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The Skagit Community Foundation

To connect people who care with causes that matter.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
72
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$2.0MHuman Services$1.2MHousing & Shelter$637kHealth$631kArts & Culture$619kFood & Nutrition$598kYouth Development$464kPublic Safety & Disaster$395kOther$0
02FY2024 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 72 grants below total $1,550,175 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,947,719 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $397,544 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $143k
  • $10k–50k45 grants · $832k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $575k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANACORTES SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$125,000
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SKAGIT COUNTY$101,500
ISLAND HEALTH FOUNDATION$101,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SKAGIT COUNTY$66,953
ANACORTES FAMILY CENTER$65,000
THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF SKAGIT VALLEY$59,359
SKAGIT SYMPHONY$56,100
TRI-PARISH FOOD BANK$47,750
SKAGIT BAY SEARCH & RESCUE$43,000
SKAGIT OPERA DBA PACIFIC NORTHWEST OPERA$37,000
UNITED GENERAL DISTRICT 304$35,000
COMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY$31,594
THEATER ARTS GUILD$25,519
BRIGID COLLINS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER$25,000
A SIMPLE GESTURE ANACORTES$23,000
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 (FY17–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CHILDREN OF THE VALLEY: $53k → 11%CHILDREN OF THE VALLEY: $32k → 11%CHILDREN OF THE VALLEY: $19k → 11%BRIGID COLLINS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $25k → 12%IMMIGRANT RESOURCES & IMMEDIATE SUPPORT: $24k → 12%BRIGID COLLINS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $20k → 12%IPA FOUNDATION: $20k → 12%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $15k → 12%IMMIGRANT RESOURCES & IMMEDIATE SUPPORT: $15k → 12%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $14k → 12%IMMIGRANT RESOURCES & IMMEDIATE SUPPORT: $13k → 12%OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $13k → 12%FAMILY PROMISE OF SKAGIT VALLEY: $43k → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF SKAGIT VALLEY: $29k → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF SKAGIT VALLEY: $27k → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF SKAGIT VALLEY: $27k → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF SKAGIT VALLEY: $25k → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF SKAGIT VALLEY: $22k → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF SKAGIT VALLEY: $15k → 11%SKAGIT ADULT DAY PROGRAM: $28k → 11%SKAGIT ADULT DAY PROGRAM: $23k → 11%SKAGIT ADULT DAY PROGRAM: $23k → 11%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $20k → 11%SKAGIT ADULT DAY PROGRAM: $16k → 11%SKAGIT ADULT DAY PROGRAM: $15k → 11%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $15k → 11%SKAGIT ADULT DAY PROGRAM: $14k → 11%COMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY: $129k → 11%COMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY: $54k → 11%SKAGIT VALLEY FAMILY YMCA: $53k → 11%SKAGIT VALLEY FAMILY YMCA: $50k → 11%COMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY: $50k → 11%COMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY: $50k → 11%COMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY: $49k → 11%COMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY: $46k → 11%SKAGIT VALLEY FAMILY YMCA: $37k → 11%COMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY: $32k → 11%COMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY: $32k → 11%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WA: $24k → 11%SKAGIT VALLEY FAMILY YMCA: $21k → 11%SKAGIT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES: $20k → 11%SKAGIT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES: $20k → 11%SKAGIT COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS: $20k → 11%SKAGIT VALLEY FAMILY YMCA: $20k → 11%SKAGIT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES: $20k → 11%SKAGIT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES: $18k → 11%SKAGIT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES: $15k → 11%SKAGIT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES: $15k → 11%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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 17% of The Skagit Community Foundation’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 81% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Skagit Community Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.2% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.3M · 70 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

70 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
40

Total granted

$6.3M
$548k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+18%

Still filing today

80%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $469k 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 ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentAnimalsOther

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

  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $442k · revenue +62%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF SKAGIT COUNTY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $275k · revenue +240%
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SKAGIT COUNTY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $262k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF ANACORTES
    one grant, 2020 · $99k
  • YD
    Youth Dynamics
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • WW
    WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $32k

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 Skagit Community Foundation

To connect people who care with causes that matter.

Philanthropy
2
Snoqualmie Valley Food Bank

Our mission is to provide food and key resources to help our neighbors and community thrive. we lead the effort to feed, educated and advocate ending hunger in the snoqualmie valley and beyond.

