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University Christian Church Legacy Foundation

The University Christian Church Legacy Foundation's mission is to advance compassionate services and just systems so that marginalized children, youth & families can build stability and thrive in strengthened communities.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
24
Itemized grants FY2025
17
Organizations funded FY2024
12%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$1.4M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$54,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$108,622
Organizations funded a year
2 to 17
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$10M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 12% of the organizations University Christian Church Legacy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving23$1.3M35%
FY202417$1.0M12%
FY202316$507k13%
FY202216$510k19%
FY202114$430k100%
FY20202$200kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$1.1MHousing & Shelter$1.1MReligion$494kYouth Development$408kCommunity Improvement$257kCivil Rights$220kInternational$197kEducation$105kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Children's Alliance$309,658513%
Washington Low Income Housing Alliance$308,00059%
Faith Action Network$294,3705n/a
Choose 180$268,07352%
Open Doors for Multicultural Families$257,13451%
Economic Opportunity Institute$256,52855%
Byrd Barr Place$256,40051%
Bellwether Housing$200,50650%
The Mockingbird Society$199,50852%
Renton Ecumenical Association of Churches$199,00057%
Show all 31 grantees
All grantees of University Christian Church Legacy Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Children's Alliance$309,658513%
Washington Low Income Housing Alliance$308,00059%
Faith Action Network$294,3705n/a
Choose 180$268,07352%
Open Doors for Multicultural Families$257,13451%
Economic Opportunity Institute$256,52855%
Byrd Barr Place$256,40051%
Bellwether Housing$200,50650%
The Mockingbird Society$199,50852%
Renton Ecumenical Association of Churches$199,00057%
Mother Africa$196,65033%
Colectiva Legal del Pueblo$190,00053%
Solid Ground Washington$186,00030%
Northstar Advocates$169,300412%
Disciples Seminary Foundation of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)$100,00019%
Christian Theological Seminary$100,0001n/a
Teen Feed$80,00044%
Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network$80,0001n/a
University of Washington Foundation$60,00020%
School's Out Washington$60,00020%
Speak With Purpose$56,00025%
Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services$50,0001n/a
Oneamerica$50,0001n/a
Voices of Tomorrow$30,00010%
Statewide Poverty Action Network (Solid Ground)$30,0001n/a
Denise Louie Education center$10,0001n/a
Pacific Islander Health Board of Washington$10,0001n/a
SeattleKing County Coalition on Homelessness$10,0001n/a
Para Los Ninos de Highline$9,00011%
United Indians of All Tribes Foundation$6,0001n/a
Legal Counsel for Youth and Children$6,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget University Christian Church Legacy Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Alliance: $309,658 over 5y, 13% of budgetWashington Low Income Housing Alliance: $308,000 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetChoose 180: $268,073 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetOpen Doors for Multicultural Families: $257,134 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetEconomic Opportunity Institute: $256,528 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetByrd Barr Place: $256,400 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBellwether Housing: $200,506 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Mockingbird Society: $199,508 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetRenton Ecumenical Association of Churches: $199,000 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetMother Africa: $196,650 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetColectiva Legal del Pueblo: $190,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetSolid Ground Washington: $186,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNorthstar Advocates: $169,300 over 4y, 12% of budgetDisciples Seminary Foundation of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ): $100,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetTeen Feed: $80,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetUniversity of Washington Foundation: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSchool's Out Washington: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSpeak With Purpose: $56,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetVoices of Tomorrow: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPara Los Ninos de Highline: $9,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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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.

Seattle FoundationUnited Way of King Co…Gates FoundationThe Satterberg Founda…Inatai FoundationMedina FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Stolte Family Foundat…Sheng-Yen Lu Foundati…Raikes FoundationSchool's Out Washingt…
Seattle FoundationWA48.3× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · United Way of King County · Gates Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Inatai Foundation · Medina Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Stolte Family Foundation · Sheng-Yen Lu Foundation · Raikes Foundation · School's Out Washington

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.

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How do I get to University Christian Church Legacy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to University Christian Church Legacy 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.

About University Christian Church Legacy Foundation

How much does University Christian Church Legacy Foundation give?
University Christian Church Legacy Foundation reported 24 itemized grants totaling $1,398,463, out of $1,427,576 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does University Christian Church Legacy Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (27%), Housing & Shelter (26%), Religion (12%).
Who are University Christian Church Legacy Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Children's Alliance ($310k), Washington Low Income Housing Alliance ($308k), Faith Action Network ($294k).
Does University Christian Church Legacy Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as University Christian Church Legacy Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, United Way of King County, Gates Foundation.
Where is University Christian Church Legacy Foundation based?
University Christian Church Legacy Foundation is based in WA.

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 32 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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