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Front and Centered

Front and Centered is a statewide, community driven coalition working to achieve environmental justice by asserting policy solutions that center equity.

$353k
Granted FY2023
14
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$54k
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 2023.

Public Safety & Disaster$349kEnvironment$228kHuman Services$184kCommunity Improvement$175kInternational$158kCivil Rights$116kFood & Nutrition$84kArts & Culture$79kOther$0
02FY2023 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $290,838, the rows itemized in this filing. The $352,967 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $62,129 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k4 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $209k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition$53,618
Solid Ground Washington$45,000
Institue for Washingtons Future$37,220
Disability Rights Washington$27,950
Mother Africa$22,450
Puget Sound Sage$20,450
Nickelsville$20,000
WA State Coalition of African Community Leaders$15,000
People Empowerment and Renewal Services$10,450
Seattle Parks Foundation$10,000
Na'ah Illahee Fund$9,050
Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media & Education$8,650
Comite Civico del Valle Inc$6,000
Rainier Avenue Radio LLC$5,000
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 (FY20–23, $248k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Nuestra Casa: $25k → 11%La Casa Hogar: $7k → 17%Tacoma Seed: $7k → 9%Asian Counseling and Referral Service: $12k → 9%Eritran Association of Greater Seattle: $10k → 9%Asian Counseling and Referral Service: $10k → 9%Afghan Health Initiative: $16k → 9%Eritrean Association in Greater Seattle: $5k → 9%Latino Community Fund: $12k → 9%Latino Community Fund: $7k → 9%Latino Community Fund: $6k → 9%Mother Africa: $22k → 9%UTOPIA WA: $9k → 9%Mother Africa: $7k → 9%Pacific Islander Health Board of WA: $7k → 9%Mother Africa: $5k → 9%Mother Africa: $5k → 9%Disability Rights Washington: $28k → 9%Chinese Information Service Center: $10k → 9%Filipino Community of Seattle: $10k → 9%Somali Health Board: $17k → 9%Somali Family Safety Task Force: $7k → 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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$925k · 23 repeat orgs$719k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
48

Total granted

$925k
$605k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+26%

Still filing today

91%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k 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 ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentHousing & ShelterInternationalPublic BenefitOther
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

  • NI
    Na'ah Illahee Fund
    4× · 2020–2023 · $143k · revenue +30%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR WASHINGTONS FUTURE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $139k · revenue +11%
  • DR
    Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG
    4× · 2020–2023 · $90k · revenue +162%

Funded once

  • FO
    Food Oasis LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $59k
  • IC
    INDIGENOUS CREATIVES COLLECTIVEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +740% · 28% of their budget
  • KS
    Khmer Samaki Corporation
    one grant, 2022 · $32k
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
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
Wakulima Usa

Our Food Production Center will serve as our primary storage production and distribution facility. The coop will aggregate purchase store and distribute farm inputs for members and will act as an integrator collecting the output from…

Food & Nutrition
3
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
4
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
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
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
7
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
8
Ethiopian Community in Seattle

Ethiopian Community in Seattle's ECS mission is to facilitate a seamless integration of all persons of Ethiopian origin into the American society. Additionally,Additionally, ECS aims to contribute to the social, cultural and civic life of…

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
Seattle Indian Center
Human Services
11
Working Washington

