· Public charity
Northwest Business Development Assoc
To support business growth, job creation and job retention by providing quality small business loan services, including screening, organizing, packaging, processing and closings, in combination with local lending institutions and the SBA.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $232,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $245,585 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $13,585 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $217k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Schools Out Washington | $35,000 |
| Women Helping Women Fund | $35,000 |
| Business Impact Northwest | $35,000 |
| Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce dba Greater Spokane Inc | $35,000 |
| Economic Development Alliance of Skagit County | $25,000 |
| Community Colleges of Spokane Foundation | $15,000 |
| Spokane Workforce Council | $15,000 |
| Seattle SCORE Chapter 55 | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
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 (FY18–18, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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
- HSHOPEWORKS SOCIAL ENTERPRISES4× · 2019–2024 · $105k · revenue +25%
- SCSPOKANE COLLEGES FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2025 · $53k · revenue +214%
- SASPOKANE AREA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL2× · 2024–2025 · $35k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- SGSeattle Good Business Network DBA Good Business Network of Washingtongraduatedone grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue +30%
- KSKITCHEN SPOKANEone grant, 2020 · $35k
- CDCentros De Servicios Comunitariousone grant, 2019 · $35k
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.
Committed to fostering relationships between members and the community. to serve the interest of members by acting as a catalyst for a vibrant sustainable economy.
Foster Growth in the Community
The mission of Visit Spokane is to help promote economic development for Spokane County through tourism and tourism promotion.
We increase access to economic opportunities for business owners, entrepreneurs, and individuals in Central Washington by connecting and providing them with resources, representation, and opportunities to build community.
Feast Collective elevates and empowers immigrants and former refugees as leaders. We use international cuisine as a platform for economic resilience, holistic growth, and culture-sharing.
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…
Equip the public and public decision-makers with the policy research and practical tools they need to embed the values of fairness, care, and opportunity into the foundations of Washington's economy.
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…
Swwdc's mission is to prepare and promote a skilled and adaptive workforce for a thriving economy in southwest washington. swwdc and its community partners provide job search assistance, education and training to individuals and assist…
Global neighborhood's mission is to offer pathways to employment for our neighbors who have come to the inland northwest as refugees.
To coordinate workforce programs and services in coos, curry, and douglas counties, oregon through a network of local partners.
See schedule o.enterprise washington empowers its members to effectively engage in public affairs and the political process. enterprise washington provides its business and association members with leading-edge research and strategies to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Economic Development Fund Business Impact Nw and the most unlike its peers is Teen Closet. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 36 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 HOPEWORKS SOCIAL ENTERPRISES ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE OF SKAGIT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SPOKANE COLLEGES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Seattle Good Business Network DBA Good Business Network of Washington ↗
- Who funds SPOKANE AREA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds Women Helping Women Fund ↗
- Who funds KITCHEN SPOKANE ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND BUSINESS IMPACT NW ↗
- Who funds ADELANTE MUJERES ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL OREGON VETERANS RANCH ↗
- Who funds Teen Closet ↗
- Who funds MICRO ENTERPRISE SERVICES OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE INLAND NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds Project Feast ↗
- Who funds Familias en Accion ↗
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: Innovia Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Washington State Microenterprise Association · The Avista Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Seattle Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Tides Foundation · American Online Giving 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 Northwest Business Development Assoc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Central Oregon Veterans Ranch — 45% of income from government
- Adelante Mujeres — 31% of income from government
- Familias en Accion — 8% of income from government
- Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon — 5% of income from government
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.