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Empire Health Community Advocacy Fund

Promote improved health care access; promote health professions education; promote community health/wellness; promote enhanced healthcare through research; improve public policy discourse for solutions to local health challenges.

$676k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$94k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$458kCivil Rights$442kArts & Culture$350kCrime & Legal$342kHealth$301kHousing & Shelter$280kYouth Development$278kCommunity Improvement$222kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 24 grants below total $652,763, the rows itemized in this filing. The $676,339 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $23,576 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k20 grants · $372k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $281k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPECTRUM$93,500
APIC SPOKANE DBA ASIANS FOR COLLECTIVE L$78,000
MUJERES IN ACTION (MIA)$57,300
LATINOS EN SPOKANE$52,000
YOYOT SP'Q'N'I$43,000
RANGE MEDIA$35,000
MANZANITA HOUSE$32,000
NAACP SPOKANE BRANCH$31,250
UNIDOS NUEVA ALIANZA FOUNDATION$30,000
BYRD BARR PLACE$30,000
TAKEALL$25,000
THE LANDS COUNCIL$20,000
WA LOW INCOME HOUSING ALLIANCE$14,713
HEALTH & JUSTICE RECOVERY ALLIANCE$11,000
THE WAY TO JUSTICE$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $496k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BYRD BARR PLACE: $30k → 9%RURAL RESOURCES COMMUNITY ACTION: $25k → 13%UNIDOS NUEVA ALIANZA FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%COLVILLE COMMUNITY SENIOR CENTER: $25k → 13%ASIAN COUNSELING & REFERRAL SERVICE: $25k → 9%DISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON: $25k → 9%THRIVE INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 12%MUJERES IN ACTION (MIA): $57k → 12%MUJERES IN ACTION (MIA): $25k → 12%SPECTRUM: $50k → 12%SPOKANE AIDS NETWORK: $25k → 12%SPECTRUM: $94k → 12%REFUGEE CONNECTIONS SPOKANE: $25k → 12%AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION: $25k → 12%AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION: $10k → 12%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Empire Health Community Advocacy Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Empire Health Community Advocacy Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$985k · 11 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +138% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
35

Total granted

$985k
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+138%
+31%

Still filing today

82%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $331k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCivil RightsArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • ST
    SPOKANE TRIBAL NETWORK
    2× · 2021–2023 · $178k · revenue +138%
  • Spectrum
    2× · 2021–2024 · $169k · revenue +129%
  • MM
    MIA MUJERES IN ACTION
    2× · 2021–2024 · $82k · revenue +287%

Funded once

  • DD
    DELTA DENTAL OF WASHINGTONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +36%
  • JN
    JUSTICE NOT JAILS
    one grant, 2023 · $241k
  • TU
    TAKE UP THE CAUSE
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +12%
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
Sage Indigenous Law Center

Sage Indigenous Law Center's mission is to provide culturally grounded civil legal aid that protects the rights of Native American parents, children, and communities, while advancing justice and addressing systemic inequities.

Crime & Legal
2
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
3
Iaf Northwest

In 2024, IAF Pacific continued its work of connecting and strengthening broad-based alliances throughout the Pacific region.Through its Building Partnerships for Collaborative Action initiativethe organization supported Indigenous and…

Community Improvement
4
Spokane River Forum

The Spokane River Forums mission is to create materials, events and activities that promote regional dialogues for sustaining a healthy river system while meeting the needs of a growing population.

Environment
5
Seattle Indian Center
Human Services
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
Central Washington Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

We increase access to economic opportunities for business owners, entrepreneurs, and individuals in Central Washington by connecting and providing them with resources, representation, and opportunities to build community.

Community Improvement
9
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
10
Multi-Ethnic Business Association

Our mission is to educate, advocate, and support multi-ethnic businesses in Eastern Washington.

Community Improvement
11
Community Roots Collaborative

A non-profit developer of permanent, affordable, tiny homes for the unsettled residents of Clark County, Washington.

Housing & Shelter
12
Welcome Home Coalition

Welcome Home is a diverse coalition in the Portland metropolitan region that uses its collective resources to create healthy communities by ensuring everyone has an affordable and stable home. We use community education and collaboration…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rural Resources Community Action; the most unlike its peers is Yoyot Spqni. 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

