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Thurston County Economic Development Cou

The mission of the the thurston edc is to promote and increase sustainable economic, investment and employment opportunities throughout thurston county that support the livelihood, values of the residents of the county.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Community Improvement$3.8MPublic Safety & Disaster$3.6MHuman Services$2.2MFood & Nutrition$715kArts & Culture$390kHealth$337kYouth Development$305kEducation$301kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $500,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,882,598 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,382,598 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.
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOVING AND LEARNING EARLY EDUCATION$50,000
SEQUOIA'S TREEHOUSE LLC$50,000
CAPITAL KIDS CHILDCARE$50,000
KINDERGARDEN IN THE GARDEN$50,000
GOOD TIMES CHILDCARE$50,000
HOUSE OF GRACE CHILDCARE$50,000
TRACY'S WESTSIDE DAYCARE$50,000
ROCHESTER ROOTS DAYCARE II$50,000
ASHAV LLC DBA LOTS OF LOVE DAYCARE$50,000
TENDER CARE MOMENTS$50,000
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 (FY20–22, $633k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%RAISE FOR ROWYN: $20k → 9%RAISE FOR ROWYN: $6k → 9%FAMILY EDUCATION AND SUPPORT SERVICES: $20k → 9%OLYMPIA FAMILY THEATER: $20k → 9%PIZZA KLATCH: $15k → 9%THURSTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $10k → 9%SOUTH SOUND YMCA: $184k → 9%5C'S CHILD CARE CENTERS: $40k → 9%WEE LOVE LEARNING EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $20k → 9%INNOVATIONS HUMAN TRAFFICKING COLLABORATIVE: $20k → 9%FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF SOUTH SOUND: $20k → 9%WEE LOVE LEARNING EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $67k → 9%COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $20k → 9%DRY TIKES & WET WIPES: $16k → 9%PARTNERS IN PREVENTION EDUCATION: $15k → 9%COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 9%THE CRISIS CLINIC OF THURSTON AND MASON COUNTIES: $10k → 9%ASHHO CULTURAL AND JOB TRAINING CENTER: $100k → 9%THE MOORE WRIGHT GROUP: $10k → 9%ROCHESTER ORGANIZATION OF FAMILIES DBA ROOF COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 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.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 125 repeat orgs$8.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +72% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.

125 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 118 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

125
576

Total granted

$3.5M
$8.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+46%

Still filing today

26%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • WL
    WEE LOVE LEARNING EARLY LEARNING C ENTER
    2× · 2020–2022 · $87k · revenue +13%
  • KG
    KITCHEN GARDEN PROJECT INC GARDEN-RAISED BOUNTY
    3× · 2020–2023 · $44k · revenue +41%
  • SP
    SOUTH PUGET SOUND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    2× · 2020–2022 · $40k · revenue +286%

Funded once

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY
    one grant, 2020 · $225k · revenue +2%
  • CE
    CADENCE EDUCATION LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $211k
  • SS
    SOUTH SOUND YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSNgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $184k · revenue +46%
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
Southwest Washington Center for the Arts
Philanthropy
2
Theatre Puget Sound

TPS works to foster and advocate for a robust and equitable theatre community in the Puget Sound Region.

Arts & Culture
3
Sound Studios Olympia

We give private music lessons and classes to students, especially children, in our area. We then afford these students opportunities to perform in public to share their music with the community, friends, and family. This year we have…

Arts & Culture
4
Tacoma Little Theatre and Drama League Inc

Providing live theatre and education programs that inspire through stories reflecting the vibrancy of our diverse community.

Arts & Culture
5
Pacific Northwest Music Project
Arts & Culture
6
Economic Opportunity Institute

Equip the public and public decision-makers with the policy research and practical tools they need to embed the values of fairness, care, and opportunity into the foundations of Washington's economy.

Community Improvement
7
Yakima Symphony Orchestra

Yakima Symphony Orchestra is a regional nonprofit organization that offers its audiences high quality symphonic and other music. It brings to the Central Washington Community stimulating, entertaining and educational activities related to…

Arts & Culture
8
Home Court Nw
Recreation & Sports
9
Puget Sound Community School

Founded in 1994, PSCS is a small, independent middle and high school located in the Chinatown/International District of downtown Seattle. PSCS is committed to co-creating a brave space for community-centered education, critical curriculum,…

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10
Town Hall Association

A vibrant gathering place in the heart of Seattle, Town Hall fosters an engaged community through civic, arts, and educational programs that reflect and inspire our regions best impulses: creativity, empathy, and the belief that we all…

Arts & Culture
11
Cowlitz Economic Development Council

Foster Growth in the Community

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12
On the Boards

On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dispute Resolution Center; the most unlike its peers is Indigenous Performance Productions. 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

