· Public charity
Catholic Community Services of Western Washington
The purpose of ccsww is to minister to the needs of individuals, families, and groups in western washington who are poor, troubled or otherwise in need, with a broad range of interrelated services.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $1,575,640 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $40,073,454 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $38,497,814 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARCHDIOCESAN HOUSING AUTHORITY | $595,391 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SPOKANE | $503,239 |
| CATHOLIC FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES OF YAKIMA | $327,010 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY | $80,000 |
| COMMUNITIES OF CONCERN COMMISSION | $40,000 |
| MOTHER NATION | $30,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $770k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
16 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- AHARCHDIOCESAN HOUSING AUTHORITY9× · 2017–2025 · $18M · revenue +254%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SPOKANE8× · 2017–2025 · $4.2M · revenue +105%
- SOSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL O8× · 2017–2025 · $500k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- TSTHE SOPHIA WAYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $41k · revenue +152%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAIIone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -24%
- WSWashington State Rural Development Councilgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +592%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…
Welcome Home is a diverse coalition in the Portland metropolitan region that uses its collective resources to create healthy communities by ensuring everyone has an affordable and stable home. We use community education and collaboration…
Community Roots Housing Foundation is a 501(c)(3) raising funds to support Community Roots Housing, a Seattle-area public development authority that creates inclusive housing and fosters thriving, just communities. (See Schedule O for…
The Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund elects candidates, educates voters and decision-makers, and amplifies the voices and priorities of people and communities most impacted by housing instability and homelessness.
YWCA Bellingham is part of a national network of programs with the shared mission of eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, and freedom for all.
At Solid Ground, we work passionately to end poverty and build a more equitable community. Our services support people experiencing poverty by helping them achieve stability and expand their skills to realize their dreams. And that's just…
We are a Community Based Organization that provides Affordable Housing, Emergency Shelter, Supportive Services and promotes Self-Sufficiency, Homeownership, Neighborhood Revitalization and Economic Development.
Tacoma Community House creates opportunities for immigrants, refugees and other community members in the Puget Sound regions through comprehensive services focused on self-sufficiency, inclusion and advocacy.
The mission of the Tenants Union (TU) is to create housing justice through empowerment-based education, outreach, leadership development, organizing, and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Spokane and the most unlike its peers is Somali Youth & Family Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ARCHDIOCESAN HOUSING AUTHORITY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SPOKANE ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL O ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON HOUSING EQUITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood House INC ↗
- Who funds Progreso - Latino Progress Alliance ↗
- Who funds Somali Youth & Family Club ↗
- Who funds THE SOPHIA WAY ↗
- Who funds Mother Nation ↗
- Who funds Communities of Concern Commission ↗
- Who funds UNITED INDIANS OF ALL TRIBES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII ↗
- Who funds Washington State Rural Development Council ↗
- Who funds Seattle Housing and Resource Effort ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Inatai Foundation · United Way of King County · Communities of Concern Commission · Renton Regional Community Fndn · Medina Foundation · School's Out Washington · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Catholic Community Services of Western Washington funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.