49 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. 49 of the 63 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
29/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JUSTICE NOT JAILS: $240,500 · OtherJUSTICE NOT JAILSRANGE MEDIA: $185,000 · OtherRANGE MEDIASPOKANE COMMUNITY AGAINST RACISM LLC (INACTIVE): $70,000 · OtherSPOKANE COMMUNITY AGAINST RACISM LLC (INACTIVE)FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH RESILIENCY AND ENGA: $50,000 · OtherLATINOS EN SPOKANE: $77,000 · OtherLATINOS EN SPOKANEHEALTH AND JUSTICE RECOVERY ALLIANCE: $56,000 · Other+28 more: $565,350 · Other+28 moreSpectrum: $168,500 · Human ServicesSpectrumMIA MUJERES IN ACTION: $82,300 · Human ServicesMIA MUJERES IN ACTI…AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION: $35,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN INDIAN COM…Unidos Nueva Alianza Foundation: $30,000 · Human ServicesUnidos Nueva Alianz…BYRD BARR PLACE: $30,000 · Human ServicesBYRD BARR PLACECOLVILLE COMMUNITY SENIOR CENTER: $25,000 · Human ServicesREFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT CONNECTIONS OF SPOKANE: $25,000 · Human ServicesASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $25,000 · Human ServicesDISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON: $25,000 · Human ServicesRURAL RESOURCES COMMUNITY ACTION: $25,000 · Human ServicesThrive International: $25,000 · Human ServicesDELTA DENTAL OF WASHINGTON: $250,000 · HealthDELTA DENT…Compassionate Addiction Treatment: $25,000 · HealthCompassion…+1 more: $5,750 · HealthAPIC SPOKANE ASIANS FOR COLLECTIVE LIBERATION IN SPOKANE: $78,000 · Civil RightsAPIC SPOKA…YOYOT SPQNI: $63,000 · Civil RightsYOYOT SPQN…THE WAY TO JUSTICE: $35,000 · Civil RightsTHE WAY TO…NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $31,250 · Civil RightsNAACP EMPO…Pacific Islander Community Association of WA: $25,000 · Civil RightsPacific Is…Greater Spokane Progress: $25,000 · Civil RightsGreater Sp…TAKE UP THE CAUSE: $200,000 · Housing & ShelterWashington Low Income Housing Alliance: $14,713 · Housing & ShelterSPOKANE TRIBAL NETWORK: $178,000 · Youth DevelopmentYES OF PEND OREILLE COUNTY: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentInvestigateWest: $100,000 · Arts & CultureCarl Maxey Center: $35,000 · Arts & CultureManzanita House: $32,000 · Arts & CultureTerrain Programs: $25,000 · Arts & CulturePEACE & JUSTICE ACTION LEAGUE OF SPOKANE: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,243,850Human Services$495,800Health$280,750Civil Rights$257,250Housing & Shelter$214,713Youth Development$203,000Arts & Culture$202,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDELTA DENTAL OF WASHINGTON: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAKE UP THE CAUSE: $200,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSPOKANE TRIBAL NETWORK: $178,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetSpectrum: $168,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetInvestigateWest: $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMIA MUJERES IN ACTION: $82,300 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetAPIC SPOKANE ASIANS FOR COLLECTIVE LIBERATION IN SPOKANE: $78,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetLATINOS EN SPOKANE: $77,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetYOYOT SPQNI: $63,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetHEALTH AND JUSTICE RECOVERY ALLIANCE: $56,000 over 3y, 59% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR YOUTH RESILIENCY AND ENGA: $50,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE WAY TO JUSTICE: $35,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetCarl Maxey Center: $35,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetManzanita House: $32,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $31,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnidos Nueva Alianza Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetBYRD BARR PLACE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT ID: $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCOLVILLE COMMUNITY SENIOR CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetREFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT CONNECTIONS OF SPOKANE: $25,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetHealthy Ferry County Coalition: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPacific Islander Community Association of WA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetODYSSEY YOUTH CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetTerrain Programs: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYES OF PEND OREILLE COUNTY: $25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetMHA SPEAKOUT SPEAKUP: $25,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetInnovia Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSalish School of Spokane: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFeast Collective: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetRURAL RESOURCES COMMUNITY ACTION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Spokane Progress: $25,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCompassionate Addiction Treatment: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetThrive International: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSpokane Alliance: $20,350 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetTHE LANDS COUNCIL: $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTenants Union of Washington: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetOMPRAKASH INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWashington Low Income Housing Alliance: $14,713 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetASIANS FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetThe Revive Center for Returning Citizens: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRaze Development: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPEACE & JUSTICE ACTION LEAGUE OF SPOKANE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNO ON 2109 COMMITEE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Inatai FoundationEmpire Health Foundat…Better Health TogetherSmith-Barbieri Progre…Innovia FoundationThe Avista FoundationSeattle FoundationCommunity Building Fo…Legal Foundation of W…Providence Health & S…Project Beauty ShareMarie Lamfrom Charita…
Inatai FoundationWA77× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Inatai Foundation · Empire Health Foundation · Better Health Together · Smith-Barbieri Progressive Fund a Charitable Foundation · Innovia Foundation · The Avista Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Community Building Foundation · Legal Foundation of Washington · Providence Health & Services - Washington · Project Beauty Share · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust

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 Empire Health Community Advocacy Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Empire Health Community Advocacy Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Empire Health Community Advocacy Fund?

Find your warmest path to Empire Health Community Advocacy Fund 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 63 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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