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Seiu 775 Ballot Fund

Promotion of social welfare by advocating for the passage or defeat of washington state ballot initiatives, as well as local initiatives or levies, in way that are consistent with the mission of the seiu 775.

$9.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$7.8M
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Public Benefit$8.8MCivil Rights$493kEmployment$113kHuman Services$50kHealth$30kCrime & Legal$27kHousing & Shelter$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $70k
  • $250k+3 grants · $9.1M
$320,896
Median grant
2
States reached
$481k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NO ON I-2124 COMMITTEE$7,800,000
DEFEND WASHINGTON$1,000,000
SEIU INITIATIVE FUND$320,896
FUSE VOTERS$45,000
BETTER JOBS FOR ALASKA$25,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SEIU INTERNATIONAL: $88k → 14%SEIU INITIATIVE FUND: $321k → 9%SEIU INITIATIVE FUND: $78k → 9%SEIU INITIATIVE FUND: $74k → 9%FUSE VOTERS: $45k → 9%SEIU INITIATIVE FUND: $20k → 9%CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT FRAUD AND PROTECT SR: $27k → 9%SEIU HEALTHCARE 1199NW: $15k → 9%APPROVE 8212: $506k → 9%YES FOR HOMES: $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 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
Seiu Healthcare 1199NW Multi-Employer Training & Education Fund
Health
2
Seiu Local 925 Ballot Fund

Promotion of social welfare by advocating for the passage and/or defeat of washington state initiatives and local initiatives or levies

3
Yes Seattle Libraries

Planning efforts for future property tax levy to support Seattle Public Libraries

4
Seattle Cares

Promote policies that provided compassionate solutions to the homelessness crisis in Seattle, WA

5
Working Washington

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

6
The Urbanist Fund

Support Public Interest Journalism in Washington State

Public Benefit
7
Yes for Portland Clean Energy Fund

Support ballot measure

8
Invest in Washington Now Campaign

Advocate for tax policy in Washington State

9
Service Employees Council

The seiu washington state council builds collective power by uniting the strength of our locals in washington state and our collective membership of over 150,000 members. we work collaboratively to coordinate political and legislative…

10
No On 2109 Commitee

Advocate for the defeat of Washington Initiative 2109, that appeared on the ballot in 2024

11
Safe & Health Youth Washington

Promote a Ballot Issue in Washington State

12
Emergency Management Group - Washington
Public Safety & Disaster

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seiu Initiative Fund and the most unlike its peers is Yes for Vets & Seniors. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 12 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
2/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

No on 2124 Committee — $7,800,000 · OtherNo on 2124 CommitteeDefend Washington — $1,000,000 · OtherDefend WashingtonAPPROVE 8212 — $506,000 · OtherSEIU INITIATIVE FUND — $492,873 · Other+7 more — $247,843 · OtherBETTER JOBS FOR ALASKA INC — $25,000 · Civil Rights
Other$10,046,716Civil Rights$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNo on 2124 Committee — $7,800,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetDefend Washington — $1,000,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSEIU INITIATIVE FUND — $492,873 over 4y, 45% of budgetSERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION — $87,851 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYes for Vets & Seniors — $50,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetCampaign to Prevent Fraud and Protect Seniors — $27,492 over 1y, 92% of budgetBETTER JOBS FOR ALASKA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBuilding Behavioral Health — $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSEIU HEALTHCARE 1199NW AND SUBSIDIARY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYes for Homes Action Fund — $7,500 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Seiu 775 Ballot 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Seiu 775 Ballot Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Seiu 775 Ballot Fund 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 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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