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GREATER SEATTLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
The chamber engages the innovation and entrepreneurship of its members to advance economic prosperity, advocate for employers, and build sustainable and healthy communities in the seattle region.
$22k
Granted FY2024
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Grants
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Communities
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
0170% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Education$1.7MCommunity Improvement$1.1MPublic Benefit$127kHousing & Shelter$34kHuman Services$30kOther$1.2M
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
jobs
2020
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2021
covid reliefhousing connectorproviders reducereduce barriers
2022
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2023
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2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 1 grant
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
- INTENTIONALIST SPC$6,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
40%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 4 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +107% since the first grant, against +50% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
4
61
Total granted
$1.7M
$2.5M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+107%
+50%
Still filing today
75%
20%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Community ImprovementEducationPublic BenefitHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- AFALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION2× · 2021–2023 · $648k · revenue +141%
- WCWASHINGTON CLEAN TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCE2× · 2021–2023 · $171k · revenue +107%
- LTLEADERSHIP TOMORROW SEATTLE2× · 2021–2023 · $127k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1.1M · revenue +36%
- GSGREATER SEATTLE PARTNERSgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $750k · revenue +35% · 27% of their budget
- WFWASHINGTON FILMWORKSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $74k · revenue +563%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Greater Seattle Business Association
To combine business development, leadership and social action to expand economic opportunities for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community and those who support equality for all.
Community Improvement
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Greater Spokane Valley Chamber
Committed to fostering relationships between members and the community. to serve the interest of members by acting as a catalyst for a vibrant sustainable economy.
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3
Bellevue Chamber of Commerce
To be the voice of business by fostering a healthy business environment and providing strategic leadership, advocacy, tools and resources for business success.
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4
Seattle Chamber Music Festival
To foster the appreciation of chamber music in our region by presenting performances featuring world-class musicians in accessible and inviting formats, with an emphasis on developing a broad-based sustainable audience through education…
Arts & Culture
5
The Seattle Chapter American Institute of Archite
We champion the central role of architects in creating and sustaining a better built environment.
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6
Snoqualmie Valley Chamber of Commerce
Promoting a healthy business and economic environment within the Snoqualmie Valley community
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7
Washington Chamber of Commerce
Business retention and development
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Leadership Greater Washington
To identify and connect diverse leaders and stimulate their collaborative efforts through dynamic educational programs that promote dialog, cooperation and involvement.
Public Benefit
9
Weld Seattle
Crime & Legal
10
Greater Wasilla Chamber of Commerce
To advocate for a business climate that fosters positive economic growth and prosperity.
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Cowlitz Economic Development Council
Foster Growth in the Community
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12
Seattle Center Foundation
The Seattle Center Foundation supports the vision and purpose of Seattle Center by advocating for public support and private dollars for major capital and program improvements.
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Seattle Partners and the most unlike its peers is Chief Seattle Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
05the grantee network
17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/17
Grantees still filing
15/17
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$1,705,932Other$1,246,382Community Improvement$1,060,227Public Benefit$127,241Housing & Shelter$34,209Human Services$30,000
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER SEATTLE PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON CLEAN TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP TOMORROW SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON FILMWORKS ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE FUND ↗
- Who funds HOUSING CONNECTOR ↗
- Who funds CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds GREATER RENTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds GREATER KIRKLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Scholar FundWA14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Scholar Fund · United Way of King County · Raikes Foundation · Ndc Housing & Economic Development · Seattle Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation GREATER SEATTLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- Year Up Inc — 0% of 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 · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: GREATER SEATTLE PARTNERS.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 825212762 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on GREATER SEATTLE PARTNERS, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 27% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce?
Find your warmest path to Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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