· Public charity
Harborstone Credit Union
The credit union is a world class financial instritution that builds trust as it assists members in achieving financial well being through innovative solutions that foster thriving communities and economic vitality.
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 16 grants below total $515,725 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $550,725 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,000 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 $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $172k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $323k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUSINESS IMPACT NW (SEATTLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT) | $163,500 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON | $57,000 |
| UW FOSTER SCHOOL OF BUSINESS | $52,500 |
| CU STRATEGIC PLANNING | $50,000 |
| JBLM DFMWR (DIRECTORATE OF MORALE WELFARE AND RECREATION) | $42,015 |
| SOUND OUTREACH | $30,000 |
| PIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SKAGIT VALLEY TULIP FESTIVAL | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY | $15,260 |
| LAKEWOOD MULTICULTURAL COALITION | $13,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON INC | $12,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF KINGS COUNTY | $10,000 |
| PIERCE MILITARY AND BUSINESS ALLIANCE (PMBA) | $10,000 |
| GREATER SEATTLE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION (GSBA) SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $7,750 |
| KING COUNTY EMPLOYEE GIVING PROGRAM | $7,500 |
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, $277k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Harborstone Credit Union’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 83% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
- SESEATTLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND BUSINESS IMPACT NW7× · 2018–2024 · $396k · revenue +372%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON6× · 2019–2024 · $353k · revenue +9%
- SSSOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES8× · 2017–2024 · $280k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- HCHARBORSTONE CREDIT UNIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +69%
- TCTHE CAROL MILGARD BREAST CENTERone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +16%
- GFGOWEST FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue ×19
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.
The foundations impact pillars include wealth creation for low-income and marginalized communities, supporting small businesses, investing in our communities, and providing services for immigrant communities.
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
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To grow a lasting culture of generosity and well-being in the South Puget Sound through connection, leadership, and investment.
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To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Womens Christian Association of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County and the most unlike its peers is The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc. 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 37 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 36 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.
- Who funds SEATTLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND BUSINESS IMPACT NW ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds PIERCE MILITARY & BUSINESS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds CAREER PATH SERVICES EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ↗
- Who funds HARBORSTONE CREDIT UNION ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SKAGIT VALLEY TULIP FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds THE CAROL MILGARD BREAST CENTER ↗
- Who funds Greater Seattle Business Association ↗
- Who funds GREENTRIKE ↗
- Who funds Greater Seattle Business Assn Scholarship Fund ↗
- Who funds GOWEST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TACOMAPIERCE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANIT ↗
- Who funds FAMILY FIRST COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LAKEWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds TABOR 100 INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF SOUTH KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL ↗
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: Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Seattle Foundation · Medina Foundation · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Multicare Health System · United Way of King County · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari · Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai
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 Harborstone Credit Union 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.