How much did POTLATCH FUND grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of POTLATCH FUND’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

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

preservation fiscalstudent successurban native-ledlanguage preservationartsspokane tribaldigital

2019

urban native-ledstudent successnative-led healthylanguage preservationhealthy pathwayspathways youthsquaxin

2020

critical responseresponse awardurban nonprofitsnonprofits sunnhealthy pathwayspathways youthseattle urban

2021

resiliencyduwamishequity relieftribalsocial culturalfood sovereigntyblackfeet

2022

sunn partner

2023

social justicejustice collaborationcollaboration resiliencysunn partner

2024

relations innovations

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k44 grants · $343k
$10k–50k24 grants · $246k
$50k–250k1 grant · $100k

$8,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

NA'AH ILLAHEE FUND$100,000
HUMMINGBIRD INDIGENOUS FAMILY SERVICES$15,625
INDIGENOUS PERFORMANCE PRODUCTIONS$10,000
CATTAIL RISING (FISCAL SPONSOR YEHAW)$10,000
E-PEH-TES$10,000
NEW DEVELOPED NATIONS LLC$10,000
CHICKADEE COMMUNITY SERVICES$10,000
MAKAH CULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER$10,000
TWO POWERS LAND COLLECTIVE INC$10,000
MOTHER NATION$10,000
INDIGENOUS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY$10,000
KHIMSTONIK$10,000
CHIEF JOSEPH FOUNDATION$10,000
SAGE INDIGENOUS LAW CENTER$10,000
MAQLAQS PADDLE - ROS TO RIVERS$10,000

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $331k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 9%. 22% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of POTLATCH FUND’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 80% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 75% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

POTLATCH FUNDlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.3M · 72 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +161% since the first grant, against +132% for the ones you funded once.

72 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.3M

$825k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+161%

+132%

Still filing today

63%

39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $414k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

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Tem Xwu lough First Foods and Families
7× · 2018–2024 · $336k · revenue +496%
NA
Native Action Network
6× · 2018–2023 · $247k · revenue +2984% · 29% of their budget
UI
United Indians of All Tribes and Foundations
6× · 2017–2022 · $144k · revenue +167%

Funded once

ST
SNOHOMISH TRIBE OF INDIANS
one grant, 2021 · $40k
ST
STEILACOOM TRIBE
one grant, 2021 · $40k
MB
MARIETTA BAND OF NOOKSACK TRIBE
one grant, 2021 · $40k

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.

Seattle Indian Center

Human Services

Northern California Indian

Research, develop, and administer social and economic development programs to meet the needs of indian and native american communities.

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Minneapolis American Indian Center

The Organization's mission is to provide excellent services witin a foundation of cultural values that help meet the needs of the American Indian community. The Organization offers services to the American Indian community in Minneapolis,…

Human Services

Indigenous Women Rising

—

Fairbanks Native Association

To promote spirituality, cultural identity, self-reliance, physical and mental health, by improving the quality of life for of our community through professional quality services.

Health

American Institute of Indian Studies

Dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about India and the promotion of intellectual engagement with India in American universities by providing research fellowship support, training in Indian languages, knowledge of Indian culture, and…

Social Science

Cook Inlet Tribal Council

Citc's (cook inlet tribal council) mission is to work in partnership with alaska native/american indian individuals to connect them to opportunities that fulfill their potential through education and training, child and family services,…

Human Services

Northwest Washington

Federal grants and contracts were used to provide direct community and public health services within Native American communities in Northwest Washington

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International Indigenous Fund for

International

Central Wisconsin Indigenous

Arts & Culture

American Indian Institute

The american indian institute's mission is to perpetuate the ancient wisdom and cultural heritage of north america's native people and to promote a greater understanding of that wisdom amoung all people.

Human Services

Midwest Native Coalition for Justice

To develop and implement culturally informed victim advocacy services to enhance and strengthen comprehensive responses within tribal communities across kansas.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Native Chamber and the most unlike its peers is Research and Development Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 10 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) — 19% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

10/171

the rest of the field

11%

4,074/38,797

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.

06the grantee network

98 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)

89/98

Grantees still filing

68/98

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,617,976Arts & Culture$757,652Human Services$350,635International$336,356Education$197,876Environment$149,758Community Improvement$132,865

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.

First Nations Development InstituteCO86.7× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Nations Development Institute · Inatai Foundation · Naah Illahee Fund · Philanthropy Northwest · Social Justice Fund Northwest · Charlotte y Martin Foundation-Ima · Seventh Generation Fund · Ndn Collective Inc · Northwest Area Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · Artsfund · Seeding Justice

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 POTLATCH FUND 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

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get 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: OPERA THEATER OREGON.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 202564636 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 OPERA THEATER OREGON, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 38% 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 Potlatch Fund?

Find your warmest path to Potlatch Fund 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.

POTLATCH FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

98 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Potlatch Fund?

More from the funding graph

POTLATCH FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

98 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Potlatch Fund?

More from the funding graph