· Private foundation
Empire Health Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $126k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $527k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $440k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LATINOS EN SPOKANE | $185,137 |
| SPOKANE TRIBAL NETWORK | $80,500 |
| HEALTH AND JUSTICE RECOVERY ALLIANCE | $74,000 |
| PEACE & JUSTICE ACTION LEAGUE SPOKANE | $50,600 |
| TERRAIN PROGRAMS | $50,000 |
| TAKE UP THE CAUSE | $41,400 |
| INNOVIA FOUNDATION | $30,600 |
| MUJERES IN ACTION (MIA) | $20,000 |
| ROOTS OF RESILIENCE | $20,000 |
| ELK SOUP | $15,000 |
| MANZANITA HOUSE | $15,000 |
| HBPA FOUNDATION OF THE INLAND NW | $15,000 |
| UNIDOS NUEVA ALIANZA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| THE WAY TO JUSTICE | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY CENTER | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $269k 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
- HAHEALTH AND JUSTICE RECOVERY ALLIANCE3× · 2022–2024 · $889k · revenue +100% · 48% of their budget
- LELATINOS EN SPOKANE4× · 2021–2024 · $654k · revenue +194% · 33% of their budget
- RRRURAL RESOURCES COMMUNITY ACTION4× · 2020–2024 · $645k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- WCWSU COLLEGE OF NURSINGone grant, 2020 · $349k
- PIPHILANTHROPY IN ACTIONone grant, 2021 · $185k · revenue +1%
- CTCONFEDERATED TRIBES OF THE COLVILLE RESERone grant, 2020 · $163k
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.
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.
Sage Indigenous Law Center's mission is to provide culturally grounded civil legal aid that protects the rights of Native American parents, children, and communities, while advancing justice and addressing systemic inequities.
Founded in 2001, Spark Northwest accelerates the just transition to clean energy in the Pacific Northwest. Spark Northwest uses two primary strategies: (1) on-the-ground project consulting, focusing on communities with limited financial…
Provide care to refugee families.
Rainier Beach Action Coalition is a grassroot, Black-led organization devoted to locally driven development. It promotes quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing, and building community capacity in…
Asians for Collective Action (ACA) harnesses the strenghts of Asians and Asian Americans to drive systemic change to create a just, healthy, and thriving community for all.
LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.
Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…
House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…
The Spokane River Forums mission is to create materials, events and activities that promote regional dialogues for sustaining a healthy river system while meeting the needs of a growing population.
Partners inland northwest is the sole source of comprehensive community and social services in spokane valley, serving low income and disadvantaged residents between the city of spokane and the idaho border.
In 2024, IAF Pacific continued its work of connecting and strengthening broad-based alliances throughout the Pacific region.Through its Building Partnerships for Collaborative Action initiativethe organization supported Indigenous and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rural Resources Community Action and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 15 years old; the field is 15. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
79 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. 79 of the 130 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 HEALTH AND JUSTICE RECOVERY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Innovia Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR INTEGRATED MEDICATION MANAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds LATINOS EN SPOKANE ↗
- Who funds RURAL RESOURCES COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds Raze Development ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Salish School of Spokane ↗
- Who funds THE NATIVE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FAMILY IMPACT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SPOKANE TRIBAL NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Spectrum ↗
- Who funds TAKE UP THE CAUSE ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT HOSPITAL & HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Terrain Programs ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIP OF SPOKANE COUNTY DBA COMMUNITY MINDED ENTERPRISES ↗
- Who funds Northeast Youth and Family Services ↗
- Who funds Compassionate Addiction Treatment ↗
- Who funds PEACE & JUSTICE ACTION LEAGUE OF SPOKANE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDEPENDENT BUSINESS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Spokane ↗
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: The Avista Foundation · Innovia Foundation · Empire Health Community Advocacy Fund · Better Health Together · Inatai Foundation · Project Beauty Share · Smith-Barbieri Progressive Fund a Charitable Foundation · Providence Health & Services - Washington · Seattle Foundation · Community Building Foundation · Women Helping Women Fund · School's Out Washington
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 Empire Health 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.
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.