How much did Health Commons Project grant in FY2023?

International$896kHealth$658kCommunity Improvement$500kCivil Rights$463kEducation$421kEmployment$402kHuman Services$373kPhilanthropy$20kPublic Benefit$10kOther$1.4M

02FY2023 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k3 grants · $19k
$10k–50k6 grants · $173k
$50k–250k9 grants · $1.2M
$250k+3 grants · $1.0M

$64,201

Median grant

States reached

$3.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

Angels for Angels$436,145
Mission Africa$355,503
Safe Homes$255,654
New World International$240,091
Clearwater School$215,974
Latino Civic Alliance$210,209
El Siete Dias$156,830
Gifts of Hope$95,237
Channel A TV$89,822
KD Hall$70,889
Somali Health Board$64,201
Noble Foundation$51,340
Tricities Diveristy & Inclusion Council$43,745
DOCFD15$33,703
Advanced Life Systems$31,339

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $373k) 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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.6M · 7 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +941% since the first grant, against +369% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.6M

$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+941%

+369%

Still filing today

57%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementInternationalHealthCivil RightsOther

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

MA
Mission Africa
3× · 2022–2024 · $656k · revenue +383% · 26% of their budget
LC
Latino Civic Alliance
2× · 2022–2023 · $463k · revenue +1450% · 26% of their budget
TC
The Clearwater School
2× · 2022–2023 · $343k · revenue +163% · 25% of their budget

Funded once

CO
City of Vancouvergraduated
one grant, 2021 · $658k · revenue +423%
EI
Entrepreneurial Institute of WA
one grant, 2022 · $402k
YP
Yakima Public Schools
one grant, 2022 · $106k

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.

Horn of Africa Services

Provide support and advocacy services in response to health, employment, housing, education, and other social needs for East Africa refugees and immigrants from Djibouti , Ethiopia, Somalia , Eritrea and Sudan living in greater Seattle area

Human Services

Zainab Organization of Greater Seattle

To fulfill the religious, spiritual, educational and cultural needs of the community.

Religion

Ocheami

Ocheami is an African Arts organization that aspires to promote healthy lifestyle practices, cultural competency through education and cultural development

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Lao Community Service Center

Lao Community Service center's mission is to united the Lao Community in the Pacific Northwest. We assist the Lao Community with social, cultural, and educational services.

Human Services

Central Washington Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

We increase access to economic opportunities for business owners, entrepreneurs, and individuals in Central Washington by connecting and providing them with resources, representation, and opportunities to build community.

Community Improvement

Pacific Islander Health Board of Washington

The Pacific Islander Health Board PIHB seeks to cultivate resilience within our communities to achieve health equity through culturally safe and community driven solutions traditions advocacy and policies. The work of PIHB is rooted in our…

Human Services

Washington West African Center

1 Community programs - maintain community integration and cohesion in the form of regular grandma connections and events. 2 Adult literacy programs - provide adult learning classes in English, Math and Arabic as well skill training for the…

Arts & Culture

Oromo Cultural Center

The primary objective of the Oromo Cultural Center is to foster education, cultural growth, social integration, and job search support for underserved communities, with a particular focus on the Oromo community residing within the Seattle…

Arts & Culture

Wash Project

The Wash Project is a community-led initiative in Mali focused on developing economic opportunities for women through organic food production, access to clean water, and a commitment to environmental stewardship.

Health

Immigrant Guide

Our mission is to build a stronger independent and more resilient community of immigrants and refugees by celebrating culture and heritage and providing access to resources.

Human Services

Black Owned Business Excellence

Help create a more equitable entrepreneurial ecosystem in Washington State.

Community Improvement

Global Health Council

Global health council is the leading membership organization supporting and connecting advocates, implementers, and stakeholders around global health priorities worldwide. the global health council, inc. (the "council"ghc") was…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Afghan Health Initiative and the most unlike its peers is Giving Gifts of Hope Wa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 11 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 20% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%1/35

the rest of the field

11%

2,324/21,535

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

16/17

Grantees still filing

15/17

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,823,072International$896,339Health$657,558Community Improvement$500,178Civil Rights$463,198Education$420,979Employment$401,527

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.

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.

Seattle FoundationWA24.4× 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 · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Northwest Harvest Emm · United Way of King County · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · 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 Health Commons Project 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

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: Mission Africa.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.8× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 760843150 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 Mission Africa, 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 4 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 26% 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 Health Commons Project?

Find your warmest path to Health Commons Project 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.

Health Commons Project

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Health Commons Project?

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Health Commons Project

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Health Commons Project?

More from the funding graph