· Private foundation
Hidden Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FISH OF VANCOUVER | $15,000 |
| FREE CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON | $15,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CENTER OF VANCOUVER | $15,000 |
| COUNCIL FOR THE HOMELESS | $15,000 |
| SHARE HOUSE | $15,000 |
| VANCOUVER FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $15,000 |
| ARTHUR D CURTIS CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER | $15,000 |
| OPEN HOUSE MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHWEST WA | $15,000 |
| CLARK COUNTY HISTORICIAL MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| YWCA SAFECHOICE SHELTER | $15,000 |
| SHARED HOPE INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
| CLARK COLLEGE | $4,118 |
| VANCOUVER WOMEN'S FOUNDATION | $4,050 |
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 (FY24–25, $20k) 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
OPEN HOUSE MINISTRIES9× · 2017–2025 · $73k · revenue +160%- CCCLARK COLLEGE DISTRICT 14 FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $58k · revenue +143%
- CCCLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +69%
Funded once
MARYHILL MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2024 · $14k · revenue +19%- FWFISH WESTSIDE FOOD PANTRY OF VANCOUone grant, 2023 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
Chelan Valley Hope is a gross-roots local social services agency 'hub' for compassionate connections and resources since 2009. We empower people to improve their own lives by giving them a hand up; not just a hand-out. We do this by…
Clackamas service center is an inclusive, "one-stop" community center for individuals and families seeking food relief and resources for improved health, dignity, and stability.
FISH of Orchards, Inc. is an emergency food and clothing bank located in east Clark County, WA.
Reduce homelessness in clallam county by providing resources for people to prevent evictions, receive funds for rental assistance, and shelters for families and adults.
To reflect the heart of God by feeding, sheltering, clothing, healing and empowering those in need. Programs include housing, a cafe and job training system, shelter resources, and more. Our core values are: compassion, respect, joy and…
House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…
Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County's (VHOCC) mission is to provide physical, emotional, and spiritual support to terminally ill patients and their families with free around the clock registered nursing availability and trained volunteers.…
The Community Foundation of Snohomish County (the Foundation) is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization incorporated under the laws of the State of Washington. The Foundation serves as a community foundation, supporting a broad spectrum of…
LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.
Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital (LSCH), established in 2005, provides acute and critical care in Vancouver, with 165 licensed beds. LSCH operates adult, pediatric, and OB/GYN hospitalist programs, as well as four primary care physician…
St. Francis House provides food clothing and necessities at no cost to people with low income or experiencing homelessness in King County Washington. Single men women and families are welcome.
The mission of columbia valley community health is partnering to achieve optimal health and wellness with compassion and respect for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Council for the Homeless and the most unlike its peers is Shared Hope International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 33 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 OPEN HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CLARK COLLEGE DISTRICT 14 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds FREE CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds SHARED HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HOUGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FISH OF VANCOUVER ↗
- Who funds SHARE ↗
- Who funds CLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MARYHILL MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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: The Firstenburg Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Honorable Frank L & Arlene G Price Foundation · The Tod and Maxine McClaskey Family Foundation · Beaches Summertime Cruisin' · Columbia Community Credit Union · Anna C Macaskill Schwab and Dwight L Schwab · Clark County Food Bank · Kmr Group Foundation · The Swigert Foundation · PeaceHealth · Mightycause Charitable Foundation
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 Hidden Charitable Trust 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.
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