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Jefferson Community Foundation
Jcf connects people, ideas, and resources to build a future of opportunity for all in jefferson county.
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 55 grants below total $1,390,048 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,492,465 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $102,417 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 $10k13 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $724k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $572k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWIND ART | $184,562 |
| JEFFERSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $117,465 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ADVOCATES (JCIRA) | $104,380 |
| BAYSIDE HOUSING AND SERVICES | $93,050 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $72,450 |
| OWL 360 | $47,300 |
| PORT TOWNSEND SCHOOL DISTRICT | $42,000 |
| OLYMPIC HOUSING TRUST | $42,000 |
| JEFFERSON HEALTHCARE | $38,098 |
| CENTER FOR ETHICAL LEADERSHIP | $30,000 |
| PORT TOWNSEND MARINE SCIENCE CENTER | $28,570 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY FARMERS MARKETS | $26,500 |
| LIGHTHOUSE MISSION MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| OLYMPIC PENINSULA YMCA (SEQUIM BRANCH) | $23,000 |
| NORTHWEST SCHOOL OF WOODEN BOAT BUILDING | $22,500 |
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, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
52 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 10 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k 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
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL EAST6× · 2017–2024 · $484k · revenue +281%
- BHBAYSIDE HOUSING & SERVICES8× · 2017–2024 · $304k · revenue +663%
- JCJEFFERSON COUNTY IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ADVOCATES5× · 2020–2024 · $296k · revenue +20% · 57% of their budget
Funded once
- ETEDC TEAM JEFFERSONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +54%
- ENEquality New Mexico Foundationone grant, 2023 · $19k · revenue -21%
FRACTURED ATLAS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +49%
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.
Futurewise works throughout Washington state to encourage healthy, equitable and opportunity-rich communities, and to protect our most valuable farmlands, forests and water resources through wise land use policies and practices.
Foster Growth in the Community
Northwest Film Forum incites public dialogue and creative action through collective cinematic experiences. A nonprofit film and arts center located in Seattle, Northwest Film Forum presents hundreds of films, festivals, community events,…
RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.
To inspire a lifelong passion for craftmanship through education in woodworking and traditional building trades.
To increase the economic well-being and quality of life for all citizens of the region; to coordinate provincial, territorial, and state policies throughout the region; to identify and promote "models of success and to serve as a conduit…
Development of a year-round public market that would serve as a community hub to help community emerge as a more vibrant and economically viable place to live, work, and play.
The Center for Wooden Boats promotes Northwest Maritime Heritage through education, interpretation and hands-on experience in building, maintaining and using historic small craft.
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.
Improving the quality of life for the people in the Olympic Peninsula Community by providing increased access to health and wellness services for the underserved
Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jefferson Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Weekend Nutrition Foundation. 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 27 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
67 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. 67 of the 90 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL EAST ↗
- Who funds BAYSIDE HOUSING & SERVICES ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds OLYMPIC PENINSULA YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSN ↗
- Who funds STRONGERTOWNS ↗
- Who funds Port Townsend School of the Arts DBA Northwind Art ↗
- Who funds DOVE HOUSE ADVOCACY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jumping Mouse Childrens Center ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE JEFFERSON COUNTY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST MARITIME CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY FARMERS MARKET ↗
- Who funds PORT TOWNSEND MARINE SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Puget Sound Voyaging Society ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OWL360 ↗
- Who funds NORTH OLYMPIC LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds FIRST STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds FORT WORDEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY WELLNESS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OLYMPIC NEIGHBORS ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORMATIONS BY AUSTIN ANGELS ↗
- Who funds Black Lives Matter of Jefferson County ↗
- Who funds Olympic Housing Trust ↗
- Who funds ECHHO ECUMENICAL CHRISTIAN HELPING ↗
- Who funds CLALLAM-JEFFERSON COUNTY PRO BONO LAWYERS ↗
- Who funds MIKE BEERY MEMORIAL CHILDRENS FUND ↗
- Who funds COYOTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEY CITY PLAYERS KEY CITY PUBLIC THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding ↗
- Who funds NORTH OLYMPIC SALMON COALITION ↗
- Who funds EDC TEAM JEFFERSON ↗
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: First Fed Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Whitney Family Foundation · Entelco Foundation · The Robert and Susan Brown Family Foundation Inc · The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation · I a O'Shaughnessy Foundation · School's Out Washington · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Artsfund · Lucky Seven 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 Jefferson Community Foundation 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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