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The Whitehorse Foundation

Type I supporting organization under irc section 509(a)(3) to seattle foundation.

$2.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$440k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Philanthropy$3.7MHuman Services$3.5MHousing & Shelter$2.4MEducation$1.2MHealth$670kYouth Development$470kCrime & Legal$455kCommunity Improvement$403kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 22 grants below total $2,342,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,442,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $100,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+1 grant · $440k
$90,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$55M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY$440,000
FOUNDATION FOR EDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT$212,500
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA WESTERN WASHINGTON$175,000
PROJECT GIRL MENTORING PROGRAM$150,000
CHILDSTRIVE$125,000
MILLENNIA MINISTRIES$125,000
CENTER FOR HUMAN SERVICES$120,000
WONDERLAND CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES$100,000
COCOON HOUSE$100,000
THE INTERFAITH ASSOCIATION OF NORTHWEST WASHINGTON$95,000
LINC NW$90,000
WASHINGTON STATE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TRUST$90,000
HOUSING HOPE$75,000
TAKE THE NEXT STEP$75,000
YWCA OF SEATTLE-KING-SNOHOMISH COUNTY$75,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.2M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%YWCA OF SEATTLE-KING-SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $75k → 9%YWCA OF SEATTLE - KING COUNTY - SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $50k → 9%YWCA OF SEATTLE - KING COUNTY - SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $50k → 9%YWCA OF SEATTLE - KING COUNTY - SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $50k → 9%YWCA OF SEATTLE - KING COUNTY - SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $50k → 9%YWCA OF SEATTLE - KING COUNTY - SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $50k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $50k → 9%PIONEER HUMAN SERVICES: $80k → 9%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $210k → 9%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $161k → 9%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $105k → 9%BRIDGE RECEIVING CENTER: $50k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $50k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $29k → 9%HOMAGE SENIOR SERVICES: $35k → 9%HOMAGE SENIOR SERVICES: $35k → 9%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER OF STANWOOD CAMANO: $100k → 9%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER OF STANWOOD CAMANO: $100k → 9%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER OF STANWOOD CAMANO: $75k → 9%SECOND CHANCE OUTREACH: $50k → 9%TAKE THE NEXT STEP: $100k → 9%SECOND CHANCE OUTREACH: $50k → 9%TAKE THE NEXT STEP: $75k → 9%SECOND CHANCE OUTREACH: $50k → 9%TAKE THE NEXT STEP: $75k → 9%COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOUNDATION: $40k → 9%TAKE THE NEXT STEP: $50k → 9%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER OF STANWOOD CAMANO: $30k → 9%TAKE THE NEXT STEP: $50k → 9%COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOUNDATION: $30k → 9%TAKE THE NEXT STEP: $50k → 9%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER OF STANWOOD CAMANO: $28k → 9%TAKE THE NEXT STEP: $45k → 9%TAKE THE NEXT STEP: $25k → 9%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.6M · 27 repeat orgs$450k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
4

Total granted

$9.6M
$205k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+71%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k 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 ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHealthHousing & ShelterEmploymentOther
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

  • VO
    Volunteers of America Western Washington
    7× · 2017–2023 · $948k · revenue +332%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR EDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT
    7× · 2018–2024 · $945k · revenue +49%
  • CH
    COCOON HOUSE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $800k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • PH
    PIONEER HUMAN SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue +19%
  • WASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +92%
  • CH
    CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +71%
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
Washington State Community Connectors

Family-Driven Community of Support for caregivers of children with a range of behavioral health needs.

Human Services
2
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
3
Community Services Northwest

Csnw's mission is to provide high quality, integrated mental health, addictions and housing services, focusing on individual strengths and recovery. our vision is a healthy community. we lead the way by assuring access to mental health,…

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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
Family Promise of Cowlitz County

To help families with children in our community who are situationally homeless achieve sustainable independence through a community based response by providing temporary housing, usually 60-90 days, along with case management.

Human Services
6
Southwest Youth and Family Services

SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.

Human Services
7
Northwest Counseling Service Inc

Housing Counseling Services

Housing & Shelter
8
Columbia Wellness

CARE. Commitment to improving quality of life. Advocacy for mental health and overall well-being. Response to community needs. Effective treatment with measurable outcomes.

—
9
Chelan Valley Hope

Chelan Valley Hope is a gross-roots local social services agency 'hub' for compassionate connections and resources since 2009. We empower people to improve their own lives by giving them a hand up; not just a hand-out. We do this by…

Human Services
10
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
11
Cascade Women's Health

Cascade women's health provides consultations on pregnancy options, limited medical services, and education to individuals at risk for, or because of, unplanned pregnancies.

