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Chuckanut Health Foundation

To further charitable, scientific and educational activities that strengthen and advance individual and community health in whatcom county.

$524k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Health$1.1MHuman Services$546kHousing & Shelter$325kEducation$283kCrime & Legal$136kYouth Development$122kFood & Nutrition$91kRecreation & Sports$61kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 20 grants below total $390,040 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $524,471 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $134,431 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 · $31k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $294k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SKOOKUM KIDS$65,200
VAMOS OUTDOORS PROJECT$45,000
NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES$32,700
BELLINGHAM BAY ROTARY FOUNDATION$30,000
NAMI OF WHATCOM COUNTY$25,000
WHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$24,000
CASCADE MEDICAL ADVANTAGE$20,750
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WHATCOM COUNTY$20,000
HEALTH MINISTRIES NETWORK$17,500
DEMENTIA SUPPORT NORTHWEST$15,000
CASCADIA INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FILM FESTIVAL$15,000
FERNDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT$14,750
WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$14,340
OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL$10,000
MOUNT BAKER THEATER$10,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $662k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 9%SKOOKUM KIDS: $65k → 12%Skookum Kids: $40k → 12%ANIMALS AS NATURAL THERAPY: $30k → 12%ANIMALS AS NATURAL THERAPY: $21k → 12%SKOOKUM KIDS: $15k → 12%ANIMALS AS NATURAL THERAPY: $9k → 12%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $70k → 12%OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $44k → 12%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $33k → 12%WHATCOM FAMILY YMCA: $30k → 12%WHATCOM CO COUNCIL ON AGING: $30k → 12%SKOOKUM KIDS: $29k → 12%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $25k → 12%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $25k → 12%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $25k → 12%SKOOKUM KIDS: $25k → 12%Opportunity Council: $20k → 12%WHATCOM COUNCIL ON AGING: $20k → 12%WHATCOM COUNCIL ON AGING: $15k → 12%OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $11k → 12%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 12%OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $10k → 12%OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $10k → 12%BRIGID COLLINS: $8k → 12%Whatcom Council on Aging: $8k → 12%WHATCOM FAMILY YMCA: $8k → 12%WHATCOM COUNCIL ON AGING: $5k → 12%WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $1k → 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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 26 repeat orgs$713k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +86% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
28

Total granted

$2.1M
$533k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+86%
0%

Still filing today

92%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $181k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • LP
    LYDIA PLACE
    4× · 2017–2022 · $191k · revenue +143%
  • NY
    NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES
    5× · 2017–2024 · $188k · revenue +157%
  • UC
    UNITY CARE NORTHWEST
    3× · 2017–2021 · $179k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • KK
    Kornerstone Kids PS
    one grant, 2018 · $70k · revenue -103%
  • LF
    LHAQ'TEMISH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -7%
  • TB
    THE BELLINGHAM PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +7%

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
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
2
Whatcom Mountain Bike Coalition

Whatcom Mountain Bike Coalition's (WMBC) mission is to preserve and enhance non-motorized trail access in Whatcom County through stewardship, education and advocacy.WMBC is a federal non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. We work with many…

Recreation & Sports
3
Whatcom Land Trust

The mission of the Whatcom Land Trust is to preserve and protect wildlife habitat, scenic, agricultural and open space lands in Whatcom County for future generations by securing interests in land and promoting land stewardship.

Environment
4
Washington Health Care Association

Trade association dedicated to providing educational opportunities, legal and regulatory advice, quality compliance assistance, lobbying and discounted group member benefits for long-term care facilities.

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5
Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission

Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission is led by and for Indigenous people, and envisions a just society in which we are treated with honor, fairness and respect. Our mission is to uphold our individual civil rights through education…

Human Services
6
Allied Arts of Whatcom County

To sustain and enrich our community through the arts.

Arts & Culture
7
Futurewise

Futurewise works throughout Washington state to encourage healthy, equitable and opportunity-rich communities, and to protect our most valuable farmlands, forests and water resources through wise land use policies and practices.

Environment
8
Recovery Cafe Skagit

Provide a safe, healing, and restorative community that empowers long-term transformation through human connection for those recovering from the trauma of homelessness, addictions, and mental health challenges.

Education
9
Columbia Wellness

CARE. Commitment to improving quality of life. Advocacy for mental health and overall well-being. Response to community needs. Effective treatment with measurable outcomes.

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10
Whatcom Sports & Recreation

The whatcom sports commission is committed to develop and maintain athletic facilities of the highest standards for the benefit of the citizens of whatcom county.

Recreation & Sports
11
Project Access Northwest

Project Access Northwest provides low-income families access to medical, dental and Behavioral Health care so they can live a healthier and more productive life.

