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Community Roots Housing Foundation

Community Roots Housing Foundation is a 501(c)(3) raising funds to support Community Roots Housing, a Seattle-area public development authority that creates inclusive housing and fosters thriving, just communities.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2.0M
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$12MCommunity Improvement$1.0MHuman Services$143kYouth Development$90kArts & Culture$70kAnimals$15k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
RecipientAmount
Community Roots Housing$1,958,672
Velocity$30,000
Urban League of Metropolitan$17,000
Birds Connect Seattle$15,000
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 (FY18–22, $353k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%BYRD BARR PLACE: $120k → 9%GENPRIDE: $88k → 9%GENPRIDE: $25k → 9%BYRD BARR PLACE: $25k → 9%BYRD BARR PLACE: $5k → 9%SOUTHWEST YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $45k → 9%SOUTHWEST YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $45k → 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 5 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +218% since the first grant, against +117% for those 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

+218%
+117%

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.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther
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

  • BB
    BYRD BARR PLACE
    3× · 2018–2022 · $150k · revenue +218%
  • AC
    AFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
    2× · 2018–2022 · $115k · revenue ×45 · 62% of their budget
  • GW
    Generations With Pride
    2× · 2020–2021 · $113k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • WC
    WHITE CENTER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +318% · 51% of their budget
  • FS
    FOREVER SAFE SPACES
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • BV
    BOARD & VELLUM LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
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
Chinatown International District Business Improvement Area

Improve the business enviornment, sanitation and public safety in the historical Chinatown-International district of Seattle, WA.

Community Improvement
2
The Alliance for Pioneer Square

Neighborhood revitalization and community economic development within the Pioneer Square district of Seattle

Community Improvement
3
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
4
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
5
Bike Works Seattle

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

Recreation & Sports
6
Greater Seattle Business Association

To combine business development, leadership and social action to expand economic opportunities for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community and those who support equality for all.

Community Improvement
7
Seattle Architectural Foundation

The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…

Arts & Culture
8
Washington Wildlife & Recreation Coalition

Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.

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9
Invest in Washington Now Campaign

Advocate for tax policy in Washington State

—
10
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
11
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
12
Working Washington

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gay City Health Project; the most unlike its peers is Southwest Youth and Family Services. 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

10 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. 10 of the 13 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY ROOTS HOUSING: $11,844,243 · OtherCOMMUNITY ROOTS HOUSING+3 more: $61,500 · OtherWHITE CENTER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $1,005,000 · Community ImprovementBYRD BARR PLACE: $150,000 · Human ServicesGenerations With Pride: $112,867 · Human ServicesSouthwest Youth And Family Services: $90,000 · Human ServicesAFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $115,000 · Housing & ShelterCHINATOWN INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT PRESERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT ASSOC: $7,500 · Housing & ShelterVelocity Dance Center: $30,000 · Arts & CultureGAY CITY HEALTH PROJECT: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBIRDS CONNECT SEATTLE: $15,000 · Environment
Other$11,905,743Community Improvement$1,005,000Human Services$352,867Housing & Shelter$122,500Arts & Culture$40,000Environment$15,000

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 budgetWHITE CENTER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $1,005,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetBYRD BARR PLACE: $150,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $115,000 over 2y, 62% of budgetGenerations With Pride: $112,867 over 2y, 14% of budgetSouthwest Youth And Family Services: $90,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetVelocity Dance Center: $30,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE: $17,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIRDS CONNECT SEATTLE: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGAY CITY HEALTH PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHINATOWN INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT PRESERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT ASSOC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% 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 FoundationInatai FoundationUnited Way of King Co…Gates FoundationMoccasin Lake Foundat…Medina FoundationPhilanthropy NorthwestCredit Unions in the …Puget Sound Energy Fo…Crescent CollaborativeByrd Barr PlaceStolte Family Foundat…
Seattle FoundationWA24.2× 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 · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Crescent Collaborative · Byrd Barr Place · Stolte Family 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 Roots Housing Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Roots Housing Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 13 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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