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Pacific Mountain Workforce Development Council

PacMtn develops and implements the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act in Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific and Thurston Counties.

$6.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$2.2M
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 FY2021–2025.

Employment$25MCrime & Legal$123kYouth Development$54kHuman Services$44kEnvironment$30k
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 27 grants below total $4,654,911 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,871,839 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,216,928 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 $10k4 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $284k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $763k
  • $250k+2 grants · $3.6M
$19,392
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARBOR E&T LLC dba EQUUS WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS$2,189,755
THURSTON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$1,386,749
ECONOMIC DEVELOP CNCL OF THURS CNTY EDC$245,766
COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES$122,425
THURSTON COUNTY EDC CENTER FOR BUSINESS & INNOVATION$113,218
GARDEN RAISED BOUNTY$109,932
CAREER TEAM LLC$107,804
GREATER GRAYS HARBOR INC$63,786
QUINAULT INDIAN NATION$44,613
LEGACY MEATS LLC DBA HERITAGE MEATS$27,085
KIRSOP FARMS$22,913
SEATTLE SHELLFISH LLC$21,896
CHELSEA FARMS$19,700
THE MOORE WRIGHT GROUP$19,392
PERKINS FAMILY FARMS LLC$18,316
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $568k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Catholic Community Services: $94k → 9%Catholic Community Services: $89k → 9%Catholic Community Services: $9k → 9%THE MOORE WRIGHT GROUP: $19k → 18%THE ARC OF GRAYS HARBOR: $14k → 18%SOUTH SOUND YMCA: $39k → 9%INNOVATIONS HUMAN TRAFFICKING COLLABORATIVE: $21k → 9%OLYMPIA FAMILY THEATER: $44k → 9%INNOVATIONS HUMAN TRAFFICKING COLLABORATIVE: $21k → 9%SOUTH SOUND YMCA: $8k → 9%COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $122k → 9%COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $38k → 9%THE MOORE WRIGHT GROUP: $51k → 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$24M · 35 repeat orgs$737k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
17

Total granted

$24M
$544k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+17%

Still filing today

69%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEmploymentEnvironmentFood & NutritionCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther

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

  • TC
    THURSTON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $5.1M · revenue +62% · 49% of their budget
  • CP
    CAREER PATH SERVICES EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING
    2× · 2021–2022 · $5.0M · revenue +72%
  • VV
    VALEO VOCATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $525k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • VA
    VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU OF THURSTON COUNTY
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • SL
    SOUND LEGAL AID
    one grant, 2023 · $68k · revenue -42%
  • NA
    NORTHWEST AGRICULTURE BUSINESS CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $57k · revenue +87%

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
Cowlitz Economic Development Council

Foster Growth in the Community

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2
Gig Harbor Chamber of Commerce

Serve the small business community and local development.

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3
Washington Filmworks

To build and enhance the competitiveness of Washington State's film and associated creative industry. We accomplish this by marketing and managing the state's production incentive program, representing the state in national and…

Community Improvement
4
Southwest Washington Workforce Development Council

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…

Philanthropy
5
Edc Team Jefferson

EDC Team Jefferson focuses on high-leverage, place-based activities that improve the economic well-being and quality of life for people in Jefferson County, and the living systems in which we are embedded.

Community Improvement
6
East Cascades Workforce Investment Board

The east cascades workforce investment board supports the talent needs of employers, and maximizes and aligns investments in the career goals of individuals to fuel a thriving economy.

Employment
7
Whatcom Dispute Resolution Center

Provide and promote constructive and collaborative approaches to conflict resolution through mediation, training, facilitation, supervised visits and community education.

Unclassified
8
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
9
Workforce Development Council Snohomish County

Workforce snohomish invests government and private funding to continuously increase the global competitiveness and prosperity of our businesses and workforce, to fill current and emerging jobs, and to provide full employment. our…

Education
10
Greater Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce

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.

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11
Trillium Employment Services

To promote inclusive community and employment opportunities for people with disabilities in order for them to more fully participate in their communities in a manner that enhances their quality of life.

