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Health Commons Project

Health Commons Project mission is to close health equity gaps in underinvested communities.

$2.7M
Granted FY2023
21
Itemized grants FY2023
20
Organizations funded FY2023
70%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$2.4M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$64,201
Largest grant, FY2023
$436,145
Organizations funded a year
5 to 20
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$3.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 70% of the organizations Health Commons Project funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Community ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsEmploymentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202320$2.4M70%
FY202213$1.9M92%
FY20215$846kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Health$2.6MInternational$896kCivil Rights$463kCommunity Improvement$436kEmployment$402kEducation$343kPublic Safety & Disaster$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Health Commons Project$657,558112%
Mission Africa$656,248326%
Latino Civic Alliance$463,198226%
Safe Homes$459,9682n/a
Angels For Angels$436,14515%
Entrepreneurial Institute of Washington$401,5271n/a
Clearwater School$342,590225%
El Siete Dias$318,2612n/a
The Noble Foundation$249,3012n/a
New World International$240,0912n/a
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All grantees of Health Commons Project by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Health Commons Project$657,558112%
Mission Africa$656,248326%
Latino Civic Alliance$463,198226%
Safe Homes$459,9682n/a
Angels For Angels$436,14515%
Entrepreneurial Institute of Washington$401,5271n/a
Clearwater School$342,590225%
El Siete Dias$318,2612n/a
The Noble Foundation$249,3012n/a
New World International$240,0912n/a
Yakima School District$106,3461n/a
Giving Gifts of Hope Wa$95,2372n/a
Helping Hands Project Organization$90,66324%
Channel ATV$89,8222n/a
Afghan Health Initiative$80,66615%
Kd Hall Foundation$70,889235%
Somali Health Board$64,20123%
Tri-Cities Diversity & Inclusion Council$43,74525%
East African Community Services$42,09711%
Central Kitsap School District$41,7521n/a
Docfd15$33,7032n/a
Advanced Life Systems$31,3391n/a
South Sudan Kuku Association of North America$29,9941n/a
City of Sunnyside$23,4871n/a
Rvc Seattle$20,28810%
Peninsula Pharmacies Inc$17,2641n/a
Lhaq'Temish Foundation$10,00010%
Wa-Gro Foundation$7,500110%
Lincoln Hospital$7,1301n/a
Douglas County Sheriffs Office$6,1212n/a
Dcfd5$5,7712n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Health Commons Project supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHealth Commons Project: $657,558 over 1y, 12% of budgetMission Africa: $656,248 over 3y, 26% of budgetLatino Civic Alliance: $463,198 over 2y, 26% of budgetAngels For Angels: $436,145 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetClearwater School: $342,590 over 2y, 25% of budgetHelping Hands Project Organization: $90,663 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetAfghan Health Initiative: $80,666 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetKd Hall Foundation: $70,889 over 2y, 35% of budgetSomali Health Board: $64,201 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTri-Cities Diversity & Inclusion Council: $43,745 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetEast African Community Services: $42,097 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRvc Seattle: $20,288 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLhaq'Temish Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWa-Gro Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 10% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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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 FoundationPhilanthropy NorthwestInatai FoundationSchool's Out Washingt…Building ChangesUnited Way of King Co…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Ken Birdwell Foundati…Northwest Harvest EmmGates FoundationPaypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…
Seattle FoundationWA25× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Philanthropy Northwest · Inatai Foundation · School's Out Washington · Building Changes · United Way of King County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Ken Birdwell Foundation (Dba Magic Cabinet) C/O Clark Nuber Ps · Northwest Harvest Emm · Gates Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

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How do I get to Health Commons Project?

Find your warmest path to Health Commons Project 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.

About Health Commons Project

How much does Health Commons Project give?
Health Commons Project reported 21 itemized grants totaling $2,433,428, out of $2,729,443 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 20 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Health Commons Project fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (51%), International (17%), Civil Rights (9%).
Who are Health Commons Project's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2023: Health Commons Project ($658k), Mission Africa ($656k), Latino Civic Alliance ($463k).
Does Health Commons Project fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 70% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Health Commons Project?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Philanthropy Northwest, Inatai Foundation.
Where is Health Commons Project based?
Health Commons Project is based in WA.

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 32 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $851k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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