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Gesa Community Foundation
The foundation's charitable purpose is improving the lives of its community members and the communities it serves by supporting organizations that focus on projects that support schools, local heroes, financial wellness/education, and general community sustainability.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 28 grants below total $435,870 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $506,069 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $70,199 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $392k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SERVICE PEACE WARRIORS | $45,650 |
| DRESS FOR SUCCESS SEATTLE | $35,000 |
| THE VALHALLA FLAG PROJECT | $25,000 |
| PEACEHEALTH SW MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $24,000 |
| YAKIMA COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY | $21,893 |
| LAERDAL MEDICAL CORPORATION | $20,192 |
| KOOTENAI COUNTY FIRE & RESCUE | $20,000 |
| COLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE | $18,500 |
| TRI CITIES CHAPLAINCY | $18,000 |
| THE SEATTLE STAND DOWN | $16,933 |
| GRANGER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $15,027 |
| CHELAN COUNTY REGIONAL JUSTICE CENTER | $15,000 |
| GRANT COUNTY FIRE PROTECTION DIST 3 | $15,000 |
| INVESTED | $12,000 |
| LAKEWOOD POLICE DEPARTMENT | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $38k) 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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 20 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, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $285k 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
- DFDress for Success Seattle3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +14%
- WUWHITWORTH UNIVERSITY2× · 2022–2023 · $40k · revenue +1%
- MOMEDIC ONE FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $31k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF DISABLED VETERANSgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +92% · 31% of their budget
- COCIY OF UNION GAPone grant, 2022 · $47k
- GCGRANT COUNTY FIRE DISTRICT 13one grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences educates and trains health care professionals emphasizing service among rural and medically under-served communities throughout the Northwest.
Trade association dedicated to providing educational opportunities, legal and regulatory advice, quality compliance assistance, lobbying and discounted group member benefits for long-term care facilities.
We are dedicated to improving our patients' health by providing safe, high-quality care in a compassionate and cost-effective manner.
The mission of the University of Western States is to advance the science and art of integrated health care through excellence in education and patient care.
To assist and guide local ems and trauma care providers in the coordination and improvement of emergancy medical services in the washington state department of healths west region.
Principal function is to further the WA State EMS Trauma Care System by coordinating the Region EMS Trauma System in Chelan, Douglas, Grant, and Okanogan Counties and providing training to emergency personnel.
Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital (LSCH), established in 2005, provides acute and critical care in Vancouver, with 165 licensed beds. LSCH operates adult, pediatric, and OB/GYN hospitalist programs, as well as four primary care physician…
To build and enhance the competitiveness of Washington State's film and associated creative industry. We accomplish this by marketing and managing the state's production incentive program, representing the state in national and…
Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.
To unite members of the dental profession to promote oral health of the highest quality.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peacehealth Southwest Medical Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Heroes Homestead. 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) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 8% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 64 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 Dress for Success Seattle ↗
- Who funds SERVICE PEACE WARRIORS ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DISABLED VETERANS ↗
- Who funds WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Innovia Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEDIC ONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INVESTED ↗
- Who funds PEACEHEALTH SOUTHWEST MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THERAPEUTIC RIDING OF TRI-CITIES ↗
- Who funds Tri-Cities Chaplaincy ↗
- Who funds Kingspoint Christian School ↗
- Who funds HIGHLINE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS ↗
- Who funds WHITMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL PTSA ↗
- Who funds BREMERTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds EASTERN WASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE AND NUTRITION CENTER DBA WENATCHEE RESCUE MISSION ↗
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: Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · School's Out Washington · The Avista Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Glassybaby White Light Fund · Seattle Foundation · Artsfund · 3 Rivers Community Foundation · Greater Columbia Accountable Community of Health
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 Gesa Community 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.
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