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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 FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$109k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$1.1MHousing & Shelter$1.1MReligion$494kYouth Development$408kCommunity Improvement$257kCivil Rights$220kInternational$197kEducation$105kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 24 grants below total $1,398,463, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,427,576 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $29,113 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $1.3M
$54,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Children's Alliance$108,622
Washington Low Income Housing Institute$108,000
Choose 180$93,073
Faith Action Network$91,800
Open Door for Multicultural Families$87,134
Mother Africa$86,650
Byrd Barr Place$86,400
Economic Opportunity Institute$81,528
Statewide Poverty Action Network (Solid Ground)$81,000
Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network$80,000
NorthStar Advocates$54,000
REACH of Renton$54,000
The Mockingbird Society$54,000
One America$50,000
Civic Commons Black Home Initiative (Seattle Foundation)$50,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Pacific Islander Health Board: $10k → 9%Byrd Barr Place: $86k → 9%Byrd Barr Place: $80k → 9%Byrd Barr Place: $30k → 9%Byrd Barr Place: $30k → 9%Byrd Barr Place: $30k → 9%The Mockingbird Society: $54k → 9%The Mockingbird Society: $50k → 9%The Mockingbird Society: $35k → 9%Mockingbird Society: $30k → 9%The Mockingbird Society: $30k → 9%Children's Alliance: $109k → 9%Children's Alliance: $101k → 9%Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network: $80k → 9%Children's Alliance: $36k → 9%Open Door for Multicultural Families: $87k → 9%Mother Africa: $87k → 9%Open Doors for Multicultural Families: $80k → 9%Mother Africa: $80k → 9%Open Doors for Multicultural Families: $30k → 9%Open Doors: $30k → 9%Mother Africa: $30k → 9%Open Doors for Multicultural Families: $30k → 9%Children's Alliance: $35k → 9%Children's Alliance: $30k → 9%Seattle King County Coalition on Homelessness: $10k → 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 18 repeat orgs$491k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
5

Total granted

$3.5M
$269k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
-7%

Still filing today

94%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $222k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementReligionOther
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

  • CHOOSE 180
    5× · 2021–2025 · $268k · revenue +8%
  • OD
    OPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES
    5× · 2021–2025 · $257k · revenue +24%
  • EO
    Economic Opportunity Institute
    5× · 2021–2025 · $257k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • DS
    DISCIPLES SEMINARY FOUNDATION OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH (DISCIPLES OF CHRIST)
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -18%
  • CT
    CHRISTIAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • VO
    VOICES OF TOMORROW
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -7%
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
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

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…

Education
2
Working Washington

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

—
3
Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund

The Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund elects candidates, educates voters and decision-makers, and amplifies the voices and priorities of people and communities most impacted by housing instability and homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
4
House Our Neighbors

House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…

—
5
Rainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalition

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…

Community Improvement
6
Washington Community Alliance

Washington Community Alliance WCA is a statewide network of over 70 organizations working to advance multiracial social democracy by coordinating values aligned civic engagement

Civil Rights
7
Pathwaves Washington

Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.

Education
8
Washington State Association of Head State and Ecea Programs

WSA champions high-quality early learning through professional development, collaboration and advocacy for head start, early head start and early childhood education and assistance programs (ECEAP).

Education
9
We Heart Seattle

We Heart Seattle is an action-based, boots-on-the-ground movement that organizes trash cleanups in our public spaces and offers resources to those in need. Through our direct civic engagement we lead the way to a more compassionate and…

Community Improvement
10
Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission

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…

Human Services
11
Washington Progress Fund

Washington Progress Fund is building a permanent and powerful social change movement in Washington state supported by a network of committed donors. WPF envisions a Washington state where government serves the public interest and we all…

Philanthropy
12
Pro-Choice Washington

To protect and promote every persons right to access the full range of reproductive healthcare choices in Washington State, including safe and legal abortion, through education, advocacy, lobbying and coalition-building

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is School's Out Washington; the most unlike its peers is Colectiva Legal Del Pueblo. 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

29 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. 29 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
18/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $309,658 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S ALLIANCEOPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES: $257,134 · Human ServicesOPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIE…BYRD BARR PLACE: $256,400 · Human ServicesBYRD BARR PLACETHE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $199,508 · Human ServicesTHE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETYMOTHER AFRICA: $196,650 · Human ServicesMOTHER AFRICAWASHINGTON IMMIGRANT SOLIDARITY NETWORK: $80,000 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON IMMIGRANT SOLIDARITY NETW…+2 more: $20,000 · Human ServicesFAITH ACTION NETWORK: $294,370 · OtherFAITH ACTION NETWORKBELLWETHER HOUSING: $200,506 · OtherBELLWETHER HOUSINGCHRISTIAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $100,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN THEOLOGICAL SEM…HUMMINGBIRD INDIGENOUS FAMILY SERVICES: $50,000 · OtherHUMMINGBIRD INDIGENOUS FA…UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $60,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON …SPEAK WITH PURPOSE: $56,000 · OtherSPEAK WITH PURPOSEONEAMERICA: $50,000 · OtherONEAMERICASEATTLE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherSEATTLE FOUNDATION+5 more: $61,000 · Other+5 moreCHOOSE 180: $268,073 · Youth DevelopmentCHOOSE 180NORTHSTAR ADVOCATES: $169,300 · Youth DevelopmentNORTHSTAR ADVO…SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentSCHOOL'S OUT W…VOICES OF TOMORROW: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentVOICES OF TOMO…Washington Low Income Housing Alliance: $308,000 · Housing & ShelterWashington Lo…Solid Ground Washington: $186,000 · Housing & ShelterSolid Ground …Economic Opportunity Institute: $256,528 · Community ImprovementEconomic Opp…RENTON ECUMENICAL ASSOCIATION OF CHURCHES: $199,000 · Community ImprovementRENTON ECUME…COLECTIVA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO: $190,000 · Civil RightsDISCIPLES SEMINARY FOUNDATION OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH (DISCIPLES OF CHRIST): $100,000 · ReligionTEEN FEED: $80,000 · Religion
Human Services$1,319,350Other$921,876Youth Development$527,373Housing & Shelter$494,000Community Improvement$455,528Civil Rights$190,000Religion$180,000

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

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
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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization University Christian Church Legacy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from University Christian Church Legacy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    18report 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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.

    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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