· Public charity
Horizon Credit Union
Credit union operated without profit for mutual purposes.
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 4 grants below total $58,531 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $153,019 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $94,488 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 $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KXLY COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| GOWEST CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION | $17,431 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY-SPOKANE | $11,000 |
| GREATER SPOKANE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS | $5,100 |
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, $123k) 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 11% of Horizon 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, 85% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 74% — 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.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- GFGOWEST FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $87k · revenue ×19
- WCWomen & Children's Free Restaurant & Community Kitchen3× · 2020–2022 · $43k · revenue +5%
- HFHabitat for Humanity - Spokane2× · 2022–2024 · $17k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- NBNEIGHBORWORKS BOISEone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +18%
- NHNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC OF GFone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +10%
- CHCHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY AND TRUST FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -36%
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.
Partners inland northwest is the sole source of comprehensive community and social services in spokane valley, serving low income and disadvantaged residents between the city of spokane and the idaho border.
The Spokane Parks Foundation cultivates the health, growth, and continued enjoyment of our communities by inspiring giving and passion for our parks.
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.
Create a strong and effective statewide infrastructure that efficiently leverages resources to expand capacity in Washington State's Feeding America network.
Our mission is to nourish with good food, empower with knowledge, and serve with compassion.
Provide food for individuals in need
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…
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
The foundation is dedicated to supporting the mission of second harvest inland northwest, the nonprofit hunger solution center based in spokane, washington.
To help feed, educate and advocate for Idaho's hungry through collaborative partnerships to develop efficient solutions that strengthen individuals, families, and communities.
Transitions works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane, Washington.
The mission of the Community Health Association of Spokane (CHAS Health) is to improve the overall health of the communities we serve by expanding access to quality health and wellness services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Second Harvest Inland Northwest and the most unlike its peers is Exchange Club of Spokane Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 14. 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 — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 21 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 GOWEST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KXLY COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOUNDATION EXTREME TEAM-COATS 4 KIDS-CHRISTMAS WISH ↗
- Who funds Women & Children's Free Restaurant & Community Kitchen ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity - Spokane ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORWORKS BOISE ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE INLAND NORTHWEST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC OF GF ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY AND TRUST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EXCHANGE CLUB OF SPOKANE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Spokane ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF DISTRICT IX INC ↗
- Who funds Feed Spokane ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SW ID INC ↗
- Who funds SPOKANE NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds BIG BEND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER SPOKANE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
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 Avista Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Innovia Foundation · Numerica Credit Union · United Way of Spokane County · Multicare Health System · Providence Health & Services - Washington · Spokane Teachers Credit Union · Women Helping Women Fund · Second Harvest Inland Northwest · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Bnsf Railway 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 Horizon 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.
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