100 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. 100 of the 705 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)
49
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/100
Grantees still filing
77/100
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CADENCE EDUCATION LLC: $210,800 · Other+160 more: $5,409,396 · Other+160 moreSOUTH SOUND YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN: $183,700 · Human ServicesSOUTH SOUN…ASHHO CULTURAL AND JOB TRAINING CENTER: $100,000 · Human ServicesASHHO CULT…WEE LOVE LEARNING EARLY LEARNING C ENTER: $87,300 · Human ServicesWEE LOVE L…FAMILY EDUCATION & SUPPORT SERVICES: $40,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY EDU…5Cs Child Care Centers: $39,500 · Human Services5Cs Child …PIZZA KLATCH: $35,000 · Human ServicesPIZZA KLAT…COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $30,000 · Human ServicesHomeless Backpacks Inc: $26,484 · Human ServicesRAISE FOR ROWYN: $26,000 · Human Services+4 more: $76,109 · Human Services+4 moreThe Washington Center for the Performing Arts: $40,000 · Arts & CultureHANDS ON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $40,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET NORTHWEST: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BRIDGE MUSIC PROJECT: $30,000 · Arts & CultureOlympia Film Society: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSTUDENT ORCHESTRAS OF GREATER OLYMPIA: $20,000 · Arts & CultureOlympia Lamplighters: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE THEATRE EXPERIENCE ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureOlympia Artspace Alliance: $17,742 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $31,600 · EducationOLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationSOUTH OF THE SOUND COMMUNITY FARM LAND TRUST: $30,000 · EducationCAPITAL LAKEFAIR INC: $30,000 · EducationARBUTUS FOLK SCHOOL: $30,000 · EducationSAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationTHE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationSOUTH PUGET SOUND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationWESTSIDE COOPERATIVE PRESCHOOL: $18,000 · EducationOLYMPIA WALDORF SCHOOL: $18,000 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY: $225,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOMES FIRST: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentKITCHEN GARDEN PROJECT INC GARDEN-RAISED BOUNTY: $44,359 · EnvironmentSOUTH SOUND ESTUARY ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · EnvironmentNORTHWEST ECOBUILDING GUILD: $30,000 · EnvironmentCAPITOL LAND TRUST: $20,000 · EnvironmentVISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU OF THURSTON COUNTY: $84,548 · Community Improvement
Other$5,620,196Human Services$644,093Arts & Culture$247,742Education$247,600Youth Development$245,000Environment$124,359Community Improvement$84,548

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY: $225,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetSOUTH SOUND YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN: $183,700 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetASHHO CULTURAL AND JOB TRAINING CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetTHURSTON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $99,230 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetWEE LOVE LEARNING EARLY LEARNING C ENTER: $87,300 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetVISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU OF THURSTON COUNTY: $84,548 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetThe Community Foundation of South Puget Sound: $48,190 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKITCHEN GARDEN PROJECT INC GARDEN-RAISED BOUNTY: $44,359 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSOUTH PUGET SOUND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTOGETHER: $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetParent To Parent Support Program Of Thurston County: $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHARLEQUIN PRODUCTIONS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetFAMILY EDUCATION & SUPPORT SERVICES: $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Washington Center for the Performing Arts: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHANDS ON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budget5Cs Child Care Centers: $39,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetPIZZA KLATCH: $35,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON: $35,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetOlympia Tumwater Foundation: $35,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $31,600 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTH SOUND ESTUARY ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetTenino Community Service Center: $30,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetOLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetBALLET NORTHWEST: $30,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRIDGE MUSIC PROJECT: $30,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetOlympia Film Society: $30,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetSOUTH OF THE SOUND COMMUNITY FARM LAND TRUST: $30,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetCAPITAL LAKEFAIR INC: $30,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetARBUTUS FOLK SCHOOL: $30,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetOlympia Symphony Orchestra: $30,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetNAMI THURSTON MASON: $30,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetHeartstrides Therapeutic Riding: $30,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetNORTHWEST ECOBUILDING GUILD: $30,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER THURSTON COUNTY: $30,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetHomeless Backpacks Inc: $26,484 over 2y, 14% of budgetRAISE FOR ROWYN: $26,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetPACIFIC EDUCATION INSTITUTE: $23,062 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Family Support Center of South Sound: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTUDENT ORCHESTRAS OF GREATER OLYMPIA: $20,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetYWCA of Olympia: $20,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetBOUNTY FOR FAMILIES: $20,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetSOUTH PUGET SOUND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPOS PORT OF SUPPORT & PATHWAYZ TO SUCCESS: $20,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetMERCY HOUSING NORTHWEST: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH SOUND YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN ↗
  • Who funds ASHHO CULTURAL AND JOB TRAINING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THURSTON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds WEE LOVE LEARNING EARLY LEARNING C ENTER ↗
  • Who funds VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU OF THURSTON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound ↗
  • Who funds KITCHEN GARDEN PROJECT INC GARDEN-RAISED BOUNTY ↗

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…Dawkins Charitable Tr…Pacific Mountain Work…Thurston Economic Dev…United Way of Thursto…Renah Blair Rietzke F…The Finninsula Founda…Credit Unions in the …The Norcliffe Foundat…Multicare Health Syst…Ludlow FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…
The Community Foundation of South Puget SoundWA95.6× affinity61 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound · Dawkins Charitable Trust · Pacific Mountain Workforce Development Council · Thurston Economic Development Council Center for Business Innovation · United Way of Thurston County · Renah Blair Rietzke Family Foundation · The Finninsula Foundation Inc Co Ted Sandler · Credit Unions in the State of Washington Peak Credit Union · The Norcliffe Foundation · Multicare Health System · Ludlow Foundation · Puget Sound Energy 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 Thurston County Economic Development Cou funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thurston County Economic Development Cou. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's 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
    31report 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
    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 705 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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