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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

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

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3
Yes Seattle Libraries

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

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4
Seattle Cares

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

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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…

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6
The Urbanist Fund

Support Public Interest Journalism in Washington State

Public Benefit
7
Yes for Portland Clean Energy Fund

Support ballot measure

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8
Invest in Washington Now Campaign

Advocate for tax policy in Washington State

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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…

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10
No On 2109 Commitee

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

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11
Safe & Health Youth Washington

Promote a Ballot Issue in Washington State

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12
Emergency Management Group - Washington
Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seiu Initiative Fund; 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 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. 10 of the 12 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Seiu 775 Ballot Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seiu 775 Ballot Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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, 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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 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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