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Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties at a glance

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Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties

To promote and protect the viability of the home building industry.

$54k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$428kEducation$169kYouth Development$85kCrime & Legal$70kHuman Services$7kHealth$6kCivil Rights$5k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $40,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $54,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $14,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$47M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY$30,000
WASHINGTON HOME BUILDERS FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%YOUTHCARE: $15k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$646k · 10 repeat orgs$164k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
9

Total granted

$646k
$124k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+30%

Still filing today

80%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SR
    Sawhorse Revolution
    7× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +308%
  • WS
    WELD SEATTLE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $70k · revenue +53%
  • RT
    REBUILDING TOGETHER SEATTLE
    3× · 2017–2020 · $65k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • HB
    HAWAII BUILDING INDUSTRY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -78%
  • SC
    SEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -35%
  • Y
    YOUTHCARE
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -3%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund

The Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund elects candidates, educates voters and decision-makers, and amplifies the voices and priorities of people and communities most impacted by housing instability and homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
3
Housing Connector

Housing connector partners with property owners and managers to lower barriers to housing and increase our region's affordable housing capacity.

Housing & Shelter
4
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 provide volunteer…

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5
Welcome Home Coalition

Welcome Home is a diverse coalition in the Portland metropolitan region that uses its collective resources to create healthy communities by ensuring everyone has an affordable and stable home. We use community education and collaboration…

Community Improvement
6
Habitat for Humanity - Spokane

Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Habitat for Humanity-Spokane adheres to a…

Housing & Shelter
7
Building Changes

Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…

Health
8
Home Court Nw
Recreation & Sports
9
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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10
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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11
Habitat for Humanity of Snohomish County

Habitat for humanity snohomish county strives to eliminate substandard housing and end the cycle of poverty by partnering with homeowners to build, repair, and preserve decent and affordable homes in our neighborhoods. with support from…

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12
Housing Development Consortium of Seattle - King County

Promote the long-term availability of affordable housing to low-income persons.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Housing Hope; the most unlike its peers is Washington Home Builders Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
8/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REBUILDING TOGETHER SEATTLE: $64,736 · OtherREBUILDING TOGETHER SEATTLEHABITAT FOR HUMANITY SEATTLE-KING COUNTY: $60,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY SEATTLE-KING …UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $54,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONNORTH SEATTLE COLLEGE: $25,000 · OtherNORTH SEATTLE COLLEGEATTAIN HOUSING: $20,000 · OtherATTAIN HOUSINGHOMEAID PUGET SOUND: $11,000 · OtherBELLWETHER HOUSING: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $5,275 · OtherSawhorse Revolution: $85,000 · EducationSawhorse RevolutionHAWAII BUILDING INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationHAWAII BUILDING INDUSTRY …UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON …SEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationSEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATI…WASHINGTON HOME BUILDERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationWASHINGTON HOME BUILDERS …THE CENTER FOR HOUSING ECONOMICS: $150,000 · Community ImprovementTHE CENTER FOR HOUSI…HOUSING HOPE: $92,041 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING HOPESolid Ground Washington: $5,250 · Housing & ShelterSolid Ground …WELD SEATTLE: $70,000 · Crime & LegalWELD SEAT…DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH: $30,000 · Human ServicesYOUTHCARE: $15,000 · Human ServicesHOPELINK: $7,000 · Human ServicesDowntown Emergency Service Center: $5,750 · Health
Other$250,011Education$185,000Community Improvement$150,000Housing & Shelter$97,291Crime & Legal$70,000Human Services$52,000Health$5,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CENTER FOR HOUSING ECONOMICS: $150,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetHOUSING HOPE: $92,041 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSawhorse Revolution: $85,000 over 7y, 6.2% of budgetWELD SEATTLE: $70,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER SEATTLE: $64,736 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY SEATTLE-KING COUNTY: $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII BUILDING INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetATTAIN HOUSING: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTHCARE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMEAID PUGET SOUND: $11,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetWASHINGTON HOME BUILDERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBELLWETHER HOUSING: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPELINK: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDowntown Emergency Service Center: $5,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSolid Ground Washington: $5,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 FoundationLucky Seven FoundationWashington Federal Fo…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Credit Unions in the …Umpqua Bank Charitabl…Employees Community F…Mightycause Charitabl…The Norcliffe Foundat…United Way of King Co…Gates FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…
Seattle FoundationWA18.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Washington Federal Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Gates Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 21 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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