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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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
66
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$185k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$3.0MHealth$2.9MEducation$1.3MPhilanthropy$1.1MCommunity Improvement$934kCrime & Legal$925kYouth Development$376kEmployment$366kOther$0
02FY2024 · 66 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $126k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $527k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $440k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$88M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ROOTS OF RESILIENCE$20,000
MUJERES IN ACTION (MIA)$20,000
COMPASSIONATE ADDICTION TREATMENT$15,000
SPECTRUM$15,000
LATINOS EN SPOKANE$15,000
AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY CENTER$15,000
HBPA FOUNDATION OF THE INLAND NW$15,000
AGING & LONG-TERM CARE OF EASTERN WA$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%RURAL RESOURCES COMMUNITY ACTION: $320k → 13%UNIDOS NUEVA ALIANZA FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%RURAL RESOURCES COMMUNITY ACTION: $310k → 13%UNIDOS NUEVA ALIANZA FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%RURAL RESOURCES COMMUNITY ACTION: $15k → 13%ASIAN COUNSELING & REFERRAL SERVICE: $34k → 9%THRIVE INTERNATIONAL: $30k → 12%RURAL RESOURCES COMMUNITY ACTION: $300 → 13%ASIAN COUNSELING & REFERRAL SERVICE: $4k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON: $500 → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON: $300 → 9%MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY OUTREACH CENTER: $14k → 12%MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY OUTREACH CENTER: $5k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES SPOKANE: $5k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES SPOKANE: $5k → 12%AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $80k → 12%AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $80k → 12%NORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION: $5k → 12%ELK SOUP: $15k → 12%ELK SOUP: $10k → 12%SPECTRUM: $34k → 12%AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $105k → 12%AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $86k → 12%SPECTRUM: $47k → 12%AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $42k → 12%JEWELS HELPING HANDS: $28k → 12%AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 12%AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 12%AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 12%SPECTRUM: $137k → 12%SPECTRUM: $15k → 12%REFUGEE CONNECTIONS SPOKANE: $15k → 12%SPECTRUM: $6k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.1M · 53 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
58

Total granted

$9.1M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+28%

Still filing today

74%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $269k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HA
    HEALTH AND JUSTICE RECOVERY ALLIANCE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $889k · revenue +100% · 48% of their budget
  • LE
    LATINOS EN SPOKANE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $654k · revenue +194% · 33% of their budget
  • RR
    RURAL RESOURCES COMMUNITY ACTION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $645k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • WC
    WSU COLLEGE OF NURSING
    one grant, 2020 · $349k
  • PI
    PHILANTHROPY IN ACTION
    one grant, 2021 · $185k · revenue +1%
  • CT
    CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF THE COLVILLE RESER
    one grant, 2020 · $163k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Re Sources

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.

Environment
2
Sage Indigenous Law Center

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.

Crime & Legal
3
Spark Northwest

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…

Environment
4
Refugee Care Collective Northwest

Provide care to refugee families.

Human Services
5
Rainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalition

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…

Community Improvement
6
Asians for Collective Action

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.

Public Benefit
7
Lutheran Community Services Northwest

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.

Human Services
8
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

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…

Education
9
House Our Neighbors

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…

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10
Spokane River Forum

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.

Environment
11
Partners Inland Northwest

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.

Human Services
12
Iaf Northwest

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…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rural Resources Community Action; 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.
04the grantee network