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yakima Valley Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Somali Family Safety Task Force Somali Family Safety Task Force. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 78 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/62
Grantees still filing
42/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INSTITUTE FOR WASHINGTONS FUTURE: $138,620 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR WASHINGTONS FUTUREVILLA COMUNITARIA: $79,300 · OtherVILLA COMUNITARIAFood Oasis LLC: $58,600 · OtherFood Oasis LLCINDIGENOUS CREATIVES COLLECTIVE: $35,000 · OtherSunyata Agency Inc: $35,000 · OtherPEARS PEOPLE EMPOWERMENT AND RENEWAL SERVICES: $32,000 · OtherDrivers Union: $35,000 · OtherPUGET SOUND SAGE: $34,850 · Other+38 more: $502,550 · Other+38 moreMOTHER AFRICA: $40,800 · Human ServicesMOTHER AFRICADISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON: $27,950 · Human ServicesDISABILITY RIGHT…Latino Community Fund of Washington State: $25,850 · Human ServicesLatino Community…Nuestra CASA: $25,400 · Human ServicesNuestra CASAASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $21,800 · Human ServicesASIAN COUNSELING…SOMALI HEALTH BOARD: $17,000 · Human ServicesSOMALI HEALTH BO…UNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS WASHINGTON-UTOPIA WA: $16,450 · Human ServicesUNITED TERRITORI…AFGHAN HEALTH INITIATIVE: $16,150 · Human ServicesAFGHAN HEALTH IN…ERITREAN ASSOCIATION IN GREATER SEATTLE: $15,000 · Human ServicesERITREAN ASSOCIA…Chinese Information and Service Center: $10,450 · Human ServicesFILIPINO COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE: $10,000 · Human Services+3 more: $21,450 · Human Services+3 moreNa'ah Illahee Fund: $142,500 · InternationalNa'ah Ill…Global Rights Advocacy: $5,000 · InternationalDuwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG: $89,539 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE SEATTLE: $17,450 · EnvironmentGot Green: $10,950 · EnvironmentRESOURCE MEDIA: $5,000 · EnvironmentAsia Pacific Cultural Center: $41,500 · Arts & CultureWest African Community Council: $10,000 · Arts & CultureOROMO CULTURAL CENTER: $7,000 · Arts & CultureAFGHAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY OF WASHINGTON: $7,000 · Arts & CultureMultimedia Resources and Training Institute (MMRTI): $7,000 · Arts & CulturePan African Center For Empowerment Inc: $7,000 · Arts & CultureSolid Ground Washington: $45,000 · Housing & ShelterAFRICAN COMMUNITY HOUSING & DEVELOPMENT: $14,000 · Housing & ShelterAFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $10,450 · Housing & ShelterYAKIMA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $38,000 · PhilanthropyWashington State Family And Community Engagement Trust: $18,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF KITSAP COUNTY: $6,880 · Philanthropy
Other$950,920Human Services$248,300International$147,500Environment$122,939Arts & Culture$79,500Housing & Shelter$69,450Philanthropy$63,380

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 budgetNa'ah Illahee Fund: $142,500 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR WASHINGTONS FUTURE: $138,620 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetDuwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG: $89,539 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetVILLA COMUNITARIA: $79,300 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSolid Ground Washington: $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAsia Pacific Cultural Center: $41,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetMOTHER AFRICA: $40,800 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetYAKIMA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $38,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDrivers Union: $35,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetINDIGENOUS CREATIVES COLLECTIVE: $35,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetPUGET SOUND SAGE: $34,850 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT SERVICES NORTHWEST: $28,550 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON: $27,950 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLatino Community Fund of Washington State: $25,850 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNuestra CASA: $25,400 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetLIVING WELL KENT COLLABORATIVE: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetENTRE HERMANOS: $23,600 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFood Empowerment Education Sustainability Team: $22,450 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $22,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE COALITION OF AFRICAN COMMUNITY LEADERS: $22,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $21,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE: $21,450 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNICKELSVILLE: $20,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetTACOMA MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE: $19,450 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetWashington State Family And Community Engagement Trust: $18,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSUSTAINABLE SEATTLE: $17,450 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSOMALI HEALTH BOARD: $17,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS WASHINGTON-UTOPIA WA: $16,450 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAFGHAN HEALTH INITIATIVE: $16,150 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetNorthwest Alliance for Alternative Media&Education: $15,450 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetUNITED INDIANS OF ALL TRIBES FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetERITREAN ASSOCIATION IN GREATER SEATTLE: $15,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITY HOUSING & DEVELOPMENT: $14,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER COALITION: $12,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGot Green: $10,950 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $10,450 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetChinese Information and Service Center: $10,450 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHMONG ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGEORGE FLOYD MEMORIAL FOUNDATION GEORGE FLOYD MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWest African Community Council: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFILIPINO COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Revive Center for Returning Citizens: $8,450 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetLA CASA HOGAR: $7,450 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOLECTIVA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO: $7,450 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetONEAMERICA: $7,450 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOMALI FAMILY SAFETY TASK FORCE SOMALI FAMILY SAFETY TASK FORCE: $7,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHilltop Urban Gardens: $7,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

Inatai FoundationSeattle FoundationPhilanthropy NorthwestUnited Way of King Co…School's Out Washingt…Social Justice Fund N…The Satterberg Founda…Gates FoundationSheng-Yen Lu Foundati…Washington Progress F…The Bullitt FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…
Inatai FoundationWA85.2× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Inatai Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Philanthropy Northwest · United Way of King County · School's Out Washington · Social Justice Fund Northwest · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Gates Foundation · Sheng-Yen Lu Foundation · Washington Progress Fund · The Bullitt Foundation · Puget Sound Energy 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 Front and Centered funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Front and Centered. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    35report 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, FY20–24
    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 Front and Centered?

    Find your warmest path to Front and Centered 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 78 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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