Genesee Housing

Genesee Housing is not a conventional grantmaking foundation — it is the single-asset title-holding nonprofit for The Genesee, a 50-unit affordable apartment building in Seattle's Rainier Valley/Columbia City neighborhood, developed and managed by Bellwether Housing (EIN 91-1116960) out of the same 433 Minor Ave N headquarters. IRS Business Master File data classifies it as a non-operating private foundation and this database's automated enrichment marks it is_grantmaker: true, but the underlying record does not support that label: 'grants paid' is reported as exactly $0 in every year on file (2012-2023), and the matched grantee list is empty (zero grants, no state breakdown, no average award size). The pattern is typical of HUD Section 811 / LIHTC single-property ownership structures, where a small nonprofit or HDFC-style entity holds title to one building for tax and compliance reasons while the parent organization runs the actual program and fundraising. Nonprofits looking for grant funding should not budget outreach time pursuing Genesee Housing as a funder — there is no discoverable LOI process, RFP, open cycle, or grants officer, and application_instructions in the source record literally reads '__none__.' The five board seats (President Yvette Watkins, Vice President Aki Amanuel, Secretary-Treasurer Muslim Man, and directors Bobby Musterman, Kellanne Henry, Debra Monroe, Michelle Hawley) all show $0 compensation, consistent with an unpaid volunteer board overseeing one real-estate asset rather than a program-review committee. Organizations with a genuine reason to engage fall into two categories: disability-services or housing-placement providers seeking a referral relationship for the building's 22 HUD PRAC-811 subsidized units, and organizations cultivating Bellwether Housing itself as a philanthropic partner (Bellwether runs public donor events, including a 2026 'Closer to Home' luncheon, and operates 35+ properties serving roughly 7,000 residents annually). Either path routes to Bellwether Housing's central office, not to Genesee Housing as a standalone funder.

Total assets moved from a flat $2.75-2.83M band in 2012-2019 to $2.84M in 2020, then nearly doubled to $5.31M in 2021 — a step change consistent with a capital event (construction financing, refinance, or capital contribution tied to The Genesee's completion) rather than gradual accumulation. Assets have since declined modestly to $5.16M (2022), $4.99M (2023), and $4.95M (2024). Total revenue shows the same inflection: roughly $70,400/year from 2012-2015, cratering to $10,445-$10,698 in 2019-2020 (a pre-operational lull), then jumping to $541,041 (2021), $532,364 (2022), $549,344 (2023), and $630,870 (2024) — about a 60x increase from the 2019-2020 trough, tracking the building's transition from 'future/pre-leasing' status (as late as a June 2022 property-page snapshot) to full operation. 'Total giving,' the figure this database surfaces as grantmaking, followed the same curve: $120,480-$160,285/year in 2014-2019, then $690,654 (2021), $687,585 (2022), and $757,071 (2023) — roughly a 4-5x jump on the same timeline. Critically, 'grants paid' is recorded as exactly $0 in every single year with data, meaning this rising 'total giving' line is almost certainly program/operating expenditure — HUD PRAC-811 subsidy administration, property operations, and service-coordination costs tied to the building's 22 subsidized units — rather than discretionary charitable grants issued to outside organizations. There is no program-area or geographic breakdown to report because the matched grantee list contains zero entries (avg_amount: null, total_grants: 0). Contributions received have been $0 in every year since 2015, meaning the entity does not fundraise from the public and has no independent revenue stream apart from its real estate operations. Officer and director compensation is $0 across all reported years. In short: there is no conventional 'funding pattern' — median grant size, program split, or geographic distribution — because the public record shows no grants issued.

Genesee Housing's $4.95M in assets places it squarely inside a tight band of five NTEE-coded 'Human Services' peers, all between $4.89M and $5.06M — but the naming conventions across that peer set ("Affordable Housing Inc.," and a New York "HDFC," a statutory structure used almost exclusively for tax-abated, single-building affordable housing corporations) point to the same underlying pattern seen here: small, single-asset housing title-holding nonprofits filed as private foundations rather than active community or family foundations issuing competitive grants.

