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The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound

To grow a lasting culture of generosity and well-being in the South Puget Sound through connection, leadership, and investment.

$4.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
121
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$321k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0173% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$2.4MYouth Development$1.4MEducation$1.2MArts & Culture$1.2MEnvironment$1.1MHealth$1.1MPhilanthropy$891kHousing & Shelter$722kFood & Nutrition$640kOther$5.8M
02FY2024 · 121 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k45 grants · $326k
  • $10k–50k49 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k25 grants · $2.1M
  • $250k+2 grants · $575k
$14,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$44M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
United Way of Thurston County$320,928
Boys & Girls Club Thurston$254,358
Mason County HOST$239,994
Griffin School Foundation$163,734
Capitol Land Trust$152,973
Thurston County Food Bank$136,298
South Puget Sound H4H$113,390
Concern for Animals$95,657
SafePlace$75,922
Puget Sound Estuarium$75,011
Senior Services for S Sound$71,947
North Thurston Education Fund$70,892
Family Education & Support$70,101
Hands On Childrens Museum$69,609
Pope John Paul II High School$69,209
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $35k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL OF LEWIS MASON & THURSTON COUNTIES: $23k → 9%SOUTH BEACH CHRISTIAN OUTREACH: $30k → 18%CHAPLAINS ON THE HARBOR: $30k → 18%COMMUNITY LIFELINE: $43k → 11%SOUTH BEACH CHRISTIAN OUTREACH: $30k → 18%COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL OF LEWIS MASON AND THURSTON COUNTIES: $16k → 9%CHAPLAINS ON THE HARBOR: $30k → 18%CHAPLAINS ON THE HARBOR: $22k → 18%CHAPLAINS ON THE HARBOR: $20k → 18%Family Education & Support: $70k → 9%FAMILY EDUCATION AND SUPPORT SERVICES: $43k → 9%CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL: $41k → 9%CIELO: $40k → 9%PIZZA KLATCH: $36k → 9%OLYMPIA FAMILY THEATER: $35k → 9%FAITH IN ACTION WEST SOUND: $16k → 11%Thurston County Inclusion: $27k → 9%CIELO: $23k → 9%PIZZA KLATCH: $19k → 9%CIELO: $19k → 9%South Sound YMCA: $18k → 9%CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL: $16k → 9%PARTNERS IN PREVENTION EDUCATION: $16k → 9%CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL: $15k → 9%The Conservation Connection: $15k → 9%SOUTH SOUND YMCA: $13k → 9%Union Gospel Mission Olympia: $57k → 9%SOUTH SOUND YMCA: $53k → 9%INNOVATIONS HUMAN TRAFFICKING COLLABORATIVE: $25k → 9%KOKUA: $19k → 9%FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF SOUTH SOUND: $19k → 9%INNOVATIONS HUMAN TRAFFICKING COLLABORATIVE: $15k → 9%Kokua: $16k → 9%FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF SOUTH SOUND: $14k → 9%KOKUA: $14k → 9%SOUTH SOUND YMCA: $14k → 9%FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF SOUTH SOUND: $14k → 9%COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $44k → 9%COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $27k → 9%COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $22k → 9%COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $20k → 9%COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $14k → 9%PACIFIC MOUNTAIN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT: $35k → 9%THE MOORE WRIGHT GROUP: $30k → 9%ROCHESTER ORGANIZATION OF FAMILIES: $26k → 9%ROCHESTER ORGANIZATION OF FAMILIES: $25k → 9%ROCHESTER ORGANIZATION OF FAMILIES: $20k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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WA
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OR
OH
CA
MO
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AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$16M · 190 repeat orgs$913k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

190 repeat relationships — 103 still active in FY2024, 87 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

190
106

Total granted

$16M
$560k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+35%

Still filing today

85%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $353k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentAnimalsOther

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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +37%
  • MC
    Mason County Housing Options for Students in Transition
    5× · 2018–2024 · $516k · revenue +16% · 50% of their budget
  • TC
    THURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK
    8× · 2017–2024 · $462k · revenue +118%

Funded once

  • PE
    PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2017 · $47k
  • PM
    PACIFIC MOUNTAIN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
    one grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +22%
  • OR
    OCOSTA RECREATION CENTER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $35k

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

04Your field

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.

