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The Industrial Commission

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$983k
Granted FY2026still arriving
8
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$569k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$1.4MEmployment$170kEducation$45kYouth Development$35kPublic Benefit$20kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2026 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $84k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $330k
  • $250k+1 grant · $569k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$569,002
CHEHALIS FOUNDATION$200,000
INDUSTRIAL PARK AT TRANSALTA$80,000
CENTRALIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION$50,000
LEWIS COUNTY WORK OPPORTUNITIES$30,000
ECONOMIC ALLIANCE OF LEWIS COUNTY$29,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LEWIS COUNTY$15,000
KIDDIN AROUND$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PORT OF CHEHALIS: $569k → 12%PORT OF CHEHALIS: $408k → 12%PORT OF CHEHALIS: $352k → 12%CHEHALIS FOUNDATION: $200k → 12%CHEHALIS FOUNDATION: $200k → 12%ECONOMIC ALLIANCE OF LEWIS COUNTY: $80k → 12%CHEHALIS FOUNDATION: $60k → 12%ECONOMIC ALLIANCE OF LEWIS COUNTY: $48k → 12%LEWIS CNTY ECONOMIC DVLPMT CNC: $36k → 12%ECONOMIC ALLIANCE OF LEWIS COUNTY: $33k → 12%LEWIS COUNTY WORK OPPORTUNITIES: $30k → 12%LEWIS CNTY ECONOMIC DVLPMT CNC: $29k → 12%LEWIS CNTY ECONOMIC DVLPMT CNC: $29k → 12%ECONOMIC ALLIANCE OF LEWIS COUNTY: $29k → 12%ECONOMIC ALLIANCE OF LEWIS COUNTY: $29k → 12%LEWIS CNTY ECONOMIC DVLPMT CNC: $27k → 12%LEWIS CNTY ECONOMIC DVLPMT CNC: $25k → 12%LEWIS COUNTY WORK OPPORTUNITIES: $20k → 12%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LEWIS COUNTY: $15k → 12%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LEWIS COUNTY: $15k → 12%BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF LEWIS COUNTY: $10k → 12%BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF LEWIS COUNTY: $10k → 12%VETERANS MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $10k → 12%CHEHALIS COMMUNITY RENAISSANCE TEAM: $10k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CHEHALIS RENNASANCE: $10k → 12%LEWIS COUNTY WORK OPPORTUNITIES: $4k → 12%INDUSTRIAL PARK AT TRANSALTA: $100k → 12%INDUSTRIAL PARK AT TRANSALTA: $80k → 12%CENTRALIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%INDUSTRIAL PARK AT TRANSALTA: $29k → 12%CENTRALIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25k → 12%CENTRALIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%KIDDIN AROUND: $10k → 12%KIDDIN AROUND: $10k → 12%CENTRALIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%KIDDIN AROUND: $10k → 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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of The Industrial Commission’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 92%.

The Industrial Commissionlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 9 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2026, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
4

Total granted

$2.6M
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+1%

Still filing today

67%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Community ImprovementEmploymentYouth DevelopmentArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TC
    THE CHEHALIS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2025–2026 · $460k · revenue +49%
  • EA
    ECONOMIC ALLIANCE OF LEWIS COUNTY
    5× · 2022–2026 · $219k · revenue +98%
  • LC
    Lewis County Work Opportunities
    3× · 2017–2026 · $54k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR PRIVATE ENTERPRISE
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -50%
  • EC
    EXPERIENCE CHEHALIS
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +1%
  • VM
    VETERANS MEMORIAL MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +37%
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.

04Its 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
Cowlitz Economic Development Council

Foster Growth in the Community

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2
Centralia-Chehalis Chamber of Comme Rce

To promote business development and retention in the centralia and chehalis area and to act as a business advocate.

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3
Lewis Clark Valley Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the lewis clark valley chamber is to connect resources, businesses, and members to promote, advocate, and grow a properous local economy.

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4
Waitsburg High School Alumni Association
Education
5
Lacey South Sound Chamber of Commerce Lacey South Sound Chamber of Commerce

To Provide information, services and networking opportunities to local businesses and the general public

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6
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
7
Sioux City Lewis & Clark Association
Arts & Culture
8
Washington Economic Development Group

Coordinate area economic development

Community Improvement
9
Columbia Pacific Economic Developme

The columbia pacific economic development district is to diversify and expand the economic base of the district by actively supporting existing businesses and promoting new business development.

Community Improvement
10
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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11
East Cascades Workforce Investment Board

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.

Employment
12
Lewis County Historical Society

To promote interest in local history

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Industrial Park At Transalta; 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.
05the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $1,328,252 · OtherIndividual grant recipientECONOMIC ALLIANCE OF LEWIS COUNTY: $219,000 · OtherECONOMIC ALLIANCE OF LEWIS COUNTYLEWIS CNTY ECONOMIC DVLPMT CNC: $146,000 · OtherLEWIS CNTY ECONOMIC DVLPMT CNCCENTRALIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $95,000 · Other+2 more: $35,000 · OtherTHE CHEHALIS FOUNDATION: $460,000 · Community ImprovementTHE CHEHALIS FOUNDATIONINDUSTRIAL PARK AT TRANSALTA: $209,000 · Community ImprovementINDUSTRIAL PARK AT TRANSALTA+1 more: $10,000 · Community ImprovementLewis County Work Opportunities: $54,000 · EmploymentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LEWIS COUNTY: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentKIDDIN AROUND: $30,000 · Public BenefitVETERANS MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,823,252Community Improvement$679,000Employment$54,000Youth Development$50,000Public Benefit$30,000Arts & Culture$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetECONOMIC ALLIANCE OF LEWIS COUNTY: $219,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetCENTRALIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLewis County Work Opportunities: $54,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LEWIS COUNTY: $50,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetKIDDIN AROUND: $30,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR PRIVATE ENTERPRISE: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetEXPERIENCE CHEHALIS: $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetVETERANS MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation of South Puget SoundWA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Industrial Commission funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Industrial Commission. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    5report 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
    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 13 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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