Only one of the five peers, Bethel Corporation, maintains a discoverable public website, and none show an identifiable public grants program in this dataset. Grant seekers scanning small 'Human Services' foundations by asset size in the $4.9-5.1M range — particularly under the L20 (Housing Development, Construction, Management) NTEE subcode — should expect this entire size band to be dominated by non-grantmaking real estate entities, and should verify a candidate funder has an actual grants-paid history before investing outreach time.

No 2025-2026 news coverage specific to 'Genesee Housing' (EIN 91-2169417) surfaced in any search performed. Nearly all web results for the name concern the unrelated Genesee County, Michigan housing ecosystem — the Genesee County Land Bank Authority's 'Renovate Genesee' rehab initiative (125 homes over four years, backed by $1.125M from MSHDA and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, announced June 2026), a $1.7M MSHDA roof-revitalization grant, and Governor Whitmer's February 2026 redevelopment announcements — none of which involve this Seattle nonprofit. This naming collision is worth flagging explicitly so applicants don't misdirect correspondence or assume shared funding priorities.

On the entity's own activity: the property it exists to own, The Genesee (4425 Martin Luther King Jr Way S, Rainier Valley/Columbia City), was still listed as a 'future building' not yet accepting applications as of a June 2022 snapshot of Bellwether Housing's property pages. It has since become an active, operating building; its current leasing site describes 22 of its 50 units as HUD Section 811 PRAC-subsidized housing for adults with disabilities, with approved residents paying 30% of adjusted income. No leadership changes, program announcements, or grant awards tied to 'Genesee Housing' itself appeared anywhere in 2025-2026 search results. The one active news thread near this entity belongs to its parent, Bellwether Housing, which is currently promoting a 2026 'Closer to Home' fundraising luncheon and reports operating 35+ properties for roughly 7,000 residents annually with a stated goal of doubling its portfolio — signaling that whatever philanthropic momentum exists in this corner of Seattle affordable housing sits with the parent, not the subsidiary.

There is no discoverable grant application process for Genesee Housing — not on its own web presence, not in Candid/GrantAdvance funder profiles (which returned no usable content beyond a page title), and not in the underlying 990-PF data, which shows $0 in 'grants paid' every year on record and application_instructions stored as the literal placeholder '__none__.' Treat the database's accepting_applications: true flag as an unverified default from automated enrichment, not confirmation of an active program — do not build outreach plans around it.

Do not prepare or submit a general nonprofit grant proposal to 'Genesee Housing.' There is no grants officer, no described review committee, and all five board members (President, Vice President, Secretary-Treasurer, and two directors) show $0 compensation — a strong signal this is a volunteer real-estate governance board, not a funding decision body.

If your organization provides disability services, home- and community-based care, or homelessness-prevention case management and wants a referral or co-location relationship tied to The Genesee's 22 HUD PRAC-811 units, the actionable path is Bellwether Housing's resident-services team, not a grant application: call (206) 623-0506 (433 Minor Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109) or reach the property directly at genesee@bellwetherhousing.org / (206) 725-1708.

If you are cultivating philanthropic partners for HUD Section 811-adjacent work (accessibility retrofits, service-coordination funding, affordable housing development in Seattle/King County), direct that relationship-building at Bellwether Housing itself, which runs public donor events (its 2026 'Closer to Home' luncheon) and holds any discretionary funds — not at this single-asset subsidiary.

The most common mistake to avoid: confusing this Seattle, WA nonprofit with Genesee County, Michigan's housing programs (Land Bank Authority, Habitat for Humanity chapter, MSHDA grants), which generate the overwhelming majority of 'Genesee housing' search results, or with the Flint/Genesee County Continuum of Care in Flint, MI — a third, also-unrelated organization that the database's listed website (geneseehousing.org) currently resolves to. Verify the EIN (91-2169417) and Seattle address on any correspondence before sending it. Bottom line for grant writers: log this record as not a viable funding prospect and redirect research time to active Pacific Northwest housing/human-services funders or national HUD Section 811 service-coordination grant programs instead.