Washington · Nonprofit
Community Roots Housing Foundation
Community Roots Housing Foundation (Washington) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,548,841 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($4,000,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $9.5M
- Net assets
- $596k
What Community Roots Housing Foundation does
Mission
Community Roots Housing Foundation is a 501(c)(3) raising funds to support Community Roots Housing, a Seattle-area public development authority that creates inclusive housing and fosters thriving, just communities. (See Schedule O for further detail)
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
In October 2023, the Capitol Hill EcoDistrict, a community development program of Community Roots Housing, transitioned ownership and became a program of a completely separate organization: the Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle. Accordingly, the Community Roots Housing Foundation ceased fundraising and grantmaking activity supporting the program in early 2024.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
The Foundation is the backbone organization for a collaborative $45 million capital campaign called Rise Together, which kicked off in December 2017. The campaign, led by six partner organizations, is supporting six equitable development projects in the Seattle area that address urgent neighborhood issues including housing affordability, displacement, community health, economic development, and cultural preservation. Much of the capital funds are flowing through the Foundation, though a significant portion is also being secured by campaign partners. The campaign has led to the largest private gifts in the Foundations history, including multi-million-dollar grants.
$1,100,000 spentof which $1,100,000 as grants54% of program spendingThe Foundation undertakes annual fundraising for unrestricted funds to support Community Roots general operating needs as well as restricted funding to support Community Roots programs. Unrestricted funds support Community Roots core activities in the Seattle area building new affordable homes for low-income individuals and families as well as operating and maintaining an existing portfolio of nearly 2,000 affordable homes for almost 2,200 residents.
$727,321 spentof which $727,321 as grants36% of program spendingIn 2023, we launched a fundraising campaign for a new iteration of the rental assistance program called the Housing Stabilization Program, which not only provides one-time rental assistance, but couples it with one-on-one support that aims to address the root causes of each household's economic stability. We continued to raise and deploy funds for this program in 2024.In early 2024, the Foundation made final grants related to the Capitol Hill EcoDistrict, a former program of Community Roots Housing that was permanently relocated to a new organization, the Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle (ULMS), in fall 2023. This included grants to ULMs as well as to partners of the Capitol Hill EcoDistrict such as Birds Connect Seattle and Seattle Arts & Music Group, and Velocity Dance Center.Lastly, we made a special nutrition assistance grant to support Community Roots residents.
$152,351 spentof which $152,351 as grants8% of program spendingThe Foundation mobilizes restricted funds to support Community Roots Housing's Resident Services program. Resident Services partners with residents to encourage successful tenancy and housing stability through resource and referral services, supportive programming, and community engagement opportunities. The program is grounded in the belief that when residents have access to the services and support they need to thrive and not just survive, it creates cascading impacts of housing stability, resiliency, and community connectedness.
$46,500 spentof which $46,500 as grants2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,026,172.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
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 $2.1M to $1.1M (−48%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 7% · 2022 7% · 2023 7% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
110% of Community Roots Housing Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $239k → $1.6M.
8 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 Community Roots Housing Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
Community Roots Housing Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 Community Roots Housing Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 40% · 2019 74% · 2020 80% · 2021 24% · 2022 42% · 2023 31% — 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
38% of Community Roots Housing Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
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
80% of Community Roots Housing Foundation's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
Community Roots Housing Foundation's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Community Roots Housing Foundation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $400k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$300k
- National Endowment for the Arts$100k
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 Community Roots Housing Foundation
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.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Community Roots Housing Foundation: 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 Community Roots Housing Foundation?
- Community Roots Housing Foundation (Washington) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,548,841 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($4,000,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Community Roots Housing Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $9,548,841 in grants to Community Roots Housing Foundation, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Community Roots Housing Foundation?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Community Roots Housing Foundation 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 36 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing