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Southeast Seattle Education Coalition
The mission of SESEC is to convene and resource communities of color to advocate for an equitable education system.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $499,999 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $554,435 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $54,436 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Aki Kurose Middle School Academy PTSA | $49,002 |
| ASA Mercer Middle School PTSA | $44,800 |
| South Shore PTSA | $39,744 |
| Emerson Elementary PTA | $35,179 |
| Alliance for Education fiscal sponsor of Wing Luke Elementary | $32,692 |
| MLK Dreamkeepers PTA | $30,535 |
| Kimball School PTA | $28,590 |
| Van Asselt PTA DBA Rising Star Elementary PTA | $28,033 |
| Alliance for Education fiscal sponsor of Dunlap Elementary | $27,973 |
| Maple Elementary PTSA | $27,228 |
| John Muir PTA Council | $26,796 |
| Dearborn Park PTA | $26,519 |
| Graham Hill Elementary | $23,177 |
| Beacon Hill PTA | $22,598 |
| Rainier View PTSA | $21,946 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–25) 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.
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.
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 +1% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- PWPathwaves Washington2× · 2023–2024 · $474k · revenue +231% · 100% of their budget
- KSKIMBALL SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ASSOC2× · 2024–2025 · $53k · revenue +85% · 76% of their budget
- BHBeacon Hill PTA 6-15-422× · 2024–2025 · $45k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- CPCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +0%
- ECEthiopian Community in Seattleone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- TOTAKE ON COLLEGEone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
to serve the children and their families in the Mt View Elementary school community, by being a resource for families, funding positive programs in the school and advocating for the education and wellbeing of all children
We are a PTA organization for Lake Shore Elementary in Vancouver, WA - our raised funds go back to the school through events and donations.
We are a parent and teacher member organization for a public elementary school.
LWHS PTSA was formed to provide an organized way for parents to aid children in the school community.
PTA serving elementary school, providing resources for teachers, students and families
Provide financial and volunteer support while building community so our students are challenged to reach their full intellectual, social, emotional and physical potential and to develop as thoughtful world citizens.
Glencoe Elementary School PTA is a parent teacher association which supports and enriches the educational opportunities of the students by means of support for teachers and administrators, student programs, and parent education.
To support and enhance the educational experience of students by fostering cooperation between parents, teachers and school staff. The PTA provides volunteer and financial support for educational programs, classroom resources, school evens…
The Fall City Elementary School PTSA unites families, educators, and our greater community to create an engaging, inclusive, and supportive learning environment. Together, we inspire lifelong learners, nurture a sense of belonging, and…
Provide enrichment and education funding to the school.
The PTO seeks to help build community among students and families through spirit days and special events throughout the year. The PTO also organizes events to help care for Stony Point teachers and staff in tangible ways. The Stony Point…
Elementary School Parent Teacher Association
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is SouthShore Ptsa and the most unlike its peers is Pathwaves Washington. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 33% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
12 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. 12 of the 20 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
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 Pathwaves Washington ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Education ↗
- Who funds SouthShore PTSA ↗
- Who funds KIMBALL SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ASSOC ↗
- Who funds MAPLE SCHOOL PTSA ↗
- Who funds JOHN MUIR PTA SEATTLE COUNCIL 6 12 250 ↗
- Who funds Beacon Hill PTA 6-15-42 ↗
- Who funds GRAHAM HILL ELEMENTARY PTA ↗
- Who funds Orca at Columbia PTA ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF HAWTHORNE ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds Ethiopian Community in Seattle ↗
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: Alliance for Education · Beacon Hill PTA 6-15-42 · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organization Southeast Seattle Education Coalition 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.
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.
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