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Global to Local Health Initiative

Global to local's mission is to advance health equity and improve health in the united states communities through application of best practices around the world.

$143k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$71k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$361kHuman Services$215kEducation$188kCommunity Improvement$41kEmployment$36kEnvironment$14kYouth Development$10k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $134,183, the rows itemized in this filing. The $142,975 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,792 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.
$70,869
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARA LOS NINOS DE HIGHLINE$70,869
COMMUNITY NETWORK COUNCIL$63,314
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $255k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CONGOLESE INTEGRATION NETWORK: $41k → 9%WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR FINANCIAL SECURITY DBA THE PROSPERITY AGENDA: $105k → 9%SOMALI HEALTH BOARD: $12k → 9%THE PROSPERITY AGENDA: $44k → 9%SOMALI HEALTH BOARD: $10k → 9%WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR FINANCIAL SECURITY DBA THE PROSPERITY AGENDA: $44k → 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$773k · 6 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$773k
$91k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+69%

Still filing today

83%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’22’23’24
Human ServicesEmploymentEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthEnvironmentOther
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

  • H
    HEALTHPOINT
    2× · 2018–2019 · $185k · revenue +108%
  • SOMALI HEALTH BOARD
    2× · 2017–2018 · $22k · revenue +608%
  • SY
    Somali Youth & Family Club
    2× · 2017–2018 · $22k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • CI
    CONGOLESE INTEGRATION NETWORKgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $41k · revenue +69%
  • FN
    FORTERRA NW
    one grant, 2018 · $14k · revenue -12%
  • UG
    UPWARDLY GLOBALgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue +395%
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
Community Credit Lab

To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.

Human Services
2
Comunidades Sin Fronteras Washington

To provide services needed in the community

Community Improvement
3
Horn of Africa Services

Provide support and advocacy services in response to health, employment, housing, education, and other social services

Human Services
4
Project Alaska Inc

Refugee professional integration and career advancement. Project Alaska commited to empowering our clients with the skills and resources required for career advancement and occupational prosperity,enabling them to lead their best lives.

Human Services
5
Somali Empowerment Circle

Sec provides culturally sensitive mental health resources, connects clients to professionals, offers education, emotional support, promotes maternal health, early childhold outcomes, and advocates for housing security for somali…

Community Improvement
6
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
7
African Bridge Network

Career development resources for skilled immigrants.

Community Improvement
8
Refugee & Immigrant Services Northwest

To promote and facilitate information sharing, policy planning, cooperation and communication among all organizations involved in assisting immigrants, refugees, their sponsors, and other residents.

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9
Global Neighborhood

Global neighborhood's mission is to offer pathways to employment for our neighbors who have come to the inland northwest as refugees.

Human Services
10
Seattle Jobs Initiative

Seattle jobs initiative (sji) creates opportunities for people to support themselves and their families through living-wage careers.

Employment
11
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
12
Somali American Community Cent

Ethnic self sufficency and refugee empowerment

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Network Council; the most unlike its peers is Somali Health Board. 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

12 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.

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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR FINANCIAL SECURITY: $192,579 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR FINANCIA…CONGOLESE INTEGRATION NETWORK: $40,845 · Human ServicesCONGOLESE INTEGRATION NETWORKSOMALI HEALTH BOARD: $22,000 · Human ServicesSOMALI HEALTH BOARDPara Los Ninos de Highline: $187,541 · EducationPara Los Ninos de HighlinePARTNER IN EMPLOYMENT: $12,000 · EducationPARTNER IN EMPLOYMENTHEALTHPOINT: $185,000 · HealthHEALTHPOINTCOMMUNITY NETWORK COUNCIL: $163,865 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY NETWORK COU…UPWARDLY GLOBAL: $14,000 · EmploymentKONA KAI COFFEE: $10,000 · EmploymentSomali Youth & Family Club: $22,000 · OtherFORTERRA NW: $14,410 · Environment
Human Services$255,424Education$199,541Health$185,000Youth Development$163,865Employment$24,000Other$22,000Environment$14,410

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 budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR FINANCIAL SECURITY: $192,579 over 3y, 17% of budgetPara Los Ninos de Highline: $187,541 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetHEALTHPOINT: $185,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY NETWORK COUNCIL: $163,865 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetSOMALI HEALTH BOARD: $22,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSomali Youth & Family Club: $22,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFORTERRA NW: $14,410 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUPWARDLY GLOBAL: $14,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARTNER IN EMPLOYMENT: $12,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetKONA KAI COFFEE: $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% 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 FoundationUnited Way of King Co…Sheng-Yen Lu Foundati…Ken Birdwell Foundati…Renton Regional Commu…School's Out Washingt…The Norcliffe Foundat…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Seattle FoundationWA22.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · United Way of King County · Sheng-Yen Lu Foundation · Ken Birdwell Foundation (Dba Magic Cabinet) C/O Clark Nuber Ps · Renton Regional Community Fndn · School's Out Washington · The Norcliffe Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Global to Local Health Initiative funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Global to Local Health Initiative. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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.
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    How do I get to Global to Local Health Initiative?

    Find your warmest path to Global to Local Health Initiative 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 11 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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