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Community Action Council of Lewis Mason & Thurston Counties

The community action council is a nonprofit agency committed to improving the quality of life for those in our community by helping meet the basic needs of housing, heating, safety, mental health, food and nutrition for families and individuals and to lessen the impact of poverty. While providing services directly, and through…

$11M
Granted FY2023
13
Itemized grants FY2023
13
Organizations funded FY2023
15%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$250k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$6,697
Largest grant, FY2023
$67,288
Organizations funded a year
8 to 13
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$18M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 15% of the organizations Community Action Council of Lewis Mason & Thurston Counties funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Food & NutritionReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202313$250k15%
FY20228$275k25%
FY202113$301kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Food & Nutrition$826k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Thurston County Food Bank$320,42371%
The Saint's Pantry Food Bank$119,09493%
Hood Canal Food Bank$114,989967%
Yelm Community Services$79,13871%
Sharenet Food Bank$39,40137%
North Mason Food Bank$30,02192%
Bremerton Foodline$28,45071%
Matlock Community Church$26,5659n/a
North Kitsap Fishline$26,48230%
Spirit of Life Lutheran Church$9,3613n/a
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All grantees of Community Action Council of Lewis Mason & Thurston Counties by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Thurston County Food Bank$320,42371%
The Saint's Pantry Food Bank$119,09493%
Hood Canal Food Bank$114,989967%
Yelm Community Services$79,13871%
Sharenet Food Bank$39,40137%
North Mason Food Bank$30,02192%
Bremerton Foodline$28,45071%
Matlock Community Church$26,5659n/a
North Kitsap Fishline$26,48230%
Spirit of Life Lutheran Church$9,3613n/a
Winlock-Vader Food Bank$8,94735%
Lewis County Food Bank Coalition$7,70071%
Saint Vincent de Paul Conference of Our Lady Star$7,20370%
South Kitsap Helpline$5,12970%
Bridge Community Church$1,5875n/a
Lewis County Gospel Mission$76260%
Crossroads Community Covenant Church - Yelm Wa$5843n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Community Action Council of Lewis Mason & Thurston Counties supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThurston County Food Bank: $320,423 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetThe Saint's Pantry Food Bank: $119,094 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetHood Canal Food Bank: $114,989 over 9y, 67% of budgetYelm Community Services: $79,138 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetSharenet Food Bank: $39,401 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetNorth Mason Food Bank: $30,021 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetBremerton Foodline: $28,450 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetNorth Kitsap Fishline: $26,482 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWinlock-Vader Food Bank: $8,947 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetLewis County Food Bank Coalition: $7,700 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetSaint Vincent de Paul Conference of Our Lady Star: $7,203 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSouth Kitsap Helpline: $5,129 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetLewis County Gospel Mission: $762 over 6y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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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.

Food LifelineNorthwest Harvest EmmPuget Sound Energy Fo…Kitsap Community Foun…The Community Foundat…Kitsap Credit UnionFirst Fed FoundationCoastal HarvestUnited Way of Kitsap …Fred H & Mary S Dore …The Norcliffe Foundat…Give Back Foundation
Food LifelineWA50.6× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Food Lifeline · Northwest Harvest Emm · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Kitsap Community Foundation · The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound · Kitsap Credit Union · First Fed Foundation · Coastal Harvest · United Way of Kitsap County · Fred H & Mary S Dore Charitable Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Give Back 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.

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About Community Action Council of Lewis Mason & Thurston Counties

How much does Community Action Council of Lewis Mason & Thurston Counties give?
Community Action Council of Lewis Mason & Thurston Counties reported 13 itemized grants totaling $249,784, out of $11,022,327 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 13 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Community Action Council of Lewis Mason & Thurston Counties fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2023, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (100%).
Who are Community Action Council of Lewis Mason & Thurston Counties's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2023: Thurston County Food Bank ($320k), The Saint's Pantry Food Bank ($119k), Hood Canal Food Bank ($115k).
Does Community Action Council of Lewis Mason & Thurston Counties fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Community Action Council of Lewis Mason & Thurston Counties?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Food Lifeline, Northwest Harvest Emm, Puget Sound Energy Foundation.
Where is Community Action Council of Lewis Mason & Thurston Counties based?
Community Action Council of Lewis Mason & Thurston Counties is based in WA.

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 17 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $12M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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