· Public charity
Realvest Foundation
To support the services and purposes of the community foundation for southwest washington.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $253,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $275,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $22,000 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $112k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $134k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOUGH FOUNDATION | $84,000 |
| VANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $50,000 |
| TEATRO MILAGRO | $12,500 |
| CONFLUENCE PROJECT | $12,500 |
| KE KUKUI FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| UNITY CENTER | $12,500 |
| IDENTITY CLARK COUNTY | $12,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WA | $10,000 |
| COLUMBIA DANCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| VANCOUVER BALLET FOLKLORICO | $10,000 |
| THE HISTORIC TRUST | $10,000 |
| CAMP HOPE OF SW WASHINGTON | $10,000 |
| OPEN HOUSE MINISTRIES | $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 (FY24–24, $23k) 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.
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.
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.
The Clark County Historical Society is dedicated to the collection, preservation, and interpretation of the cultural history of Clark County, WA and the Pacific Northwest. It also sponsors educational programs and exhibits for the…
Cultivating quality arts experiences, connecting communities, and increasing creative engagement.
Comunidad seeks to build community, cultural pride, and economic opportunities for the Latino community on Vashon Island and its neighboring communities.
Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.
Centro cultural mexicano strives to inspire inclusive participation by the community in all aspects of education, culture, and society by providing opportunities to create a positive future and to build a vibrant community of empowered…
To enliven and expand the understanding of craft and the museum experience for all.
Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.
Futurewise works throughout Washington state to encourage healthy, equitable and opportunity-rich communities, and to protect our most valuable farmlands, forests and water resources through wise land use policies and practices.
In partnership with cwu and our donors, our mission is to transform the lives of current and future generations of students by developing and stewarding resources that provide access, opportunity, and hope.
Chamber music northwest creates and shares the beauty, inspiration, intimacy and transformative power of small ensemble music through: unforgettable concerts with the world's greatest musicians in a welcoming environment; (continued on…
The Center for Wooden Boats promotes Northwest Maritime Heritage through education, interpretation and hands-on experience in building, maintaining and using historic small craft.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childrens Home Society of Washington and the most unlike its peers is Miracle Theatre Group. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 13 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 HOUGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds CONFLUENCES INC CONFLUENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE THEATRE GROUP ↗
- Who funds KE KUKUI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds IDENTITY CLARK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds Camp Hope of Southwest Washington ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA DANCE ENSEMBLE ↗
- Who funds VANCOUVER NATIONAL HISTORIC RESERVE TRUST ↗
- Who funds OPEN HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
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: The Oregon Community Foundation · Artsfund · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Realvest Foundation 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.
- Miracle Theatre Group — 6% 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.
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