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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.

$40M
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$595k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$18MHuman Services$7.2MCommunity Improvement$120kYouth Development$72kArts & Culture$59kPhilanthropy$38kReligion$15kCivil Rights$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $1,575,640, the rows itemized in this filing. The $40,073,454 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $38,497,814 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
$327,010
Median grant
1
States reached
$176M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $25k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $41k → 9%Neighborhood House inc: $35k → 9%Neighborhood House inc: $33k → 9%MOTHER NATION: $30k → 9%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $6k → 9%LATINO CIVIC ALLIANCE: $30k → 9%LATINO CIVIC ALLIANCE: $15k → 9%LATINO CIVIC ALLIANCE: $19k → 9%ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY: $80k → 9%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $80k → 9%ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY: $77k → 9%ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY: $76k → 9%ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY: $70k → 9%St Vincent dePaul Society: $65k → 9%St Vincent dePaul Society: $45k → 9%St Vincent dePaul Society: $8k → 9%YouthCare: $19k → 9%YouthCare: $7k → 9%Mother Nation: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26M · 16 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
6

Total granted

$26M
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+105%
+136%

Still filing today

50%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AH
    ARCHDIOCESAN HOUSING AUTHORITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $18M · revenue +254%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SPOKANE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $4.2M · revenue +105%
  • SO
    SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL O
    8× · 2017–2025 · $500k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SOPHIA WAYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $41k · revenue +152%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -24%
  • WS
    Washington State Rural Development Councilgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +592%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
House Our Neighbors

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…

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2
Welcome Home Coalition

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 Improvement
3
Seattle Indian Center
Human Services
4
Northwest Fair Housing Alliance

Northwest Fair Housing Alliance's mission is to support and promote equitable housing opportunities, eliminate housing discrimination, and ensure affordable and accessible housing in Washington State by providing education, outreach,…

Civil Rights
5
Community Roots Housing Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
6
Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund

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.

Housing & Shelter
7
Young Women's Christian Association of Bellingham

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.

Human Services
8
Solid Ground Washington

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…

Housing & Shelter
9
Martin Luther King Housing Development Association

We are a Community Based Organization that provides Affordable Housing, Emergency Shelter, Supportive Services and promotes Self-Sufficiency, Homeownership, Neighborhood Revitalization and Economic Development.

Housing & Shelter
10
Tacoma Community House

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.

Human Services
11
Tenants Union of Washington

The mission of the Tenants Union (TU) is to create housing justice through empowerment-based education, outreach, leadership development, organizing, and advocacy.

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12
Standing Against Foreclosure and Evictions

To advocate for the creation of fair housing in Seattle, and empowering communities through mutual aid.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Spokane; 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.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARCHDIOCESAN HOUSING AUTHORITY: $17,664,240 · Housing & ShelterARCHDIOCESAN HOUSING AUTHORITY+1 more: $297,279 · Housing & ShelterCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SPOKANE: $4,225,101 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF …SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL O: $499,958 · Human ServicesSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT …+8 more: $279,670 · Human Services+8 moreCATHOLIC FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES OF YAKIMA: $2,321,405 · OtherCATHOLIC FA…+8 more: $337,970 · Other+8 moreCommunities of Concern Commission: $40,000 · Community ImprovementWashington State Rural Development Council: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Housing & Shelter$17,961,519Human Services$5,004,729Other$2,659,375Community Improvement$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARCHDIOCESAN HOUSING AUTHORITY: $17,664,240 over 9y, 18% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SPOKANE: $4,225,101 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL O: $499,958 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetWASHINGTON HOUSING EQUITY ALLIANCE: $297,279 over 5y, 34% of budgetNeighborhood House INC: $68,258 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetProgreso - Latino Progress Alliance: $63,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetSomali Youth & Family Club: $41,943 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetTHE SOPHIA WAY: $40,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetUNITED INDIANS OF ALL TRIBES FOUNDATION: $37,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTHCARE: $26,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Seattle FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…Inatai FoundationUnited Way of King Co…Communities of Concer…Renton Regional Commu…Medina FoundationSchool's Out Washingt…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…
Seattle FoundationWA19.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Catholic Community Services of Western Washington funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Catholic Community Services of Western Washington. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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