Health
12
Project Access Northwest

Project Access Northwest provides low-income families access to medical, dental and Behavioral Health care so they can live a healthier and more productive life.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Domestic Violence Services of Snohomish; the most unlike its peers is Bridge Receiving Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 35 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
28/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Community Foundation of Snohomish County: $3,231,500 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation of Snohomish…Washington State Family And Community Engagement Trust: $430,000 · PhilanthropyWashington State Family And Commu…NORTH COUNTIES' FAMILY SERVICES: $260,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH COUNTIES' FAMILY SERVICES+1 more: $50,000 · PhilanthropyVolunteers of America Western Washington: $947,613 · OtherVolunteers of America Western Was…FOUNDATION FOR EDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT: $945,267 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR EDMONDS SCHOOL DIS…CHILDSTRIVE: $485,000 · OtherCHILDSTRIVECOMPASS HEALTH: $385,000 · OtherCOMPASS HEALTHTHE INTERFAITH ASSOCIATION OF NORTHWEST: $294,677 · OtherTHE INTERFAITH ASSOCIATION OF NOR…VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC: $175,000 · OtherLINC NW: $295,000 · OtherLINC NW+5 more: $405,000 · Other+5 moreLutheran Community Services Northwest: $476,000 · Human ServicesLutheran Community …TAKE THE NEXT STEP: $470,000 · Human ServicesTAKE THE NEXT STEPCommunity Resources Foundation: $403,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Resources…YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $325,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMENS CHRIST…DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH: $243,231 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE S…Second Chance Outreach Hope for Homies: $150,000 · Human ServicesSecond Chance Outre…PIONEER HUMAN SERVICES INC: $80,000 · Human Services+3 more: $170,000 · Human Services+3 moreCOCOON HOUSE: $800,000 · Housing & ShelterCOCOON HOUSEHOUSING HOPE: $700,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING HOPEPROJECT GIRL MENTORING PROGRAM: $410,000 · Youth DevelopmentWONDERLAND CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $293,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $130,000 · Youth DevelopmentMILLENNIA MINISTRIES: $405,000 · Crime & LegalCenter for Human Services: $195,000 · HealthDRUG ABUSE COUNCIL OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $100,000 · HealthPERINATAL SUPPORT WASHINGTON: $20,000 · Health
Philanthropy$3,971,500Other$3,932,557Human Services$2,317,231Housing & Shelter$1,500,000Youth Development$833,000Crime & Legal$405,000Health$315,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Foundation of Snohomish County: $3,231,500 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetVolunteers of America Western Washington: $947,613 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT: $945,267 over 7y, 15% of budgetCOCOON HOUSE: $800,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetHOUSING HOPE: $700,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetCHILDSTRIVE: $485,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetLutheran Community Services Northwest: $476,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTAKE THE NEXT STEP: $470,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetWashington State Family And Community Engagement Trust: $430,000 over 6y, 29% of budgetPROJECT GIRL MENTORING PROGRAM: $410,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetMILLENNIA MINISTRIES: $405,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetCommunity Resources Foundation: $403,000 over 6y, 30% of budgetCOMPASS HEALTH: $385,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $325,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLINC NW: $295,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetTHE INTERFAITH ASSOCIATION OF NORTHWEST: $294,677 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetWONDERLAND CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $293,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetNORTH COUNTIES' FAMILY SERVICES: $260,000 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH: $243,231 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetCenter for Human Services: $195,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSecond Chance Outreach Hope for Homies: $150,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $130,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetDRUG ABUSE COUNCIL OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $100,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetMERCY HOUSING NORTHWEST: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHSHORE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $90,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetPIONEER HUMAN SERVICES INC: $80,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHERWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $70,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $70,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS: $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetBRIDGE RECEIVING CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPERINATAL SUPPORT WASHINGTON: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

Community Foundation …Puget Sound Energy Fo…United Way of Snohomi…The Norcliffe Foundat…Medina FoundationSchool's Out Washingt…Evertrust FoundationNorth Sound Accountab…Liberty Mutual Founda…The Albertsons Compan…Employees Community F…The Employee Communit…
Community Foundation of Snohomish CountyWA57.3× affinity25 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 · United Way of Snohomish County · The Norcliffe Foundation · Medina Foundation · School's Out Washington · Evertrust Foundation · North Sound Accountable Community of Health · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · The Employee Community Foundation Optum Washington

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Whitehorse Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Whitehorse 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 35 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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