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South Seattle College Foundation

Our mission is to change lives by providing students with scholarships so they can pursue quality academic and vocational education.

$583k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$228k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.8M
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $227,836, the rows itemized in this filing. The $582,840 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $355,004 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$227,836
Median grant
1
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTH SEATTLE COLLEGE$227,836
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 (FY17–24) 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%SEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%EVERETT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%CLARK COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%SOUTH PUGET SOUND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%BATES TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%WENATCHEE VALLEY COLLEGE FOUDNATION: $10k → 9%OLYMPIC COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%COLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%SKAGIT VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%BELLINGHAM TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%CENTRALIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%PENINSULA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20k → 12%COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF SPOKANE FOUNDATION: $20k → 12%WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%LOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20k → 13%BIG BEND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%GRAYS HARBOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 18%SEATTLE CENTRAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%EVERETT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%CLARK COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%SOUTH PUGET SOUND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%BATES TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%WENATCHEE VALLEY COLLEGE FOUDNATION: $10k → 9%OLYMPIC COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%COLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%SKAGIT VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%WHATCOM COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%CENTRALIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%PENINSULA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF SPOKANE FOUNDATION: $20k → 12%WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%LOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20k → 13%BIG BEND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%PIERCE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF SPOKANE FOUNDATION: $20k → 12%SOUTH SEATTLE COLLEGE: $579k → 9%PIERCE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%SOUTH SEATTLE COLLEGE: $406k → 9%PIERCE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%SOUTH SEATTLE COLLEGE: $342k → 9%SOUTH SEATTLE COLLEGE: $228k → 9%TACOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%SOUTH SEATTLE COLLEGE: $81k → 9%SOUTH SEATTLE COLLEGE: $73k → 9%SOUTH SEATTLE COLLEGE: $66k → 9%SOUTH SEATTLE COLLEGE: $62k → 9%SOUTH SEATTLE COLLEGE: $39k → 9%GREEN RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 29 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
3

Total granted

$2.8M
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+28%

Still filing today

93%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SC
    SPOKANE COLLEGES FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $60k · revenue +293%
  • LC
    LOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $50k · revenue +144%
  • TC
    TACOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $40k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • SC
    SEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +28%
  • GH
    GRAYS HARBOR COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +814%
  • NS
    North Seattle College Education Fund
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Foundation for the Seattle Colleges

The Foundation for the Seattle Colleges exists to advance fundraising efforts for the Seattle Community College District. We seek to attract financial resources which support students so they may be successful; maintain the quality and…

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2
South Seattle College Foundation

Our mission is to change lives by providing students with scholarships so they can pursue quality academic and vocational education. we do this through relationship building, fundraising and stewarding resources.

Education
3
Columbia State Community College Foundation

The columbia state community college foundation encourages friends, alumni, economic partners and others to invest their time and resources toward improvement of education at columbia state community college and making higher education…

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4
The Foundation for Florida Gateway College Inc

The foundation provides academic scholarships and financial support to the college.

Education
5
Austin Community College Foundation

Making education accessible for students through philanthropic support, aligned with Austin Community College (ACC) strategic priorities.

Education
6
Oregon Coast Community College Foundation

The primary purpose of the foundation is to advance and promote the interests and development of the oregon of the oregon coast community college, its students, faculty, and the community it serves.

Education
7
Clatsop Community College Foundation

The CCC Foundation generates resources to support higher education within Clatsop County. The CCC Foundation seeks funding for scholarships, educational programs, buildings and equipment, cultural and performing arts, and other needs of…

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8
Metropolitan Community College Foundation

The MCC Foundation was established to advance the mission of the College by creating community awareness, building and nurturing meaningful relationships and connecting community partners with giving opportunities that fulfill their…

Education
9
North Central State College Foundation

The mission of the North Central State Foundation is to assist the College in providing life long learning opportunities by securing financial and community support.

—
10
Blue Ridge Community College Educational Foundation Inc

The brcc educational foundation builds community relationships and secures resources to strengthen the programs and services of blue ridge community college. the college's impact on the community is profound, providing the pathway to…

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11
Rainy River Community College Foundation

Investing in student success and our communitys future through scholarships and college development

Education
12
San Mateo County Community Colleges Foundation

The mission of san mateo county community colleges foundation is to promote student success and program innovation by providing financial support to help san mateo county community college district students achieve their goals. the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tacoma Community College Foundation; the most unlike its peers is North Seattle College Education Fund. 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

32 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. 32 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/32
Grantees still filing
27/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTH SEATTLE COLLEGE: $1,875,796 · OtherNORTH SEATTLE COLLEGE+9 more: $240,000 · Other+9 moreSPOKANE COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationSPOKANE COLLEGES FOUNDATIO…LOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationLOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE FOU…TACOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationTACOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE F…CLARK COLLEGE DISTRICT 14 FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationCLARK COLLEGE DISTRICT 14 …EVERETT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationEVERETT COMMUNITY COLLEGE …BELLEVUE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationRENTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationCASCADIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationBIG BEND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationEDMONDS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationSkagit Valley College Foundation: $30,000 · EducationSOUTH PUGET SOUND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationHIGHLINE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationCOLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationWALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationGreen River College Foundation: $29,750 · Education+5 more: $90,250 · Education+5 moreOLYMPIC COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyPENINSULA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,115,796Education$650,000Philanthropy$60,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPIERCE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetSPOKANE COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetLOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTACOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCLARK COLLEGE DISTRICT 14 FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEVERETT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetBELLEVUE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRENTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetCASCADIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetCENTRALIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLAKE WASHINGTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetBIG BEND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetEDMONDS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSkagit Valley College Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCLOVER PARK TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetSOUTH PUGET SOUND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHIGHLINE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSHORELINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCOLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetOLYMPIC COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetPENINSULA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWENATCHEE VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $20,250 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSEATTLE CENTRAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFOUNDATION OF YAKIMA VALLEY COLLEGE: $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetWHATCOM COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBATES TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetGRAYS HARBOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNorth Seattle College Education Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBellingham Technical College Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Puget Sound Energy Fo…The Herbert Jones Fou…Seattle Prof Engineer…Seattle FoundationBuilding ChangesCredit Unions in the …United Way of King Co…College Spark Washing…The Albertsons Compan…Real Progress Foundat…The Norcliffe Foundat…Hickman Leona Educati…
Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE62.1× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Herbert Jones Foundation · Seattle Prof Engineering Employees Assn Dba Soc of Prof Eng Empl in Aerospace · Seattle Foundation · Building Changes · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · United Way of King County · College Spark Washington · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Real Progress Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Hickman Leona Educational Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization South Seattle College Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from South Seattle College Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to South Seattle College Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to South Seattle College Foundation 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 33 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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