About Communities Rise
Partners for thriving organizations — build capacity, provide legal and technical assistance, and advance racial equity so community-led organizations and small businesses can thrive.
Focus Areas
nonprofit capacity buildingsmall business / microenterprise supportlegal services for nonprofits and microenterprisestrainings and workshops (fundraising, governance, legal compliance)pro bono volunteer coordination
Funding Style
capacity buildingorganizational developmenttechnical assistancetraining and professional development
Topics
nonprofit organizational capacity
About Communities Rise
Communities Rise centers its grantmaking on capacity building for community-led organizations and small businesses, with every listed recent grant going to U.S. recipients and 97% landing in Washington. The foundation’s recent awards show a repeated pattern of support for the same local organizations over multiple years, especially in Seattle-area communities. Its largest recent grant in the list was $85,000 to Byrd Barr Place for capacity building, followed by $53,200 to RVC Seattle for the same purpose. Several organizations also appear more than once, including Latino Community Fund of Washington State, Center for Ethical Leadership, Potlatch Fund, and Byrd Barr Place, each receiving support in both 2023 and 2024. That repeat funding suggests an emphasis on sustained organizational strengthening rather than one-time project grants. The foundation’s published focus areas also point to legal and technical assistance, trainings, fundraising, governance, and pro bono volunteer coordination, all aimed at helping community-serving groups build the infrastructure they need to operate effectively. The grant record includes recipients in Seattle, Renton, Burien, Tacoma, Tukwila, and Kent, reflecting a local portfolio concentrated in the Seattle region.
What Communities Rise Funds
The foundation’s work is anchored in nonprofit organizational capacity. In 2023, it gave $45,000 to Center for Ethical Leadership for capacity building, and in 2024 it repeated support with another $25,000 grant for the same purpose. A similar pattern appears with Potlatch Fund, which received $45,000 in 2023 and $25,000 in 2024. Communities Rise also supports community-based advocacy and service organizations; Puget Sound Sage received $40,000 in 2023 for capacity building. The portfolio includes support for organizations serving distinct communities and neighborhood networks, such as Pan African Community Services in Renton, Seattle Rideshare Drivers Association in Tukwila, and Skyway Tutoring & Rites of Passage in Renton, each funded at $8,000 in 2025. Across these grants, the consistent thread is infrastructure strengthening rather than project-specific program funding.
How Communities Rise Gives
Typical awards are modest to mid-sized: the p25 is $7,000, the median is $8,000, and the p75 is $25,000. The recent record also includes larger capacity-building grants in the $40,000 to $85,000 range. Several recipients appear across multiple years, which indicates repeated support rather than one-off funding; examples in the record recur from 2023 to 2024, and some organizations also reappear in 2025. Communities Rise is a public charity, and its grantmaking is local rather than national. The listed grants are all programmatically labeled capacity building, with no evidence in the data of an application process or unsolicited-grant channel.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$56K
Total Assets
$3M
Total Revenue
$1.7M
Total Expenses
$1.4M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $7K and $25K, with a median of $8K.
25th Percentile
$7K
Median
$8K
75th Percentile
$25K
Geographic Reach
Local2 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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