· Public charity
Sound Credit Union
A member owned cooperative providing financial services, including loans and share deposits to its members.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $90,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $192,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $102,000 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD LIFELINE | $90,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $291k) 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Sound Credit Union’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 +39% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- GFGOWEST FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $213k · revenue ×19
- FLFOOD LIFELINE4× · 2020–2024 · $146k · revenue +6%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $116k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- WPWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +112%
- CUCREDIT UNION NATIONAL ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +4%
- NHNORTHWEST HARVEST EMMone grant, 2020 · $26k · revenue -35%
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.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
Our mission is is to collaborate with community to create access to financial opportunities. we provide affordable credit union financial services to low and moderate income people in washington state. this enables people in washington to…
To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.
A member owned cooperative providing financial services, including loans and share deposits to its members.
The foundations impact pillars include wealth creation for low-income and marginalized communities, supporting small businesses, investing in our communities, and providing services for immigrant communities.
Mutual membership benefit programs general other provided cooperative financial services
The credit union operated without profit for mutual purposes
The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…
As a cooperative we bring people together to improve the financial well-being of our members and their communities.
Foster Growth in the Community
Awb is the catalytic leader and unifying voice for economic prosperity, enabling our members, their employees and all citizens to prosper throughout washington state.
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities accredits institutions of higher education by applying evidence-informed standards and processes to support continuous improvements and promote equitable student achievement and success.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Tacoma Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is News Tribune Scholarship Foundation. 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.
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 45 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
23 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. 23 of the 25 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 GOWEST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEWS TRIBUNE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CREDIT UNION NATIONAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND BUSINESS IMPACT NW ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD FOR TACOMA/PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE OUT AND PROUD INC ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of South Puget Sound ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN TACOMA ↗
- Who funds TACOMAPIERCE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANIT ↗
- Who funds WORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds INCLUSIV INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Tacoma Urban League ↗
- Who funds PUYALLUP MAIN STREET ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Credit Unions in the State of Washington · The Norcliffe Foundation · The Russell Family Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Medina Foundation · Commonspirit Washington F/K/A Franciscan Health System · Sequoia Foundation · Korum for Kids Foundation · Multicare Health System · The Bamford Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Harborstone Credit Union
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 Sound Credit Union 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.