Food & Nutrition
3
Community Foundation of Snohomish County

The Community Foundation of Snohomish County (the Foundation) is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization incorporated under the laws of the State of Washington. The Foundation serves as a community foundation, supporting a broad spectrum of…

Philanthropy
4
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
5
Skagit Watershed Council

Our mission is to understand, protect and restore the productivity of healthy ecosystems to support sustainable fisheries. designated lead entity under washington state legislation eshb 2496, a salmon recovery planning act, for the skagit…

Environment
6
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
7
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
8
Discover Your Northwest

Discover Your Northwest promotes the discovery of northwest public lands, enriches the experience of visitors and builds community stewardship of these special places today and for generations to come.

Recreation & Sports
9
Spokane Parks Foundation

The Spokane Parks Foundation cultivates the health, growth, and continued enjoyment of our communities by inspiring giving and passion for our parks.

—
10
Cowiche Canyon Conservancy

Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.

—
11
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
12
Sustainable Path Foundation

Sustainable Path Foundation promotes sustainability and health in the Puget Sound region through collaborative approaches informed by scientific understanding and systems thinking.

Social Science

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Action of Skagit County and the most unlike its peers is Eyewitness Missions. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr14%12%5–10yr22%21%10–20yr18%29%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr14%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr22%21%10–20yr18%33%20–35yr14%34%35–55yr14%8%55yr+

The field is 19% 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/137
the rest of the field
12%
226/1,961

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.

05the grantee network

107 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. 107 of the 138 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/107
Grantees still filing
74/107
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITY OF MOUNT VERNON — $1,045,471 · OtherCITY OF MOUNT VERNONHELPING HANDS SOLUTION CENTER — $295,099 · OtherHELPING HANDS SOLUTION CENTERANACORTES SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $140,000 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF SKAGIT COUNTY — $274,833 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF SKAGIT COUNTY+78 more — $1,840,236 · Other+78 moreCOMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY — $441,818 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGI…The Skagit Valley Family YMCA — $201,214 · Human ServicesThe Skagit Valley Family …FAMILY PROMISE OF SKAGIT VALLEY — $186,235 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF SKAGIT …SKAGIT ADULT DAY CARE — $123,375 · Human ServicesSKAGIT ADULT DAY CARECHILDREN OF THE VALLEY — $118,983 · Human ServicesCHILDREN OF THE VALLEYSKAGIT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES — $117,419 · Human ServicesSKAGIT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE …BRIGID COLLINS HOUSE — $88,364 · Human ServicesBRIGID COLLINS HOUSENORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES — $82,500 · Human ServicesImmigrant Resources and Immediate Support — $67,000 · Human Services+9 more — $186,335 · Human Services+9 moreMOUNT VERNON LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $108,816 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR ACADEMIC ENDEAVORS — $101,950 · EducationSkagit Preschool and Resource Center — $93,300 · EducationSkagit Valley College Foundation — $56,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI — $55,503 · EducationCollege Success Foundation — $32,785 · EducationSKAGIT VALLEY EARLY LEARNING CENTER — $22,000 · EducationLA CONNER LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $19,700 · EducationTRIUMPH TEEN LIFE CENTER — $19,250 · Education+4 more — $39,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SKAGIT COUNTY — $262,300 · Arts & CultureSKAGIT SYMPHONY — $101,705 · Arts & CultureSkagit Opera DBA Pacific Northwest Opera — $67,394 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF NORTHWEST ART — $32,661 · Arts & CultureTHEATER ARTS GUILD — $25,519 · Arts & CultureMT BAKER YOUTH SYMPHONY — $21,800 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $25,526 · Arts & CultureBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SKAGIT COUNTY — $229,304 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP KOREY — $59,500 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP FIRE SAMISH — $45,600 · Youth DevelopmentVAMOS OUTDOORS PROJECT — $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentANACORTES FAMILY CENTER — $189,578 · Housing & ShelterSkagit Valley Hospitality House Association — $145,147 · Housing & ShelterNew Earth Recovery — $143,000 · HealthFoundation of District 304 — $46,000 · HealthSKAGIT HOSPICE FOUNDATION — $36,500 · HealthSKAGIT REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $22,000 · HealthInFocus Ministries — $21,835 · HealthSecret Harbor — $16,500 · HealthPEACEHEALTH ST JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $15,000 · HealthConsejo Counseling & Referral Service — $12,000 · Health+2 more — $13,500 · Health
Other$3,595,639Human Services$1,613,243Education$548,304Arts & Culture$536,905Youth Development$346,404Housing & Shelter$334,725Health$326,335

