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Modern Electric Water Company
MODERN ELECTRIC WATER COMPANY, a customer-owned utility, strives to provide safe, reliable, and affordable electric and water services as well as enhance and enrich the lives of the community we serve.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $314,358 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,687,505 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,373,147 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 $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $182k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $121k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PARTNERS INLAND NORTHWEST | $65,000 |
| SPOKANE VALLEY HUB | $55,880 |
| WASHINGTON RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION | $41,001 |
| INNOVIA FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| NAOMI COMMUNITY | $20,000 |
| VALLEYFEST | $20,000 |
| CENTRAL VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $18,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF SPOKANE | $15,000 |
| GREATER SPOKANE VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $13,152 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SPOKANE COUNTY | $12,500 |
| SPOKANE HEARING ORAL PROGRAM OF EXCELLENCE HOPE | $12,500 |
| GREATER SPOKANE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS | $5,775 |
| YMCA OF THE INLAND NORTHWEST | $5,550 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your 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.
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 mission of Visit Spokane is to help promote economic development for Spokane County through tourism and tourism promotion.
The Spokane River Forums mission is to create materials, events and activities that promote regional dialogues for sustaining a healthy river system while meeting the needs of a growing population.
Joya is dedicated to igniting hope, empowering children and families, and establishing lifelong skills. We provide exceptional pediatric therapy and support services, engage families, and remove financial barriers. Our community is built…
Secure available food for those in need. Creating an efficient sustainable partnership between food donors, meal providers and outreach workers.
The SWC mobilizes partnerships, data-driven innovation,and strategic investment to build an equitable workforce ecosystem where every individual can access opportunity, every business can find talent, and every community can thrive.
To build broad-based non-partisan civic power organizations in the Spokane region to address the fundamental common needs of the community including the inequities, and injustices facing low-income people and persons subjected to…
1) SpokeFest seeks to build a healthier population and environment by: a. Providing wholesome activities and entertainment for individuals & families in Spokane and the surrounding communities. b. Promoting bicycle safety, fitness, bicycle…
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…
The Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce, dba Greater Spokane, Incorporated, primary mission is to lead transformative business and community initiatives to build a robust regional economy.
Dynamic Salish language revitalization powering cultural renewal and building a stronger, healthier community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partners Inland Northwest and the most unlike its peers is Naomi Community Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 13 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 PARTNERS INLAND NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds Spokane Valley Hub ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NAOMI COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Innovia Foundation ↗
- Who funds VALLEYFEST ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Spokane ↗
- Who funds GREATER SPOKANE VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Spokane County ↗
- Who funds SPOKANE HEARING ORAL PROGRAM OF EXCELLENCE HOPE ↗
- Who funds GREATER SPOKANE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of the Inland Northwest ↗
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 · Women Helping Women Fund · Innovia Foundation · Numerica Credit Union · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Multicare Health System · Better Health Together · School's Out Washington · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Modern Electric Water Company 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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