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First Fed Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $498k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
Anchored by a single position — about 97% of reported assets are held in First Northwest Bancorp Stock.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PENINSULA COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| OLYMPIC PENINSULA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN | $30,000 |
| SEQUIM FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| OLYMPIC HOUSING TRUST | $25,000 |
| THE SOPHIA WAY | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CLALLAM COUNTY | $25,000 |
| PENINSULA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | $25,000 |
| DOVE HOUSE ADVOCACY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| CLALLAM COUNTY PUBLIC HOSPITAL DISTRICT #1 | $25,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EAST JEFFERSON COUNTY | $25,000 |
| LIFEWIRE | $25,000 |
| SEIU HEALTHCARE 1199 NW MULTI-EMPLOYER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FUND | $25,000 |
| YWCA OF KITSAP COUNTY | $25,000 |
| CITY OF PORT ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT | $25,000 |
| FORKS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $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 (FY17–25, $829k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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 +57% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 17 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $333k 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
- NMNORTHWEST MARITIME CENTER3× · 2019–2024 · $155k · revenue +128%
- OMOLYMPIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2023 · $126k · revenue +52%
- PBPENINSULA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH3× · 2018–2025 · $125k · revenue +147%
Funded once
- SSSequim Senior Services dba Shipley Centergraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +53%
- MHMERCY HOUSING NORTHWESTone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +21%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CLALLAM COUNTYone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -32%
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.
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
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…
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.
To increase the economic well-being and quality of life for all citizens of the region; to coordinate provincial, territorial, and state policies throughout the region; to identify and promote "models of success and to serve as a conduit…
Housing Counseling Services
Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.
Discover Your Northwest promotes the discovery of northwest public lands, enriches the experience of visitors and builds community stewardship of these special places today and for generations to come.
KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…
Foster Growth in the Community
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…
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.
Our mission is to provide food and key resources to help our neighbors and community thrive. we lead the effort to feed, educated and advocate ending hunger in the snoqualmie valley and beyond.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cares of Washington and the most unlike its peers is Seiu Healthcare 1199NW Multi-Employer Training & Education Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
162 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. 162 of the 214 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 JEFFERSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE OLYMPIC PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST MARITIME CENTER ↗
- Who funds OLYMPIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds PORT ANGELES FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Housing Resources Bainbridge ↗
- Who funds PORT ANGELES WATERFRONT CENTER DBA FIELD ARTS & EVENTS HALL ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INCLUSIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP ↗
- Who funds Sequim Senior Services dba Shipley Center ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSING NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CLALLAM COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LYDIA PLACE ↗
- Who funds SERENITY HOUSE OF CLALLAM COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NORTH OLYMPIC HEALTHCARE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FORKS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN SKLALLAM TRIBAL CAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ROXY BREMERTON ↗
- Who funds RADIO PORT TOWNSEND ↗
- Who funds PARKVIEW SERVICES ↗
- Who funds KULSHAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds WHATCOM FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI ↗
- Who funds Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding ↗
- Who funds MAX HIGBEE COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds WHATCOM DISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Whatcom Center for Early Learning ↗
- Who funds CAMP BEAUSITE NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds OLYMPIC PENINSULA YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSN ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds UNITY CARE NORTHWEST ↗
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 Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Medina Foundation · Whatcom Community Foundation · Bainbridge Community Foundation · Kitsap Community Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Washington Federal Foundation · Albert Haller Foundation · Jefferson Community Foundation · United Way of Clallam County
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 First Fed 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.
- Financial Beginnings — 1% 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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