,628 |
| VILLA COMUNITARIA | $68,523 |
| SOUTH KING COUNTY DISCIPLINE COALITION | $66,700 |
| WASHINGTON STATE PARENT AMBASSADORS | $40,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $526k) 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 +9% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 19 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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $367k 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 SEATTLE4× · 2019–2022 · $955k · revenue +336%- ENEDUCATION NORTHWEST2× · 2023–2024 · $369k · revenue +9%
BELONG Partners4× · 2019–2022 · $256k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- HPHIGHLINE PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2023 · $116k
- ASAUBURN SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $84k
- NBNATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2021 · $40k
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.
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…
At Seattle Amistad School, we foster community integrity through rigorous bilingual and bicultural education, developing our students' academic strengths and cultural sensibilities, while nurturing compassionate and engaged citizens.
To nurture and sustain child-centered, antiracist early learning communities.Our work is to:1) Help families access high quality childcare and after-school care.2) Increase the availability of high-quality care through coaching and…
Founded in 1994, PSCS is a small, independent middle and high school located in the Chinatown/International District of downtown Seattle. PSCS is committed to co-creating a brave space for community-centered education, critical curriculum,…
Cultivates the academic potential and leadership skills of underrepresented students. by creating access to opportunities and holistic support, we increase college graduation rates and empower new generations of leaders.
Washington Family Engagement fosters social transformation by supporting the development of mulitgenerational leaders from diverse backgrounds to become actively engaged in schools and communities in Washington State.
Hilltop is transforming early childhood education through play, collaboration, and reflection: in our classrooms with children, partnerships with families, and professional development with educators.
Reclaiming Our Greatness's mission is to create transformative outcomes for the families we serve by providing proactive case management coupled with creative resource development.
Through Jazz education that liberates and inspires, Seattle JazzED increase access in the music room, celebrates student expression, and builds lasting connection rooted in community.
Community based work, focused on strengthening families and youth through community cafe sessions.
The mission of SESEC is to convene and resource communities of color to advocate for an equitable education system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rvc Seattle and the most unlike its peers is Glover Empowermentoring. 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 22 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 37 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 RVC SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds TUKWILA SCHOOL DISTRICT INTEGRATED FUNDED HRA TRUST ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds The Backpack Academy ↗
- Who funds BELONG Partners ↗
- Who funds The Silent Task Force ↗
- Who funds CIS OF GREATER KING COUNTY DBA COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds East African Community Services ↗
- Who funds Techbridge Girls ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL O ↗
- Who funds GLOVER EMPOWERMENTORING ↗
- Who funds VILLA COMUNITARIA ↗
- Who funds Somali Youth & Family Club ↗
- Who funds TeamChild ↗
- Who funds CHILDHAVEN ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN COMMUNITY HOUSING & DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds Team Read ↗
- Who funds Brazil Center ↗
- Who funds Washington State Association of Head State and ECEA Programs ↗
- Who funds RENTON AREA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS ↗
- Who funds Green River College Foundation ↗
- Who funds CITIESRISE INC ↗
- Who funds INTIMAN THEATRE ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds Tukwila Childrens Foundation ↗
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 · United Way of King County · School's Out Washington · Gates Foundation · Renton Regional Community Fndn · The Norcliffe Foundation · Sheng-Yen Lu Foundation · Building Changes · Medina Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Stolte Family Foundation · Inatai 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 Community Center for Education Results 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.
- Education Northwest — 44% of income from government
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.
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