· Public charity
Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle
The URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE (ulms) empowers african americans, as well as other diverse underserved communities, to thrive by securing educational and economic opportunities.
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 14 grants below total $181,117 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,793,765 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,612,648 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $107k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ISLAND SOUL LLC | $50,000 |
| NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM | $20,000 |
| SEATTLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND | $15,000 |
| BASEBALL BEYOND BORDERS | $12,000 |
| KD HALL FOUNDATION | $10,104 |
| BLACK RESTAURANT WEEK LLC | $10,000 |
| ZETA PHI BETA SORORITY INC RHO LAMBDA ZETA CHAPTER | $10,000 |
| HIGHLINE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SERVICE IS A LIFESTYLE | $10,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS | $10,000 |
| KITARA JOHNSON LLC | $7,000 |
| WHERE YA AT LLC | $5,863 |
| CHARLES DAVIS BBQ | $5,650 |
| BLACK EDUCATION STRATEGY ROUNDTABLE | $5,500 |
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 10%. 7% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
Help create a more equitable entrepreneurial ecosystem in Washington State.
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To provide undergraduate, graduate and trade scholarships and leadership development for LGBTQ and allied students.
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To increase the economic well-being and quality of life for all citizens of the region; to coordinate provincial, territorial, and state policies throughout the region; to identify and promote "models of success and to serve as a conduit…
Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Economic Development Fund Business Impact Nw and the most unlike its peers is Kd Hall Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 18 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 FOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS ↗
- Who funds TABOR 100 INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON CITIES ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND BUSINESS IMPACT NW ↗
- Who funds BASEBALL BEYOND BORDERS ↗
- Who funds KD HALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGHLINE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLACK EDUCATION STRATEGY ROUNDTABLE ↗
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: Seattle Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · The Norcliffe Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle 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.