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CHAS Health Foundation

The mission of the CHAS Health Foundation is to promote healthy communities by strategically investing in patients, partners, and programs that support overall wellbeing.

$726k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

Health$138kEducation$67kFood & Nutrition$27kHuman Services$26kPhilanthropy$10kYouth Development$8k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $119,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $725,593 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $606,093 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $83k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Second Harvest Food Bank$12,000
InvestED$11,000
University of Idaho Foundation Inc$10,000
Vanessa Behan$10,000
Innovia Foundation$10,000
Eastern Washington University$10,000
Lewis-Clark State College$10,000
Community Colleges of Spokane Foundation$10,000
Partners Inland Northwest$8,000
Twin County United Way$7,500
Teen Closet$7,500
MSHH Donor Closet$7,500
Communities in Schools of Spokane County$6,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.

area typical 7%Partners Inland Northwest: $8k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$186k · 4 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
9

Total granted

$186k
$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+25%

Still filing today

75%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthFood & NutritionPhilanthropyCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther

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

  • Community Health Association of Spokane
    3× · 2021–2023 · $121k · revenue +54%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST
    2× · 2023–2024 · $27k · revenue +11%
  • EW
    EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k

Funded once

  • I
    INVESTEDgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $11k · revenue +168%
  • UO
    University of Idaho Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +19%
  • SC
    SPOKANE COLLEGES FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +136%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Innovation Spokane Schools

To prepare a diverse range of students for a life of learning in post-secondary education, citizenship, and leadership.

Education
2
Spokane Parks Foundation

The Spokane Parks Foundation cultivates the health, growth, and continued enjoyment of our communities by inspiring giving and passion for our parks.

3
Community Foundation of Snohomish County

The Community Foundation of Snohomish County (the Foundation) is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization incorporated under the laws of the State of Washington. The Foundation serves as a community foundation, supporting a broad spectrum of…

Philanthropy
4
Visit Spokane

The mission of Visit Spokane is to help promote economic development for Spokane County through tourism and tourism promotion.

5
United Way of Spokane County

The mission of Spokane County United Way is to mobilize our community resources to create measurable results that improve the lives of the people living in our community and advance the idea of the common good. (Continued on Schedule O)Our…

Philanthropy
6
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
7
Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce

The Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce, dba Greater Spokane, Incorporated, primary mission is to lead transformative business and community initiatives to build a robust regional economy.

8
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences

Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences educates and trains health care professionals emphasizing service among rural and medically under-served communities throughout the Northwest.

Education
9
Leadership Spokane

We are a catalyst - educating and uniting diverse, collaborative leaders to ensure a vibrant Spokane.

Public Benefit
10
Tenino Community Service Center

Tenino Community Service Center/Tenino Food Bank Plus is a deep-rooted community-based service center dedicated to feeding those within the Tenino school district (Tenino and Bucoda) that may be disadvantaged. In addition, it is our…

Food & Nutrition
11
Foundation for the Seattle Colleges

The Foundation for the Seattle Colleges exists to advance fundraising efforts for the Seattle Community College District. We seek to attract financial resources which support students so they may be successful; maintain the quality and…

12
Communities in Schools of Puyallup

The mission of communities in schools of puyallup (cisp) is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partners Inland Northwest and the most unlike its peers is Mshh Donor Closet. 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Community Health Association of Spokane — $120,986 · HealthCommunity Health Association of SpokaneMSHH DONOR CLOSET — $17,250 · HealthMSHH DONOR CLOSETEASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · OtherEASTERN WASHING…LEWIS-CLARK STATE COLLEGE — $10,000 · OtherLEWIS-CLARK STA…TWIN COUNTY UNITED WAY INC — $7,500 · OtherTWIN COUNTY UNI…University of Idaho Foundation Inc — $10,000 · EducationUniversity of…SPOKANE COLLEGES FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationSPOKANE COLLE…Teen Closet — $7,500 · EducationTeen ClosetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SPOKANE COUNTY — $6,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES I…SECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST — $27,270 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARV…INVESTED — $11,000 · PhilanthropyInnovia Foundation — $10,000 · PhilanthropyVANESSA BEHAN — $10,000 · Crime & LegalPARTNERS INLAND NORTHWEST — $8,000 · Human Services
Health$138,236Other$37,500Education$33,500Food & Nutrition$27,270Philanthropy$21,000Crime & Legal$10,000Human Services$8,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCommunity Health Association of Spokane — $120,986 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST — $27,270 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMSHH DONOR CLOSET — $17,250 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetINVESTED — $11,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetInnovia Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Idaho Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPOKANE COLLEGES FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVANESSA BEHAN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARTNERS INLAND NORTHWEST — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTWIN COUNTY UNITED WAY INC — $7,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTeen Closet — $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SPOKANE COUNTY — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

The Avista FoundationWA21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Avista Foundation · Innovia Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Women Helping Women Fund · Numerica Credit Union · Project Beauty Share · Multicare Health System · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 CHAS Health Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to CHAS Health Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to CHAS Health Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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