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Northwest Harvest Emm

The organization's mission is growing food justice through collective action.

$33M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Food & Nutrition$12M
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 5 grants below total $3,135,483 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $33,425,551 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $30,290,068 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 · $3k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
  • $250k+1 grant · $3.0M
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$90M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALPENGLOW IMPACT$3,032,093
MUST-MENTORING URBAN STUDENTS AND TEENS$80,000
THE BRONZE CHAPTER$20,000
KENT FOOD BANK AND EMERGENCY SERVICES$1,695
NORTHEAST FOOD PANTRY$1,695
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $494k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%YELM COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 9%APOYO: $5k → 11%MARTIN LUTHER KING JR COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 12%PEOPLE FOR PEOPLE: $2k → 17%THE COUNCIL AGING & HUMAN SERVICES: $5k → 20%SD NCWDC-CHELANDOUGLAS CAC: $200 → 9%NUESTRA CASA: $40k → 11%APOYO: $2k → 11%COUNCIL ON AGING & HUMAN SERVICES: $2k → 20%NUESTRA CASA: $40k → 11%OIC OF WA FOOD BANK: $40k → 17%COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER: $5k → 20%NUESTRA CASA: $30k → 11%OIC OF WA FOOD BANK: $40k → 17%REFUGEE IMMIGRANT CONNECTIONS SPOKANE: $40k → 12%MOTHER AFRICA: $40k → 9%MOTHER AFRICA: $40k → 9%MOTHER AFRICA: $30k → 9%ALIMENTANDO AL PUEBLO: $40k → 9%ALIMENTANDO AL PUEBLO: $2k → 9%PLATEAU OUTREACH MINISTRIES: $2k → 9%UTOPIA WA: $40k → 9%KENT FOOD BANK AND EMERGENCY SERVICES: $2k → 9%EAGLES NEST COMMUNITY KITCHEN: $2k → 9%HOPELINK BELLEVUE: $2k → 9%URBAN FAMILY CENTER ASSOCIATION: $40k → 9%UNIVERSITY DISTRICT FOOD BANK: $2k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 14 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
49

Total granted

$1.6M
$656k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+42%

Still filing today

79%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentCivil RightsHealthOther

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

  • MU
    MENTORING URBAN STUDENTS & TEENS
    2× · 2021–2025 · $180k · revenue +37%
  • MA
    MOTHER AFRICA
    4× · 2021–2024 · $110k · revenue +63%
  • NC
    Nuestra CASA
    3× · 2021–2023 · $110k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • LE
    LATINOS EN SPOKANE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $80k · revenue -23%
  • EF
    EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTYgraduated
    7× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +34%
  • UF
    URBAN FAMILY CENTER ASSOCIATION URBAN FAMILY
    2× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Columbia Pacific Food Bank

Columbia pacific food bank is the regional food distribution center for columbia county, oregon and local food pantry for the community of saint helens.

Food & Nutrition
2
Selah-Naches Food Bank

The Organization's mission is to feed hungry people by soliciting and judiciously distribution food and grocery products and to educate the public about the nature of and solutions to the problems of hunger.

Food & Nutrition
3
Feeding Washington

Create a strong and effective statewide infrastructure that efficiently leverages resources to expand capacity in Washington State's Feeding America network.

Food & Nutrition
4
South Corvallis Food Bank

Increase sustainable food security in South Corvallis by providing emergency food and supplies.

Food & Nutrition
5
Storehouse Food Bank

Serving our community with healthy food and care.

Food & Nutrition
6
Siskiyou Community Food Bank

We provided free healthy food to low-income families and individuals in need.

Food & Nutrition
7
Alameda Emergency Food Dba Alameda Food Bank

Founded in 1977, The Alameda Food Bank is a non-profit organization that helps Alameda residents in need by providing nourishing food in compassionate and respectful manner with the support of dedicated volunteers and local partners.

Food & Nutrition
8
Estacada Area Food Bank

To provide food for local community families.

Human Services
9
Lake County Food Share Inc

Lake county food share inc is an organization whose purpose is to coordinate and to meet both supplemental and emergency food needs of families and individuals in lake county, oregon.

Food & Nutrition
10
Washington Food Coalition

To strengthen hunger relief providers in WA State.

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11
Food Bank of Alaska

FBA believes no one deserves to be hungry. We are dedicated to eliminating hunger in Alaska by obtaining and providing food to partner agencies and through anti-hunger leadership.

Food & Nutrition
12
Washington County Food Bank Inc

Food distribution to needy individuals and families.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Unlimited Network and the most unlike its peers is Cultures United. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHousing & Homelessness Serv…Youth Development Organizat…Early Childhood & Family Su…Faith-Based Community Devel…Healthcare Systems and Serv…Disability Services & Emplo…Local History MuseumsLabor Union OrganizationsEducation Scholarship Found…Immigrant & Ethnic Communit…Community Food Banks
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%9%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr18%25%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr14%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%28%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%66%10–20yr18%2%20–35yr13%1%35–55yr14%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 28% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%13/516
the rest of the field
13%
3,743/29,353

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.

