Washington · Public charity
Multi-Service Center
Msc uplifts communities by increasing equitable access to advocacy, opportunities, and well-being.
- $12M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.4M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $125,331
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $303,553
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $32M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Multi-Service Center funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $1.4M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $3.1M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $3.0M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $761k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $963k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $940k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $1.3M | 64% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $841k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pierce County | $2,862,675 | 9 | n/a |
| Spokane Neighborhood Action Partners | $2,380,402 | 9 | 2% |
| Area Agency on Aging & Disabilities | $1,521,629 | 7 | n/a |
| Blue Mountain Action Council | $1,227,195 | 9 | 2% |
| People for People | $1,206,350 | 8 | 1% |
| Olympic Area Agency on Aging Ltc | $1,135,120 | 9 | n/a |
| Aging & Adult Care of Central Wa | $1,087,339 | 7 | n/a |
| Kitsap County Sheriffs Office | $813,830 | 9 | n/a |
| Lewis Mason Thurston Area Agency on Aging | $369,517 | 5 | n/a |
| Timber River Connections | $164,238 | 2 | 6% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pierce County | $2,862,675 | 9 | n/a |
| Spokane Neighborhood Action Partners | $2,380,402 | 9 | 2% |
| Area Agency on Aging & Disabilities | $1,521,629 | 7 | n/a |
| Blue Mountain Action Council | $1,227,195 | 9 | 2% |
| People for People | $1,206,350 | 8 | 1% |
| Olympic Area Agency on Aging Ltc | $1,135,120 | 9 | n/a |
| Aging & Adult Care of Central Wa | $1,087,339 | 7 | n/a |
| Kitsap County Sheriffs Office | $813,830 | 9 | n/a |
| Lewis Mason Thurston Area Agency on Aging | $369,517 | 5 | n/a |
| Timber River Connections | $164,238 | 2 | 6% |
| Young Womens Christian Association of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County | $90,667 | 2 | 0% |
| Federal Way Youth Action Team | $72,571 | 1 | 34% |
| Everybody Can Win | $39,944 | 1 | n/a |
| Ambition Is Priceless | $22,681 | 1 | n/a |
| White Center Emergency Food Association White Center Food Bank | $20,830 | 1 | 1% |
| Auburn Food Bank | $20,778 | 1 | 1% |
| Kent Food Bank and Emergency Services | $16,250 | 1 | 1% |
| Des Moines Area Food Bank | $8,950 | 1 | 0% |
| Maple Valley Food Bank and Emergency Services | $8,199 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Action of Skagit County | $7,538 | 1 | 0% |
| Highline Area Food Bank | $7,317 | 1 | 0% |
| Tukwila Pantry | $5,641 | 1 | n/a |
| Domestic Abuse Women's Network | $5,583 | 1 | 0% |
| Immanuel Community Services | $4,685 | 1 | 1% |
| Vashon Maury Community Food Bank | $3,425 | 1 | 0% |
| Plateau Outreach Ministries | $2,566 | 1 | 0% |
| Abused Deaf Women's Advocacy Services | $2,197 | 1 | 0% |
| Federal Way Veterans | $209 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Multi-Service Center supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Northwest Harvest Emm · United Way of King County · Food Lifeline · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · South King County Food Coalition Skcfc · Seattle Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Multicare Health System · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound
How this is measured
About Multi-Service Center
- How much does Multi-Service Center give?
- Multi-Service Center reported 9 itemized grants totaling $1,391,930, out of $12,067,429 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Multi-Service Center fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (44%), Health (25%), Public Safety & Disaster (20%).
- Who are Multi-Service Center's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pierce County ($2.9M), Spokane Neighborhood Action Partners ($2.4M), Area Agency on Aging & Disabilities ($1.5M).
- Does Multi-Service Center fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Multi-Service Center?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Northwest Harvest Emm, United Way of King County, Food Lifeline.
- Where is Multi-Service Center based?
- Multi-Service Center is based in WA.
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