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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $390,040, the rows itemized in this filing. The $524,471 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $134,431 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 · 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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its 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 CO COUNCIL ON AGING: $30k → 12%WHATCOM FAMILY YMCA: $30k → 12%SKOOKUM KIDS: $29k → 12%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $25k → 12%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $25k → 12%SKOOKUM KIDS: $25k → 12%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $25k → 12%Opportunity Council: $20k → 12%WHATCOM COUNCIL ON AGING: $20k → 12%WHATCOM COUNCIL ON AGING: $15k → 12%OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $11k → 12%OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $10k → 12%OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $10k → 12%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 12%BRIGID COLLINS: $8k → 12%WHATCOM FAMILY YMCA: $8k → 12%Whatcom Council on Aging: $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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +103% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

+103%
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
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

  • 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%
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
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
2
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
3
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
4
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.

—
5
Lake Whatcom Residential and Treatment Center

Our mission is to empower chronically mentally ill adults in our community to achieve and maintain the highest possible level of independence. we accomplish this by providing compassionate, comprehensive services - including outpatient…

Health
6
Washington State Community Connectors

Family-Driven Community of Support for caregivers of children with a range of behavioral health needs.

Human Services
7
Allied Arts of Whatcom County

To sustain and enrich our community through the arts.

Arts & Culture
8
Willapa Bay AiR
Arts & Culture
9
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
10
The Whatcom Literacy Council

To teach adults to read, write and speak english.

—
11
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Whatcom Council On Aging; 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.
04the grantee network

59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/59
Grantees still filing
37/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

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.

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

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 Chuckanut Health Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chuckanut Health Foundation. 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%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
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 64 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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