· Public charity
Social Justice Fund Northwest
Sjf is a member-funded foundation that supports the creation of a just society through fundraising, grantmaking, and member involvement.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 79 grants below total $4,848,166 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,195,916 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $347,750 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $861k
- $50k–250k38 grants · $3.3M
- $250k+1 grant · $654k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| BLACK PRISONERS' CAUCUS COMMUNITY GROUP | $100,000 |
| ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS | $100,000 |
| NORTH IDAHO PRIDE ALLIANCE | $100,000 |
| BEYOND THESE WALLS | $100,000 |
| TANTE FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| LOOK 2 JUSTICE | $100,000 |
| TACOMA SEED | $100,000 |
| BEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE | $100,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $3.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
82 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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 SEATTLE7× · 2018–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +459%- CSCHIEF SEATTLE CLUB3× · 2017–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +747%
ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC5× · 2018–2024 · $937k · revenue +153%
Funded once
- ECEthiopian Community in Seattlegraduatedone grant, 2019 · $800k · revenue +77% · 57% of their budget
- AFAngels For Angelsgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $350k · revenue +64% · 30% of their budget
- APACCION POLITICA PCUNISTA DBA PCUNone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
Rainier Beach Action Coalition is a grassroot, Black-led organization devoted to locally driven development. It promotes quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing, and building community capacity in…
Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission is led by and for Indigenous people, and envisions a just society in which we are treated with honor, fairness and respect. Our mission is to uphold our individual civil rights through education…
Queer Power Alliance is rooted in the LGBTQIA+ community and in solidarity with other marginalized communities. We strive for equity by disrupting systems of oppression holding back LGBTQIA+ communities through advocating, educating,…
Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…
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,…
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…
Civil Survival organizes system-impacted people, provides legal representation and reentry support, and advocates for policy reform to restore opportunity to communities harmed by the criminal legal system in Washington State.
The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…
Founded in 2001, Spark Northwest accelerates the just transition to clean energy in the Pacific Northwest. Spark Northwest uses two primary strategies: (1) on-the-ground project consulting, focusing on communities with limited financial…
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.
Equip the public and public decision-makers with the policy research and practical tools they need to embed the values of fairness, care, and opportunity into the foundations of Washington's economy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seeding Justice and the most unlike its peers is Right 2 Survive Inc. 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.
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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
211 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 211 of the 226 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds RVC SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB ↗
- Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds Ethiopian Community in Seattle ↗
- Who funds Na'ah Illahee Fund ↗
- Who funds VILLA COMUNITARIA ↗
- Who funds Lavender Rights Project ↗
- Who funds Hilltop Urban Gardens ↗
- Who funds IDAHO COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST FILM FORUM ↗
- Who funds MONTANA RACIAL EQUITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds UNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS WASHINGTON-UTOPIA WA ↗
- Who funds COLECTIVA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO ↗
- Who funds TUBMAN CENTER FOR HEALTH & FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds Angels For Angels ↗
- Who funds Spectrum ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds Rural Peoples Voice ↗
- Who funds POTLATCH FUND ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Global Justice Corp ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE BLACK ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING ↗
- Who funds MOMENTUM ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ACCION POLITICA PCUNISTA DBA PCUN ↗
- Who funds BLACK FARMERS COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds NORTH IDAHO PRIDE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Got Green ↗
- Who funds RURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Abundance of Hope Center ↗
- Who funds HARRIET TUBMAN FOUNDATION FOR SAFE PASSAGE ↗
- Who funds MONTANA TWO SPIRIT SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Mano A Mano ↗
- Who funds Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG ↗
- Who funds VOZ WORKERS RIGHTS EDUCATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds STEM PATHS INNOVATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds INDIGENOUS IDAHO ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PUGET SOUND SAGE ↗
- Who funds INTERIM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Inatai Foundation · Seeding Justice · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · The Pride Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Philanthropy Northwest · Meyer Memorial Trust · Proteus Fund Inc · The Bullitt Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Northwest Health Foundation Fund II · United Way of King County
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 organization 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.
- Salemkeizer Coalition for Equality — 77% of income from government
- Educate Ya Inc — 38% of income from government
- Adelante Mujeres — 31% of income from government
- Rogue Action Center — 29% of income from government
- Center for Intercultural Organizing — 28% of income from government
- Native American Youth and Family Center — 23% of income from government
- Capaces Leadership Institute — 20% of income from government
- Willamette Valley Law Project Dba Pcun Foundation — 18% of income from government
- The Uprise Collective — 17% of income from government
- Self Enhancement Inc — 14% of income from government
- Voz Workers Rights Education Project — 12% of income from government
- Red Lodge Transition Services — 12% of income from government
- Verde Inc — 3% of income from government
- Side Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Seeding Justice — 0% of income from government
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.