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· Public charity

Forterra Nw

To enhance, support and steward the region's most precious resources.

$4.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$4.3MCommunity Improvement$121kPublic Benefit$100kFood & Nutrition$26kAnimals$25kRecreation & Sports$25kEmployment$23kHousing & Shelter$23kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $194,867, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,134,494 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,939,627 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

  • Under $10k6 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $146k
$13,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$45M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROSLYN DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION$27,357
TILTH ALLIANCE$25,875
WHALE SCOUT INC$25,000
TULALIP TRIBES OF WASHINGTON$22,500
FREEDOM FARMERS CO OLYMPIA HIGH SCHOOL$18,000
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE$13,585
ISSAQUAH ALPS TRAILS$13,500
NATURE VISION$9,000
PUGET SOUND ESTUARIUM$9,000
EARTHCORPS$9,000
THORNTON CREEK ALLIANCE$9,000
DELRIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD$6,750
FRIENDS OF LAKE SAMMAMISH$6,300
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CLOUD RIDGE NATURALISTS: $20k → 12%UMOJA PEACE CENTER: $5k → 9%TULALIP TRIBES OF WASHINGTON: $23k → 9%REMEMBER LAND: $404k → 9%GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%KITSAP COUNTY: $3.1M → 10%ROSLYN DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION: $65k → 11%WASHINGTON WILDLIFE AND RECREATION COALITION: $5k → 9%KITSAP COUNTY: $612k → 10%ROSLYN DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION: $27k → 11%CONSERVE OUR FUTURE: $15k → 9%ROSLYN DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION: $20k → 11%EARTHCORPS: $9k → 9%ROSLYN DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION: $8k → 11%ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: $14k → 9%MID PUGET SOUND FISH: $7k → 9%TILTH ALLIANCE: $26k → 9%DELRIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD: $7k → 9%NATURE VISION: $9k → 9%ISSAQUAH ALPS TRAILS: $14k → 9%CITY OF SEATTLE: $100k → 9%PARTNER IN EMPLOYMENT: $23k → 9%FRIENDS OF LAKE SAMMAMISH: $6k → 9%KING COUNTY: $100k → 9%WHALE SCOUT INC: $25k → 9%FREEDOM FARMERS CO OLYMPIA HIGH SCHOOL: $18k → 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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 40% of Forterra Nw’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 34%.

Forterra Nwlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 66% directed abroad (not shown)
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 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
Stewardship Partners

Stewardship Partners helps private landowners restore and preserve the natural landscapes of WA State. We collaborate with diverse interest groups to build bridges and find solutions that achieve mutual goals of environmental protection,…

Environment
2
The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust

The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust leads and inspires action to conserve and enhance the landscape of the Mountains to Sound Greenway, ensuring a long-term balance between people and nature.

Environment
3
Futurewise

Futurewise works throughout Washington state to encourage healthy, equitable and opportunity-rich communities, and to protect our most valuable farmlands, forests and water resources through wise land use policies and practices.

Environment
4
Whatcom Land Trust

The mission of the Whatcom Land Trust is to preserve and protect wildlife habitat, scenic, agricultural and open space lands in Whatcom County for future generations by securing interests in land and promoting land stewardship.

Environment
5
Center for Environmental Law & Policy

The Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a statewide organization whose mission is to protect, preserve and restore Washington's waters through education, advocacy, policy reform, and public interest litigation.

Environment
6
Discover Your Northwest

Discover Your Northwest promotes the discovery of northwest public lands, enriches the experience of visitors and builds community stewardship of these special places today and for generations to come.

Recreation & Sports
7
Tahoma Bird Alliance

To protect birds and other wildlife through education habitat protection and environmental advocacy.

Environment
8
Pacific Marine Research

The organization's mission is to promote respect and appreciation for Puget Sound by teaching principles of environmental stewardship and inspire observation of and involvement with Puget Sound. Through its Marine Science Afloat program,…

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9
10000 Years Institute

10,000 Years Institute evaluates the ecological effects of human activities on natural environments, and promotes the maintenance and restoration of ecological integrity through the integration of reliable scientific information, sound…

Unclassified
10
Re Sources

RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.

Environment
11
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
12
Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council

The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tilth Alliance; the most unlike its peers is Roslyn Downtown Association. 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

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
10/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $3,687,830 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+11 more: $298,875 · Other+11 moreRemember Land: $404,458 · EnvironmentRemember La…TILTH ALLIANCE: $25,875 · EnvironmentCLOUD RIDGE NATURALISTS: $20,000 · Environment+4 more: $38,335 · Environment+4 moreRoslyn Downtown Association: $121,117 · Community ImprovementWHALE SCOUT INC: $25,000 · AnimalsMID PUGET SOUND FISHERIES ENHANCEMENT GR: $7,374 · AnimalsPARTNER IN EMPLOYMENT: $22,500 · EducationEarthcorps: $9,000 · InternationalFriends of Lake Sammamish State Park: $6,300 · Recreation & Sports
Other$3,986,705Environment$488,668Community Improvement$121,117Animals$32,374Education$22,500International$9,000Recreation & Sports$6,300

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 budgetRemember Land: $404,458 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetRoslyn Downtown Association: $121,117 over 4y, 24% of budgetTILTH ALLIANCE: $25,875 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWHALE SCOUT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPARTNER IN EMPLOYMENT: $22,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetConserve Our Future: $15,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetEnvironmental Science Center: $13,585 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetIssaquah Alps Trails Club: $13,500 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetNATURE VISION INC: $9,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSOUTH SOUND ESTUARY ASSOCIATION: $9,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetEarthcorps: $9,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMID PUGET SOUND FISHERIES ENHANCEMENT GR: $7,374 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of Lake Sammamish State Park: $6,300 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,585 over 1y, 0.0% 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 FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…The Russell Family Fo…The Rose Foundation f…United Way of King Co…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Laird Norton Family F…ArtsfundGrousemont FoundationThe Bullitt FoundationThe Satterberg Founda…Credit Unions in the …
Seattle FoundationWA20.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · The Russell Family Foundation · The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment · United Way of King County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Laird Norton Family Foundation · Artsfund · Grousemont Foundation · The Bullitt Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Credit Unions in the State of Washington

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 Forterra Nw funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Forterra Nw. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 25 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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