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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.

$506k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$46k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$448kHuman Services$232kEducation$215kHealth$142kEmployment$100kCrime & Legal$69kArts & Culture$30kPublic Benefit$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 28 grants below total $435,870, the rows itemized in this filing. The $506,069 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $70,199 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $392k
$12,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$491k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
GRANT COUNTY FIRE PROTECTION DIST 3$15,000
CHELAN COUNTY REGIONAL JUSTICE CENTER$15,000
INVESTED$12,000
THE AMERICAN LEGION CATHAY POST #186$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MARTHA & MARY LUTHERAN SERVICES: $10k → 10%TRI CITIES CHAPLAINCY: $18k → 11%FREE REIGN THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $10k → 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.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$549k · 13 repeat orgs$693k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
30

Total granted

$549k
$408k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+28%

Still filing today

62%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $285k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyEmploymentOther
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

  • DF
    Dress for Success Seattle
    3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +14%
  • WU
    WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $40k · revenue +1%
  • MO
    MEDIC ONE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $31k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF DISABLED VETERANSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +92% · 31% of their budget
  • CO
    CIY OF UNION GAP
    one grant, 2022 · $47k
  • GC
    GRANT COUNTY FIRE DISTRICT 13
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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
Emergency Medical Services at the University of Washington
Health
2
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences

Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences educates and trains health care professionals emphasizing service among rural and medically under-served communities throughout the Northwest.

Education
3
Washington Health Care Association

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.

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4
Wenatchee Valley Hospital

We are dedicated to improving our patients' health by providing safe, high-quality care in a compassionate and cost-effective manner.

—
5
University of Western States

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.

Health
6
West Region Ems & Trama Care Council

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.

—
7
North Central Region Ems Trauma Care Council

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.

Health
8
Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital

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…

Health
9
Wa High School Equestrian Teams
Recreation & Sports
10
Washington Filmworks

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…

Community Improvement
11
Seattle University

Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.

—
12
Washington State Dental Association

To unite members of the dental profession to promote oral health of the highest quality.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peacehealth Southwest Medical Center Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 64 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
20/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF SUNNYSIDE: $52,550 · OtherCITY OF SUNNYSIDEFRIENDS OF DISABLED VETERANS: $50,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF DISABLED VETERANSCIY OF UNION GAP: $46,500 · OtherCIY OF UNION GAPCITY OF WALLA WALLA: $45,000 · OtherCITY OF WALLA WALLACOLUMBIA WALLA WALLA FIRE DISTRICT 2: $33,289 · OtherGRANT COUNTY FIRE DISTRICT 13: $25,119 · OtherVALHALLA FLAG PROJECT: $25,000 · Other+35 more: $431,660 · Other+35 moreCOLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50,500 · EducationCOLUMBIA BAS…WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · EducationWHITWORTH UN…Kingspoint Christian School: $17,753 · EducationKingspoint C…WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $12,000 · EducationWASHINGTON S…Eastern Washington University Foundation: $8,000 · EducationEastern Wash…INW Dyslexia Alliance: $7,500 · EducationINW Dyslexia…MEDIC ONE FOUNDATION: $31,000 · HealthMEDIC ONE …PEACEHEALTH SOUTHWEST MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $24,000 · HealthPEACEHEALT…THERAPEUTIC RIDING OF TRI-CITIES: $20,000 · HealthTHERAPEUTI…HIGHLINE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $16,420 · HealthHIGHLINE M…UNITED WE RESCUE: $10,000 · HealthUNITED WE …THE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $9,000 · HealthTHE MEMORI…Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $6,420 · HealthFred Hutch…Dress for Success Seattle: $99,577 · EmploymentSERVICE PEACE WARRIORS: $95,543 · AnimalsInnovia Foundation: $40,000 · PhilanthropyINVESTED: $27,000 · PhilanthropyWHITMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL PTSA: $15,000 · PhilanthropyTri-Cities Chaplaincy: $18,000 · Human ServicesFree Rein Therapeutic Riding: $10,000 · Human ServicesMARTHA AND MARY LUTHERAN SERVICES: $9,937 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,309 · Human Services
Other$709,118Education$135,753Health$116,840Employment$99,577Animals$95,543Philanthropy$82,000Human Services$43,246

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 budgetDress for Success Seattle: $99,577 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetSERVICE PEACE WARRIORS: $95,543 over 2y, 24% of budgetCOLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF DISABLED VETERANS: $50,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetWHITWORTH UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInnovia Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDIC ONE FOUNDATION: $31,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetINVESTED: $27,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPEACEHEALTH SOUTHWEST MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $24,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW HOPE RESOURCE CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetTHERAPEUTIC RIDING OF TRI-CITIES: $20,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetTri-Cities Chaplaincy: $18,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKingspoint Christian School: $17,753 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHIGHLINE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $16,420 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWHITMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL PTSA: $15,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetEASTERN WASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSEATTLE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS: $15,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPITALITY HOUSE AND NUTRITION CENTER DBA WENATCHEE RESCUE MISSION: $12,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHEROES HOMESTEAD: $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetFree Rein Therapeutic Riding: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetMARTHA AND MARY LUTHERAN SERVICES: $9,937 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBELONG Partners: $9,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEastern Washington University Foundation: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINW Dyslexia Alliance: $7,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $6,420 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,309 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Washington Associatio…Puget Sound Energy Fo…M J Murdock Charitabl…School's Out Washingt…The Avista FoundationBnsf Railway Foundati…Lamb Weston Charitabl…Glassybaby White Ligh…Seattle FoundationArtsfund3 Rivers Community Fo…Greater Columbia Acco…
Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police ChiefsWA21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Gesa Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gesa Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%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
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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.
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    How do I get to Gesa Community Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Gesa Community Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 64 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 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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