About Compass Housing Alliance
Everyone Deserves A Home. Provide essential emergency services, enhanced shelters, and dignified, affordable housing with stability, growth, and community.
Focus Areas
Affordable housingEmergency shelter and non-congregate shelterDay services (hygiene, mail, showers, laundry)Veterans servicesSupportive permanent housingCase management and housing navigation
Who They Fund
low-income householdsresidents of affordable/assisted housing
Funding Style
operations supportrestricted/operational fundingdirect service sustainment
About Compass Housing Alliance
Compass Housing Alliance’s recent grantmaking is centered on low-income housing operations, with large operating awards tied to its own housing entities in Seattle. The biggest recent grant on file is $659,693 to Compass Center Ballard LLC for low income housing operations, followed by another $650,305 grant to the same recipient in 2025. A second housing entity, Compass at Ronald Commons LLC, also appears repeatedly in the grant record, showing a sustained pattern of support for housing operations rather than a broad mix of unrelated programs. The foundation’s own summary points to a service model that connects emergency support, shelter, and permanent housing: essential emergency services, enhanced shelters, dignified affordable housing, and stability through growth and community. That mix is reinforced by the named focus areas in the record, which include affordable housing, emergency shelter and non-congregate shelter, day services, veterans services, supportive permanent housing, and case management and housing navigation. The grant list shows this work expressed through operating support for housing properties and related services, with Seattle as the recipient location across the recent grants on file.
What Compass Housing Alliance Funds
The clearest cause area in the record is low-income housing operations. Compass Housing Alliance awarded $659,693 to Compass Center Ballard LLC in 2024 for low income housing operations, and the same recipient received another $650,305 in 2025 for the same purpose. A separate housing entity, Compass at Ronald Commons LLC, also received operating support for low income housing operations. Their stated focus areas add more texture. Affordable housing appears alongside supportive permanent housing, suggesting an emphasis on keeping housing stable after placement. Emergency shelter and non-congregate shelter point to short-term housing response, while day services such as hygiene, mail, showers, and laundry indicate practical supports for residents. Veterans services and case management and housing navigation round out a model that combines housing with direct service support.
How Compass Housing Alliance Gives
Recent grant sizes are substantial: the typical grant range sits at $105,813 at the 25th percentile, $377,510 at the median, and $643,809 at the 75th percentile. The record also shows repeat support across years, not one-off awards. Compass Center Ballard LLC appears in both 2024 and 2025, and Compass at Ronald Commons LLC appears in 2024 and 2025 as well, which indicates ongoing operational funding. The foundation is a local funder, gives in Washington, and the grant record reflects restricted or operational funding tied to housing operations and direct service sustainment. It also makes program-related investments.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$754K
Total Assets
$41M
Total Revenue
$21M
Total Expenses
$21.2M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $106K and $644K, with a median of $378K.
25th Percentile
$106K
Median
$378K
75th Percentile
$644K
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
About 100% of grants go to recipients in WA.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
CHRISTOPHER ROSS
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