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· Public charity
Community Roots Housing Foundation
To sustain operations and support specific initiatives of Community Roots Housing.
$2.0M
Granted FY2024
4
Grants
1
Communities
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 89% of Community Roots Housing Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
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
2018
building disbursement
2020
together capitalbuilding partpart riserise together
2021
capitalrise together
2022
landseattlepartrise together
2023
subgranting officeoffice artsarts culture
2024
birdsthrivesubgrantingseattle
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 4 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $62k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$654k
Total assets
Largest grants
- Community Roots Housing$1,958,672
- Velocity$30,000
- Urban League of Metropolitan$17,000
- Birds Connect Seattle$15,000
02The need
04
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 (FY18–22, $353k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 7%. 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.
92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 5 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +1182% since the first grant, against +641% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
5
5
Total granted
$12M
$1.1M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+1182%
+641%
Still filing today
80%
60%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther
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
- BBBYRD BARR PLACE3× · 2018–2022 · $150k · revenue +218%
- ACAFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST2× · 2018–2022 · $115k · revenue +4356% · 62% of their budget
- GGENPRIDE2× · 2020–2021 · $113k · revenue +1182%
Funded once
- WCWHITE CENTER CDAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +2529% · 51% of their budget
- FSFOREVER SAFE SPACESone grant, 2023 · $30k
- BVBOARD & VELLUM LLCone grant, 2020 · $15k
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.
1
Friends of Seattle Waterfront
To support, through outreach, fundraising and stewardship, the City's Waterfront Seattle project: Creation of a park along the central shoreline to benefit the public
Community Improvement
2
Chinatown International District
Improve the business enviornment, sanitation and public safety in the historical Chinatown-International district of Seattle, WA.
Community Improvement
3
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
4
The Urbanist
Seattle-based online publication seeking to examine and influence urban policies.
Community Improvement
5
Bike Works Seattle
Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.
Recreation & Sports
6
The Alliance for Pioneer Square
Neighborhood revitalization and community economic development within the Pioneer Square district of Seattle
Community Improvement
7
Washington Bikes
The organization advocates for the rights of people who ride bikes and holds officials accountable working with them to shape policies.
Recreation & Sports
8
Seattle Center Foundation
The Seattle Center Foundation supports the vision and purpose of Seattle Center by advocating for public support and private dollars for major capital and program improvements.
Arts & Culture
9
Dispute Resolution Center of Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties
To build long-lasting conflict solutions between to people and groups across Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties.
Crime & Legal
10
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
11
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
12
Disability Rights Washington
Drw advocates to advance the dignity, equality, & self-determination of people with disabilities.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gay City Health Project and the most unlike its peers is Chinatown International District. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$11,905,743Community Improvement$1,005,000Human Services$352,867Housing & Shelter$122,500Arts & Culture$40,000Environment$15,000
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 FoundationWA24.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Inatai Foundation · United Way of King County · Gates Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Medina Foundation · Philanthropy Northwest · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Crescent Collaborative · Stolte Family Foundation · Prosperity Now · Raikes 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 organisation Community Roots Housing Foundation 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
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: AFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 44.6× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 821710458 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 AFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST, 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
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 62% 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 Community Roots Housing Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Community Roots Housing Foundation 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.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines