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Credit Unions in the State of Washington

Credit Union

$534k
Granted FY2018
28
Grants FY2018
2
States reached
$126k
Largest
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 FY20172018.

Education$491kArts & Culture$23kFood & Nutrition$21kPublic Benefit$21kScience & Tech$18kCommunity Improvement$18kHealth$10kPhilanthropy$7k
02FY2018 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 28 grants below total $421,181 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $534,145 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $112,964 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 · FY2018

  • Under $10k9 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $231k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $126k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DonorsChoose$125,530
Communities in Schools of Spokane County$20,000
Green River Community College$20,000
Fred Hutchinson$17,831
WASBO$17,800
Second Harvest$15,400
WASA$15,000
Foundation for Edmonds School District$12,500
Highline Schools Foundation$12,045
Association of WA School Principals$10,000
CSTP$10,000
Communities in Schools of Renton$10,000
WFIS$10,000
Spark Central$10,000
Eastern Washington University$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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DonorsChoose: $126k → 17%Green River Community College: $20k → 9%Northshore School Foundation: $10k → 9%WASBO: $18k → 9%Communities in Schools of Tacoma: $8k → 9%Second Harvest: $15k → 12%DonorsChoose: $101k → 17%Green River College Foundation: $7k → 9%Association of WA School Principals: $15k → 9%East Valley School District: $6k → 12%Bellevue Schools Foundation: $8k → 9%WASA: $15k → 9%Second Harvest: $6k → 12%Highline Schools Foundation: $12k → 9%Association of WA School Principals: $10k → 9%Eastern Washington University: $10k → 12%Highline Schools Foundation: $7k → 9%CSTP: $10k → 9%Gonzaga University: $7k → 12%Roosevelt Orchestra Boosters: $5k → 9%Eastern WA University Foundation: $8k → 12%WFIS: $10k → 9%Communities in Schools of Spokane County: $20k → 12%Washington DECA: $11k → 9%Communities in Schools of Spokane County: $13k → 12%UW Combined Fund Drive: $7k → 9%Spark Central: $10k → 12%Washington DECA: $10k → 9%Highline College Foundation: $10k → 9%Communities in Schools of Renton: $10k → 9%Renton School District: $6k → 9%Bellevue College: $10k → 9%Fred Hutchinson: $18k → 9%Issaquah School Foundation: $7k → 9%Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center: $10k → 9%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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$438k · 9 repeat orgs$171k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
1

Total granted

$438k
$6k

Still filing today

78%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
EducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther

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

  • D
    DONORSCHOOSEORG
    2× · 2017–2018 · $227k · revenue +24%
  • WS
    WASHINGTON SCHOOL PRINCIPALS EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $40k · revenue +422%
  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SPOKANE COUNTY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $33k · revenue +113%

Funded once

  • RS
    RENTON SCHOOL DISTRICT #403
    one grant, 2017 · $6k

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
College Success Foundation

We provide a unique integrated system of supports and scholarships to inspire underserved, low-income students to finish high school, graduate from college and succeed in life.

Education
2
Sequim Education Foundation

To be a catalyst for vibrant growth of each student in the Sequim School District.

Education
3
Foundation for the Seattle Colleges

The Foundation for the Seattle Colleges exists to advance fundraising efforts for the Seattle Community College District. We seek to attract financial resources which support students so they may be successful; maintain the quality and…

4
Shoreline Public Schools Foundation

Spsf funds opportunities for educational success. we partner with the community to build awareness and to fund learning opportunities supporting the best education for all students in shoreline public schools. our grant program provides…

Unclassified
5
Wasatch County School District Foun

Engage community and corporate partners in providing supplemental resources to the wasatch county school district to improve educational outcomes.

Education
6
West Valley Education Foundation

Enhance educational opportunities for students

Education
7
Impact Public Schools

The mission of Impact Public Schools is to prepare a diverse student population to succeed in college and impact communities as the next generation of equity-driven, innovative leaders. (Continued on Schedule O)Impact Public Schools makes…

Education
8
Washington State University Foundation

The mission of the Foundation is to promote, accept, and maximize private support for programs, initiatives, and properties of Washington State University and its regional campuses. The Foundation also prudently manages, invests, and…

Education
9
Innovation Spokane Schools

To prepare a diverse range of students for a life of learning in post-secondary education, citizenship, and leadership.

Education
10
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
11
Seattle Colleges Foundation

The seattle colleges foundation catalyzes community support to advance the mission, work and impact of seattle colleges. we engage our community to transform lives, promote equity and increase access to quality, affordable education.

Education
12
Spruce Street School

Spruce Street School is a nurturing educational community that instills in a broad range of children the social, emotional, and intellectual skills for lifelong participation in a diverse society. We offer kindergarten through fifth grade…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Issaquah Schools Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Still Waters Services for Families in Transition. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndustry Trade AssociationsEducation Foundation Networ…Food Banks and Basic NeedsCancer Research and Patient…Youth Education & Civic Lea…Community Philanthropic Fun…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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.

04the grantee network

22 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
18/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DONORSCHOOSEORG — $226,843 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORGCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SPOKANE COUNTY — $32,500 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SPOKANE COUNTYGreen River College Foundation — $27,000 · EducationGreen River College FoundationEastern Washington University Foundation — $23,100 · EducationEastern Washington University Foundation+8 more — $70,575 · Education+8 moreWASHINGTON SCHOOL PRINCIPALS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $40,000 · OtherWASHINGTON SCHOOL PRINCIPALS…FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $27,831 · OtherFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEA…DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS OF AMERICA — $20,500 · OtherDISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS…FOUNDATION FOR EDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT — $12,500 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR EDMONDS SCHOO…Communities in Schools of Renton — $10,000 · OtherCommunities in Schools of Re…WASHINGTON FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS — $10,000 · OtherWASHINGTON FEDERATION OF IND…WSSDA — $7,800 · OtherUW Combined Fund Drive — $7,300 · OtherISSAQUAH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $7,000 · OtherRENTON SCHOOL DISTRICT #403 — $5,500 · OtherROOSEVELT ORCHESTRA BOOSTER CLUB — $5,400 · OtherHIGHLINE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE — $19,295 · PhilanthropySTILL WATERS SERVICES FOR FAMILIES IN TRANSITION — $7,000 · PhilanthropySECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST — $20,908 · Food & NutritionWASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL BUSINESS OFFICIAL — $17,800 · Community ImprovementSpark Central — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$380,018Other$153,831Philanthropy$26,295Food & Nutrition$20,908Community Improvement$17,800Arts & Culture$10,000

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 budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $226,843 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON SCHOOL PRINCIPALS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $27,831 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEastern Washington University Foundation — $23,100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST — $20,908 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLINE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE — $19,295 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL BUSINESS OFFICIAL — $17,800 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT — $12,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER FOR STRENGTHENING THE TEACHING PROFESSION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHIGHLINE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWASHINGTON FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS — $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetBELLEVUE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHSHORE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetEverett Public Schools Foundation — $8,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TACOMA — $7,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY — $7,075 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISSAQUAH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE29× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · United Way of King County · Building Changes · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Seattle Prof Engineering Employees Assn Dba Soc of Prof Eng Empl in Aerospace · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington · Northwest Harvest Emm · School's Out Washington · The Norcliffe Foundation · Gates 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 Credit Unions in the State of Washington 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 28 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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