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Washington Low Income Housing Alliance at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Washington Low Income Housing Alliance

To change public policy so that people in Washington of all races, ethnicities, abilities, genders and identities can live in safe, healthy homes that they can afford.

$55k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$81kCivil Rights$15kArts & Culture$10kInternational$10kPhilanthropy$10kHuman Services$5k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $51,178, the rows itemized in this filing. The $55,178 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,000 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.
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$678k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund$21,178
Southwest WA Equity Coalition$15,000
Bellingham Tenants Union$15,000
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 (FY20–20, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Washington Kids in Transition: $5k → 9%Seattle King County Coalition on Homelessness: $20k → 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 field
04the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 9 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BELLINGHAM TENANTS UNION: $35,000 · OtherBELLINGHAM TENANTS UNIONWashington State Housing Finance Commission: $5,000 · OtherWashington State Housing Finance C…SeattleKing County Coalition on Homelessness: $20,000 · Human ServicesSeattleKing County Co…WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION: $5,000 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON KIDS IN TR…Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund: $21,178 · Housing & ShelterWashington Housing…SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON EQUITY COALITION: $15,000 · Civil RightsSOUTHWEST WA…Community Foundation for SW Washington: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCarl Maxey Center: $10,000 · Arts & CultureODYSSEY WORLD INTERNATIONALEDUCATION SERVICES: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$40,000Human Services$25,000Housing & Shelter$21,178Civil Rights$15,000Philanthropy$10,000Arts & Culture$10,000Youth Development$10,000

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 budgetWashington Housing Alliance Action Fund: $21,178 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetSeattleKing County Coalition on Homelessness: $20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSOUTHWEST WASHINGTON EQUITY COALITION: $15,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCommunity Foundation for SW Washington: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCarl Maxey Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetODYSSEY WORLD INTERNATIONALEDUCATION SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetWASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION: $5,000 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.

Inatai FoundationSeattle Foundation
Inatai FoundationWA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Inatai Foundation · Seattle Foundation

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 Washington Low Income Housing Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Washington Low Income Housing Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.

    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 9 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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