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Equity in Education Coalition

Eliminating the opportunity gap and promoting birth-through-career success for all childrenof color in washington stat

$3.1M
Granted FY2023
23
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.

Education$2.4MScience & Tech$606kCivil Rights$537kHuman Services$402kPhilanthropy$283kHealth$260kPublic Safety & Disaster$220kCommunity Improvement$204kOther$0
02FY2023 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 23 grants below total $3,052,367 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,117,133 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $64,766 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $242k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
$52,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS WA$1,000,000
FRESHSTART$424,600
NORTHWEST CENTER$214,985
TRIBAL TECHNOLOGY TRAINING$181,872
UNIDOS NUEVA ALIANZA FOUNDATION$166,750
MISSION AFRICA$140,000
CAMBODIAN AMERICAN COUNCIL OF WA$140,000
LATINOS EN SPOKANE$110,000
FILIPINO COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE$100,000
CENTRO-AMERICANO$60,400
HOUSE OF MERCY$60,000
MINDSIGHT MENTORS$52,000
BEACON BUSINESS ALLIANCE$52,000
FUSE INNOVATION FUND (COMMUNICATIONS HUB)$50,000
MOTHER AFRICA$50,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–23, $664k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%UNIDOS NUEVA ALIANZA FOUNDATION: $167k → 14%KHMER COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE & KING COUNTY: $50k → 9%LATINO UNIDOS: $94k → 14%COMMUNIDADES SIN FRONTERAS WA: $65k → 14%KHMER COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE & KING COUNTY: $45k → 9%Khmer Community SKC: $39k → 9%United Communities of Lao: $24k → 9%Latino Community Fund: $12k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WA ST: $8k → 9%MOTHER AFRICA: $50k → 9%UTOPIA Seattle: $24k → 9%Filipino Commuinty Center: $38k → 9%East African Community Services: $18k → 9%Tukwila Children's Foundation: $25k → 9%East African Community Services: $6k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.7M · 16 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
18

Total granted

$3.7M
$507k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+75%

Still filing today

81%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentInternationalOther

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

  • KC
    KHMER COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE KING COUNTY
    3× · 2020–2023 · $134k · revenue +389%
  • BH
    BEACON HILL MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $107k · revenue +140%
  • AC
    ASOTIN COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $78k · revenue +250% · 60% of their budget

Funded once

  • EI
    EQUITY IN EDUCATION COALITIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $135k · revenue +50%
  • FC
    FILIPINO COMMUNITY OF SEATTLEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $38k · revenue +75%
  • EA
    Eritrean Association of Greater Seattle
    one grant, 2020 · $38k

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
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
2
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
3
Seattle Indian Center
Human Services
4
Washington Community Alliance

Washington Community Alliance WCA is a statewide network of over 70 organizations working to advance multiracial social democracy by coordinating values aligned civic engagement

Civil Rights
5
Asians for Collective Action

Asians for Collective Action (ACA) harnesses the strenghts of Asians and Asian Americans to drive systemic change to create a just, healthy, and thriving community for all.

Public Benefit
6
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
7
Cambodian American Community Council of Washington

The Cambodian American Community Council of Washington's (CACCWA) mission is to strengthen Cambodian-American communities and organizations by promoting and supporting mult-ethnic community unity, cultural preservation, partnerships,…

Arts & Culture
8
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
9
Comunidades Sin Fronteras Washington

To provide services needed in the community

Community Improvement
10
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
11
Pacific Islander Community Association of Wa

The Pacific Islander Community Association of WA PICA-WA serves as a cultural home, centers community power and advocates to further the wellness of Pacific Islander communities in Washington State.

Civil Rights
12
We Are Comunidad

Comunidad seeks to build community, cultural pride, and economic opportunities for the Latino community on Vashon Island and its neighboring communities.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yakima Valley Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is DARE2BE Project. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyInternational Development M…Faith-Based Community Cente…Professional & Industry Ass…Social Justice Legal Advoca…Washington State Policy Adv…Youth & Community Music Edu…Family Philanthropic Founda…Immigrant & Refugee Communi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 18 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%7%<5yr15%16%5–10yr19%36%10–20yr18%26%20–35yr13%3%35–55yr13%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%7%<5yr15%9%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr18%52%20–35yr13%2%35–55yr13%10%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
2/48
the rest of the field
13%
2,646/19,693

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.

04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 48 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/35
Grantees still filing
22/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON STATE — $2,083,332 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON STATEFRESHSTART — $424,600 · OtherFRESHSTARTFILIPINO COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE — $186,000 · OtherCAMBODIAN AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION — $185,000 · OtherTribal Technology Training — $181,872 · OtherMission Africa — $185,000 · Other+18 more — $638,098 · Other+18 moreLatino Community Fund of Washington State — $178,250 · Human ServicesLatino Commun…Unidos Nueva Alianza Foundation — $166,750 · Human ServicesUnidos Nueva …KHMER COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE KING COUNTY — $134,000 · Human ServicesKHMER COMMUNI…MOTHER AFRICA — $50,000 · Human ServicesMOTHER AFRICAFILIPINO COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE — $38,294 · Human ServicesFILIPINO COMM…Tukwila Childrens Foundation — $25,000 · Human ServicesLAO COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER — $24,000 · Human ServicesEast African Community Services — $24,000 · Human ServicesUNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS WASHINGTON-UTOPIA WA — $24,000 · Human ServicesCANDID — $185,000 · PhilanthropyYAKIMA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $80,000 · PhilanthropySEATTLE FOUNDATION — $18,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHWEST CENTER — $214,985 · EmploymentBEACON HILL MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION — $107,000 · Community ImprovementMETROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL — $40,000 · Community ImprovementRVC SEATTLE — $27,000 · Community ImprovementBEACON HILL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementLAKE CITY COLLECTIVE — $9,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $5,294 · Community ImprovementEQUITY IN EDUCATION COALITION — $135,000 · EducationASOTIN COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $78,253 · EducationORGANIZACION CENTROAMERICANA — $124,400 · Arts & CultureNATIVE ACTION NETWORK — $49,000 · Arts & CultureINDIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES — $24,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,883,902Human Services$664,294Philanthropy$283,000Employment$214,985Community Improvement$213,294Education$213,253Arts & Culture$197,400

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON STATE — $2,083,332 over 2y, 24% of budgetNORTHWEST CENTER — $214,985 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMission Africa — $185,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetCANDID — $185,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTribal Technology Training — $181,872 over 1y, 53% of budgetLatino Community Fund of Washington State — $178,250 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetUnidos Nueva Alianza Foundation — $166,750 over 1y, 26% of budgetEQUITY IN EDUCATION COALITION — $135,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetKHMER COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE KING COUNTY — $134,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetORGANIZACION CENTROAMERICANA — $124,400 over 4y, 86% of budgetBEACON HILL MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION — $107,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetYAKIMA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetASOTIN COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $78,253 over 2y, 60% of budgetCHAM REFUGEES COMMUNITY — $71,034 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetHOUSE OF MERCY — $60,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY NETWORK COUNCIL — $59,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetFuse Innovation Fund — $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMOTHER AFRICA — $50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetNATIVE ACTION NETWORK — $49,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetDARE2BE PROJECT — $49,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetMETROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFILIPINO COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE — $38,294 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetRVC SEATTLE — $27,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTukwila Childrens Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetEast African Community Services — $24,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS WASHINGTON-UTOPIA WA — $24,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetINDIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES — $24,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSUSTAINABLE SEATTLE — $19,794 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION — $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED INDIANS OF ALL TRIBES FOUNDATION — $18,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHMONG ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON — $14,294 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetLAKE CITY COLLECTIVE — $9,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetTIGREAN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — $5,294 over 1y, 5.9% of budget
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 FoundationSchool's Out Washingt…Philanthropy NorthwestInatai FoundationUnited Way of King Co…Front and CenteredRenton Regional Commu…ArtsfundSheng-Yen Lu Foundati…Washington State Micr…Social Justice Fund N…Gates Foundation
Seattle FoundationWA39.8× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · School's Out Washington · Philanthropy Northwest · Inatai Foundation · United Way of King County · Front and Centered · Renton Regional Community Fndn · Artsfund · Sheng-Yen Lu Foundation · Washington State Microenterprise Association · Social Justice Fund Northwest · Gates 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 Equity in Education Coalition 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    19report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Equity in Education Coalition?

    Find your warmest path to Equity in Education Coalition 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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