Health
12
Olympic Peninsula Community Clinic

Improving the quality of life for the people in the Olympic Peninsula Community by providing increased access to health and wellness services for the underserved

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Whatcom Council On Aging and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%4%<5yr15%11%5–10yr23%18%10–20yr18%33%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr12%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr15%10%5–10yr23%13%10–20yr18%39%20–35yr14%31%35–55yr12%6%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
3/64
the rest of the field
12%
146/1,203

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 64 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/59
Grantees still filing
36/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LYDIA PLACE — $190,500 · OtherLYDIA PLACEWHATCOM DISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER — $125,989 · OtherWHATCOM DISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTERHEALTH MINISTRIES NETWORK — $122,021 · OtherHEALTH MINISTRIES NETWORKOUR TREEHOUSE — $92,500 · OtherOUR TREEHOUSEAlzheimer Society of Washington — $87,945 · OtherAlzheimer Society of WashingtonCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF WHATCOM SKAGIT — $77,000 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF WHATCOM SKAGITWhatcom Center for Early Learning — $73,432 · OtherKornerstone Kids PS — $70,000 · OtherCOMPASS HEALTH — $61,400 · OtherWHATCOM COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT — $60,000 · Other+22 more — $417,305 · Other+22 moreNORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES — $187,700 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICESSkookum Kids — $174,270 · Human ServicesSkookum KidsOPPORTUNITY COUNCIL — $124,783 · Human ServicesOPPORTUNITY COUNCILWHATCOM COUNCIL ON AGING — $93,779 · Human ServicesWHATCOM COUNCIL ON AGINGANIMALS AS NATURAL THERAPY — $92,820 · Human ServicesANIMALS AS NATURAL THERAPYWHATCOM FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $37,500 · Human Services+2 more — $28,200 · Human ServicesUNITY CARE NORTHWEST — $178,600 · HealthUNITY CARE NO…Interfaith Coalition of Whatcom County — $30,000 · HealthInterfaith Co…NAMI of Whatcom County — $25,000 · HealthNAMI of Whatc…Cascade Medical Advantage — $20,750 · HealthCascade Medic…Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc — $20,000 · HealthFoundation fo…THE ARC OF WHATCOM COUNTY — $19,022 · HealthTHE ARC OF WH…NORTH SOUND ACCOUNTABLE COMMUNITY OF HEALTH — $15,000 · HealthWHATCOM CLUBHOUSE — $15,000 · Health+2 more — $18,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI — $50,175 · EducationWHATCOM COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $31,790 · EducationBellingham Technical College Foundation — $22,350 · EducationCOMMON THREADS FARM — $22,064 · EducationWHATCOM COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EducationWILD WHATCOM — $19,600 · EducationINTERGENERATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL — $10,000 · EducationBELLINGHAM BAY ROTARY FOUNDATION — $30,000 · PhilanthropyWHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $24,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WHATCOM COUNTY — $15,110 · PhilanthropyBELLINGHAM CENTRAL LIONS CLUB FOUNDATION — $15,000 · PhilanthropyVAMOS OUTDOORS PROJECT — $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentWHATCOM FAMILY & COMMUNITY NETWORK — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentLHAQ'TEMISH FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Public Benefit
Other$1,378,092Human Services$739,052Health$341,372Education$175,979Philanthropy$84,110Youth Development$70,000Public Benefit$50,000

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 budgetLYDIA PLACE — $190,500 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetNORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES — $187,700 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetUNITY CARE NORTHWEST — $178,600 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSkookum Kids — $174,270 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetWHATCOM DISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER — $125,989 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetOPPORTUNITY COUNCIL — $124,783 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWHATCOM COUNCIL ON AGING — $93,779 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetANIMALS AS NATURAL THERAPY — $92,820 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetOUR TREEHOUSE — $92,500 over 3y, 40% of budgetAlzheimer Society of Washington — $87,945 over 5y, 20% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF WHATCOM SKAGIT — $77,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetWhatcom Center for Early Learning — $73,432 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetKornerstone Kids PS — $70,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetCOMPASS HEALTH — $61,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI — $50,175 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVAMOS OUTDOORS PROJECT — $45,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetROAD2HOME — $45,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetREBOUND OF WHATCOM COUNTY — $40,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetWHATCOM FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $37,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWHATCOM ALLIANCE FOR HEALTHCARE ACCESS C/O CHUCKANUT HEALTH FDN — $35,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetMAX HIGBEE COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER — $33,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetWHATCOM COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $31,790 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBELLINGHAM BAY ROTARY FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetInterfaith Coalition of Whatcom County — $30,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetRECREATION NORTHWEST — $28,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetWHATCOM FAMILY & COMMUNITY NETWORK — $25,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetNW Hearts United — $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNAMI of Whatcom County — $25,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetWHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $24,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBellingham Technical College Foundation — $22,350 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMON THREADS FARM — $22,064 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetCascade Medical Advantage — $20,750 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMT BAKER PLANNED PARENTHOOD — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWHATCOM COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetWILD WHATCOM — $19,600 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetAlternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank — $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WHATCOM COUNTY — $15,110 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH SOUND ACCOUNTABLE COMMUNITY OF HEALTH — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBELLINGHAM INTL FILM FESTIVAL — $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBELLINGHAM CENTRAL LIONS CLUB FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERGENERATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCOLECTIVA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNT BAKER THEATRE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLIFELINE CONNECTIONS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGID COLLINS HOUSE — $8,200 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.

Whatcom Community Fou…Puget Sound Energy Fo…North Sound Accountab…Mount Baker FoundationPeaceHealthFirst Fed FoundationUnited Way of Whatcom…The Norcliffe Foundat…Eleanor and Henry Jan…Jerry H Walton Founda…The Albertsons Compan…Riverstyx Foundation
Whatcom Community FoundationWA97.4× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Whatcom Community Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · North Sound Accountable Community of Health · Mount Baker Foundation · PeaceHealth · First Fed Foundation · United Way of Whatcom County · The Norcliffe Foundation · Eleanor and Henry Jansen Foundation · Jerry H Walton Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Riverstyx 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 Chuckanut 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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 64 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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