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Inland Power and Light at a glance

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Inland Power and Light

Distribution and sale of electricity.

$104k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$44k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$456kPhilanthropy$163kFood & Nutrition$81kRecreation & Sports$9kEducation$5kEnvironment$2kCrime & Legal$1kYouth Development$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $82k
$1,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$334M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SNAP$43,763
INLAND POWER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$38,000
SECOND HARVEST$6,713
LIBERTY LAKE ROBOTICS TEAM SPONSORSHIP$5,000
SPOKANE SHADOW YOUTH SOCCER CLUB$2,000
WASHINGTON WHEAT FOUNDATION$1,500
GARFIELD COUNTY FOOD BANK$1,500
COOPERATIVE FAMILY FUND$1,000
CDA HOCKEY ASSOCIATION$1,000
DAVENPORT SENIOR CENTER$750
UPPER COLUMBIA RESOURCE AND COSERVATION$750
WEST PLAINS LITTLE LEAGUE$700
VANESSA BEHAN$500
MEALS ON WHEELS$500
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $456k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COOPERATIVE FAMILY FUND: $4k → 10%DAVENPORT SENIOR CENTER: $750 → 11%Spokane Neighborhood Action Program: $53k → 12%COOPERATIVE FAMILY FUND: $1k → 10%DAVENPORT SENIOR CENTER: $500 → 11%SPOKANE NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION PROGRAM: $42k → 12%Spokane Neighborhood Action Program: $41k → 12%Spokane Neighborhood Action Program: $30k → 12%Spokane Neighborhood Action Plan: $76k → 12%SNAP: $69k → 12%Spokane Neighborhood Action Program: $54k → 12%SNAP: $44k → 12%Spokane Neighborhood Action Plan: $41k → 12%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$698k · 7 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$698k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
0%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyEducationEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SN
    SPOKANE NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION PARTNERS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $449k · revenue +56%
  • IP
    INLAND POWER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $163k · revenue +11% · 50% of their budget
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST
    9× · 2017–2025 · $77k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • RF
    RHS FALCON BOOSTERS
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +7%
  • NI
    NRECA INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
  • WS
    WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $500
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Council On Aging & Human Services

Enhancing lives and building communities by providing transportation and nutrition services.

Human Services
2
Spokane Food Policy Council

Influence local land use policy

Food & Nutrition
3
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
4
Sequim Prairie Grange

Promoting family, farm & community life

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5
Spokane Turbine Center Dba Parkwater Foundation
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6
Feeding Washington

Create a strong and effective statewide infrastructure that efficiently leverages resources to expand capacity in Washington State's Feeding America network.

Food & Nutrition
7
Northwest Harvest Emm

The organization's mission is growing food justice through collective action. the organization's vision is ending hunger in washington state.

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8
Latah County 4H and Ffa Market Animal Sale Inc

Administer the annual Latah County Livestock Sale

Youth Development
9
Pacific Nw Csa Coalition

The pacific nw csa coalition promotes the growth of community supported agriculture by 1) connecting csa farmers with their local community, 2) supporting farmers through networking and other programming, 3) educating the public about the…

Food & Nutrition
10
Northwest Nutrition Service

Facilitate healthy meals for children.

Food & Nutrition
11
Feed Spokane

Secure available food for those in need. Creating an efficient sustainable partnership between food donors, meal providers and outreach workers.

Human Services
12
State of Washington Potato Committe

Recommend minimum standards for fresh potatoes.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Second Harvest Inland Northwest; the most unlike its peers is Washington Wheat Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPOKANE NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION PARTNERS: $449,268 · Human ServicesSPOKANE NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION PARTNERS+2 more: $6,250 · Human ServicesINLAND POWER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $163,000 · PhilanthropyINLAND POWER COMMUNITY FO…SECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST: $77,244 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVE…+3 more: $2,500 · Food & NutritionLIBERTY LAKE ROBOTICS ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · OtherGARFIELD COUNTY FOOD BANK: $1,500 · OtherNRECA INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 · OtherLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC: $700 · OtherWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY: $500 · OtherGARFIELD COUNTY CHRISTIAN YOUTH PROGRAM: $500 · Other+1 more: $250 · OtherRHS FALCON BOOSTERS: $5,000 · EducationSPOKANE SHADOW YOUTH SOCCER CLUB: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsCOEUR D ALENE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsUpper Columbia RC&D: $1,250 · EnvironmentVANESSA BEHAN: $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$455,518Philanthropy$163,000Food & Nutrition$79,744Other$9,450Education$5,000Recreation & Sports$3,000Environment$1,250Crime & Legal$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPOKANE NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION PARTNERS: $449,268 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetINLAND POWER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $163,000 over 5y, 50% of budgetSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST: $77,244 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FAMILY FUND: $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRHS FALCON BOOSTERS: $5,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetDAVENPORT SENIOR CENTER: $1,250 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetUpper Columbia RC&D: $1,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOEUR D ALENE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNRECA INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVANESSA BEHAN: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER SPOKANE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Innovia FoundationThe Avista FoundationAmazonsmile Foundation
Innovia FoundationWA18.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Innovia Foundation · The Avista Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Inland Power and Light funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Inland Power and Light. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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