How much did SEEDING JUSTICE grant in FY2023?

SEEDING JUSTICE reported 117 grants totaling $22,610,520 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is SEEDING JUSTICE based?

SEEDING JUSTICE is based in OR.

SEEDING JUSTICE

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· Public charity

SEEDING JUSTICE

SEEDING JUSTICE (formerly mckenzie river gathering foundation) builds collective power at the frontlines of social change by transforming philanthropy in the pursuit of justice and liberation for all communities.

$23M

Granted FY2023

117

Grants

Communities

$1.8M

Largest

01What you fund

0169% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2023.

Human Services$9.1MHealth$2.7MCivil Rights$2.6MEnvironment$1.8MArts & Culture$1.6MEducation$1.5MYouth Development$879kEmployment$844kCommunity Improvement$419kOther$12M

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

2019

osanorthwest forestforest workerworkers harvesterspflagaccompanimentstudent

2020

sup advgen supospsup projproj astperforming artistsalternatives pesticides

2021

advised projexplorationcirculategarciafood insecuritydonor advisedtribal

2022

affordable housingsee latinxlatinx indigenousindigenous roguevalley thriveguntribal

2023

collaborationreproductive healthchildren youthcollectivelyimaginegovernmenteast

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

03FY2023 · 117 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k9 grants · $79k
$10k–50k62 grants · $1.1M
$50k–250k19 grants · $2.2M
$250k+27 grants · $18M

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$52M

Total assets

Largest grants

BETTER TOGETHER CENTRAL OREGON$1,800,000
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE$1,400,000
HOME CHILDCARE ESSENTIALS$1,250,000
OREGON CHILD DEVELOPMENT COALITION INC$1,250,000
UNITE OREGON$1,225,000
PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE$1,152,411
APANO COMMUNITIES UNITED FUND$1,100,000
CENTER FOR AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES ORGANIZATION (CAIRO)$1,000,000
NORTHWEST ABORTION ACCESS FUND$1,000,000
KAIROS PDX$900,000
ETHIOPIAN AND ERITREAN CULTURAL AND RESOURCES CENTER (EECRC)$750,000
PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING OREGON$641,615
MICRO ENTERPRISE SERVICES OF OREGON$500,000
LATINO NETWORK$495,000
HAYMARKET POLE COLLECTIVE$415,705

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 (FY18–23, $8.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 82% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-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.

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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$15M · 118 repeat orgs$18M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +92% since the first grant, against +86% for the ones you funded once.

118 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2023, 87 since wound down; 65 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

118

123

Total granted

$15M

$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+92%

+86%

Still filing today

79%

77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureCivil RightsHealthEducationOther

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

AP
ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN NETWORK OF OREGON
2× · 2022–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +101%
UO
UNITE OREGON
4× · 2018–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +173%
KAIROS PDX
2× · 2020–2023 · $906k · revenue +209%

Funded once

HF
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PORTLAND REGIONgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $182k · revenue +125%
OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $175k · revenue +74%
KT
KLAMATH TRIBES
one grant, 2021 · $100k

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.

Our Oregon

Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena

Human Services

Southwest Washington Equity Coalition

The Southwest Washington Equity Coalition advances racial equity through dismantling structural white supremacy, creating transformational action, and advocating for our community. We remain rooted in Re-Indigenization, Black Liberation,…

Civil Rights

Welcome Home Coalition

Welcome Home is an alliance in the Portland Metropolitan Region that uses its collective resources to build a movement for housing justice. We believe that everyone deserves to have an affordable and safe home in a neighborhood of their…

Community Improvement

Cascade Pacific Rc&D Area

To enhance communities through social, economic, educational, and environmental recovery improvements

Community Improvement

Oregon Physicians for Social

Guided by the values & expertise of healthcare and public health, Oregon PSR works to protect human life from the gravest threats to health and survival

Environment

American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon

The Oregon Affiliate of the ACLU is a non-partisan organization dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of civil liberties and civil rights.

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Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment

Spark Northwest

Spark Northwest accelerates the equitable transition to clean energy in the Pacific Northwest through on-the-ground project development and systemic advocacy to remove barriers to locally-generated clean energy.

