· Community foundation
Community Foundation of Ncw
To grow, protect, and connect charitable gifts in support of strong communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 200 grants below total $17,013,133 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $20,708,888 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,695,755 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k42 grants · $293k
- $10k–50k115 grants · $2.4M
- $50k–250k34 grants · $3.6M
- $250k+9 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WENATCHEE VALLEY YMCA | $4,309,024 |
| COLUMBIA VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTH | $2,159,069 |
| METHOW HOUSING TRUST | $1,581,308 |
| CHELAN-DOUGLAS LAND TRUST | $621,667 |
| WENATCHEE VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $563,304 |
| WENATCHEE VALLEY MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER | $542,701 |
| LAKE CHELAN COMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL | $405,000 |
| CONFLUENCE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $277,547 |
| WENATCHEE VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY | $268,049 |
| METHOW VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $230,000 |
| METHOW CONSERVANCY | $212,116 |
| ICICLE CREEK CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $201,199 |
| SUSTAINABLE NCW | $194,939 |
| WENATCHEE OUTDOORS | $150,000 |
| WENATCHEE RIVER INSTITUTE | $148,370 |
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 (FY21–25, $8.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 39% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +26% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
225 repeat relationships — 126 still active in FY2025, 99 since wound down; 73 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.8M 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
- WVWENATCHEE VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +61% · 47% of their budget
- RORoom One5× · 2021–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +180% · 72% of their budget
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WENATCHEE4× · 2021–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +194%
Funded once
- SLSKAGIT LAND TRUSTone grant, 2023 · $501k · revenue -31%
- RFRun for Ukraineone grant, 2024 · $400k · revenue 0%
- CCCHELAN COUNTYone grant, 2024 · $115k
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.
Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.
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.
The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…
RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.
We are dedicated to improving our patients' health by providing safe, high-quality care in a compassionate and cost-effective manner.
Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.
The Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a statewide organization whose mission is to protect, preserve and restore Washington's waters through education, advocacy, policy reform, and public interest litigation.
The institutes's mission is to inspire environmental stewardship through transformative learning experiences in natures.
Discover Your Northwest promotes the discovery of northwest public lands, enriches the experience of visitors and builds community stewardship of these special places today and for generations to come.
The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…
To increase the economic well-being and quality of life for all citizens of the region; to coordinate provincial, territorial, and state policies throughout the region; to identify and promote "models of success and to serve as a conduit…
To build and enhance the competitiveness of Washington State's film and associated creative industry. We accomplish this by marketing and managing the state's production incentive program, representing the state in national and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alaska & Washington and the most unlike its peers is Hope in the One. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
281 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. 281 of the 436 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 WENATCHEE VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Room One ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WENATCHEE ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds CHELAN-DOUGLAS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds METHOW HOUSING TRUST ↗
- Who funds METHOW CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WENATCHEE VALLEY MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY MEND ↗
- Who funds STUDENT ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCAT ↗
- Who funds CONFLUENCE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARLTON COMPLEX LONG TERM RECOVERY GROUP ↗
- Who funds OKANOGAN LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds PYBUS MARKET CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ICICLE CREEK CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CHELAN- DOUGLAS COUNTY CASAGAL ↗
- Who funds WENATCHEE VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SKAGIT LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YWCA North Central Washington ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON APPLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMPFIRE USA NCW COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 614 GRAND COLUMBIA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Run for Ukraine ↗
- Who funds WENATCHEE RIVER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Wenatchee Valley Senior Activity Center ↗
- Who funds Methow Valley Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHELAN-DOUGLAS COMMUNITY ACTION COU ↗
- Who funds CANCER CARE OF NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds Methow Music Festival Association ↗
- Who funds METHOW VALLEY CITIZENS COUNCIL ↗
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: Icicle Fund · Moccasin Lake Foundation · North Central Accountable Community of Health · Confluence Health System · Names Family Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Numerica Credit Union · Artsfund · Second Harvest Inland Northwest · School's Out Washington · Inatai Foundation · Lamb Weston Charitable 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 Foundation of Ncw 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
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.