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Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce

The Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce, dba Greater Spokane, Incorporated, primary mission is to lead transformative business and community initiatives to build a robust regional economy.

$14k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Philanthropy$23MCommunity Improvement$652kHuman Services$224kArts & Culture$75kHousing & Shelter$50kEmployment$46kHealth$20kEducation$16kOther$0
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$7,560
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Northeast Community Center Association$7,560
Northeast Washington Education Council$6,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $8k) 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%Northeast Community Center Association: $8k → 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.
03Its 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
Central Washington Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

We increase access to economic opportunities for business owners, entrepreneurs, and individuals in Central Washington by connecting and providing them with resources, representation, and opportunities to build community.

Community Improvement
2
Skamania County Chamber of Commerce

The mission and purpose of the skamania county chamber of commerce is to foster development of a healthy economic community through the support and promotion of businesses, chamber members and skamania county, washington as an exceptional…

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3
Pacific Northwest Economic Region Foundation

To increase the economic well-being and quality of life for all citizens of the region; to coordinate provincial, territorial, and state policies throughout the region; to identify and promote "models of success and to serve as a conduit…

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4
Black Owned Business Excellence

Help create a more equitable entrepreneurial ecosystem in Washington State.

Community Improvement
5
Cowlitz Economic Development Council

Foster Growth in the Community

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6
Snohomish County-Camano Association of Realtors

Representing real estate agents and brokers in Snohomish County and Camano Island, Washington, the Association provides its members with resources, education, and support to help them excel in their careers and serve their clients…

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7
Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce

The Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce, dba Greater Spokane, Incorporated, primary mission is to lead transformative business and community initiatives to build a robust regional economy.

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8
Washington African American Chamber of Commerce

WAACOC nonprofit organization focuses on promoting economic development by providing crucial business development and technical assistance services. Through strategic partnerships and targeted programs we support entrepreneurs and small…

Human Services
9
Gig Harbor Chamber of Commerce

Serve the small business community and local development.

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10
Greater Seattle Business Association

To combine business development, leadership and social action to expand economic opportunities for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community and those who support equality for all.

Community Improvement
11
Visit Issaquah

Organized and operated exclusively to increase the tax revenue of the City of Issaquah by improving the business conditions for retail, meetings, hospitality, recreation, lodging, and activities, thereby alleviating fiscal and personnel…

Public Benefit
12
Soldotna Chamber of Commerce

To serve as a resource that will represent, educate and advocate for our member businesses; while promoting responsible growth for the greater soldotna area.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce; the most unlike its peers is Multi-Ethnic Business Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the 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 55 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Innovia Foundation: $23,075,000 · PhilanthropyInnovia FoundationGREATER SPOKANE VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $234,951 · OtherDowntown Spokane Development Association: $79,408 · OtherNortheast Public Development Authority: $40,071 · OtherVisit Spokane: $38,085 · OtherSPOKANE ARTS FUND: $37,000 · Other+41 more: $459,879 · OtherWEST PLAINS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $88,130 · Community ImprovementSpokane Independent Metro Business Alliance: $49,773 · Community ImprovementEAST SPOKANE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $20,716 · Community ImprovementMulti-Ethnic Business Association: $20,000 · Community ImprovementUNIVERSITY DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIAT: $20,000 · Community ImprovementCollege Success Foundation: $10,000 · EducationNORTHEAST WASHINGTON EDUCATION COUNCIL: $6,000 · EducationNORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION: $7,560 · Human Services
Philanthropy$23,075,000Other$889,394Community Improvement$198,619Education$16,000Human Services$7,560

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInnovia Foundation: $23,075,000 over 1y, 84% of budgetGREATER SPOKANE VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $234,951 over 1y, 26% of budgetWEST PLAINS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $88,130 over 1y, 44% of budgetDowntown Spokane Development Association: $79,408 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetVisit Spokane: $38,085 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSPOKANE ARTS FUND: $37,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetWASHINGTON HOSPITALITY ASSOCIATION: $25,802 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEAST SPOKANE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $20,716 over 1y, 94% of budgetMulti-Ethnic Business Association: $20,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetUNIVERSITY DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIAT: $20,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetASSOCIATED BUILDINGS & CONTRACTORS INLAND PACIFIC: $18,661 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCollege Success Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION: $7,560 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHEAST WASHINGTON EDUCATION COUNCIL: $6,000 over 1y, 17% 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.

  • Who funds Innovia Foundation ↗
  • Who funds GREATER SPOKANE VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds WEST PLAINS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds Downtown Spokane Development Association ↗
  • Who funds Spokane Independent Metro Business Alliance ↗
  • Who funds Visit Spokane ↗
  • Who funds SPOKANE ARTS FUND ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON HOSPITALITY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds EAST SPOKANE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Multi-Ethnic Business Association ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIAT ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATED BUILDINGS & CONTRACTORS INLAND PACIFIC ↗
  • Who funds College Success Foundation ↗

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 FoundationNdc Housing & Economi…
Innovia FoundationWA39.1× affinity20 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Innovia Foundation · Ndc Housing & Economic Development Corporation - Group Return

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 Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 55 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $8k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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