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Philanthropy in Action
To improve the health of people in the state of washington by providing resources, services and funding through programs aimed at vulnerable families and individuals to address health, safety, prevention, permanency, stability and overall well-being.
Read this first · the figures below need context
90% of Philanthropy in Action’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Innovia Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Philanthropy in Action named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $203k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $202,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $207,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,000 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 · FY2018
- $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES | $100,000 |
| CENTRAL VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $60,000 |
| NEW ESD 101 | $15,000 |
| PROVIDENCE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SPOKANE | $12,500 |
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 (FY18–21, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 20% of Philanthropy in Action’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +715% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2018, 2 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- NWNORTHEAST WASHINGTON ESD 1012× · 2018–2020 · $40k
Spectrum2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue +715%- MPMADDIE'S PLACE2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +526%
Funded once
- WDWASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICESone grant, 2018 · $100k
- CVCENTRAL VALLEY HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $60k
- AIAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2021 · $43k
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.
To prepare a diverse range of students for a life of learning in post-secondary education, citizenship, and leadership.
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.
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…
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…
LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.
To make known the gifts of people with development disabilities, revealed through mutually transforming relationships, to foster an environment in community that responds to the changing needs of members while being faithful to the core…
The mission of the Community Health Association of Spokane (CHAS Health) is to improve the overall health of the communities we serve by expanding access to quality health and wellness services.
Founded in 2001, Spark Northwest accelerates the just transition to clean energy in the Pacific Northwest. Spark Northwest uses two primary strategies: (1) on-the-ground project consulting, focusing on communities with limited financial…
Sage Indigenous Law Center's mission is to provide culturally grounded civil legal aid that protects the rights of Native American parents, children, and communities, while advancing justice and addressing systemic inequities.
The organization operates primarily on the Southern Kenai Peninsula and its operations include the following:Community Mental Health - Counseling, evaluation, consultation and crisis mental health services for Adults and…
To embrace, equip, and empower immigrants through access to culturally informed essential services, and facilitate covnnections to grow deeper roots and thrive in Spokane.
Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rural Resources Community Action and the most unlike its peers is Spectrum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 21 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 Innovia Foundation ↗
- Who funds Salish School of Spokane ↗
- Who funds Spectrum ↗
- Who funds SPOKANE TEACHING HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds RURAL RESOURCES COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds MADDIE'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds LATINOS EN SPOKANE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY IMPACT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE INLAND NORTHWEST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SPOKANE ↗
- Who funds Spokane Guilds' School Foundation ↗
- Who funds ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE ↗
- Who funds THE BAIL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH AND JUSTICE RECOVERY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Lumen Public School ↗
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 · Better Health Together · The Avista Foundation · Empire Health Foundation · Empire Health Community Advocacy Fund · Project Beauty Share · Inatai Foundation · Women Helping Women Fund · Smith-Barbieri Progressive Fund a Charitable Foundation · Delta Dental of Washington · Perigee Fund · Providence Health & Services - Washington
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 Philanthropy in Action 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.
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.