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Puget Sound Sage

PUGET SOUND SAGE combines research, innovative public policy and organizing to ensure all people have an affordable place to live, a good job, a clean environment, and access to public transportation.

$152k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Public Benefit$1.1MEnvironment$254kCommunity Improvement$172kHuman Services$130kArts & Culture$85kInternational$62kReligion$60kEmployment$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$150,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAGE LEADERS$150,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–20, $130k) 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%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WA: $50k → 9%FILIPINO COMMUNITY CENTER: $13k → 9%SOMALI COMMUNITY SERVICE OF SEATTLE: $9k → 9%FILIPINO COMMUNITY CENTER: $8k → 9%SOMALI COMMUNITY SERVICE OF SEATTLE: $8k → 9%FILIPINO COMMUNITY CENTER: $8k → 9%SOMALI HEALTH BOARD: $11k → 9%SOMALI HEALTH BOARD: $10k → 9%EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $7k → 9%SOMALI HEALTH BOARD: $8k → 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 12 repeat orgs$208k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
7

Total granted

$1.7M
$208k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+68%

Still filing today

92%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementReligionEnvironmentArts & CultureInternationalOther

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

  • SL
    SAGE LEADERS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +45% · 65% of their budget
  • NF
    NORTHWEST FILM FORUM
    3× · 2020–2022 · $85k · revenue +42%
  • RVC SEATTLE
    3× · 2019–2021 · $59k · revenue +336%

Funded once

  • TC
    TRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION
    one grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue -3%
  • LC
    Latino Community Fund of Washington Stategraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +33%
  • TU
    Tenants Union of Washington St
    one grant, 2017 · $38k

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
Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission

Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission is led by and for Indigenous people, and envisions a just society in which we are treated with honor, fairness and respect. Our mission is to uphold our individual civil rights through education…

Human Services
2
Ethiopian Community in Seattle

Ethiopian Community in Seattle's ECS mission is to facilitate a seamless integration of all persons of Ethiopian origin into the American society. Additionally,Additionally, ECS aims to contribute to the social, cultural and civic life of…

Arts & Culture
3
Jewish Coalition for Immigrant Justice Northwest

The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.

Human Services
4
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
5
Rainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalition

Rainier Beach Action Coalition is a grassroot, Black-led organization devoted to locally driven development. It promotes quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing, and building community capacity in…

Community Improvement
6
Somali Empowerment Circle

Sec provides culturally sensitive mental health resources, connects clients to professionals, offers education, emotional support, promotes maternal health, early childhold outcomes, and advocates for housing security for somali…

Community Improvement
7
Apic Spokane Asians for Collective Liberation in Spokane

ACL Spokane centers the power of Asians & Asian Americans build a just, healthy, and thriving community for all.

Civil Rights
8
Chinatown International District Business Improvement Area

Improve the business enviornment, sanitation and public safety in the historical Chinatown-International district of Seattle, WA.

Community Improvement
9
Asians for Collective Action

Asians for Collective Action (ACA) harnesses the strenghts of Asians and Asian Americans to drive systemic change to create a just, healthy, and thriving community for all.

Public Benefit
10
Cambodian American Community Council of Washington

The Cambodian American Community Council of Washington's (CACCWA) mission is to strengthen Cambodian-American communities and organizations by promoting and supporting mult-ethnic community unity, cultural preservation, partnerships,…

Arts & Culture
11
We Are Comunidad

Comunidad seeks to build community, cultural pride, and economic opportunities for the Latino community on Vashon Island and its neighboring communities.

Human Services
12
Drivers Union

Drivers Union is a nonprofit organization that advances justice and fairness for gig economy workers, most of whom are immigrants and refugees, through organizing, education, advocacy, and free legal support.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East African Community Services and the most unlike its peers is Co Lam Temple. 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 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 20 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SAGE LEADERS — $1,141,110 · OtherSAGE LEADERS+7 more — $135,450 · Other+7 moreGot Green — $253,500 · EnvironmentGot GreenTRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION — $75,000 · Community ImprovementRVC SEATTLE — $59,167 · Community ImprovementLatino Community Fund of Washington State — $50,279 · Human ServicesSOMALI HEALTH BOARD — $28,616 · Human ServicesFILIPINO COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE — $28,000 · Human ServicesSOMALI COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SEATTLE — $16,000 · Human ServicesEast African Community Services — $7,200 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST FILM FORUM — $85,242 · Arts & CultureCO LAM TEMPLE — $23,250 · ReligionDEBRE MIHRET KIDUS MICHAEL EOT CH — $20,700 · ReligionNa'ah Illahee Fund — $33,175 · International
Other$1,276,560Environment$253,500Community Improvement$134,167Human Services$130,095Arts & Culture$85,242Religion$43,950International$33,175

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAGE LEADERS — $1,141,110 over 4y, 65% of budgetGot Green — $253,500 over 3y, 18% of budgetNORTHWEST FILM FORUM — $85,242 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetTRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION — $75,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetRVC SEATTLE — $59,167 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLatino Community Fund of Washington State — $50,279 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNa'ah Illahee Fund — $33,175 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOMALI HEALTH BOARD — $28,616 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCHAM REFUGEES COMMUNITY — $28,450 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetFILIPINO COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE — $28,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUnite Here Local 8 — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCO LAM TEMPLE — $23,250 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetSOMALI COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SEATTLE — $16,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetYAKIMA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEast African Community Services — $7,200 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWin Win Action — $7,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetENTRE HERMANOS — $6,500 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

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.

Inatai FoundationSeattle FoundationFront and CenteredPhilanthropy NorthwestSchool's Out Washingt…Gates FoundationUnited Way of King Co…Equity in Education C…Social Justice Fund N…The Bullitt FoundationThe Satterberg Founda…Colectiva Legal del P…
Inatai FoundationWA25.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Inatai Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Front and Centered · Philanthropy Northwest · School's Out Washington · Gates Foundation · United Way of King County · Equity in Education Coalition · Social Justice Fund Northwest · The Bullitt Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Colectiva Legal del Pueblo

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 Puget Sound Sage 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 · 00%5%19%42%75%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
    8report 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, 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: 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.

    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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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