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Grays Harbor Community Foundation

To improve the quality of life in all communities throughout grays harbor county, washington.

$3.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
78
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$387k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$4.7MEducation$3.9MHealth$1.5MArts & Culture$1.4MFood & Nutrition$1.2MRecreation & Sports$672kYouth Development$639kPhilanthropy$591kOther$0
02FY2024 · 78 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 78 grants below total $2,576,516, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,914,486 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,337,970 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 $10k8 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k58 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $856k
  • $250k+1 grant · $387k
$24,200
Median grant
5
States reached
$107M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ABERDEEN HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC DEPARTMENT$35,000
BEYOND SURVIVAL$35,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL OF ABERDEEN: $42k → 9%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES-Feed the hungry: $75k → 9%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES-FEED THE HUNGRY: $30k → 9%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES-FEED THE HUNGRY: $30k → 9%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES-Feed the hungry: $30k → 9%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES-Feed the hungry: $28k → 9%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES-Feed the hungry: $22k → 9%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES-Feed the hungry: $20k → 9%South Beach Christian Outreach: $30k → 18%Rochester Organization of Families: $30k → 9%YMCA Of Grays Harbor: $709k → 18%YMCA Of Grays Harbor: $469k → 18%YMCA OF GRAYS HARBOR: $428k → 18%YMCA Of Grays Harbor: $419k → 18%YMCA Of Grays Harbor: $408k → 18%YMCA OF GRAYS HARBOR: $387k → 18%YMCA Of Grays Harbor: $364k → 18%YMCA Of Grays Harbor: $339k → 18%Coastal Harvest: $63k → 18%Coastal Harvest: $31k → 18%COASTAL HARVEST: $30k → 18%Domestic Violence Center of Grays Harbor: $30k → 18%COASTAL HARVEST: $25k → 18%Domestic Violence Center of Grays Harbor: $22k → 18%THE ARC OF GRAYS HARBOR: $201k → 18%Beyond Survival: $106k → 18%Coastal Community Action Program: $100k → 18%THE ARC OF GRAYS HARBOR: $89k → 18%The Arc of Grays Harbor: $70k → 18%Coastal Community Action Program: $65k → 18%Family Promise of Grays Harbor: $45k → 18%Beyond Survival: $45k → 18%The Arc of Grays Harbor: $40k → 18%Beyond Survival: $35k → 18%BEYOND SURVIVAL: $35k → 18%The Arc of Grays Harbor: $35k → 18%UNION GOSPEL MISSION OF GRAYS HARBOR: $32k → 18%Beyond Survival: $29k → 18%Family Promise of Grays Harbor: $27k → 18%FAMILY PROMISE OF GRAYS HARBOR: $27k → 18%The Arc of Grays Harbor: $26k → 18%Beyond Survival: $25k → 18%Coastal Harvest: $25k → 18%Family Promise of Grays Harbor: $25k → 18%FAMILY PROMISE OF GRAYS HARBOR: $24k → 18%Montesano Community Outreach: $22k → 18%Coastal Community Action Program: $17k → 18%BEYOND SURVIVAL: $17k → 18%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
NY
MA
OR
CA
MD
TN
AL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 108 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

108
81

Total granted

$15M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+17%

Still filing today

48%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $320k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationCrime & LegalEmploymentOther
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

  • YM
    Young Men's Christian Association of Grays Harbor
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +43%
  • GH
    GRAYS HARBOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $802k · revenue +814%
  • TA
    The ARC of Grays Harbor
    8× · 2017–2024 · $524k · revenue +400% · 42% of their budget

Funded once

  • TB
    Temple Beth Israel of Aberdeen
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • TM
    The Montesano Boosters Associationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue +334% · 60% of their budget
  • MB
    Montesano Booster Club
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
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
Gig Harbor Chamber of Commerce

Serve the small business community and local development.

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2
Center for Wooden Boats

The Center for Wooden Boats promotes Northwest Maritime Heritage through education, interpretation and hands-on experience in building, maintaining and using historic small craft.

Recreation & Sports
3
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
4
Port Angeles Food Bank

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.

Food & Nutrition
5
Pacific Marine Research

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,…

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6
Mid Puget Sound Fisheries Enhancement Gr

Engaging people in on-the-ground efforts to help salmon and our communities thrive.

Animals
7
Our School of Gig Harbor Dba Gig Harbor Academy

Gig Harbor Academy strives to instill academic excellence by challenging each student intellectually, creatively and physically in a respectful and caring environment.

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8
Grays Harbor Community Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
9
The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound

To grow a lasting culture of generosity and well-being in the South Puget Sound through connection, leadership, and investment.

Philanthropy
10
West Seattle Food Bank

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.

