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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
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$436k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212023.

Health$2.6MInternational$896kCivil Rights$463kCommunity Improvement$436kEmployment$402kEducation$343kPublic Safety & Disaster$6k
02FY2023 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 21 grants below total $2,433,428 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,729,443 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $296,015 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

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
1
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
03

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 (FY21–23, $373k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Helping Hands Project Organization: $60k → 9%Helping Hands Project Organization: $30k → 9%Afghan Health Initiative: $81k → 9%Gifts of Hope: $95k → 9%East African Community Services: $42k → 9%Somali Health Board: $64k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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 +49% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
10

Total granted

$2.6M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+30%

Still filing today

57%
60%

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%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
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

  • LC
    LATINO CIVIC ALLIANCE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $463k · revenue +49% · 26% of their budget
  • CS
    CLEARWATER SCHOOL
    2× · 2022–2023 · $343k · revenue +62% · 25% of their budget
  • HH
    HELPING HANDS PROJECT ORGANIZATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $91k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • HC
    Health Commons Project
    one grant, 2021 · $658k · revenue -65%
  • EI
    Entrepreneurial Institute of Washington
    one grant, 2022 · $402k
  • YS
    YAKIMA SCHOOL DISTRICT
    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.

1
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
2
Somali Cultural Center

Amplifying Somali Voices & Building Communities

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
Comunidades Sin Fronteras Washington

To provide services needed in the community

Community Improvement
5
Iaf Northwest

In 2024, IAF Pacific continued its work of connecting and strengthening broad-based alliances throughout the Pacific region.Through its Building Partnerships for Collaborative Action initiativethe organization supported Indigenous and…

Community Improvement
6
Ocheami

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

7
Black Owned Business Excellence

Help create a more equitable entrepreneurial ecosystem in Washington State.

Community Improvement
8
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 policy.

Human Services
9
Horn of Africa Services

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

Human Services
10
Seattle Indian Center
Human Services
11
Reclaiming Our Greatness

Reclaiming Our Greatness's mission is to create transformative outcomes for the families we serve by providing proactive case management coupled with creative resource development.

Housing & Shelter
12
Filipino American Educators of Washington

The Filipino American Educators of Washington (FAEW) is a professional organization of educators and those involved in education that promotes and advocates for the recruitment, growth, development, advancement, and contributions of…

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 15. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%15%<5yr14%30%5–10yr20%35%10–20yr18%20%20–35yr13%0%35–55yr14%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%20%<5yr14%25%5–10yr20%45%10–20yr18%11%20–35yr13%0%35–55yr14%0%55yr+

The field is 22% 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/35
the rest of the field
13%
2,678/20,649

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 tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Safe Homes — $459,968 · OtherSafe HomesEl Siete Dias — $318,261 · OtherEl Siete DiasTHE NOBLE FOUNDATION — $249,301 · OtherTHE NOBLE FOUNDATIONYAKIMA SCHOOL DISTRICT — $106,346 · OtherYAKIMA SCHOOL DISTRICTChannel ATV — $89,822 · OtherGIVING GIFTS OF HOPE WA — $95,237 · OtherHELPING HANDS PROJECT ORGANIZATION — $90,663 · OtherAFGHAN HEALTH INITIATIVE — $80,666 · OtherSOMALI HEALTH BOARD — $64,201 · Other+12 more — $268,607 · Other+12 moreMission Africa — $656,248 · InternationalMission AfricaNEW WORLD INTERNATIONAL — $240,091 · InternationalNEW WORLD INTERNATI…Health Commons Project — $657,558 · HealthHealth Commons…Angels For Angels — $436,145 · Community ImprovementAngels For…TRI-CITIES DIVERSITY & INCLUSION COUNCIL — $43,745 · Community ImprovementTRI-CITIES…RVC SEATTLE — $20,288 · Community ImprovementLATINO CIVIC ALLIANCE — $463,198 · Civil RightsLATINO CIV…CLEARWATER SCHOOL — $342,590 · EducationCLEARWATE…KD HALL FOUNDATION — $70,889 · EducationKD HALL F…+1 more — $7,500 · EducationEntrepreneurial Institute of Washington — $401,527 · Employment
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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetOMPRAKASH INC — $19,949 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLHAQ'TEMISH FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWA-GRO FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 10% of budget
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 Health Commons Project
  • Who funds Mission Africa
  • Who funds LATINO CIVIC ALLIANCE
  • Who funds Angels For Angels
  • Who funds Entrepreneurial Institute of Washington
  • Who funds CLEARWATER SCHOOL
  • Who funds NEW WORLD INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds HELPING HANDS PROJECT ORGANIZATION
  • Who funds AFGHAN HEALTH INITIATIVE
  • Who funds KD HALL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SOMALI HEALTH BOARD
  • Who funds TRI-CITIES DIVERSITY & INCLUSION COUNCIL
  • Who funds East African Community Services
  • Who funds RVC SEATTLE
  • Who funds OMPRAKASH INC
  • Who funds LHAQ'TEMISH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WA-GRO FOUNDATION

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 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

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 organization 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your 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
    11report 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, FY2025

    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 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 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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