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Echo Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $750k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $865,000 |
| BELLINGHAM TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $507,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $500,000 |
| WHATCOM FOODBANK NETWORK | $250,000 |
| ALASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| WHATCOM LAND TRUST | $100,000 |
| WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| GRACE CONNECTION | $100,000 |
| JANSEN ARTS CENTER | $100,000 |
| CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA | $100,000 |
| MT BAKER ROTARY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| TECHNIC TRAINING CENTER | $50,000 |
| PARTNERS FOR SCHOOLS DBA BE THE ONE | $50,000 |
| FOOTHILLS FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE | $25,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 36% of Echo Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 58% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +56% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 7 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $260k 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
- TCTRI CITY UNION GOSPEL MISSION3× · 2022–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +68%
- CPCASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA2× · 2024–2025 · $200k · revenue +28%
- GCGrace Collective3× · 2022–2024 · $190k · revenue +151%
Funded once
- CHCHUCKANUT HEALTH FOUNDATION - MCCLURE HEALTHY YOUTH INITIATIVEone grant, 2022 · $50k
- KCKCTS CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIAone grant, 2023 · $20k
- LCLYNDEN COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
Create a strong and effective statewide infrastructure that efficiently leverages resources to expand capacity in Washington State's Feeding America network.
To strengthen hunger relief providers in WA State.
Provide a safe, healing, and restorative community that empowers long-term transformation through human connection for those recovering from the trauma of homelessness, addictions, and mental health challenges.
Tenino Community Service Center/Tenino Food Bank Plus is a deep-rooted community-based service center dedicated to feeding those within the Tenino school district (Tenino and Bucoda) that may be disadvantaged. In addition, it is our…
Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.
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.
Provide and promote constructive and collaborative approaches to conflict resolution through mediation, training, facilitation, supervised visits and community education.
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.
To grow a lasting culture of generosity and well-being in the South Puget Sound through connection, leadership, and investment.
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.
Enhancing sustainable trail experiences in the Methow Valley.
The Community Foundation of Snohomish County (the Foundation) is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization incorporated under the laws of the State of Washington. The Foundation serves as a community foundation, supporting a broad spectrum of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Whatcom Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hospital De La Familia Foundation. 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 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 38 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
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 WHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bellingham Technical College Foundation ↗
- Who funds TRI CITY UNION GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds JANSEN ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds Grace Collective ↗
- Who funds MT BAKER ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TECHNIC TRAINING CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Alaska Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds WHATCOM LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC WHIDBEY ↗
- Who funds Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds KINDRED MATTERS ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ONLY 7 SECONDS ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MEDICS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds BEACON FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds Hospital De La Familia Foundation ↗
- Who funds LYDIA PLACE ↗
- Who funds Alaska Special Olympics DBA Special Olympics Alaska Inc ↗
- Who funds GROWING VETERANS ↗
- Who funds Ten Mile Chapel ↗
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: Whatcom Community Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Eleanor and Henry Jansen Foundation · Chuckanut Health Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Dick Bedlington Family Foundation · Mt Baker Rotary Foundation · First Fed Foundation · North Sound Accountable Community of Health · Shell USA Company 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 Echo Foundation 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.
- Kindred Matters — 100% 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.
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