TAAF Cities · SeattleChinatown-International District pilotRunning on Runline Essentials

The businesses you help, finally legible.

Every shop in the pilot runs on Runline Essentials — free financials, grant requests, operations, and light automations. Because they do, TAAF sees how the neighborhood is actually doing. Consent-first: aggregate here, plus whatever each business chooses to share.

Businesses served14on Runline Essentials
Jobs supported85across the cohort
Accounts opened8at a partner CU
Grants disbursed$75Klanded in businesses
Grant pipeline$150Ksubmitted · in review · approved
Hours saved / mo50back to the owners

Cohort revenue, last 6 months

Combined monthly revenue across the 14 businesses on Essentials.

$515,649/mo
+15%
MayJunJulAugSepOct

Businesses by district

Where the cohort sits across the C-ID.

Chinatown5
Japantown (Nihonmachi)4
Little Saigon5

Grant pipeline

Requests flowing through Essentials, by stage.

Draft2 · $35K
Submitted1 · $35K
In review2 · $70K
Approved1 · $45K
Disbursed2 · $75K

Business health

A live read, not a year-end survey.

Thriving4Stable6Watch2Newly onboarded2

By sector

The mix of the neighborhood's Main Street.

Restaurant3
Grocery3
Retail3
Bakery1
Cafe / Tea1
Salon / Beauty1
Wellness1
Services1

Capital behind the pilot

TAAF administers; the money comes from many. Essentials traces where it lands.

$1,000,000
TAAF Cities$300Kfoundation
City of Seattle$250Kgovernment
Asian American Voices Fund$150Kindividual
Amazon$120Kcorporate
WA State (SSBCI)$180Kstate

Businesses on Essentials

Click any business to open its Runline Essentials account.

Insight you've never had — earned, not extracted.

None of this is a form a business had to fill out. It's the byproduct of real tools they use for free. The owner owns their data; TAAF sees aggregate plus whatever each business chooses to share (grant requests, by definition, are shared). Every grant dollar is traceable from funder to storefront.