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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.

$694k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$171k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$3.5MCommunity Improvement$2.6MHuman Services$291kMembership Benefit$273kYouth Development$107kCrime & Legal$67kArts & Culture$61kHousing & Shelter$56kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $654k
$91,628
Median grant
3
States reached
$907k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE VILLAGE OF HOPE: $15k → 9%THE SILENT TASK FORCE: $72k → 9%THE SILENT TASK FORCE: $70k → 9%OPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES: $100k → 9%THE SILENT TASK FORCE: $58k → 9%THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $40k → 9%THE SILENT TASK FORCE: $25k → 9%THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $24k → 9%THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $17k → 9%TUKWILA CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $14k → 9%EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES (EACS): $92k → 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.2M · 21 repeat orgs$745k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
11

Total granted

$6.2M
$378k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
0%

Still filing today

67%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $367k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureMembership BenefitOther
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
    4× · 2019–2022 · $955k · revenue +336%
  • EN
    EDUCATION NORTHWEST
    2× · 2023–2024 · $369k · revenue +9%
  • BELONG Partners
    4× · 2019–2022 · $256k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • HP
    HIGHLINE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2023 · $116k
  • AS
    AUBURN SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2023 · $84k
  • NB
    NATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $40k
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
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
2
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
3
Seattle Amistad School

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.

Education
4
Puget Sound Community School

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,…

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5
Rainier Scholars

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.

Education
6
Brightspark Early Learning Services

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…

Human Services
7
Washington State Family and Community Engagement Trust

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.

Philanthropy
8
Seattle JazzED

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Seattle Institute for Early Childhood Development

Hilltop is transforming early childhood education through play, collaboration, and reflection: in our classrooms with children, partnerships with families, and professional development with educators.

Education
10
Reclaiming Our Greatness

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.

Housing & Shelter
11
Community Cafe Collaborative

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

Public Benefit
12
Southeast Seattle Education Coalition

The mission of SESEC is to convene and resource communities of color to advocate for an equitable education system.

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

27 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. 27 of the 37 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/27
Grantees still filing
11/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RENTON SCHOOL DISTRICT #403: $2,006,192 · OtherRENTON SCHOOL DISTRICT #403WESTED: $368,400 · OtherWESTEDTHRIVE YOGA: $285,080 · OtherTHRIVE YOGAHIGHLINE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $115,592 · Other+14 more: $589,941 · Other+14 moreRVC SEATTLE: $954,703 · Community ImprovementRVC SEATTLECIS OF GREATER KING COUNTY DBA COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $142,806 · Community ImprovementCIS OF GREATER KIN…TeamChild: $66,700 · Community ImprovementTeamChildTUKWILA SCHOOL DISTRICT INTEGRATED FUNDED HRA TRUST: $721,421 · Membership BenefitTUKWILA SCH…The Silent Task Force: $225,156 · Human ServicesOPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES: $99,817 · Human ServicesEast African Community Services: $91,628 · Human ServicesSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL O: $80,556 · Human Services+2 more: $28,500 · Human ServicesThe Backpack Academy: $265,000 · EducationTechbridge Girls: $81,556 · EducationTeam Read: $46,750 · EducationWashington State Association of Head State and ECEA Programs: $40,000 · EducationNORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS: $25,000 · EducationGreen River College Foundation: $20,000 · EducationEDUCATION NORTHWEST: $368,933 · Public BenefitBELONG Partners: $256,274 · Youth DevelopmentGLOVER EMPOWERMENTORING: $71,000 · Youth Development
Other$3,365,205Community Improvement$1,164,209Membership Benefit$721,421Human Services$525,657Education$478,306Public Benefit$368,933Youth Development$327,274

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRVC SEATTLE: $954,703 over 4y, 15% of budgetEDUCATION NORTHWEST: $368,933 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetThe Backpack Academy: $265,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetBELONG Partners: $256,274 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetThe Silent Task Force: $225,156 over 4y, 21% of budgetCIS OF GREATER KING COUNTY DBA COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $142,806 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetOPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES: $99,817 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetEast African Community Services: $91,628 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTechbridge Girls: $81,556 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL O: $80,556 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGLOVER EMPOWERMENTORING: $71,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetVILLA COMUNITARIA: $68,523 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSomali Youth & Family Club: $66,806 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTeamChild: $66,700 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDHAVEN: $57,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITY HOUSING & DEVELOPMENT: $55,556 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetTeam Read: $46,750 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetBrazil Center: $46,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetWashington State Association of Head State and ECEA Programs: $40,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetRENTON AREA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $35,556 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCITIESRISE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGreen River College Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVILLAGE OF HOPE: $15,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetINTIMAN THEATRE: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTukwila Childrens Foundation: $13,500 over 1y, 7.8% 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 FoundationUnited Way of King Co…School's Out Washingt…Gates FoundationRenton Regional Commu…The Norcliffe Foundat…Sheng-Yen Lu Foundati…Building ChangesMedina FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…Stolte Family Foundat…Inatai Foundation
Seattle FoundationWA41.6× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Community Center for Education Results funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Center for Education Results. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 44%
  • Education Northwest: 44% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report 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, FY20–25
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.
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Find your warmest path to Community Center for Education Results through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 37 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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