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Washington State Microenterprise Association

Our mission is to strengthen economic development systems that support the growth of strong and effective microenterprise development organizations.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
81
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0176% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.

Community Improvement$2.4MArts & Culture$694kHuman Services$562kEducation$460kPublic Benefit$250kHealth$232kReligion$151kEmployment$94kScience & Tech$93kOther$2.2M
02FY2024 · 81 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k70 grants · $1.6M
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $441k
$21,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEATTLE GOOD BUSINESS NETWORK$65,000
COMMUNITY CARROT$55,000
ZERO WASTE WASHINGTON$55,000
GREATER SEATTLE BUSINESS ASSOCIATIO$55,000
TERRAIN PROGRAMS$55,000
EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA$53,000
EMERALD CITIES COOPERATIVE$52,710
NORTHWEST ACCESS FUND$50,600
ONEREDMOND FOUNDATION$45,000
REFUGEE ARTISAN INITIATIVE$45,000
DRIVER SOLIDARITY & RESOURCE CENTER$43,000
TACOMA PIERCE CTY CHAM OF COMM$41,000
MINORITY HEMP BUILDERS ASSOC$40,000
360 SOCIAL IMPACT STUDIOS$40,000
CENTER FOR INCLUSIVE ENTREPRENEURSH$35,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $489k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NORTHWEST NATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND: $36k → 16%NORTHWEST NATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND: $28k → 16%KITSAP COUNTY RESOURCES BEST PROGRA: $45k → 10%NORTHWEST NATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND: $19k → 16%KITSAP COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $21k → 10%WOMEN OF WISDOM: $20k → 11%KITSAP COUNTY RESOURCES BEST PROGRA: $21k → 10%BET KITSAP COMUNITY RESOURCES: $12k → 10%NORTHWEST ACCESS FUND: $51k → 9%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $70k → 9%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $53k → 9%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $20k → 9%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $20k → 9%FILIPINO COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE: $45k → 9%FILIPINO COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE: $28k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.8M · 69 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

69 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
38

Total granted

$5.8M
$755k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+10%

Still filing today

84%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $540k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesInternationalPublic BenefitOther

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

  • SE
    SEATTLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND BUSINESS IMPACT NW
    5× · 2020–2024 · $257k · revenue +71%
  • VENTURES
    5× · 2019–2023 · $246k · revenue +103%
  • Terrain Programs
    4× · 2021–2024 · $243k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • CE
    COLLABORATIVE EFFORT INC
    one grant, 2023 · $65k · revenue -42%
  • DW
    DOWNTOWN WALLA WALLA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +46%
  • UP
    UMOJA PEACE CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +46%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Central Washington Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

We increase access to economic opportunities for business owners, entrepreneurs, and individuals in Central Washington by connecting and providing them with resources, representation, and opportunities to build community.

Community Improvement
2
Black Owned Business Excellence

Help create a more equitable entrepreneurial ecosystem in Washington State.

Community Improvement
3
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
4
Pacific Northwest Economic Region Foundation

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…

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5
Collaborative Economic Development

To accelerate inclusive economic prosperity in lane county, oregon

Employment
6
Multi-Ethnic Business Association

Our mission is to educate, advocate, and support multi-ethnic businesses in Eastern Washington.

Community Improvement
7
Economic Development Council of Seattle & King County

To enhance economic vitality, employment opportunities and quality of life throughout seattle and king county.

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8
Wakulima Usa

Our Food Production Center will serve as our primary storage production and distribution facility. The coop will aggregate purchase store and distribute farm inputs for members and will act as an integrator collecting the output from…

Food & Nutrition
9
Gig Harbor Chamber of Commerce

Serve the small business community and local development.

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10
Pacific Mountain Workforce Development Council

PacMtn develops and implements the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act in Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific and Thurston Counties. This involves employment and training services for job seekers, provides 'one-stop' services…

Human Services
11
Chinatown International District Business Improvement Area

Improve the business enviornment, sanitation and public safety in the historical Chinatown-International district of Seattle, WA.

Community Improvement
12
Northwest Native Asset Building Coalition

The NWNABC is a Western Washington based nonprofit dedicated to empowering Native communities through education and facilitation. Our services focus on asset building and financial education, providing the tools and resources needed to…

Community Improvement

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 Fresh Start Ps. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Heritage & Preser…Arts and Cultural EducationCommunity Food BanksCommunity Grantmaking Found…Community Support ServicesProfessional Association Ch…Youth Development and Suppo…Supportive Housing ServicesInternational Development &…Environmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%6%<5yr14%23%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr18%24%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr14%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%5%<5yr14%19%5–10yr19%29%10–20yr18%25%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr14%2%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
6%
7/122
the rest of the field
13%
3,681/28,749

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

103 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. 103 of the 132 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
98/103
Grantees still filing
56/103
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SEATTLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND BUSINESS IMPACT NW — $257,000 · Community ImprovementSEATTLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND BUSI…Seattle Good Business Network DBA Good Business Network of Washington — $200,500 · Community ImprovementSeattle Good Business Network DBA Good…TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $180,338 · Community ImprovementTACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMER…Greater Seattle Business Association — $165,000 · Community ImprovementGreater Seattle Business AssociationCENTER FOR INCLUSIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP — $154,540 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR INCLUSIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIPRefugee Artisan Initative — $125,587 · Community ImprovementONEREDMOND FOUNDATION — $115,000 · Community ImprovementWILLIAM M FACTORY SMALL BUSINESS INCUBATOR — $111,000 · Community ImprovementSpokane Independent Metro Business Alliance — $97,860 · Community ImprovementURBAN BUSINESS SUPPORT — $96,000 · Community ImprovementPACIFIC NORTHWEST TRIBAL LENDING FINANCIAL INSTITUTION — $85,000 · Community ImprovementTRI-CITIES DIVERSITY & INCLUSION COUNCIL — $83,282 · Community Improvement+16 more — $746,662 · Community Improvement+16 moreZero Waste Washington — $159,837 · OtherZero Waste WashingtonNORTHWEST COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $117,000 · OtherWOMEN OF WISDOM — $106,000 · OtherRural Community Development Resources — $92,000 · OtherUrban Impact — $141,250 · OtherUrban Impact+66 more — $1,888,099 · Other+66 moreTerrain Programs — $243,000 · Arts & CultureTerrain Pro…CENTRO CULTURAL MEXICANO — $121,000 · Arts & CultureCENTRO CULT…TWISPWORKS FOUNDATION — $78,660 · Arts & CultureTWISPWORKS …Asia Pacific Cultural Center — $55,000 · Arts & CultureAsia Pacifi…DOWNTOWN WALLA WALLA FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Arts & CultureDOWNTOWN WA…Washington Trust For Historic Preservation — $42,000 · Arts & CultureWashington …TACOMA ARTS LIVE — $27,000 · Arts & CultureThe Vera Project — $26,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $51,500 · Arts & Culture+3 moreEL CENTRO DE LA RAZA — $163,000 · Human ServicesKITSAP COMMUNITY RESOURCES — $99,225 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST NATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND — $82,832 · Human ServicesFILIPINO COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE — $73,000 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON AFRICAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $73,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST ACCESS FUND — $50,600 · Human ServicesWOMEN OF WISDOM WOW TRICITIES — $20,000 · Human ServicesVENTURES — $246,216 · EducationMINORITY HEMP BUILDERS ASSOCIATION — $50,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI — $32,500 · EducationNuestras Raices Centro Comunitario DBA Nuestras Raices — $30,000 · EducationSPOKANE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $23,000 · EducationHIGHLINE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $23,000 · EducationSURGE INSTITUTE — $20,000 · EducationSUPPORTIVE CHILDCARE PROVIDER ALLIANCE SCPA — $20,000 · Education+1 more — $15,000 · EducationCommunity Carrot — $142,500 · Public BenefitEmerald Cities Collaborative Inc — $52,710 · Public BenefitUMOJA PEACE CENTER — $40,000 · Public BenefitFAMILY GUIDE — $15,000 · Public BenefitGLOBAL TO LOCAL HEALTH INITIATIVE — $139,788 · HealthCaring with Compassion Community — $92,000 · Health
Community Improvement$2,417,769Other$2,504,186Arts & Culture$694,160Human Services$561,657Education$459,716Public Benefit$250,210Health$231,788

