· Community foundation
Grays Harbor Community Foundation
To improve the quality of life in all communities throughout grays harbor county, washington.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 78 grants below total $2,576,516 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,914,486 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,337,970 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 $10k8 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k58 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k11 grants · $856k
- $250k+1 grant · $387k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF GRAYS HARBOR | $386,500 |
| TWIN HARBORS A BRANCH OF NEW MARKET SKILLS CENTER | $134,260 |
| ABERDEEN ROTARY FOUNDATION | $89,500 |
| THE ARC OF GRAYS HARBOR | $88,590 |
| ABERDEEN SCHOOL DISTRICT | $85,341 |
| CITY OF WESTPORT | $84,348 |
| INCIGHT | $75,000 |
| MONTESANO SCHOOL DISTRICT | $70,103 |
| GRAYS HARBOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $68,000 |
| MISSOULA CHILDREN'S THEATER | $56,050 |
| ST MARY SCHOOL | $55,266 |
| GRAYS HARBOR COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH | $50,000 |
| ST MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL PARISH | $42,000 |
| COSMO POLIS SCHOOL DISTRICT | $35,000 |
| BEYOND SURVIVAL | $35,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $5.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +13% for the ones you funded once.
108 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 13 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $320k 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
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Grays Harbor8× · 2017–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +43%
- GHGRAYS HARBOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $802k · revenue +814%
- TAThe ARC of Grays Harbor8× · 2017–2024 · $524k · revenue +400% · 42% of their budget
Funded once
- TBTemple Beth Israel of Aberdeenone grant, 2020 · $100k
- TMThe Montesano Boosters Associationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue +334% · 60% of their budget
- MBMontesano Booster Clubone grant, 2019 · $50k
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.
Serve the small business community and local development.
The Center for Wooden Boats promotes Northwest Maritime Heritage through education, interpretation and hands-on experience in building, maintaining and using historic small craft.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.
The organization's mission is to promote respect and appreciation for Puget Sound by teaching principles of environmental stewardship and inspire observation of and involvement with Puget Sound. Through its Marine Science Afloat program,…
Engaging people in on-the-ground efforts to help salmon and our communities thrive.
Gig Harbor Academy strives to instill academic excellence by challenging each student intellectually, creatively and physically in a respectful and caring environment.
To improve the quality of life in all communities throughout grays harbor county, washington. we accomplish this by: 1. promoting philanthropy at all levels of giving. 2. seeking permanent endowment funds and other contributions from a…
To grow a lasting culture of generosity and well-being in the South Puget Sound through connection, leadership, and investment.
West Seattle Food Bank strengthens the community through the power of neighbors helping neighbors, working to ensure all in our community have access to the essential necessities of living.
Improving the quality of life for the people in the Olympic Peninsula Community by providing increased access to health and wellness services for the underserved
Foster Growth in the Community
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Domestic Violence Center of Grays Harbor and the most unlike its peers is Pacific Northwest Music Project. 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 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
93 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. 93 of the 203 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 Young Men's Christian Association of Grays Harbor ↗
- Who funds GRAYS HARBOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The ARC of Grays Harbor ↗
- Who funds GOLDBERG FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEYOND SURVIVAL ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY PERSPECTIVES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GRAYS HARBOR ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS A CENTER FOR HEALTHY FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds 7TH STREET THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COASTAL HARVEST ↗
- Who funds COASTAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds INCIGHT COMPANY ↗
- Who funds HOQUIAM FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK ↗
- Who funds Aberdeen Rotary Foundation ↗
- Who funds MCT INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GRAYS HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds MAYDAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Parent To Parent Support Program Of Thurston County ↗
- Who funds GRAYS HARBOR YOUTH WORKS ↗
- Who funds Pediatric Interim Care Center ↗
- Who funds HANDS ON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE GOODTIMES PROJECT ↗
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 Community Foundation of South Puget Sound · Seabrook Community Foundation · Druzianich Family Charitable Foundation · Medina Foundation · United Way of Grays Harbor · Artsfund · Northwest Harvest Emm · The Norcliffe Foundation · Goldberg Family Charitable Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle · Coastal Harvest · Thurston County Economic Development Cou
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 Grays Harbor 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.
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% 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.