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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.

$208k
Granted FY2018
5
Grants FY2018
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

5
’18
2
’19
6
’20
7
’21
1
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2022.

Philanthropy$490kHuman Services$229kFood & Nutrition$75kEducation$68kHealth$41kEmployment$35kCrime & Legal$15kCommunity Improvement$15kOther$0
02FY2018 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $202,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $207,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2018

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%RURAL RESOURCES COMMUNITY ACTION: $23k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SPOKANE: $13k → 12%ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $10k → 9%SPECTRUM: $15k → 12%SPECTRUM: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 20% of Philanthropy in Action’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Philanthropy in Actionlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$85k · 3 repeat orgs$396k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +715% since the first grant, against +35% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
17

Total granted

$85k
$396k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+715%
+35%

Still filing today

67%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesEducationHealthCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NW
    NORTHEAST WASHINGTON ESD 101
    2× · 2018–2020 · $40k
  • Spectrum
    2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue +715%
  • MP
    MADDIE'S PLACE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +526%

Funded once

  • WD
    WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • CV
    CENTRAL VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $60k
  • AI
    AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $43k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Innovation Spokane Schools

To prepare a diverse range of students for a life of learning in post-secondary education, citizenship, and leadership.

Education
2
Spokane Area Workforce Development Council

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.

Community Improvement
3
Spokane Guilds' School & Neuromuscular Center

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…

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4
Spokane Alliance

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…

Community Improvement
5
Lutheran Community Services Northwest

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.

Human Services
6
Larche Spokane

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…

Human Services
7
Community Health Association of Spokane

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.

Health
8
Spark Northwest

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…

Environment
9
Sage Indigenous Law Center

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.

Crime & Legal
10
South Peninsula Behavioral Health Services Inc

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…

Health
11
Manzanita House

To embrace, equip, and empower immigrants through access to culturally informed essential services, and facilitate covnnections to grow deeper roots and thrive in Spokane.

Arts & Culture
12
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rural Resources Community Action; 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.
05the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
13/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Innovia Foundation: $490,077 · PhilanthropyInnovia FoundationWASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES: $100,000 · OtherWASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF SOCIA…CENTRAL VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL: $60,000 · OtherCENTRAL VALLEY HIGH SCHOOLAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY CENTER (AICC): $43,075 · OtherAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY CENT…NORTHEAST WASHINGTON ESD 101: $40,000 · OtherNORTHEAST WASHINGTON ESD 101Spokane Guilds' School Foundation: $10,000 · Other+2 more: $8,900 · OtherSpectrum: $25,000 · Human ServicesSpectrumRURAL RESOURCES COMMUNITY ACTION: $23,000 · Human ServicesRURAL RES…FAMILY IMPACT NETWORK: $15,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY IM…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SPOKANE: $12,500 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC …ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $10,000 · Human ServicesASIAN COU…Salish School of Spokane: $40,575 · EducationSPOKANE TEACHING HEALTH CENTER: $25,000 · EducationLumen Public School: $2,500 · EducationMADDIE'S PLACE: $20,000 · HealthPROVIDENCE INLAND NORTHWEST FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalHEALTH AND JUSTICE RECOVERY ALLIANCE: $5,450 · Crime & LegalLATINOS EN SPOKANE: $15,000 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$490,077Other$261,975Human Services$85,500Education$68,075Health$35,000Crime & Legal$15,450Community Improvement$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInnovia Foundation: $490,077 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSalish School of Spokane: $40,575 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSPOKANE TEACHING HEALTH CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSpectrum: $25,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetRURAL RESOURCES COMMUNITY ACTION: $23,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMADDIE'S PLACE: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFAMILY IMPACT NETWORK: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLATINOS EN SPOKANE: $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPROVIDENCE INLAND NORTHWEST FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SPOKANE: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpokane Guilds' School Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH AND JUSTICE RECOVERY ALLIANCE: $5,450 over 1y, 13% of budgetLumen Public School: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Innovia FoundationBetter Health TogetherThe Avista FoundationEmpire Health Foundat…Empire Health Communi…Project Beauty ShareInatai FoundationWomen Helping Women F…Smith-Barbieri Progre…Delta Dental of Washi…Perigee FundProvidence Health & S…
Innovia FoundationWA26.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Philanthropy in Action funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Philanthropy in Action. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
    7report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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