Washington · Nonprofit
RVC SEATTLE
RVC SEATTLE (Washington) receives grants from 136 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,199,417 to it, the largest being THE SATTERBERG FOUNDATION INC ($7,166,723). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 136
- Grants received
- $43M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Rvc Seattle does
Mission
Rooted in vibrant communities (rvc) promotes social justice by cultivating leaders of color, strengthening organizations led by communities of color, and fostering collaboration between diverse communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Creative justice - is an organization that provides a space for youth impacted by the criminal justice system and the school-to-prison-to-deportation pipeline. Through a community of participants and mentor artists working together to explore the root causes of incarceration, art is used as a vehicle to amplify their voices and promote change.
$2,123,356 spentof which $133,508 as grants$22,385 earned by the program13% of program spendingCollective justice - is an organization that provides a space for youth impacted by the criminal justice system and the school-to-prison-to-deportation pipeline. Through a community of participants and mentor artists working together to explore the root causes of incarceration, art is used as a vehicle to amplify their voices and promote change.
$1,715,966 spentof which $126,412 as grants$11,404 earned by the program10% of program spendingRestorative community pathways (rcp) - is an organization that provides a comprehensive community-led response to harm, offered instead of prosecution. Rcp aims to meet the individualized needs of both the youth accused of causing harm as well as the person who experienced harm. It provides reparative accountability, connects participants with culturally meaningful supports and resources, and promotes community healing. Rcp seeks to provide healing and restoration for all parties and support those harmed, giving voice to their needs.
$1,595,165 spentof which $255,690 as grants10% of program spendingAll other programs include operations support, mujer al volante, partners for educational reform and student success, all girl everything ultimate program, washington building leaders of change, first five years and beyond, surge reproductive justice, renton innovation zone partnership, the good foot arts collective, skyway coalition, youth speaks, one vibe africa, alphabet alliance of color, ala garifuna women, families of color seattle and somos seattle.
$11,082,341 spentof which $1,212,004 as grants$116,962 earned by the program67% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,516,828.
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 2021 to 2022, from $12M to $21M (+79%).
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 16% · 2018 16% · 2019 26% · 2020 20% · 2021 24% · 2022 23% · 2023 38% · 2024 65% · 2025 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of RVC SEATTLE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
James W Lovell
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 51 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $6.2M.
26 of 136 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 RVC SEATTLE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 136 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
RVC SEATTLE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
62% 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 RVC SEATTLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 32% · 2019 24% · 2020 27% · 2021 24% · 2022 20% · 2023 14% — 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
41% of RVC SEATTLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
88% of RVC SEATTLE's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
RVC SEATTLE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 366 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 366 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like RVC SEATTLE
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 RVC SEATTLE: 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 RVC SEATTLE?
- RVC SEATTLE (Washington) receives grants from 136 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,199,417 to it, the largest being THE SATTERBERG FOUNDATION INC ($7,166,723). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RVC SEATTLE have?
- IRS filings report 136 organizations giving $43,199,417 in grants to RVC SEATTLE, 73 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RVC SEATTLE?
- THE SATTERBERG FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,166,723 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RVC SEATTLE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 136 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