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AFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST

AFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST (Washington) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,021,445 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($603,310). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$7.2M
Funders on record
47
Grants received
$5.0M
Net assets
$3.2M
21/47 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 62%
01What it does

What Africatown Community Land Trust does

Mission

Acquire, steward, develop land assets in the greater Seattle area to preserve and support Seattles Black/African diaspora community. Work with local stakeholders and the City of Seattle to provide affordable housing for vulnerable, disadvantaged Seattle residents.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Africatown Community Land Trust (ACLT) completed a $13.8 million acquisition of the former Keiro Rehabilitation Center, a full block in the heart of the Central District previously slated for market-rate development. In the midst of Seattles homelessness crisis, Benu Community Home made use of the existing facilities and established a culturally responsive shelter focused on reducing the disproportionate over-representation of unsheltered, Black men within the population. ACLT received funding from City of Seattle Human Services Department and King County Regional Homeless Authority. Hosted several community listening and outreach sessions to address concerns and discuss plans for Benu Community Home. Benu Community Home staff welcomed its first group of 30 community residents on December 1st 2021. For 2024, 190 individuals have been served, 116 Individuals got housing and 54 individuals got a temporary housing.

    $4,280,993 spent
    68% of program spending
  2. The organizations other program service activities include Africatown Plaza, Youth Achievement Center, South Walker and community events

    $1,517,338 spent
    24% of program spending
  3. The William Grose Center was revitalized, transformed, and officially opened its doors in the summer of 2022. WGC engages, empowers, and uplifts Seattles Black community by providing necessary resources- through the amplification of physical, intellectual and cultural assets-to break into new and emerging industries. The Center continues to function as a hub for entrepreneurship and small business development while serving as a nexus for innovation in Seattles Central District. WGC provided various programs to youth and adults in the community. Some of those programs included 7 Mad construction architecture workshops, 14 Time Armor Hackathon & Workshops, 17 Media Content, 15 Summer University Shirt workshops, 13 Summer of Sensors, 12 Smart Farming Summer Program: AI in Hydroponics & Vertical Farming, 24 FIUTS SUSI, 12 Virtual reality, 12 AI business development and 18 Worlds food cooking class.

    $503,716 spent
    8% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,302,047.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($162k) Expenses 100 ($182k) Net assets -43 ($-20605)2019 Revenue 270 ($436k) Expenses 202 ($368k) Net assets 100 ($48k)2020 Revenue 1068 ($1.7M) Expenses 704 ($1.3M) Net assets 1026 ($492k)2021 Revenue 2975 ($4.8M) Expenses 1142 ($2.1M) Net assets 6598 ($3.2M)2022 Revenue 4927 ($8.0M) Expenses 4025 ($7.3M) Net assets 7883 ($3.8M)2023 Revenue 4403 ($7.1M) Expenses 3981 ($7.3M) Net assets 9375 ($4.5M)2024 Revenue 4456 ($7.2M) Expenses 4295 ($7.8M) Net assets 6716 ($3.2M)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (4456)Expenses (4295)Net assets (6716)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.0M to $19M (+833%).

$1.3M
$1.4M
$2.0M
$19M
$19M
$20M
$21M
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 0% · 2021 40% · 2022 72% · 2023 73% · 2024 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of AFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$21k
’18
$69k
’19
$444k
’20
$2.7M
’21
$630k
’22
−$139k
’23
−$625k
’24
1.0
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

K Wyking Garrett

Chief Executive Officer

Board chair

Jacqueline Armstrong

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed6610109107
Joined·+0+4+1+1+2+3
No longer listed·001216
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 14 funders, grant income rose $100k → $1.1M.

8 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of AFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

AFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

81% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST.

12%
largest funder
30%
top three
~16
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 53% · 2020 47% · 2021 21% · 2022 24% · 2023 21% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

24% of AFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

51% of AFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST's grant income comes from Washington funders.

WA
IL
NY
OR
OH
NJ
CA
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DE
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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

AFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,978 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−9% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)88% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,978 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding AFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.2M on record.

Federal$3.2M
grants $3.2Mcontracts $0
23
24
Top agencies
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.0M
  • Department of Agriculture$200k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like AFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 17%Fundraising 2%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

83%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • South Walker LLC · disregarded
  • 1601 Yesler LLC · disregarded
  • Africatown Community Loan Fund · disregarded
  • Africatown Commercial I LLC · disregarded

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds AFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST?
AFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST (Washington) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,021,445 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($603,310). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST have?
IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $5,021,445 in grants to AFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $603,310 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 47 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing