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Realvest Foundation at a glance

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Realvest Foundation

To support the services and purposes of the community foundation for southwest washington.

$276k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$84k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $253,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $275,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $22,000 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $112k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $134k
$12,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$23k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOUGH FOUNDATION$84,000
VANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$50,000
UNITY CENTER$12,500
CONFLUENCE PROJECT$12,500
KE KUKUI FOUNDATION$12,500
TEATRO MILAGRO$12,500
IDENTITY CLARK COUNTY$12,000
CAMP HOPE OF SW WASHINGTON$10,000
VANCOUVER BALLET FOLKLORICO$10,000
THE HISTORIC TRUST$10,000
COLUMBIA DANCE CENTER$10,000
CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WA$10,000
OPEN HOUSE MINISTRIES$7,500
02The need
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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 (FY24–24, $23k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WA: $10k → 9%UNITY CENTER: $13k → 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 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
Clark County Historical Society

The Clark County Historical Society is dedicated to the collection, preservation, and interpretation of the cultural history of Clark County, WA and the Pacific Northwest. It also sponsors educational programs and exhibits for the…

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2
Kirkland Arts Center

Cultivating quality arts experiences, connecting communities, and increasing creative engagement.

Arts & Culture
3
Southwest Washington Center for the Arts
Philanthropy
4
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
5
Artist Trust

Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.

Arts & Culture
6
Centro Cultural Mexicano

Centro cultural mexicano strives to inspire inclusive participation by the community in all aspects of education, culture, and society by providing opportunities to create a positive future and to build a vibrant community of empowered…

Arts & Culture
7
Center for Contemporary Art & Culture

To enliven and expand the understanding of craft and the museum experience for all.

Arts & Culture
8
Cowiche Canyon Conservancy

Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.

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9
Futurewise

Futurewise works throughout Washington state to encourage healthy, equitable and opportunity-rich communities, and to protect our most valuable farmlands, forests and water resources through wise land use policies and practices.

Environment
10
Central Washington University Foundation

In partnership with cwu and our donors, our mission is to transform the lives of current and future generations of students by developing and stewarding resources that provide access, opportunity, and hope.

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11
Chamber Music Northwest

Chamber music northwest creates and shares the beauty, inspiration, intimacy and transformative power of small ensemble music through: unforgettable concerts with the world's greatest musicians in a welcoming environment; (continued on…

Arts & Culture
12
Center for Wooden Boats

The Center for Wooden Boats promotes Northwest Maritime Heritage through education, interpretation and hands-on experience in building, maintaining and using historic small craft.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childrens Home Society of Washington; the most unlike its peers is Miracle Theatre Group. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
3/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOUGH FOUNDATION: $84,000 · OtherHOUGH FOUNDATIONVANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $50,000 · OtherVANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAVANCOUVER BALLET FOLKLORICO: $10,000 · OtherVANCOUVER BALLET FOLKLORICOCONFLUENCES INC CONFLUENCE PROJECT: $12,500 · Arts & CultureCONFLUENCES INC CONF…MIRACLE THEATRE GROUP: $12,500 · Arts & CultureMIRACLE THEATRE GROU…VANCOUVER NATIONAL HISTORIC RESERVE TRUST: $10,000 · Arts & CultureVANCOUVER NATIONAL H…COLUMBIA DANCE ENSEMBLE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBIA DANCE ENSEM…UNITY CENTER: $12,500 · Human ServicesUNITY CENT…CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $10,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS …KE KUKUI FOUNDATION: $12,500 · Recreation & SportsIDENTITY CLARK COUNTY: $12,000 · Community ImprovementCamp Hope of Southwest Washington: $10,000 · EducationOPEN HOUSE MINISTRIES: $7,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$144,000Arts & Culture$45,000Human Services$22,500Recreation & Sports$12,500Community Improvement$12,000Education$10,000Housing & Shelter$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOUGH FOUNDATION: $84,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetVANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCONFLUENCES INC CONFLUENCE PROJECT: $12,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetKE KUKUI FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetUNITY CENTER: $12,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMIRACLE THEATRE GROUP: $12,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetIDENTITY CLARK COUNTY: $12,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCamp Hope of Southwest Washington: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER NATIONAL HISTORIC RESERVE TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLUMBIA DANCE ENSEMBLE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetOPEN HOUSE MINISTRIES: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Oregon Community …ArtsfundM J Murdock Charitabl…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Oregon Community FoundationOR14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Artsfund · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Realvest Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Realvest Foundation. 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%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Miracle Theatre Group: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Realvest Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Realvest Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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