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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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Human Services$171kCommunity Improvement$69kEnvironment$41kPhilanthropy$30kArts & Culture$20kEducation$18kHousing & Shelter$15kHealth$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $314,358, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,687,505 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,373,147 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $182k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $121k
$18,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$80M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SPOKANE HEARING ORAL PROGRAM OF EXCELLENCE HOPE$12,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SPOKANE COUNTY$12,500
GREATER SPOKANE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS$5,775
YMCA OF THE INLAND NORTHWEST$5,550
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF SPOKANE: $15k → 12%SPOKANE HEARING ORAL PROGRAM OF EXCELLENCE HOPE: $13k → 12%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SPOKANE COUNTY: $13k → 12%SPOKANE VALLEY HUB: $56k → 12%NAOMI COMMUNITY: $20k → 12%VALLEYFEST: $20k → 12%CENTRAL VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $18k → 12%NAOMI COMMUNITY: $15k → 12%INNOVIA FOUNDATION: $30k → 12%YMCA OF THE INLAND NORTHWEST: $6k → 12%GREATER SPOKANE VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $13k → 12%GREATER SPOKANE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS: $6k → 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 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.

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Visit Spokane

The mission of Visit Spokane is to help promote economic development for Spokane County through tourism and tourism promotion.

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2
Spokane Turbine Center Dba Parkwater Foundation
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3
Spokane River Forum

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.

Environment
4
Day Out for the Blind of Spokane
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5
Spokane Guilds' School & Neuromuscular Center

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…

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6
Feed Spokane

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

Human Services
7
Spokane Area Workforce Development Council

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.

Community Improvement
8
Spokane Alliance

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…

Community Improvement
9
Spokefest Association

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…

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10
Chelan Valley Hope

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…

Human Services
11
Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce

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.

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12
Salish School of Spokane

Dynamic Salish language revitalization powering cultural renewal and building a stronger, healthier community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partners Inland Northwest; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 13 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
4/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PARTNERS INLAND NORTHWEST: $130,000 · Human ServicesPARTNERS INLAND NORTHWESTWASHINGTON RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION: $41,001 · OtherWASHINGTON RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERA…VALLEYFEST: $20,000 · OtherVALLEYFESTCENTRAL VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $18,000 · OtherCENTRAL VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICTGREATER SPOKANE VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $13,152 · OtherGREATER SPOKANE VALLEY CHAMBER OF…Young Men's Christian Association of the Inland Northwest: $5,550 · OtherSPOKANE HEARING ORAL PROGRAM OF EXCELLENCE HOPE: $12,500 · OtherSPOKANE HEARING ORAL PROGRAM OF E…GREATER SPOKANE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS: $5,775 · OtherSpokane Valley Hub: $55,880 · Recreation & SportsSpokane Valley H…NAOMI COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Housing & ShelterNAOMI COMM…Innovia Foundation: $30,000 · PhilanthropyFamily Promise of Spokane: $15,000 · ReligionBoys & Girls Club of Spokane County: $12,500 · Youth Development
Human Services$130,000Other$115,978Recreation & Sports$55,880Housing & Shelter$35,000Philanthropy$30,000Religion$15,000Youth Development$12,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPARTNERS INLAND NORTHWEST: $130,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSpokane Valley Hub: $55,880 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWASHINGTON RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION: $41,001 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetNAOMI COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetInnovia Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVALLEYFEST: $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetFamily Promise of Spokane: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER SPOKANE VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $13,152 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Spokane County: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPOKANE HEARING ORAL PROGRAM OF EXCELLENCE HOPE: $12,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGREATER SPOKANE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS: $5,775 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of the Inland Northwest: $5,550 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.

The Avista FoundationWomen Helping Women F…Innovia FoundationNumerica Credit UnionFirst Interstate Banc…Multicare Health Syst…Better Health TogetherSchool's Out Washingt…Umpqua Bank Charitabl…Baird Foundation IncThe Albertsons Compan…The Bank of America C…
The Avista FoundationWA21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Modern Electric Water Company funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Modern Electric Water Company. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Modern Electric Water Company?

    Find your warmest path to Modern Electric Water Company through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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