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSEATTLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND BUSINESS IMPACT NW — $257,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetVENTURES — $246,216 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetTerrain Programs — $243,000 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetSeattle Good Business Network DBA Good Business Network of Washington — $200,500 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetTACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $180,338 over 3y, 54% of budgetGreater Seattle Business Association — $165,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetEL CENTRO DE LA RAZA — $163,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetZero Waste Washington — $159,837 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetCENTER FOR INCLUSIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP — $154,540 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetCommunity Carrot — $142,500 over 4y, 51% of budgetUrban Impact — $141,250 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetGLOBAL TO LOCAL HEALTH INITIATIVE — $139,788 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetRefugee Artisan Initative — $125,587 over 3y, 16% of budgetCENTRO CULTURAL MEXICANO — $121,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetNORTHWEST COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $117,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetONEREDMOND FOUNDATION — $115,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetWILLIAM M FACTORY SMALL BUSINESS INCUBATOR — $111,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetKITSAP COMMUNITY RESOURCES — $99,225 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSpokane Independent Metro Business Alliance — $97,860 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetURBAN BUSINESS SUPPORT — $96,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetRural Community Development Resources — $92,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCaring with Compassion Community — $92,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST TRIBAL LENDING FINANCIAL INSTITUTION — $85,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetTRI-CITIES DIVERSITY & INCLUSION COUNCIL — $83,282 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetNORTHWEST NATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND — $82,832 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTWISPWORKS FOUNDATION — $78,660 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetALLIANCE 2005 — $75,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetFILIPINO COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE — $73,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetVertueLab — $73,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetWASHINGTON AFRICAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $73,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetHISPANIC METROPOLITAN CHAMBER — $72,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetDISCOVER BURIEN ASSOCIATION — $67,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetCOLLABORATIVE EFFORT INC — $65,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetKITSAP ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE — $65,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetNORTHWEST NATIVE CHAMBER — $63,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMICRO ENTERPRISE SERVICES OF OREGON — $62,600 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCommunities Rise — $60,160 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTABOR 100 INC — $60,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetYAKIMA COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION dba NEW VISION FOUNDATION — $55,332 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetAsia Pacific Cultural Center — $55,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSEATTLE LATINO METROPOLITAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $55,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetCHEHALIS TRIBAL LOAN FUND — $55,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetEmerald Cities Collaborative Inc — $52,710 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNORTHWEST ACCESS FUND — $50,600 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetYAKIMA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS SPOKANE — $50,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetMINORITY HEMP BUILDERS ASSOCIATION — $50,000 over 2y, 99% of budgetCENTRAL AREA COLLABORATIVE — $50,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budget
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.

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.

Seattle FoundationCredit Unions in the …Inatai FoundationUmpqua Bank Charitabl…Philanthropy NorthwestArtsfundThe Norcliffe Foundat…School's Out Washingt…Kaiser Foundation Hea…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Northwest Harvest EmmThe Satterberg Founda…
Seattle FoundationWA63× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Inatai Foundation · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · Philanthropy Northwest · Artsfund · The Norcliffe Foundation · School's Out Washington · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Northwest Harvest Emm · The Satterberg Foundation Inc

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 Washington State Microenterprise Association 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 20%
  • Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
  • Regional Accelerator & Innovation Network — 20% of income from government
  • VertueLab — 12% of income from government
  • Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
50report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Washington State Microenterprise Association?

Find your warmest path to Washington State Microenterprise Association 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 132 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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