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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.

$5.3M
Granted FY2020
199
Grants FY2020
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2020 · 199 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k9 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k190 grants · $5.2M
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DIVINE FOODS INCDBA KITCHEN TABLE CAFE$30,000
RAEDEAN LLC DBA YO 2 GO FROZEN YOGURT$30,000
GOLDEN CHARIOT SPECIALTY TRANS$30,000
INSPIRE PRINTING DBA 9 CENT COLOR COPIES$30,000
CRAFT OF MAN BARBERING CO$30,000
GOUGER CELLARS LLC$30,000
MAGENTA THEATER$30,000
THE ROOTSTOCK CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC DBA LIBERTY THEATRE$30,000
LOOWIT BREWING COMPANY$30,000
TERMINAL DEGREE LLC DBA TRUSTY BREWING COMPANY$30,000
OREGON PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY DBA METROPOLITAN PERFORMING ARTS$30,000
PRIME MERIDIAN HOLDINGS LLC DBA TAPPED BREW HOUSE$30,000
DICE AGE GAMES$30,000
TAILS R WAGGIN DOGGY DAYCARE INC$30,000
PROPERTY RESOURCESPUFFIN CAFE$30,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%YWCA CLARK COUNTY: $30k → 9%NORTHWEST BATTLE BUDDIES: $30k → 9%NORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES: $30k → 9%NW FURNITURE BANK: $29k → 9%DOLLAR FOR: $8k → 9%HUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL: $30k → 9%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 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
Discover Your Northwest

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.

Recreation & Sports
2
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
3
Clark County Historical Society

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…

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4
Kirkland Arts Center

Cultivating quality arts experiences, connecting communities, and increasing creative engagement.

Arts & Culture
5
Visit Spokane

The mission of Visit Spokane is to help promote economic development for Spokane County through tourism and tourism promotion.

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6
Nami Southwest Washington

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…

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7
Greater Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce

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.

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8
Columbia Pacific Economic Developme

The columbia pacific economic development district is to diversify and expand the economic base of the district by actively supporting existing businesses and promoting new business development.

Community Improvement
9
Washington Vocational Services

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…

Employment
10
Bike Clark County

Through community partnerships and the effort of volunteers, we promote bicycle access, education, safety and the enjoyment of cycling to the children and adults of SW Washington. In simple terms, that translates to getting more people out…

Recreation & Sports
11
Cowlitz Economic Development Council

Foster Growth in the Community

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12
Snoqualmie Valley Food Bank

Our mission is to provide food and key resources to help our neighbors and community thrive. we lead the effort to feed, educated and advocate ending hunger in the snoqualmie valley and beyond.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partners in Careers; 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 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. 22 of the 199 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
20/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+184 more: $4,856,469 · Other+184 moreNORTHWEST BATTLE BUDDIES: $30,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY IN MOTION: $30,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES: $30,000 · Human ServicesYWCA CLARK COUNTY: $30,000 · Human ServicesNW FURNITURE BANK: $29,304 · Human ServicesDOLLAR FOR: $8,343 · Human ServicesVancouver Farmers Market Assoc: $30,000 · Community ImprovementVancouver USA Regional Tourism Office: $30,000 · Community ImprovementMagenta Theater: $30,000 · Arts & CultureJOURNEY THEATER ARTS GROUP: $30,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY: $30,000 · EducationTHE GARDNER SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $29,392 · EducationFAMILY SOLUTIONS INC: $30,000 · HealthCLARK COUNTY VETERANS ASSISTANCE CENTER: $27,170 · Public BenefitCOLUMBIA SPRINGS: $12,749 · Environment
Other$4,856,469Human Services$157,647Community Improvement$60,000Arts & Culture$60,000Education$59,392Health$30,000Public Benefit$27,170Environment$12,749

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPomeroy Living History Farm: $30,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetVANCOUVER SWIM CLUB INC: $30,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetVancouver Farmers Market Assoc: $30,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetVancouver USA Regional Tourism Office: $30,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPARTNERS IN CAREERS: $30,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNORTHWEST BATTLE BUDDIES: $30,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetFAMILY SOLUTIONS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $30,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetMagenta Theater: $30,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetEVERGREEN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $30,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetJOURNEY THEATER ARTS GROUP: $30,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY IN MOTION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES: $30,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetYWCA CLARK COUNTY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOREGON PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY: $30,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetTHE GARDNER SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $29,392 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNW FURNITURE BANK: $29,304 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCLARK COUNTY VETERANS ASSISTANCE CENTER: $27,170 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCOLUMBIA SPRINGS: $12,749 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetVANCOUVER AREA INTERGROUP: $12,204 over 1y, 21% 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 Pomeroy Living History Farm ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER SWIM CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds Vancouver Farmers Market Assoc ↗

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.

Ndc Housing & Economic Development Corporation - Group ReturnNY32.1× affinity66 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 199 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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