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Fuse Innovation Fund

To develop creative programs to educate and engage activists about critical issues in Washington State

$111k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$34k
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Public Benefit$1.7MHuman Services$120kCivil Rights$34kReligion$20kCrime & Legal$20kArts & Culture$8kCommunity Improvement$8k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $61,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $111,295 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $50,295 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.
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$399k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Imagine North Carolina$34,000
State Leadership Project$15,000
PA Alliance Foundation$12,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 14% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Fuerte Art Collective: $8k → 11%PA Alliance Foundation: $12k → 22%Forward Together Wisconson: $7k → 17%Safe & Healthy Youth WA: $7k → 9%Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane: $50k → 12%PA Alliance Foundation: $35k → 22%Common Power: $1.5M → 9%Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane: $31k → 12%Common Power: $28k → 9%Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane: $30k → 12%Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane: $20k → 12%Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane: $20k → 12%Justice not Jails: $20k → 12%Latinos en Spokane: $10k → 12%Latinos En Spokane: $8k → 12%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 5 repeat orgs$186k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$1.8M
$152k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

80%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsPublic BenefitEnvironmentArts & CultureEducationSocial ScienceOther
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

  • CP
    COMMON POWER
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1.5M
  • UU
    Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane
    4× · 2019–2022 · $130k
  • PA
    PA Alliance Foundation
    2× · 2024–2025 · $47k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • CF
    Center for Voter Research
    one grant, 2023 · $96k
  • JN
    JUSTICE NOT JAILS
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • FW
    Fuse Washington
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -25%
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
Fuse Innovation Fund

To develop creative programs to educate and engage activists about critical issues in Washington State

Environment
2
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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3
Washington Progress Fund

Washington Progress Fund is building a permanent and powerful social change movement in Washington state supported by a network of committed donors. WPF envisions a Washington state where government serves the public interest and we all…

Philanthropy
4
Progressive Workers Coalition

To ensure that working class people are educated on their voting rights. The coalition engages in mobilization and educational information sessions to ensure that all workers voices are heard.

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5
Invest in Washington Now Campaign

Advocate for tax policy in Washington State

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6
Win Win Action

To build a civically powerful network working together to advance racial, social, and economic equity across Washington State

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7
State Power Caucus

The State Power Caucus is a multi-state alignment of organizations that come together to share knowledge, experiences and best practices; and to connect around a shared local and national strategies that strengthen our organization and…

Civil Rights
8
Washingtonians for Public Banking

Washingtonians for Public banking promotes education and civic engagement on public banking and banking reform within Washington state. The organization organizes, educates, and advocates for the establishment of public banking, and…

Community Improvement
9
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
10
Washington Progress Alliance

Washington Progress Alliance is building a permanent and powerful social change movement in Washington State supported by a network of committed donors.

Community Improvement
11
Civil Survival Project

Civil Survival organizes system-impacted people, provides legal representation and reentry support, and advocates for policy reform to restore opportunity to communities harmed by the criminal legal system in Washington State.

Community Improvement
12
Progreso - Latino Progress Alliance

Progreso's mission is to ensure that latino communities are fairly represented in washington states social, economic and political systems to improve the quality of life for all washingtonians. we believe that community-based support,…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is State Leadership Project; the most unlike its peers is Fuerte Art Collective. 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

9 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. 9 of the 12 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
2/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMON POWER: $1,539,905 · Civil RightsCOMMON POWER+1 more: $47,000 · Civil RightsUnitarian Universalist Church of Spokane: $130,240 · OtherUnitarian Univ…Center for Voter Research: $95,824 · OtherCenter for Vot…JUSTICE NOT JAILS: $20,000 · OtherJUSTICE NOT JA…+1 more: $6,500 · OtherIMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST: $34,000 · Social ScienceSTATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $27,500 · Public BenefitLATINOS EN SPOKANE: $17,556 · Community ImprovementFuse Washington: $15,000 · EnvironmentFuerte Art Collective: $8,000 · Arts & CultureForward Together Wisconsin: $7,000 · Education
Civil Rights$1,586,905Other$252,564Social Science$34,000Public Benefit$27,500Community Improvement$17,556Environment$15,000Arts & Culture$8,000Education$7,000

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 budgetPA Alliance Foundation: $47,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSTATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $27,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLATINOS EN SPOKANE: $17,556 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetFuse Washington: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFuerte Art Collective: $8,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetForward Together Wisconsin: $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSafe & Health Youth Washington: $6,500 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationHopewell FundFidelity Investments …
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Hopewell Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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