Environment

Economic Opportunity Institute

EOI works to make Washington state a national model of economic opportunity with an economy that truly works for everyone.

Community Improvement

Priority Oregon

To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.

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Portland Community Media

Open signal's mission is to nurture the change-making power of community media in service of a just and equitable world.

Arts & Culture

Oregonians in Action

Land Use Issues

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Deschutes County and the most unlike its peers is Tides Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%9/297

the rest of the field

10%

3,433/35,488

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.

05the grantee network

248 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)

108

Early backer (in before they grew)

237/248

Grantees still filing

187/248

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$13,884,567Human Services$9,143,443Health$2,697,927Civil Rights$2,581,594Environment$1,829,500Arts & Culture$1,633,270Education$1,497,989

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.

The Collins FoundationOR202.3× affinity138 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · Northwest Health Foundation · Careoregon Inc · Social Justice Fund Northwest · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette · Gray Family Foundation · Ronald W Naito Md Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation

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 SEEDING JUSTICE 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

Oregon Child Development Coalition — 100% of income from government
Pueblo Unido Pdx — 100% of income from government
Wallowa Resources Inc — 100% of income from government
Rogue Farm Corps — 91% of income from government
Ayco — 71% of income from government
Particapatory Budgeting Oregon — 64% of income from government
Transponder — 58% of income from government
Oregon Community Health Workers Assoc — 45% of income from government
Rogue Valley Mentoring — 42% of income from government
Raices de Bienestar — 41% of income from government
The Next Door Inc — 39% of income from government
Educate Ya Inc — 38% of income from government
Casa Latinos Unidos De — 36% of income from government
Oregon Association for the Education of Young Chil — 30% of income from government
Accent Network — 30% of income from government
Rogue Action Center — 29% of income from government
Warm Springs Community Action Team — 28% of income from government
Center for Intercultural Organizing — 28% of income from government
Micronesian Islander Community — 25% of income from government
Siskiyou Mountain Club — 22% of income from government
Somali American Council of Oregon — 21% of income from government
Capaces Leadership Institute — 20% of income from government
Kairospdx — 19% of income from government
Euvalcree — 18% of income from government
Tryon Creek Watershed Council — 18% of income from government
The Uprise Collective — 17% of income from government
Siskiyou Field Institute — 17% of income from government
Latino Network — 15% of income from government
Habitat for Humanity Portland Metro East — 14% of income from government
Ecotrust — 14% of income from government
Oregon Arts Watch — 13% of income from government
Beyond Toxics — 13% of income from government
Voz Workers Rights Education — 12% of income from government
Red Lodge Transition Services — 12% of income from government
Ethiopian and Eritrean Cultural and Resource Cente — 12% of income from government
Latino Community Association — 11% of income from government
Black Thistle Street Aid — 11% of income from government
Nurturely — 10% of income from government
Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians — 10% of income from government
The Blueprint Foundation — 10% of income from government
Outgrowing Hunger — 9% of income from government
Friends of Family Farmers — 9% of income from government
Bienestar Inc — 8% of income from government
Rogue Climate — 7% of income from government
Community Alliance of Lane County — 7% of income from government
Planned Parenthood — 7% of income from government
Centro De Ayuda — 5% of income from government
The Immigrant and Refugee Community — 4% of income from government
The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
Rose Community Development Corporat — 1% of income from government
All Ages Music Portland — 1% of income from government
Independent Publishing Resource Center — 1% of income from government
Oregon Health & Science University — 1% of income from government
PassinArt - a Theater Company — 1% of income from government
Women's Foundation of Oregon — 0% of income from government
Pride Northwest Inc — 0% of income from government
The Campbell Institute — 0% of income from government
Portland State University Foundation — 0% of income from government

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

60get no government money at all

7rely 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: BLACK THISTLE STREET AID.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~9 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 3 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 862144950 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 BLACK THISTLE STREET AID, 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 94% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 Seeding Justice?

Find your warmest path to Seeding Justice 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.

SEEDING JUSTICE

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?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

248 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Seeding Justice?

More from the funding graph

SEEDING JUSTICE

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?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

248 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Seeding Justice?

More from the funding graph