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 budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY — $441,818 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SKAGIT COUNTY — $274,833 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SKAGIT COUNTY — $262,300 over 6y, 11% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SKAGIT COUNTY — $229,304 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetThe Skagit Valley Family YMCA — $201,214 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetANACORTES FAMILY CENTER — $189,578 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF SKAGIT VALLEY — $186,235 over 7y, 10% of budgetSkagit Valley Hospitality House Association — $145,147 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetNew Earth Recovery — $143,000 over 8y, 8.0% of budgetANACORTES SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $140,000 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetSKAGIT ADULT DAY CARE — $123,375 over 7y, 10% of budgetCHILDREN OF THE VALLEY — $118,983 over 5y, 13% of budgetSKAGIT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES — $117,419 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetMOUNT VERNON LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $108,816 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ACADEMIC ENDEAVORS — $101,950 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetSKAGIT SYMPHONY — $101,705 over 5y, 14% of budgetISLAND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $101,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSkagit Preschool and Resource Center — $93,300 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetSKAGIT GLEANERS — $92,948 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetBRIGID COLLINS HOUSE — $88,364 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetREHEMA MINISTRIES — $83,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetNORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES — $82,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHWEST AGRICULTURE BUSINESS CENTER — $68,068 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSkagit Opera DBA Pacific Northwest Opera — $67,394 over 2y, 17% of budgetImmigrant Resources and Immediate Support — $67,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetCAMP KOREY — $59,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSkagit Valley College Foundation — $56,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI — $55,503 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Dynamics — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFoundation of District 304 — $46,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetCAMP FIRE SAMISH — $45,600 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON — $41,835 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Cascades Institute — $40,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTHNET — $39,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetVIVA FARMS — $37,141 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetAngels For Angels — $37,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSKAGIT VALLEY NEIGHBORS IN NEED — $36,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSKAGIT HOSPICE FOUNDATION — $36,500 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetCollege Success Foundation — $32,785 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF NORTHWEST ART — $32,661 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetUnited Way of Skagit County — $32,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetSKAGIT VALLEY CHORALE — $30,650 over 2y, 26% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF WHATCOM SKAGIT — $30,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHEATER ARTS GUILD — $25,519 over 1y, 13% of budgetSkagit Habitat for Humanity — $24,773 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetWASHINGTON VOCATIONAL SERVICES — $24,400 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetA SIMPLE GESTURE - ANACORTES — $23,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetTHE SALISH SEA SCHOOL — $22,900 over 2y, 3.8% 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 COMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SKAGIT COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SKAGIT COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SKAGIT COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds The Skagit Valley Family YMCA ↗
  • Who funds ANACORTES FAMILY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF SKAGIT VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds Skagit Valley Hospitality House Association ↗
  • Who funds New Earth Recovery ↗
  • Who funds ANACORTES SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SKAGIT ADULT DAY CARE ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN OF THE VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds SKAGIT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT VERNON LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ACADEMIC ENDEAVORS ↗
  • Who funds SKAGIT SYMPHONY ↗
  • Who funds ISLAND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Skagit Preschool and Resource Center ↗
  • Who funds SKAGIT GLEANERS ↗
  • Who funds BRIGID COLLINS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds REHEMA MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST AGRICULTURE BUSINESS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Skagit Opera DBA Pacific Northwest Opera ↗
  • Who funds Immigrant Resources and Immediate Support ↗
  • Who funds CAMP KOREY ↗
  • Who funds Skagit Valley College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI ↗
  • Who funds Youth Dynamics ↗
  • Who funds Foundation of District 304 ↗
  • Who funds CAMP FIRE SAMISH ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON ↗

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.

Puget Sound Energy Fo…The Norcliffe Foundat…Jerry H Walton Founda…North Sound Accountab…United Way of Skagit …Tucker Family Foundat…Seattle FoundationJanson FoundationJack and Shirley McIn…School's Out Washingt…PeaceHealthWhatcom Community Fou…
Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE72.6× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Jerry H Walton Foundation · North Sound Accountable Community of Health · United Way of Skagit County · Tucker Family Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Janson Foundation · Jack and Shirley McIntyre Foundation · School's Out Washington · PeaceHealth · Whatcom 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 Skagit Community Foundation 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 →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    41report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Skagit Community Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Skagit Community Foundation 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 138 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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