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Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce
The greater vancouver chamber (gvc) is proud to serve the southwest washington business community through multiple programs, events, and services.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k9 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k190 grants · $5.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROWN & KYSAR INC | $30,000 |
| NAILUX | $30,000 |
| LACAMAS SWIM & FITNESS INC | $30,000 |
| BEARTHYME CATERING INC DBA SIMPLY THYME CATERING | $30,000 |
| TRAP LLC DBA NW ESCAPE EXPERIENCE | $30,000 |
| HUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL | $30,000 |
| MAN'S BEST FRIEND | $30,000 |
| MT TABOR BREWING COMPANY LLC | $30,000 |
| NUESTRA MESA | $30,000 |
| MICRON FILTRATION TECHNOLOGIES INC | $30,000 |
| VANCOUVER ICE ARENA LLC DBA MOUNTAIN VIEW ICE ARENA | $30,000 |
| LAKE SHORE ATHLETIC CLUB | $30,000 |
| GOLDEN CHARIOT SPECIALTY TRANS | $30,000 |
| INSPIRE PRINTING DBA 9 CENT COLOR COPIES | $30,000 |
| BEAUTY BY MEGHAN LLC DBA GLAMBEAUTY BAR | $30,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $158k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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.
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.
Incorporated in 1989, Vancouver's Downtown Association (VDA) is a designated Washington Main Street Program that engages in revitalization efforts to keep downtown vibrant. Our initiatives aim to create an appealing employment center,…
The Clark County Historical Society is dedicated to the collection, preservation, and interpretation of the cultural history of Clark County, WA and the Pacific Northwest. It also sponsors educational programs and exhibits for the…
Cultivating quality arts experiences, connecting communities, and increasing creative engagement.
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…
The mission of Visit Spokane is to help promote economic development for Spokane County through tourism and tourism promotion.
Northwest Film Forum incites public dialogue and creative action through collective cinematic experiences. A nonprofit film and arts center located in Seattle, Northwest Film Forum presents hundreds of films, festivals, community events,…
NAMI provides advocacy, education, support and public awareness so that all individuals and families affected by mental illness can build better lives. The three largest groups were WRAP, Family to Family and the Connections and Family…
Committed to fostering relationships between members and the community. to serve the interest of members by acting as a catalyst for a vibrant sustainable economy.
Foster Growth in the Community
To provide job development, job seeking skills and job placement for persons with disabilities. we are dedicated to providing outstanding quality services that result in successful community involvement and employment for persons with…
Representing real estate agents and brokers in Snohomish County and Camano Island, Washington, the Association provides its members with resources, education, and support to help them excel in their careers and serve their clients…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partners in Careers and the most unlike its peers is Pomeroy Living History Farm. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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. 22 of the 199 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.
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: Ndc Housing & Economic Development Corporation - Group Return · The Firstenburg Foundation · Fourth Plain Forward · Anna C Macaskill Schwab and Dwight L Schwab · Artsfund · Columbia Community Credit Union · The Honorable Frank L & Arlene G Price Foundation · Kmr Group Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce 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.