1
The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound

To grow a lasting culture of generosity and well-being in the South Puget Sound through connection, leadership, and investment.

Philanthropy
2
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences

Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences educates and trains health care professionals emphasizing service among rural and medically under-served communities throughout the Northwest.

Education
3
Economic Opportunity Institute

Equip the public and public decision-makers with the policy research and practical tools they need to embed the values of fairness, care, and opportunity into the foundations of Washington's economy.

Community Improvement
4
Futurewise

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.

Environment
5
Cowlitz Economic Development Council

Foster Growth in the Community

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6
Re Sources

RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.

Environment
7
Nw Energy Coalition

The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…

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8
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
9
Stewardship Partners

Stewardship Partners helps private landowners restore and preserve the natural landscapes of WA State. We collaborate with diverse interest groups to build bridges and find solutions that achieve mutual goals of environmental protection,…

Environment
10
Northwest Harvest Emm

The organization's mission is growing food justice through collective action. the organization's vision is ending hunger in washington state.

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11
Puget Sound Community School

Founded in 1994, PSCS is a small, independent middle and high school located in the Chinatown/International District of downtown Seattle. PSCS is committed to co-creating a brave space for community-centered education, critical curriculum,…

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12
Olympic Peninsula Community Clinic

Improving the quality of life for the people in the Olympic Peninsula Community by providing increased access to health and wellness services for the underserved

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group and the most unlike its peers is Indigenous Performance Productions. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Mentoring & SupportEducation Fundraising Found…Affordable Housing Developm…Live Performance Arts Organ…Animal Rescue and AdoptionPacific Northwest Environme…Independent College Prepara…Intellectual & Developmenta…Immigrant & Refugee Communi…Washington State Advocacy &…History and Transportation …Philanthropic FoundationsProfessional & Industry Ass…Youth Sports LeaguesVulnerable Populations Supp…Regional Business ChambersFaith-Based International D…Faith-Based Healthcare Syst…Faith-Based Healthcare Syst…Stem Education & Career Pat…Food Banks and Food Access
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%3%<5yr15%11%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr18%28%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr13%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%8%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr18%35%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr13%17%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%6/314
the rest of the field
14%
2,561/18,950

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.

