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Rvc Seattle

Rooted in vibrant communities (rvc) promotes social justice by cultivating leaders of color, strengthening organizations led by communities of color, and fostering collaboration between diverse communities.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$503k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Community Improvement$623kHuman Services$470kHousing & Shelter$435kEducation$130kPhilanthropy$90kArts & Culture$55kCivil Rights$40kPublic Safety & Disaster$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $532,956, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,727,615 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,194,659 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $250k+1 grant · $503k
$502,956
Median grant
2
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EVERGREEN SOCIAL IMPACT$502,956
IN THE WORKS$30,000
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 (FY20–23, $148k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Global Perinatal Services: $61k → 9%UTOPIA WASHINGTON: $35k → 9%Open Doors for Multicultural Families: $20k → 9%UTOPIA WASHINGTON: $12k → 9%SOMALI FAMILY SAFTEY TASK FORCE: $20k → 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.

14%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$259k · 4 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
12

Total granted

$259k
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
0%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $533k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyEducationRecreation & SportsEmploymentOther
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

  • KC
    KINDERING CENTER
    2× · 2021–2022 · $134k · revenue +5%
  • UT
    UNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS WASHINGTON-UTOPIA WA
    2× · 2022–2023 · $47k · revenue +1%
  • TG
    THE GREEN LIGHT PROJECT INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $43k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $400k
  • FO
    Families of Color Seattle
    one grant, 2024 · $259k
  • RB
    Rainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalitiongraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $120k · revenue +145%
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
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
2
Forward Together

Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…

Health
3
Movimiento Afrolatino Seattle

MAS activates and strengthens communities through art, raising awareness of the history and cultural contributions of Black Latinos for social change and racial equity.

Arts & Culture
4
Lavender Rights Project

Lavender Rights Project elevates the power, autonomy, and leadership of the black intersex & gender diverse community through intersectional legal and social services. We utilize the law as an organizing principle to affirm our civil…

Crime & Legal
5
Washington Community Alliance

Washington Community Alliance WCA is a statewide network of over 70 organizations working to advance multiracial social democracy by coordinating values aligned civic engagement

Civil Rights
6
Pathwaves Washington

Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.

Education
7
Minority Inclusion Project

MIP helps nonprofit organizations build their capacity to identify, recuit and retain people of color for board and staff leadership roles. MIP also trains people of color to servie on nonprofit boards.

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8
Grassroots Power Project

GPP works within and across social movement sectorsto foster greater alignment around shared goals and strategies for transformational change.Through a combination of strategic consulting and political education, our team helps groups make…

Education
9
Iaf Northwest

In 2024, IAF Pacific continued its work of connecting and strengthening broad-based alliances throughout the Pacific region.Through its Building Partnerships for Collaborative Action initiativethe organization supported Indigenous and…

Community Improvement
10
Northwest Network Btlg Survivors Abuse0

The Northwest Network of Bisexual Trans Lesbians and Gay Survivors of Abuse supports queer and trans survivors in reconnecting to their self-determination through advocacy-based counseling and community education.

Health
11
The Conversationalist
—
12
Service Never Sleeps

Service Never Sleeps (SNS) envisions a world where equal rights, justice, and opportunity are available to all. Through its signature Allyship curriculum, SNS trains individuals to leverage their respective areas of privilege to advance…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evergreen Social Impact; the most unlike its peers is Somali Family Safety Task Force Somali Family Safety Task Force. 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

16 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. 16 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $400,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKINDERING CENTER: $134,363 · OtherKINDERING CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $35,000 · OtherONE VIBE AFRICA: $32,382 · OtherIN THE WORKS: $30,000 · Other+3 more: $28,350 · OtherEVERGREEN SOCIAL IMPACT: $502,956 · PhilanthropyEVERGREEN SOCIAL IMPACTRENTON REGIONAL COMMUNITY FNDN: $90,000 · PhilanthropyRENTON REGIONAL COMMUNITY FNDN+1 more: $20,000 · PhilanthropyFamilies of Color Seattle: $259,444 · Community ImprovementFamilies of Color Seat…Rainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalition: $120,000 · Community ImprovementRainier Beach Cummunit…GLOBAL PERINATAL SERVICES: $61,137 · Human ServicesGLOBAL PE…UNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS WASHINGTON-UTOPIA WA: $47,060 · Human ServicesUNITED TE…OPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES: $35,000 · Human ServicesOPEN DOOR…SOMALI FAMILY SAFETY TASK FORCE SOMALI FAMILY SAFETY TASK FORCE: $20,000 · Human ServicesSOMALI FA…THE GREEN LIGHT PROJECT INC: $43,000 · EducationTRANS WOMEN OF COLOR SOLIDARITY NETWORK: $35,000 · Housing & ShelterALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $35,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$660,095Philanthropy$612,956Community Improvement$379,444Human Services$163,197Education$43,000Housing & Shelter$35,000Arts & Culture$35,000

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 budgetEVERGREEN SOCIAL IMPACT: $502,956 over 1y, 16% of budgetFamilies of Color Seattle: $259,444 over 1y, 22% of budgetKINDERING CENTER: $134,363 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalition: $120,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetRENTON REGIONAL COMMUNITY FNDN: $90,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetGLOBAL PERINATAL SERVICES: $61,137 over 1y, 14% of budgetUNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS WASHINGTON-UTOPIA WA: $47,060 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE GREEN LIGHT PROJECT INC: $43,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOMPRAKASH INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOMALI FAMILY SAFETY TASK FORCE SOMALI FAMILY SAFETY TASK FORCE: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUP2US INC: $10,350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEX WORKERS OUTREACH PROJECT: $8,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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 FoundationUnited Way of King Co…The Satterberg Founda…Inatai FoundationAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Seattle FoundationWA25.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · United Way of King County · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Inatai Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Rvc Seattle funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rvc Seattle. 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%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 20 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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