How much did SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST grant in FY2024?

SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST reported 79 grants totaling $5,195,916 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST based?

SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST is based in WA.

SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Public charity

SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST

To foster a more democratic, just, and environmentally sound society by raising and distributing funds to community-based organizations that promote social justice primarily based in washington, oregon, idaho, montana, and wyoming.

$5.2M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$654k

Largest

01What you fund

0184% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$4.0MArts & Culture$3.5MCommunity Improvement$3.4MCivil Rights$3.3MInternational$1.4MCrime & Legal$1.2MEnvironment$933kEducation$751kPhilanthropy$511kOther$5.7M

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

faeganblack-led organizingseiself enhancementashok chandwaneypotentialeconomic sea

2020

eacr covidcovid responseeconcriminalworkedtransitthird wave

2021

black ledforced migrationmigration displacementinnovative equitableequitable housinghousing momentumled organizing

2022

advancing equitybuild strongerrural organizingvozlaborersvillaholistic

2023

reproductivebasebuildingspokane tribalnomenuschange incubatingincubating developingdeveloping grassroots

2024

wealth buildingnative ledled organizingorganizing dafsurge reproductivejewish voicebuilding daf

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

03FY2024 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $21k
$10k–50k37 grants · $861k
$50k–250k38 grants · $3.3M
$250k+1 grant · $654k

$45,000

Median grant

States reached

$16M

Total assets

Largest grants

RVC$654,000
NOMENUS INC$150,000
LAVENDER RIGHTS PROJECT$150,000
NORTHWEST FILM FORUM$150,000
INDIGENOUS IDAHO ALLIANCE$130,000
MONTANA TWO SPIRIT SOCIETY$120,000
INDIGENOUS JUST TRANSITION$100,000
TANTE FOUNDATION INC$100,000
BLACK PRISONERS' CAUCUS COMMUNITY GROUP$100,000
MANO A MANO$100,000
NEW PROGRESSIVE NETWORK DBA NEXT UP ACTION FUND$100,000
BLACK AGRICULTURE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL$100,000
NORTH IDAHO PRIDE ALLIANCE$100,000
BEYOND THESE WALLS$100,000
SPECTRUM CENTER$100,000

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 (FY17–24, $3.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 11%. 7% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$18M · 91 repeat orgs$6.7M to everyone else

91 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

102

Total granted

$18M

$4.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%

+95%

Still filing today

88%

75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCivil RightsArts & CultureEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementEducationOther

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

RVC
7× · 2018–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +383%
CS
CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB
3× · 2017–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +747%
QUEER THE LAND VIA ALLIED MEDIA PROJECT
5× · 2018–2024 · $877k · revenue +393%

Funded once

EC
ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY IN SEATTLEgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $800k · revenue +77% · 57% of their budget
AT
ANGELS TO ANGELSgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $350k · revenue +2632% · 30% of their budget
P
PCUNgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +35%

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.

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

Re Sources

RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.

Environment

Queer Power Alliance

To build power among LGBTQIA communities and allies in Washington State to achieve economic, racial, and gender justice. We educate and advocate, build grassroots leadership and community organizing in solidarity with marginalized…

Human Services

Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment

Rural Peoples Platform

The Rural Peoples Platform organizes people across rural North Central Washington around local initiatives and a long-term agenda that makes economic stability possible and sustainable for all working people and families.

Community Improvement

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

Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund

The Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund changes public policy so that people of all races, ethnicities, abilities, genders, and identities can live in safe, healthy homes they can afford.

Housing & Shelter

Fuse Innovation Fund

To develop creative programs to educate and engage activists about critical issues in Washington State

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

We Heart Seattle

We Heart Seattle is an action-based, boots-on-the-ground movement that organizes trash cleanups in our public spaces and offers resources to those in need. Through our direct civic engagement we lead the way to a more compassionate and…

Community Improvement

350PDX

Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.

Environment

House Our Neighbors

House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alliance for a Just Society and the most unlike its peers is Fjc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

12/241

the rest of the field

11%

4,075/38,727

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

210 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)

101

Early backer (in before they grew)

202/210

Grantees still filing

158/210

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$4,016,027Other$7,926,938Arts & Culture$3,456,229Community Improvement$3,439,564Civil Rights$3,323,757International$1,395,999Crime & Legal$1,160,718

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.

Inatai FoundationWA119.6× affinity72 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Inatai Foundation · Seeding Justice · The Pride Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Philanthropy Northwest · Meyer Memorial Trust · Northwest Health Foundation · Potlatch Fund · Northwest Area Foundation · The Collins 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 SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

20get no government money at all

0rely 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: NORTH IDAHO PRIDE ALLIANCE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~45 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 3 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 813072032 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 NORTH IDAHO PRIDE ALLIANCE, 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 45 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 61% 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 Social Justice Fund Northwest?

Find your warmest path to Social Justice Fund Northwest 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.

SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST

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

210 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Social Justice Fund Northwest?

More from the funding graph

SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST

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

210 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Social Justice Fund Northwest?

More from the funding graph