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Fourth Plain Forward

"FOURTH PLAIN FORWARD supports the success of small businesses, promotes the unique identity of the international district, advocates for fourth plain residents' interests and serves as a resource hub for the community

$185k
Granted FY2021
3
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$6k
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, FY2020 to 2021.

Community Improvement$355kPublic Safety & Disaster$44k
02FY2021 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $18,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $185,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $167,000 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.
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$779k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TIENDA DEL CARMEN$6,000
DAISY'S HAIR SALON$6,000
GLORIA'S BEAUTY SALON$6,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–21) 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%THAI WOK KITCHEN: $10k → 8%D'S HAIR & BEAUTY SUPPLY LLC: $6k → 9%SANTOS CLEANING SERVICE: $6k → 9%THRIFT BREWING LLC (SPRUCE MOBILE KEG WASHING): $6k → 9%WORTH MARKETING MANAGEMENT LLC: $6k → 9%UNIWEB: $6k → 9%4 CAMINOS MEXICAN RESTAURANT: $20k → 9%MARTIS CORP (MARTIZZ BAKERY): $18k → 9%DAISY'S HAIR SALON: $18k → 9%LA COSTENA LLC: $16k → 9%LIFE NUTRITION: $16k → 9%TIENDA DEL CARMEN: $16k → 9%GLORIA'S BEAUTY SALON: $16k → 9%ANOUSH DELI INTERNATIONAL MARKET: $16k → 9%FRUTAS LOCAS LLC: $16k → 9%CAR TECH LLC: $12k → 9%VALLARTA LANDSCAPE: $12k → 9%BLUE TOKYO LLC: $10k → 9%PAMPERED SALON: $10k → 9%ATC LLC (PHO HONG PHAT): $10k → 9%BOSNIA RESTAURANT INC: $10k → 9%WANG FUNG COMPANY (SILVER DRAGON RESTAURANT): $10k → 9%NUTRI-FIT NUTRITION: $10k → 9%TAQUERIA MORELIA MEXICAN FOOD INC: $10k → 9%MAM FLOOR COVERING CORP: $10k → 9%COLUMBIA SIGNS INC: $10k → 9%GRASS CARE LLC: $8k → 9%BOSS NAILZ: $8k → 9%BEDS FOR LESS & FURNITURE: $6k → 9%MACART LLC: $6k → 9%VICTOR 23 BREWING LLC: $6k → 9%DAISY'S HAIR SALON: $6k → 9%ROSEMERE TAVERN: $6k → 9%GLORIA'S BEAUTY SALON: $6k → 9%TIENDA DEL CARMEN: $6k → 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.

17%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$68k · 3 repeat orgs$331k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
33

Total granted

$68k
$331k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • DH
    DAISY'S HAIR SALON
    2× · 2020–2021 · $24k
  • TD
    TIENDA DEL CARMEN
    2× · 2020–2021 · $22k
  • GB
    GLORIA'S BEAUTY SALON
    2× · 2020–2021 · $22k

Funded once

  • 4C
    4 CAMINOS MEXICAN RESTAURANT
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • MC
    MARTIS CORP (MARTIZZ BAKERY)
    one grant, 2020 · $18k
  • FL
    FRUTAS LOCAS LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $16k
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
04the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2020–2021.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2020 to 2021, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 36 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DAISY'S HAIR SALON: $23,500 · OtherDAISY'S HAIR SALONTIENDA DEL CARMEN: $22,000 · OtherTIENDA DEL CARMENGLORIA'S BEAUTY SALON: $22,000 · OtherGLORIA'S BEAUTY SALON4 CAMINOS MEXICAN RESTAURANT: $20,000 · OtherMARTIS CORP (MARTIZZ BAKERY): $18,000 · OtherFRUTAS LOCAS LLC: $16,000 · OtherANOUSH DELI INTERNATIONAL MARKET: $16,000 · OtherLIFE NUTRITION: $16,000 · OtherLA COSTENA LLC: $16,000 · Other+27 more: $229,000 · Other+27 more
Other$398,500

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

Greater Vancouver Cha…Ndc Housing & Economi…
Greater Vancouver Chamber of CommerceWA17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce · Ndc Housing & Economic Development Corporation - Group Return

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.

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 36 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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