Washington · Nonprofit
FOURTH PLAIN FORWARD
FOURTH PLAIN FORWARD (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $986,260 to it, the largest being INATAI FOUNDATION ($235,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $986k
- Net assets
- $654k
What Fourth Plain Forward does
Mission
"Fourth Plain Forward supports the success of small businesses, promotes the unique identity of the international district, advocates for fourth plain residents' interests and serves as a resource hub for the community
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Fourth Plain Forward continued to provide services to the local community. We continued to improve business success rates by supporting recently formed businesses to assist them in achieving long-term sustainability and have established a revolving laon fund to provide accessible business loans for local entrepreneurs facing systemic barriers to financing;provided educational opportunities by offering clark college students hands-on experience in entrepreneuership through our cdbg-funded small business management program; provided comprehensive support services to the community through networking, mentoring, training, technical assistance, and customized services to local businesses at the new community commons to create a more diverse and resilient economy and launched a new climate adaptation program to coordinate public and county planning processes to ensure the community's inclusion in climate and land-use decisions;began an affordable and supportive housing program to acquire, renovate, and manage affordable housing units, including specialized units for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, students, and households with lower incomes.
$1,868,909 spent$1,643,185 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,868,909.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $312k to $779k (+150%).
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: 2020 57% · 2023 26% · 2024 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of FOURTH PLAIN FORWARD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Paul Burgess
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $40k → $70k.
1 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 FOURTH PLAIN FORWARD’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
FOURTH PLAIN FORWARD has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
76% 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 FOURTH PLAIN FORWARD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 63% · 2021 70% · 2022 100% · 2023 71% — growing more concentrated.
“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
20% of FOURTH PLAIN FORWARD's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 25% 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 FOURTH PLAIN FORWARD's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $125k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
FOURTH PLAIN FORWARD has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like FOURTH PLAIN FORWARD
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOURTH PLAIN FORWARD: 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 FOURTH PLAIN FORWARD?
- FOURTH PLAIN FORWARD (Washington) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $986,260 to it, the largest being INATAI FOUNDATION ($235,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOURTH PLAIN FORWARD have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $986,260 in grants to FOURTH PLAIN FORWARD, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOURTH PLAIN FORWARD?
- INATAI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $235,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOURTH PLAIN FORWARD 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 12 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