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The Employee Community Foundation Optum Washington

The goal of the foundation is to provide ongoing philanthropic support to charitable organizations in western washington.

$162k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0179% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$191kArts & Culture$154kYouth Development$149kAnimals$143kHealth$133kEducation$92kHousing & Shelter$79kEmployment$56kFood & Nutrition$17kOther$275k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 5 grants below total $47,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $161,865 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $114,365 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$174k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IMAGINE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$22,500
CHRISTMAS HOUSE$7,000
LAHAI HEALTH$6,000
PROVIDENCE HOSPICE & HOME CARE FOUNDATION OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY$6,000
HOMAGE SENIOR SERVICES$6,000
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 (FY17–25, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%YWCA SEATTLEKINGSNOHOMISH: $8k → 9%YWCA SEATTLEKINGSNOHOMISH: $7k → 9%YWCA SEATTLEKINGSNOHOMISH: $6k → 9%PARENT TRUST FOR WA CHILDREN: $6k → 9%NORTHSHORE SENIOR CENTER: $8k → 9%YMCA OF SNOHOMISH CO: $25k → 9%YMCA OF SNOHOMISH CO: $25k → 9%YMCA OF SNOHOMISH CO: $18k → 9%WA KIDS IN TRANSITION: $10k → 9%HOMAGE SENIOR SERVICES: $6k → 9%ARLINGTON KID'S CLOSET: $7k → 9%HOMAGE SENIOR SERVICES: $15k → 9%HOMAGE SENIOR SERVICES: $12k → 9%HOMAGE SENIOR SERVICES: $10k → 9%HOMAGE SENIOR SERVICES: $6k → 9%MONROE GOSPEL WOMEN'S MISSION: $7k → 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.

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 28 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
14

Total granted

$1.2M
$110k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+43%

Still filing today

96%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterEmploymentArts & CultureOther

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

  • IC
    IMAGINE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
    8× · 2018–2025 · $154k · revenue +64%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY FOR TACOMA PIERCE COUNTY SOCIETY PREVENTION CRUELTY ANIMALS
    4× · 2017–2020 · $143k · revenue +58%
  • EC
    EVERETT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $92k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +9%
  • WK
    WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +98%
  • VC
    VILLAGE COMMUNITY SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +69%

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
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
2
Community Health Center of Snohomish County

Community health center of snohomish county (chc) provides our diverse communities with access to high quality, affordable primary health care.

Health
3
Lutheran Community Services Northwest

LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.

Human Services
4
Network Services

Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…

Human Services
5
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska supports families with seriously ill children by providing a caring home-away-from-home at the SEattle Ronald McDonald House and operating a house and a van service in…

Health
6
Skagit Valley Hospitality House Association

To reflect the heart of God by feeding, sheltering, clothing, healing and empowering those in need. Programs include housing, a cafe and job training system, shelter resources, and more. Our core values are: compassion, respect, joy and…

Housing & Shelter
7
South Whidbey Homeless Coalition

We provide community members facing homlessness with chelter, resurces, and advoccy to create a strong and thriving widbey island.

Housing & Shelter
8
Snohomish County Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

To provide food, shelter, clothing and other services to people in need in our community.

Human Services
9
Larche Noah Sealth of Seattle

To make known the gifts of people with developmental disabilities revealed through mutually transforming relationships. To engage in our diverse cultures, working together toward a more humane society. To foster community that is inspired…

Human Services
10
Workforce Development Council Snohomish County

Workforce snohomish invests government and private funding to continuously increase the global competitiveness and prosperity of our businesses and workforce, to fill current and emerging jobs, and to provide full employment. our…

Education
11
Northwest Youth Services

Northwest youth services collaborates with at-risk, runaway, and homeless youth to foster self-reliance. the organization's goal is to keep youth safe, heal family relationships, and reconnect youth to the community. the organization…

Human Services
12
Recovery Cafe Skagit

Provide a safe, healing, and restorative community that empowers long-term transformation through human connection for those recovering from the trauma of homelessness, addictions, and mental health challenges.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Domestic Violence Services of Snohomish and the most unlike its peers is Arlington Kids Kloset. 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 backsteadyFaith-Based Independent Sch…Community Food BanksEquity-Focused Community De…Youth Sports ProgramsCommunity Support ServicesSenior Affordable HousingCommunity Support Organizat…
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 34 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr13%6%5–10yr21%16%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr13%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr13%3%5–10yr21%13%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr13%25%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/42
the rest of the field
13%
403/3,136