04the grantee network

248 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. 248 of the 316 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.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
98
Early backer (in before they grew)
242/248
Grantees still filing
190/248
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON — $411,026 · OtherSENIOR SERVICES FOR SOUTH SOUND — $350,537 · OtherWESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $304,655 · OtherOlympia Symphony Orchestra — $274,628 · OtherUNITED WAY OF THURSTON COUNTY — $621,543 · OtherUNITED WAY OF THURSTON COUNTYMason County Housing Options for Students in Transition — $515,932 · OtherMason County Housing Options for Students in TransitionTHURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK — $462,022 · OtherTHURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK+97 more — $4,922,355 · Other+97 moreSAFEPLACE — $198,515 · Human ServicesSAFEPLACEUNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF OLYMPIA — $174,242 · Human ServicesUNION GOSPEL MIS…FAMILY EDUCATION & SUPPORT SERVICES — $160,587 · Human ServicesFAMILY EDUCATION…COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES — $160,515 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY YOUTH …The Family Support Center of South Sound — $118,362 · Human ServicesRochester Organization of Families — $113,198 · Human ServicesCIELO PROJECT AT RADIO RANCH — $112,062 · Human ServicesCHAPLAINS ON THE HARBOR — $111,500 · Human ServicesSOUTH SOUND YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN — $106,533 · Human ServicesCHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL OF THURSTON COUNTY — $106,487 · Human ServicesHomeless Backpacks Inc — $88,649 · Human ServicesKOKUA — $81,865 · Human Services+23 more — $854,882 · Human Services+23 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY — $1,105,320 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GI…HOMES FIRST — $143,287 · Youth DevelopmentHOMES FIR…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LEWIS COUNTY — $87,659 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GI…+2 more — $56,800 · Youth DevelopmentSTUDENT ORCHESTRAS OF GREATER OLYMPIA — $190,884 · Arts & CultureHANDS ON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $166,127 · Arts & CultureThe Washington Center for the Performing Arts — $124,574 · Arts & CultureOlympia Film Society — $106,464 · Arts & CultureTHE BRIDGE MUSIC PROJECT — $102,991 · Arts & CultureThe JOLT News Organization — $86,422 · Arts & CultureFire Mountain Arts Council — $69,153 · Arts & CultureWindow Seat Media — $58,947 · Arts & CultureTHURSTON COMMUNITY TELEVISION — $55,564 · Arts & Culture+8 more — $217,888 · Arts & CultureSAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY — $236,974 · EducationTHE GRIFFIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $171,734 · EducationSOUTH SOUND READING FOUNDATION — $131,066 · EducationSOUTH PUGET SOUND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $121,921 · EducationPope John Paul II High School — $117,209 · EducationOLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $89,060 · EducationARBUTUS FOLK SCHOOL — $75,269 · EducationSOUTH OF THE SOUND COMMUNITY FARM LAND TRUST — $55,857 · EducationScholar Fund — $40,000 · Education+6 more — $93,502 · EducationCAPITOL LAND TRUST — $289,826 · EnvironmentNISQUALLY LAND TRUST — $221,903 · EnvironmentSOUTH SOUND ESTUARY ASSOCIATION — $162,868 · EnvironmentKITCHEN GARDEN PROJECT INC GARDEN-RAISED BOUNTY — $132,061 · EnvironmentOLYMPIA ECOSYSTEMS — $122,569 · EnvironmentThurston Climate Action Team — $79,741 · EnvironmentOlympia Community Solar — $51,899 · EnvironmentCHEH RIVER BASIN LAND TRUST — $46,975 · Environment+1 more — $18,082 · EnvironmentTOGETHER — $216,164 · HealthTHE OLYMPIA FREE CLINIC — $189,646 · HealthMAYDAY FOUNDATION — $130,147 · HealthWILD GRIEF — $124,804 · HealthHeartstrides Therapeutic Riding — $92,708 · HealthMASON HEALTH FOUNDATION — $60,333 · HealthLEWIS COUNTY AUTISM COALITION — $54,588 · HealthHEALTH AND HOPE MEDICAL OUTREACH — $44,543 · HealthNORTHWEST KIDNEY CENTERS — $40,000 · Health+6 more — $122,304 · Health
Other$7,862,698Human Services$2,387,397Youth Development$1,393,066Arts & Culture$1,179,014Education$1,132,592Environment$1,125,924Health$1,075,237

