Washington · Public charity
Downtown Emergency Service Center
DESC helps people with the complex needs of homelessness, substance use disorders, and serious mental illness achieve their highest potential for health and well-being through comprehensive services, treatment, and housing.
- $7.2M
- Granted FY2021
- 3
- Itemized grants FY2021
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2021
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2021
- Itemized, FY2021
- $2.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2021
- $29,779
- Largest grant, FY2021
- $2,131,317
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 3
- FY2017 to FY2021
- States reached, FY2021
- 1
- Total assets, FY2021
- $133M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations Downtown Emergency Service Center funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 3 | $2.2M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $5.2M | 33% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $83k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $79k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $130k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| DESC Hobson Clinic QALICB | $7,302,640 | 2 | 100% |
| Evergreen Treatment Services | $185,672 | 2 | 1% |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | $166,503 | 3 | 0% |
| Compass Housing Alliance | $34,770 | 5 | 0% |
About Downtown Emergency Service Center
- How much does Downtown Emergency Service Center give?
- Downtown Emergency Service Center reported 3 itemized grants totaling $2,168,594, out of $7,207,381 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
- What does Downtown Emergency Service Center fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Health (100%), Housing & Shelter (0%).
- Who are Downtown Emergency Service Center's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: DESC Hobson Clinic QALICB ($7.3M), Evergreen Treatment Services ($186k), Virginia Mason Medical Center ($167k).
- Does Downtown Emergency Service Center fund new organizations?
- In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is Downtown Emergency Service Center based?
- Downtown Emergency Service Center is based in WA.
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