Food & Nutrition
11
Olympic Peninsula Community Clinic

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

Health
12
Cowlitz Economic Development Council

Foster Growth in the Community

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Domestic Violence Center of Grays Harbor; 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.
04the grantee network

93 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
89/93
Grantees still filing
64/93
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Aberdeen School District: $1,012,390 · OtherAberdeen School DistrictGRAYS HARBOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $802,185 · OtherGRAYS HARBOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION+147 more: $7,361,960 · Other+147 moreYoung Men's Christian Association of Grays Harbor: $3,523,094 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association o…The ARC of Grays Harbor: $523,690 · Human ServicesThe ARC of Grays HarborBEYOND SURVIVAL: $296,600 · Human ServicesBEYOND SURVIVALCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $245,000 · Human ServicesCOASTAL HARVEST: $184,250 · Human ServicesCOASTAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $182,100 · Human Services+13 more: $489,027 · Human Services+13 more7TH STREET THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $190,651 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $156,500 · Arts & CultureHANDS ON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $137,750 · Arts & CultureTHE BRIDGE MUSIC PROJECT: $76,500 · Arts & CultureMcCleary Historical Society: $76,100 · Arts & CultureDRIFTWOOD PLAYERS: $52,500 · Arts & Culture7th Street Kids: $38,275 · Arts & CultureGRAYS HARBOR HISTORICAL SEAPORT AUTHORITY: $36,500 · Arts & CulturePacific Northwest Music Project: $36,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureGOLDBERG FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $322,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GRAYS HARBOR: $248,000 · PhilanthropyPACIFIC EDUCATION INSTITUTE: $92,656 · Philanthropy+1 more: $20,000 · PhilanthropyHOQUIAM FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK: $171,650 · HealthMAYDAY FOUNDATION: $151,000 · HealthPediatric Interim Care Center: $139,000 · HealthTHE GOODTIMES PROJECT: $119,500 · HealthHarbors Home Health And Hospice: $30,000 · Health+4 more: $57,600 · HealthINCIGHT COMPANY: $180,000 · EducationCOASTAL INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $71,718 · EducationThe Montesano Boosters Association: $55,000 · EducationOregon State University Foundation: $50,000 · EducationVENTURES: $25,000 · Education+1 more: $10,136 · EducationAberdeen Rotary Foundation: $166,500 · Community ImprovementNONPROFIT ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON: $78,721 · Community Improvement+1 more: $5,600 · Community Improvement
Other$9,176,535Human Services$5,443,761Arts & Culture$810,776Philanthropy$683,156Health$668,750Education$391,854Community Improvement$250,821

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Grays Harbor: $3,523,094 over 8y, 16% of budgetGRAYS HARBOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $802,185 over 8y, 9.2% of budgetThe ARC of Grays Harbor: $523,690 over 8y, 42% of budgetGOLDBERG FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $322,500 over 3y, 87% of budgetBEYOND SURVIVAL: $296,600 over 8y, 19% of budgetHEALTHY PERSPECTIVES INC: $281,700 over 2y, 94% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GRAYS HARBOR: $248,000 over 8y, 16% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $245,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $208,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTIONS A CENTER FOR HEALTHY FAMILIES: $200,189 over 8y, 3.3% of budget7TH STREET THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $190,651 over 7y, 21% of budgetCOASTAL HARVEST: $184,250 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCOASTAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $182,100 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetINCIGHT COMPANY: $180,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetHOQUIAM FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK: $171,650 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetAberdeen Rotary Foundation: $166,500 over 2y, 75% of budgetMCT INC: $158,350 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $156,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GRAYS HARBOR INC: $153,500 over 6y, 42% of budgetMAYDAY FOUNDATION: $151,000 over 3y, 50% of budgetParent To Parent Support Program Of Thurston County: $150,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetGRAYS HARBOR YOUTH WORKS: $140,989 over 6y, 37% of budgetPediatric Interim Care Center: $139,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetHANDS ON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $137,750 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTHE GOODTIMES PROJECT: $119,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetMONTESANO COMMUNITY CENTER: $105,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ABERDEEN MUSEUM: $102,400 over 7y, 48% of budgetPACIFIC EDUCATION INSTITUTE: $92,656 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetGRAYS HARBOR COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $87,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Grays Harbor: $85,500 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetPOLSON PARK AND MUSEUM HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $82,479 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetNONPROFIT ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON: $78,721 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetTHE BRIDGE MUSIC PROJECT: $76,500 over 5y, 21% of budgetCOASTAL INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $71,718 over 5y, 16% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GRAYS HARBOR: $67,800 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetGRAYS HARBOR COUNTY CASA: $56,500 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetThe Montesano Boosters Association: $55,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetDRIFTWOOD PLAYERS: $52,500 over 3y, 19% of budgetOregon State University Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH BEACH CHRISTIAN OUTREACH: $49,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetWESTPORT SOUTH BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $47,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetPAWS of Grays Harbor: $45,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $42,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREEN LANTERN LUNCH PROGRAM: $40,000 over 2y, 22% of budget7th Street Kids: $38,275 over 3y, 22% of budgetCHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL OF THURSTON COUNTY: $37,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGRAYS HARBOR HISTORICAL SEAPORT AUTHORITY: $36,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetPacific Northwest Music Project: $36,000 over 2y, 52% 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 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 ↗

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 Community Foundat…Seabrook Community Fo…Druzianich Family Cha…Medina FoundationUnited Way of Grays H…ArtsfundNorthwest Harvest EmmThe Norcliffe Foundat…Goldberg Family Chari…Jewish Federation of …Coastal HarvestThurston County Econo…
The Community Foundation of South Puget SoundWA42.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Oregon State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
34report 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 203 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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