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY — $1,105,320 over 8y, 10% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THURSTON COUNTY — $621,543 over 5y, 54% of budgetMason County Housing Options for Students in Transition — $515,932 over 5y, 50% of budgetTHURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK — $462,022 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES FOR SOUTH SOUND — $350,537 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetCAPITOL LAND TRUST — $289,826 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetOlympia Symphony Orchestra — $274,628 over 8y, 10% of budgetSAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY — $236,974 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetNISQUALLY LAND TRUST — $221,903 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetTOGETHER — $216,164 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetSAFEPLACE — $198,515 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetSOUTH PUGET SOUND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $193,025 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetSTUDENT ORCHESTRAS OF GREATER OLYMPIA — $190,884 over 8y, 10% of budgetTHE OLYMPIA FREE CLINIC — $189,646 over 8y, 15% of budgetNORTH THURSTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $184,474 over 8y, 10% of budgetPROVIDENCE SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $174,983 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF OLYMPIA — $174,242 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetTHE GRIFFIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $171,734 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetSidewalk — $170,460 over 6y, 12% of budgetConcern for Animals — $170,007 over 7y, 18% of budgetHANDS ON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $166,127 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetSOUTH SOUND ESTUARY ASSOCIATION — $162,868 over 7y, 14% of budgetFAMILY EDUCATION & SUPPORT SERVICES — $160,587 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES — $160,515 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetINTERFAITH WORKS — $157,116 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LEWIS COUNTY — $155,088 over 4y, 16% of budgetHARLEQUIN PRODUCTIONS INC — $149,971 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetHOMES FIRST — $143,287 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetGREAT BEND CENTER FOR MUSIC — $140,672 over 7y, 10.0% of budgetKITCHEN GARDEN PROJECT INC GARDEN-RAISED BOUNTY — $132,061 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetSOUTH SOUND READING FOUNDATION — $131,066 over 7y, 9.3% of budgetMAYDAY FOUNDATION — $130,147 over 6y, 24% of budgetWILD GRIEF — $124,804 over 7y, 41% of budgetThe Washington Center for the Performing Arts — $124,574 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetOLYMPIA ECOSYSTEMS — $122,569 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetSOUTH PUGET SOUND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $121,921 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetDISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER — $119,740 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetThe Family Support Center of South Sound — $118,362 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetPope John Paul II High School — $117,209 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetRochester Organization of Families — $113,198 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetCIELO PROJECT AT RADIO RANCH — $112,062 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetCHAPLAINS ON THE HARBOR — $111,500 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetSOUTH SOUND YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN — $106,533 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL OF THURSTON COUNTY — $106,487 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetOlympia Film Society — $106,464 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetTHE CHEHALIS FOUNDATION — $105,350 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetTHURSTON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL CENTER FOR BUSINESS INNOVATION — $104,885 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetWESTPORT SOUTH BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $104,000 over 5y, 19% of budget
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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THURSTON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Mason County Housing Options for Students in Transition ↗
  • Who funds THURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR SERVICES FOR SOUTH SOUND ↗
  • Who funds CAPITOL LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Olympia Symphony Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds SAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NISQUALLY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds TOGETHER ↗
  • Who funds SAFEPLACE ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH PUGET SOUND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds STUDENT ORCHESTRAS OF GREATER OLYMPIA ↗
  • Who funds THE OLYMPIA FREE CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH THURSTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF OLYMPIA ↗
  • Who funds THE GRIFFIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Sidewalk ↗
  • Who funds Concern for Animals ↗
  • Who funds HANDS ON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH SOUND ESTUARY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY EDUCATION & SUPPORT SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH WORKS ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF LEWIS COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds HARLEQUIN PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMES FIRST ↗
  • Who funds GREAT BEND CENTER FOR MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds KITCHEN GARDEN PROJECT INC GARDEN-RAISED BOUNTY ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH SOUND READING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAYDAY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WILD GRIEF ↗
  • Who funds The Washington Center for the Performing Arts ↗
  • Who funds OLYMPIA ECOSYSTEMS ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH PUGET SOUND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds The Family Support Center of South Sound ↗

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.

Dawkins Charitable Tr…Thurston County Econo…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Medina FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…United Way of Thursto…Pacific Mountain Work…School's Out Washingt…Renah Blair Rietzke F…Inatai FoundationThe Finninsula Founda…Grays Harbor Communit…
Dawkins Charitable TrustWA137.4× affinity65 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dawkins Charitable Trust · Thurston County Economic Development Cou · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Medina Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of Thurston County · Pacific Mountain Workforce Development Council · School's Out Washington · Renah Blair Rietzke Family Foundation · Inatai Foundation · The Finninsula Foundation Inc Co Ted Sandler · Grays Harbor Community 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 The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Northwest Youth Corps — 100% of income from government
  • Rural Development Initiatives Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
72report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 316 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines