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· Public charity
GREATER VANCOUVER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Gvc is the inclusive and innovative provider of programming and resources enabling businesses to thrive and create community vitality.
$5.3M
Granted FY2020
199
Grants
2
Communities
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2020 · 199 grants
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
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
- HUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL$30,000
- BROWNIES FROM HEAVEN LLC$30,000
- LOOWIT BREWING COMPANY$30,000
- BOOMER FITNESS$30,000
- K J DYNAMCIS LLC DBA A-1 AUTOMOTIVE$30,000
- PROPERTY RESOURCESPUFFIN CAFE$30,000
- ROCK SOLID WATERPROOFING SOLUTIONS LLC$30,000
- KAFIEX ROASTERS LLC$30,000
- SOUTHERN WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF GYMNASTICS$30,000
- TAILS R WAGGIN DOGGY DAYCARE INC$30,000
- GLENN FRANCES CATERING LLCDBA HIDDEN HOUSE MARKET$30,000
- FREDERICK EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION LLC (THE GODDARD SCHOOL)$30,000
- GOLDEN CHARIOT SPECIALTY TRANS$30,000
- SALUD WINE BAR EVENTS AND WINE STORAGE$30,000
- CRAFT OF MAN BARBERING CO$30,000
02The need
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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.
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Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $158k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
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Cascade Pacific Rc&D Area
To enhance communities through social, economic, educational, and environmental recovery improvements
Community Improvement
2
Pacific Northwest Economic Region
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…
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3
Cowlitz Economic Development Council
Foster Growth in the Community
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4
Recovery Cafe Skagit
Provide a safe, healing, and restorative community that empowers long-term transformation
Education
5
Walla Walla Symphony Society Inc
The Walla Walla Symphony delights and challenges our community by providing live orchestral performances and opportunities for leaning about music.
Arts & Culture
6
Vancouvers Downtown Association
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,…
Community Improvement
7
Dispute Resolution Center of Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties
To build long-lasting conflict solutions between to people and groups across Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties.
Crime & Legal
8
Methow Valley Trails Collaborative
Enhancing sustainable trail experiences in the Methow Valley.
Environment
9
Olympic Peninsula Community Clinic
Volunteer Health Care Services
Health
10
Clark County Historical Society
To promote historical and cultural development within Clark County, Washington
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11
Friends of Seattle Waterfront
To support, through outreach, fundraising and stewardship, the City's Waterfront Seattle project: Creation of a park along the central shoreline to benefit the public
Community Improvement
12
Yakima Symphony Orchestra
Yakima Symphony Orchestra is a regional nonprofit organization that offers its audiences high quality symphonic and other music. It brings to the Central Washington Community stimulating, entertaining and educational activities related to…
Arts & Culture
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.
03the grantee network
22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
17/22
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$4,856,469Human Services$157,647Arts & Culture$60,000Community Improvement$60,000Education$59,392Health$30,000Public Benefit$27,170Environment$12,749
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.
Ndc Housing & Economic DevelopmentNY30.3× affinity66 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Ndc Housing & Economic Development · The Firstenburg Foundation · Fourth Plain Forward · Anna C Macaskill Schwab and Dwight L Schwab · Columbia Community Credit Union · Artsfund · The Honorable Frank L & Arlene G · Kmr Group Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: VANCOUVER SWIM CLUB.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~2 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 911100086 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on VANCOUVER SWIM CLUB, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 42% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce?
Find your warmest path to Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines