· Public charity
Spokane Parks Foundation
The Spokane Parks Foundation cultivates the health, growth, and continued enjoyment of our communities by inspiring giving and passion for our parks.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| City of Spokane | $19,252 |
| Spokane County Parks Recreation and Golf | $14,000 |
| YMCA of the Inland Northwest | $10,000 |
| City of Medical Lake Parks & Rec | $7,000 |
| Northeast Youth Center | $6,000 |
| City of Airway Heights Police Department | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SCSpokane COPS4× · 2019–2022 · $26k · revenue +4%
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of the Inland Northwest2× · 2022–2024 · $17k · revenue +28%
- SPSPOKANE POLICE FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2021 · $15k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- IMInclusion Matters by Shanes Inspirationone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -12%
- SCSPOKANE CITY PARKS AND RECREATIONone grant, 2017 · $27k
- SCSPOKANE COUNTY PARKS RECREATION & GOLFone grant, 2017 · $23k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
10 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. 10 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration ↗
- Who funds Spokane COPS ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of the Inland Northwest ↗
- Who funds SPOKANE POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Innovia Foundation ↗
- Who funds Northeast Youth Center ↗
- Who funds SPOKANE VALLEY CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPOKANE EASTSIDE REUNION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JESS ROSKELLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEAK 7 ADVENTURES ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Innovia Foundation · The Avista Foundation · Better Health Together · Multicare Health System · Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs · School's Out Washington · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Spokane Parks Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spokane Parks Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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