79 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/79
Grantees still filing
56/79
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AGING & LONG-TERM CARE OF EASTERN WA: $643,000 · OtherAGING & LONG-TERM CARE OF EASTERN WAWSU HEALTH SCIENCES SPOKANE: $500,000 · OtherWSU HEALTH SCIENCES SPOKANECATHOLIC CHARITIES EASTERN WA: $407,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES EASTERN WAKALISPEL TRIBE OF INDIANS: $368,666 · OtherKALISPEL TRIBE OF INDIANSWSU COLLEGE OF NURSING: $349,375 · OtherWSU COLLEGE OF NURSINGSPOKANE TRIBE - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: $195,000 · OtherPHILANTHROPY IN ACTION: $185,200 · OtherSPOKANE TRIBAL NETWORK: $244,125 · OtherTAKE UP THE CAUSE: $191,400 · Other+78 more: $1,986,709 · Other+78 moreRURAL RESOURCES COMMUNITY ACTION: $645,300 · Human ServicesRURAL RESOURCES C…AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION: $419,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN INDIAN C…FAMILY IMPACT NETWORK: $310,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY IMPACT NET…Spectrum: $239,000 · Human ServicesSpectrum+11 more: $195,767 · Human Services+11 moreRaze Development: $509,286 · EducationRaze Develo…Salish School of Spokane: $327,450 · EducationSalish Scho…THE NATIVE PROJECT: $314,150 · EducationTHE NATIVE …+6 more: $89,550 · Education+6 moreALLIANCE FOR INTEGRATED MEDICATION MANAGEMENT: $738,000 · HealthALLIANCE F…NEWPORT HOSPITAL & HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $160,039 · HealthNEWPORT HO…HIP OF SPOKANE COUNTY DBA COMMUNITY MINDED ENTERPRISES: $97,000 · HealthHIP OF SPO…Compassionate Addiction Treatment: $57,020 · Health+4 more: $26,350 · HealthHEALTH AND JUSTICE RECOVERY ALLIANCE: $889,201 · Crime & Legal+3 more: $40,530 · Crime & LegalInnovia Foundation: $761,740 · PhilanthropySEATTLE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyLATINOS EN SPOKANE: $654,118 · Community ImprovementAMERICAN INDEPENDENT BUSINESS ALLIANCE: $48,106 · Community Improvement+2 more: $25,000 · Community Improvement
Other$5,070,475Human Services$1,809,067Education$1,240,436Health$1,078,409Crime & Legal$929,731Philanthropy$866,740Community Improvement$727,224

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHEALTH AND JUSTICE RECOVERY ALLIANCE: $889,201 over 3y, 48% of budgetInnovia Foundation: $761,740 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR INTEGRATED MEDICATION MANAGEMENT: $738,000 over 3y, 84% of budgetLATINOS EN SPOKANE: $654,118 over 4y, 33% of budgetRURAL RESOURCES COMMUNITY ACTION: $645,300 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetRaze Development: $509,286 over 3y, 65% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION: $419,000 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetSalish School of Spokane: $327,450 over 4y, 14% of budgetTHE NATIVE PROJECT: $314,150 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetFAMILY IMPACT NETWORK: $310,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSPOKANE TRIBAL NETWORK: $244,125 over 4y, 17% of budgetSpectrum: $239,000 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetTAKE UP THE CAUSE: $191,400 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetNEWPORT HOSPITAL & HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $160,039 over 2y, 41% of budgetTerrain Programs: $144,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIP OF SPOKANE COUNTY DBA COMMUNITY MINDED ENTERPRISES: $97,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNortheast Youth and Family Services: $68,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetCompassionate Addiction Treatment: $57,020 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetPEACE & JUSTICE ACTION LEAGUE OF SPOKANE: $50,700 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetAMERICAN INDEPENDENT BUSINESS ALLIANCE: $48,106 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetFamily Promise of Spokane: $44,750 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCarl Maxey Center: $44,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetFeast Collective: $42,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetWomen Helping Women Fund: $40,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $37,825 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Shades of Motherhood Network: $37,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetMHA SPEAKOUT SPEAKUP: $30,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetThrive International: $30,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJEWELS HELPING HANDS: $28,317 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR YOUTH RESILIENCY AND ENGA: $26,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetWOMEN'S HEALING AND EMPOWERMENT NETWORK (WHEN): $25,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetEastern Washington University Foundation: $25,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOTHELLO FOOD BANK: $25,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetELK SOUP: $25,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetPacific Islander Community Association of WA: $25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUnidos Nueva Alianza Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetYES OF PEND OREILLE COUNTY: $24,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetPROJECT ID: $23,825 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetTHE WAY TO JUSTICE: $21,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAPIC SPOKANE ASIANS FOR COLLECTIVE LIBERATION IN SPOKANE: $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetIF YOU COULD SAVE JUST ONE: $15,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetManzanita House: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT CONNECTIONS OF SPOKANE: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNEW HOPE RESOURCE CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Avista FoundationInnovia FoundationEmpire Health Communi…Better Health TogetherInatai FoundationProject Beauty ShareSmith-Barbieri Progre…Providence Health & S…Seattle FoundationCommunity Building Fo…Women Helping Women F…School's Out Washingt…
The Avista FoundationWA72.4× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Empire Health Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Empire Health Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    36report 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 130 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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