· Private foundation
The Industrial Commission
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $440k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHEHALIS FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| INDUSTRIAL PARK AT TRANSALTA | $100,000 |
| ECONOMIC ALLIANCE OF LEWIS COUNTY | $80,000 |
| CHEHALIS FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LEWIS COUNTY | $15,000 |
| KIDDIN AROUND | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your 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 8% of The Industrial Commission’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. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 +9% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $260k 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
- EAECONOMIC ALLIANCE OF LEWIS COUNTY4× · 2022–2025 · $190k · revenue +98%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LEWIS COUNTY3× · 2023–2025 · $35k · revenue +71%
- LCLewis County Work Opportunities2× · 2017–2018 · $24k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- FFFOUNDATION FOR PRIVATE ENTERPRISEone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -50%
- ECEXPERIENCE CHEHALISone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +1%
- VMVETERANS MEMORIAL MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +37%
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.
Foster Growth in the Community
To promote business development and retention in the centralia and chehalis area and to act as a business advocate.
The mission of the lewis clark valley chamber is to connect resources, businesses, and members to promote, advocate, and grow a properous local economy.
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.
To Provide information, services and networking opportunities to local businesses and the general public
Coordinate area economic development
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…
The east cascades workforce investment board supports the talent needs of employers, and maximizes and aligns investments in the career goals of individuals to fuel a thriving economy.
Developed by, for, and in conjunction with the community, the cashmere museum and pioneer village seeks to engage, educate, and entertain visitors both local and international. hundreds of volunteers have worked thousands of hours to make…
To promote interest in local history
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Industrial Park At Transalta and the most unlike its peers is Kiddin Around. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 13 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 THE CHEHALIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC ALLIANCE OF LEWIS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds INDUSTRIAL PARK AT TRANSALTA ↗
- Who funds CENTRALIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LEWIS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR PRIVATE ENTERPRISE ↗
- Who funds Lewis County Work Opportunities ↗
- Who funds KIDDIN AROUND ↗
- Who funds EXPERIENCE CHEHALIS ↗
- Who funds VETERANS MEMORIAL MUSEUM ↗
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: The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound · Amazonsmile 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 Industrial Commission 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.