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

39 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. 39 of the 42 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
30/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HAND IN HAND — $48,245 · OtherHAND IN HANDTHE INTERFAITH ASSOCIATION OF NORTHWEST — $34,000 · OtherTHE INTERFAITH ASSOCIATION OF NORTHWE…PROVIDENCE HOSPICE & HOME CARE OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $32,000 · OtherPROVIDENCE HOSPICE & HOME CARE OF SNO…ARC OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $30,500 · OtherARC OF SNOHOMISH COUNTYCHILDSTRIVE — $23,500 · OtherCHILDSTRIVECOMPASS HEALTH — $22,750 · OtherFAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF MISSING PERSONS & VIOLENT CRIME VICTIMS — $19,750 · OtherCHRISTMAS HOUSE — $19,000 · OtherHOUSING HOPE — $55,000 · OtherHOUSING HOPECOCOON HOUSE — $14,300 · OtherSHERWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES — $31,400 · OtherSHERWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICESHOPEWORKS SOCIAL ENTERPRISES — $25,000 · OtherHOPEWORKS SOCIAL ENTERPRISESSTANWOOD-CAMANO FOOD BANK SERVICES — $17,000 · Other+7 more — $55,366 · Other+7 moreYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $67,500 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMENS CHR…SENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $48,500 · Human ServicesSENIOR SERVICES …THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) — $20,500 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S …WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION — $10,000 · Human ServicesALL ABOARD OF AMERICA 1 — $9,364 · Human ServicesNORTHSHORE SENIOR CENTER — $8,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH — $7,500 · Human ServicesMonroe Gospel Womens Mission — $7,000 · Human ServicesARLINGTON KIDS KLOSET — $7,000 · Human Services+1 more — $6,000 · Human ServicesIMAGINE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $154,000 · Arts & CultureIMAGINE CHILD…CLOTHES FOR KIDS — $57,900 · Youth DevelopmentCLOTHES FOR K…CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $37,400 · Youth DevelopmentCHILD ADVOCAC…CAMP FIRE SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $27,400 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP FIRE SNO…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $25,900 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRL…HUMANE SOCIETY FOR TACOMA PIERCE COUNTY SOCIETY PREVENTION CRUELTY ANIMALS — $142,750 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIE…SAFE HARBOR FREE CLINIC — $44,500 · HealthSAFE HARBOR…EVERETT RECOVERY CAFE — $29,150 · HealthEVERETT REC…LAHAI HEALTH — $26,200 · HealthLAHAI HEALT…PROVIDENCE HOSPICE & HOME CARE FOUNDATION SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $19,500 · HealthPROVIDENCE …Citrine Health — $13,500 · HealthCitrine Hea…EVERETT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $92,000 · Education
Other$427,811Human Services$191,364Arts & Culture$154,000Youth Development$148,600Animals$142,750Health$132,850Education$92,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetIMAGINE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $154,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY FOR TACOMA PIERCE COUNTY SOCIETY PREVENTION CRUELTY ANIMALS — $142,750 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetEVERETT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $92,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $67,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCLOTHES FOR KIDS — $57,900 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetHOUSING HOPE — $55,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $48,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHAND IN HAND — $48,245 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetSAFE HARBOR FREE CLINIC — $44,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $37,400 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTHE INTERFAITH ASSOCIATION OF NORTHWEST — $34,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSHERWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES — $31,400 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetARC OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $30,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetEVERETT RECOVERY CAFE — $29,150 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCAMP FIRE SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $27,400 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLAHAI HEALTH — $26,200 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $25,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDSTRIVE — $23,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASS HEALTH — $22,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) — $20,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF MISSING PERSONS & VIOLENT CRIME VICTIMS — $19,750 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOSPICE & HOME CARE FOUNDATION SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $19,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCHRISTMAS HOUSE — $19,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetSTANWOOD-CAMANO FOOD BANK SERVICES — $17,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOCOON HOUSE — $14,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $10,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetVILLAGE COMMUNITY SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHSHORE SENIOR CENTER — $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARLINGTON KIDS KLOSET — $7,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetPARENT TRUST FOR WASHINGTON CHILDREN — $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWITHINREACH — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $5,200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …Puget Sound Energy Fo…Evertrust FoundationEmployees Community F…The Albertsons Compan…The Norcliffe Foundat…Employees Community F…United Way of Snohomi…Credit Unions in the …The Whitehorse Founda…North Sound Accountab…Medina Foundation
Community Foundation of Snohomish CountyWA67.5× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Snohomish County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Evertrust Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · United Way of Snohomish County · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · The Whitehorse Foundation · North Sound Accountable Community of Health · Medina 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 Employee Community Foundation Optum Washington 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%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Employee Community Foundation Optum Washington?

    Find your warmest path to The Employee Community Foundation Optum Washington through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 42 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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