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MASTER BUILDERS ASSOCIATION OF
To promote and protect the viability of the home building industry.
$79k
Granted FY2024
3
Grants
1
Communities
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0168% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Education$175kCommunity Improvement$150kHousing & Shelter$97kCrime & Legal$70kHuman Services$22kHealth$6kOther$250k
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
2018
neighborhoodland codelow incomeyouthaffordable housing
2019
self-sufficiencyhopelinklow incomescholarshipdecent
2020
low incomedecentyouth
2021
low incomeyouthdecenthousing
2022
seattleeveryonelow incomeyouthdecent
2023
youth
2024
incomesyouth
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 3 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$45M
Total assets
Largest grants
- WELD SEATTLE$40,000
- BELLWETHER HOUSING$10,000
- SAWHORSE REVOLUTION$10,000
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 (FY22–22, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 7%. 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.
84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$646k · 10 repeat orgs$124k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
10
8
Total granted
$646k
$114k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+36%
+33%
Still filing today
80%
88%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalHealthOther
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
- SRSAWHORSE REVOLUTION7× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +308%
- WSWELD SEATTLE3× · 2022–2024 · $70k · revenue +12931%
- RTREBUILDING TOGETHER SEATTLE3× · 2017–2020 · $65k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- HBHAWAII BUILDING INDUSTRY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -27%
- YYOUTHCAREone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +23%
- SCSEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +4761%
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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House Our Neighbors
House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…
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2
Skagit Habitat for Humanity
The organization partners with hard working people in need of affordable housing, by building and renovating houses in an effort to develop permanent, affordable homes for low income families within Skagit County. We also work with…
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3
Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund
The Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund changes public policy so that people of all races, ethnicities, abilities, genders, and identities can live in safe, healthy homes they can afford.
Housing & Shelter
4
Housing Connector
Housing connector partners with property and service providers to reduce barriers and increase access to housing for individuals in need of a home. by working with housing providers to reduce barriers, housing connector increases the…
Housing & Shelter
5
We Heart Seattle
We Heart Seattle is an action-based, boots-on-the-ground movement that organizes trash cleanups in our public spaces and offers resources to those in need. Through our direct civic engagement we lead the way to a more compassionate and…
Community Improvement
6
Habitat for Humanity of Washington
The organization's mission is to seek to put god's love into action. habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope. habitat for humanity of washington county (hfhwc) is a nonprofit, ecumenical christian…
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7
Welcome Home Coalition
Welcome Home is an alliance in the Portland Metropolitan Region that uses its collective resources to build a movement for housing justice. We believe that everyone deserves to have an affordable and safe home in a neighborhood of their…
Community Improvement
8
Standing Against Foreclosure and Evictions
To advocate for the creation of fair housing in Seattle, and empowering communities through mutual aid.
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9
Tenants Union of Washington
The mission of the Tenants Union (TU) is to create housing justice through empowerment-based education, outreach, leadership development, organizing, and advocacy.
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10
The Urbanist
Seattle-based online publication seeking to examine and influence urban policies.
Community Improvement
11
Homeownership Center of Tacoma
To rehabilitate and construct homes for sale to first-time, low-income home buyers in washington state. counseling is also provided to first-time home buyers.
Housing & Shelter
12
Northwest Fair Housing Alliance
The mission of the Northwest Fair Housing Alliance is to eliminate housing discrimination and to ensure equal housing opportunity for the people of Washington State through education, counseling and advocacy.
Civil Rights
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rebuilding Together Seattle and the most unlike its peers is Weld Seattle. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
16 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$250,011Education$175,000Community Improvement$150,000Housing & Shelter$97,291Crime & Legal$70,000Human Services$22,000Health$5,750
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 SMART GROWTH SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds HOUSING HOPE ↗
- Who funds SAWHORSE REVOLUTION ↗
- Who funds WELD SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds HAWAII BUILDING INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ATTAIN HOUSING ↗
- Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOMEAID ↗
- Who funds BELLWETHER HOUSING ↗
- Who funds HOPELINK ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN EMERGENCY SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOLID GROUND ↗
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 FoundationWA22× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Lucky Seven Foundation · United Way of King County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Gates Foundation · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Real Progress Foundation · Employees Community Fund · Washington Federal Foundation · Liberty Mutual 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 organisation MASTER BUILDERS ASSOCIATION OF 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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: SMART GROWTH SEATTLE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~2 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 465333729 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 SMART GROWTH SEATTLE, 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
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 36% 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 Master Builders Association Of?
Find your warmest path to Master Builders Association Of 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.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines