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Foundation House at Northgate at a glance

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Foundation House at Northgate

The organization's mission was to provide independent and assisted living housing for seniors.

$159k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $125k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEATTLE JAZZ FELLOWSHIP$15,000
SOUTHEAST SEATTLE SENIOR CENTER$15,000
WOMEN UNITED SEATTLE$15,000
FOSS HOME AND VILLAGE$15,000
KIN ON$15,000
MLK FAME COMMUNITY CENTER$15,000
SOUND GENERATIONS$15,000
WASHINGTON RHINESTONE$10,000
LAHAI HEALTH$10,000
SEATTLE REPERTORY JAZZ ORCHESTRA$7,500
NEST$5,000
PHINNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION$5,000
HOPE LINK$5,000
NEIGHBORCASRE$5,000
FIRST AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH$4,000
02The need
02

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 (FY24–24, $55k) 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%SOUND GENERATIONS: $15k → 9%NEST: $5k → 9%WOMEN UNITED SEATTLE: $15k → 9%HOPE LINK: $5k → 9%SOUTHEAST SEATTLE SENIOR CENTER: $15k → 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 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
Keiro Northwest

We empower our asian community through a continuum of exceptional health care servies that are culturally sensitive.

Human Services
2
Northwest Neighbors Network

To help seniors living in northern King County and southern Snohomish County age-in-place and remain socially active.

Human Services
3
House Our Neighbors

House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…

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4
Southeast Seattle Senior Foundation

To preserve and rehabilitate affordable senior housing.

Housing & Shelter
5
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
6
Southwest Seattle Historical Society

The mission of the Southwest Seattle Historical Society is to promote inclusive local history through education, preservation, and advocacy. The Southwest Seattle area includes all of the West Seattle Peninsula form Puget Sound on the west…

Arts & Culture
7
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
8
Southeast Seniors a living at homeblock nurse program

Neighborhood helping neighbor program that uses volunteer professional staff to help seniors remain safely in their homes with an enhanced quality of life

Health
9
Wallingford Community Senior Center

WCSC connects and empowers older adults to live happy, healthy, and engaged lives.

Philanthropy
10
Friends of Orcas Senior Center

Orcas Senior Center (OSC) engages the community to provide services, advocacy, and support so that people can live and age well on Orcas Island. Orcas Senior Center supports this community through a variety of opportunities, programs,…

Human Services
11
The Kenney

Operate a continuing care facility for seniors.

Human Services
12
Gay City Health Project

Gay city: seattle's lgbtq center cultivates access and connections to promote self-determination, liberation and joy in our communities.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southeast Seattle Senior Center; the most unlike its peers is Women United. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 16 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
2/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Senior Center of West Seattle: $15,000 · Human ServicesSenior Center of West SeattleWomen United: $15,000 · Human ServicesWomen UnitedSOUTHEAST SEATTLE SENIOR CENTER: $15,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST SEATTLE SENIOR CENTERHOPELINK: $5,000 · Human ServicesHOPELINKNORTH EAST SEATTLE TOGETHER: $5,000 · Human ServicesNORTH EAST SEATTLE TOGETHERKIN ON HEALTH CARE CENTER: $15,000 · HealthKIN ON HEALTH CARE CE…LAHAI HEALTH: $10,000 · HealthLAHAI HEALTHNEIGHBORCARE HEALTH: $5,000 · HealthNEIGHBORCARE HEALTHSEATTLE JAZZ FELLOWSHIP: $15,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE JAZZ FEL…SEATTLE JAZZ ORCHESTRA DBA SEATTLE REPERTORY JAZZ ORCHESTRA: $7,500 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE JAZZ ORC…MLK FAMILY ARTS MENTORING: $15,000 · Community ImprovementMLK FAMILY ART…Phinney Neighborhood Association: $5,000 · Community ImprovementPhinney Neighb…WASHINGTON RHINESTONE CLUB INC: $10,000 · OtherWASHINGTON …FIRST AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $4,000 · OtherFIRST AFRIC…RICHMOND BEACH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $2,500 · OtherRICHMOND BE…FOSS HOME & VILLAGE: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterFOSS HOME …
Human Services$55,000Health$30,000Arts & Culture$22,500Community Improvement$20,000Other$16,500Housing & Shelter$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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKIN ON HEALTH CARE CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSenior Center of West Seattle: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMLK FAMILY ARTS MENTORING: $15,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetWomen United: $15,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetFOSS HOME & VILLAGE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE JAZZ FELLOWSHIP: $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetSOUTHEAST SEATTLE SENIOR CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLAHAI HEALTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSEATTLE JAZZ ORCHESTRA DBA SEATTLE REPERTORY JAZZ ORCHESTRA: $7,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHOPELINK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORCARE HEALTH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH EAST SEATTLE TOGETHER: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPhinney Neighborhood Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…Mightycause Charitabl…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Seattle FoundationWA18.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Foundation House at Northgate funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation House at Northgate. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%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 · 0–30%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Foundation House at Northgate?

    Find your warmest path to Foundation House at Northgate 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 16 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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