04the grantee network

330 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
129
Early backer (in before they grew)
316/330
Grantees still filing
244/330
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $6,789,384 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INCALPENGLOW IMPACT — $3,032,093 · OtherALPENGLOW IMPACTSAFEWAY INC — $727,920 · OtherSAFEWAY INC+28 more — $499,870 · Other+28 moreMOTHER AFRICA — $110,000 · Human ServicesNuestra CASA — $110,000 · Human ServicesOPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTER OF WASHINGTON — $80,000 · Human ServicesALIMENTANDO AL PUEBLO — $41,695 · Human ServicesURBAN FAMILY CENTER ASSOCIATION URBAN FAMILY — $40,000 · Human ServicesUNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS WASHINGTON-UTOPIA WA — $40,000 · Human ServicesREFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT CONNECTIONS OF SPOKANE — $40,000 · Human ServicesLatino Community Fund of Washington State — $30,000 · Human Services+12 more — $32,150 · Human ServicesMENTORING URBAN STUDENTS & TEENS — $180,000 · Youth DevelopmentPEACEKEEPER SOCIETY — $30,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $1,695 · Youth DevelopmentEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY — $75,000 · Food & NutritionLIVING WELL KENT COLLABORATIVE — $30,000 · Food & NutritionCashmere Food Bank — $10,000 · Food & NutritionHIGHLAND FOOD BANK — $10,000 · Food & Nutrition+6 more — $10,170 · Food & NutritionGLOBAL TO LOCAL HEALTH INITIATIVE — $80,000 · HealthSPOKANE AIDS NETWORK — $40,000 · HealthPacific Islander Community Association of WA — $70,000 · Civil RightsCOLECTIVA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO — $21,000 · Civil Rights
Education$6,789,384Other$4,259,883Human Services$523,845Youth Development$211,695Food & Nutrition$135,170Health$120,000Civil Rights$91,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $6,789,384 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetMENTORING URBAN STUDENTS & TEENS — $180,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetMOTHER AFRICA — $110,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetNuestra CASA — $110,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetLATINOS EN SPOKANE — $80,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetOPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTER OF WASHINGTON — $80,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITY HOUSING & DEVELOPMENT — $80,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGLOBAL TO LOCAL HEALTH INITIATIVE — $80,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY — $75,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPacific Islander Community Association of WA — $70,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SEATTLE — $70,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetALIMENTANDO AL PUEBLO — $41,695 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetSPOKANE AIDS NETWORK — $40,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetUNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS WASHINGTON-UTOPIA WA — $40,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFuse Washington — $40,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetREFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT CONNECTIONS OF SPOKANE — $40,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLatino Community Fund of Washington State — $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPEACEKEEPER SOCIETY — $30,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetLIVING WELL KENT COLLABORATIVE — $30,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCOLECTIVA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO — $21,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFIRST PLACE — $11,695 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCashmere Food Bank — $10,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetAPOYO — $6,695 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AGING & HUMAN SERVICES — $6,695 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMARYSVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $1,695 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE — $1,695 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOUR PLACE COMMUNITY OUTREACH — $1,695 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPLATEAU OUTREACH MINISTRIES — $1,695 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGoodRoots Northwest — $1,695 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLES NEST COMMUNITY KITCHEN — $1,695 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSNOQUALMIE VALLEY FOOD BANK — $1,695 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVolunteers of America Western Washington — $1,695 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSNOHOMISH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $1,695 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSKY VALLEY FOOD BANK — $1,695 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY OUTRE — $1,695 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $1,695 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWest Seattle Food Bank — $1,695 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHOPELINK — $1,695 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR PEOPLE — $1,695 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH WHIDBEY GOOD CHEER — $1,695 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBALLARD FOOD BANK — $1,695 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNew Hope Ranch — $1,695 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetYELM COMMUNITY SERVICES — $1,695 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMAPLE VALLEY FOOD BANK AND EMERGENCY SERVICES — $1,695 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE — $1,695 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWomen & Children's Free Restaurant & Community Kitchen — $1,695 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION — $1,695 over 8y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Food LifelineSecond Harvest Inland…Puget Sound Energy Fo…United Way of King Co…School's Out Washingt…Harvest Against HungerThe Norcliffe Foundat…Seattle FoundationInatai FoundationCredit Unions in the …Building ChangesMedina Foundation
Food LifelineWA246.1× affinity154 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Food Lifeline · Second Harvest Inland Northwest · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · United Way of King County · School's Out Washington · Harvest Against Hunger · The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Inatai Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Building Changes · Medina 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 Northwest Harvest Emm 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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