Employment
12
Seattle Economic Development Fund Business Impact Nw

To provide economic development financing to serve the needs of small businesses in the state of washington that would not qualify for private financing under conventional financing criteria.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dispute Resolution Center and the most unlike its peers is Olympia Film Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr15%7%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr19%33%20–35yr12%27%35–55yr13%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr15%1%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr19%15%20–35yr12%74%35–55yr13%6%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/64
the rest of the field
13%
1,927/14,544

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

34 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. 34 of the 65 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
22/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EQUUS WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS — $9,878,865 · OtherEQUUS WORKFORCE SOLUTIONSTHURSTON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $5,077,438 · OtherTHURSTON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE+44 more — $2,851,926 · Other+44 moreCAREER PATH SERVICES EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING — $4,957,078 · EmploymentCAREER PATH SERVICES EMPL…VALEO VOCATION — $524,885 · EmploymentVALEO VOCATION+2 more — $75,611 · EmploymentCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON — $191,517 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES — $160,012 · Human ServicesMOORE WRIGHT GROUP — $70,122 · Human ServicesSOUTH SOUND YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN — $46,866 · Human ServicesOlympia Family Theater — $44,158 · Human ServicesInnovations Human Trafficking Collaborative — $41,919 · Human Services+2 more — $29,341 · Human ServicesTHURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK — $350,307 · Food & NutritionNORTHWEST AGRICULTURE BUSINESS CENTER — $56,601 · Food & NutritionKITCHEN GARDEN PROJECT INC GARDEN-RAISED BOUNTY — $236,783 · EnvironmentSOUTH SOUND ESTUARY ASSOCIATION — $30,002 · EnvironmentSOUND LEGAL AID — $68,000 · Crime & LegalDISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER — $55,000 · Crime & LegalVISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU OF THURSTON COUNTY — $100,000 · Community Improvement
Other$17,808,229Employment$5,557,574Human Services$583,935Food & Nutrition$406,908Environment$266,785Crime & Legal$123,000Community Improvement$100,000

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 budgetTHURSTON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $5,077,438 over 5y, 49% of budgetCAREER PATH SERVICES EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING — $4,957,078 over 2y, 17% of budgetVALEO VOCATION — $524,885 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetTHURSTON COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COU — $374,781 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK — $350,307 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTIMBER RIVER CONNECTIONS — $247,043 over 3y, 12% of budgetKITCHEN GARDEN PROJECT INC GARDEN-RAISED BOUNTY — $236,783 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetTHURSTON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL CENTER FOR BUSINESS INNOVATION — $198,218 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON — $191,517 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES FOR SOUTH SOUND — $167,062 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES — $160,012 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU OF THURSTON COUNTY — $100,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetGREATER GRAYS HARBOR INC — $100,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetSOUTH PUGET SOUND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $80,573 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetLEWIS COUNTY GOSPEL MISSION — $69,100 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetSOUND LEGAL AID — $68,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetOlympia Film Society — $60,406 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetNORTHWEST AGRICULTURE BUSINESS CENTER — $56,601 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetDISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER — $55,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetHARLEQUIN PRODUCTIONS INC — $54,565 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON — $53,577 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetSOUTH SOUND YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN — $46,866 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOlympia Family Theater — $44,158 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetInnovations Human Trafficking Collaborative — $41,919 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetARBUTUS FOLK SCHOOL — $33,452 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetTHE BRIDGE MUSIC PROJECT — $32,538 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetHOMES FIRST — $32,058 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTH SOUND ESTUARY ASSOCIATION — $30,002 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetMORNINGSIDE — $21,340 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAFEPLACE — $15,716 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe ARC of Grays Harbor — $13,625 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetThe Community Foundation of South Puget Sound — $8,700 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Thurston County Econo…The Community Foundat…Dawkins Charitable Tr…The Norcliffe Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…United Way of Thursto…Inatai FoundationGrays Harbor Communit…The Bamford FoundationMedina FoundationSchool's Out Washingt…Renah Blair Rietzke F…
Thurston County Economic Development CouWA62.9× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thurston County Economic Development Cou · The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound · Dawkins Charitable Trust · The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · United Way of Thurston County · Inatai Foundation · Grays Harbor Community Foundation · The Bamford Foundation · Medina Foundation · School's Out Washington · Renah Blair Rietzke Family 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 Pacific Mountain Workforce Development Council 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%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 65 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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