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The Seattle Times Community Impact Fund
The primary purpose of THE SEATTLE TIMES COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND is to distribute funds to organizations, exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code, for the organizations' use in aiding needy families and/or individuals who are members of the seattle community.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of THE SEATTLE TIMES COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+7 grants · $3.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUND GENERATIONS | $950,205 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $793,730 |
| AKIN (FORMERLY CHILDHAVEN) | $652,925 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF PUGET SOUND | $402,970 |
| TREEHOUSE | $377,870 |
| WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES | $284,255 |
| HOPELINK | $277,278 |
| ATLANTIC STREET CENTER | $181,175 |
| ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE | $169,715 |
| YOUTH EASTSIDE SERVICES | $169,715 |
| KINDERING | $169,715 |
| KENT YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES | $169,715 |
| LIFEWIRE | $163,345 |
| SEATTLE-KING COUNTY COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS | $52,613 |
| YWCA OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY | $52,613 |
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 (FY21–25, $7.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those 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.
15 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
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
- SGSOUND GENERATIONS5× · 2021–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +0%
- CCHILDHAVEN5× · 2021–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +1%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF PUGET SOUND5× · 2021–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +34%
Funded once
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.
KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…
SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.
Family solutions is a community based, comprehensive behavioral health provider cultivating the wellness of southwest washington by offering hope and health to children, youth and families.
School's out washington (sowa) drives positive systemic change so that all washington's children and youth, particularly those furthest from justice, have access to a robust ecosystem of high-quality expanded learning programs.
Transforming lives through safety, healing and empowerment.
Family law casa is committed to positive long-term outcomes for children, families, and communities navigating economic injustice across king county. we advance intersectional equity by providing free advocacy services for children…
Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Restoring hope, building futures, and strengthening our communities through programs with youth, young adults and families. we support the behavioral health of at-risk and in-crisis youth across the greater south king county area. we take…
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism and empowering women.
Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…
Giving every child the opportunity to thrive from cradle to career requires dedication and teamwork. eastside pathways helps individuals and organizations collaborate to focus their efforts, increase equity, decrease harm, and drive…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Womens Christian Association of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County and the most unlike its peers is Atlantic Street Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 15 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 SOUND GENERATIONS ↗
- Who funds CHILDHAVEN ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds HOPELINK ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Atlantic Street Center ↗
- Who funds KINDERING CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Youth Eastside Services ↗
- Who funds KENT YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LifeWire ↗
- Who funds SeattleKing County Coalition on Homelessness ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
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: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Medina Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · United Way of King County · Kidvantage · Joshua Green Foundation Inc · Windermere Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Catania Family Foundation · NW Childrens 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 The Seattle Times Community Impact Fund 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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How do I get to The Seattle Times Community Impact Fund?
Find your warmest path to The Seattle Times Community Impact 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.