· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $249,784 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $11,022,327 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,772,543 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k8 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $181k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK | $67,288 |
| THE SAINTS' PANTRY | $59,547 |
| HOOD CANAL FOOD BANK | $53,989 |
| YELM COMMUNITY SERVICES | $30,939 |
| NORTH MASON FOOD BANK | $11,089 |
| MATLOCK COMMUNITY CHURCH | $8,459 |
| NORTH KITSAP FISHLINE | $6,697 |
| BREMERTON FOODLINE | $6,161 |
| LEWIS COUNTY FOOD BANK COALITION | $2,295 |
| BRIDGE COMMUNITY CHURCH (PIONEER FOOD BANK) | $1,587 |
| WINLOCK-VADER FOOD BANK | $867 |
| LEWIS COUNTY GOSPEL MISSION | $762 |
| SPIRIT OF LIFE LUTHERAN CHURCH (LIFECARE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK) | $104 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TCTHURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK7× · 2017–2023 · $320k · revenue +118%
- TSTHE SAINT'S PANTRY FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2024 · $119k · revenue ×12
- HCHood Canal Food Bank8× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +50% · 67% of their budget
Funded once
- SFSharenet Food Bankgraduated3× · 2021–2023 · $39k · revenue +110%
- SVSAINT VINCENT DE PAUL CONFERENCE OF OUR LADY STAR7× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +2%
- SKSOUTH KITSAP HELPLINE7× · 2017–2023 · $5k · revenue -30%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide food and services in a caring and dignified manner to neighbors in need
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West Seattle Food Bank strengthens the community through the power of neighbors helping neighbors, working to ensure all in our community have access to the essential necessities of living.
Food distribution to needy individuals and families.
Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.
Our mission is to provide a variety of food products to families and individuals who are in need. We are open one day a week.
Increase sustainable food security in South Corvallis by providing emergency food and supplies.
To provide food and clothing assistance to person in need.
To provide food and assistance to individuals and organizations within our community so that "no one goes hungry in Sequim".Our 5 core values that guide our work:1. Compassion and Respect: Turn no one away from services and always…
We provided free healthy food to low-income families and individuals in need.
Collection and distribution of food for needy families
Our mission is to provide food and key resources to help our neighbors and community thrive. we lead the effort to feed, educated and advocate ending hunger in the snoqualmie valley and beyond.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Kitsap Fishline and the most unlike its peers is Lewis County Food Bank Coalition. 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 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
19 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE SAINT'S PANTRY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Hood Canal Food Bank ↗
- Who funds YELM COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Sharenet Food Bank ↗
- Who funds NORTH MASON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Bremerton Foodline ↗
- Who funds NORTH KITSAP FISHLINE ↗
- Who funds Winlock-Vader Food Bank ↗
- Who funds LEWIS COUNTY FOOD BANK COALITION ↗
- Who funds SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL CONFERENCE OF OUR LADY STAR ↗
- Who funds SOUTH KITSAP HELPLINE ↗
- Who funds LEWIS COUNTY GOSPEL MISSION ↗
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.
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
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 Community Action Council of Lewis Mason & Thurston Counties 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.
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.