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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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 83% of THURSTON COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COU’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $500,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,882,598 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,382,598 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEQUOIA'S TREEHOUSE LLC | $50,000 |
| GOOD TIMES CHILDCARE | $50,000 |
| LOVING AND LEARNING EARLY EDUCATION | $50,000 |
| HOUSE OF GRACE CHILDCARE | $50,000 |
| KINDERGARDEN IN THE GARDEN | $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 |
| CAPITAL KIDS CHILDCARE | $50,000 |
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.
Your 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 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.
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 +72% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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
- WLWEE LOVE LEARNING EARLY LEARNING C ENTER2× · 2020–2022 · $87k · revenue +13%
- KGKITCHEN GARDEN PROJECT INC GARDEN-RAISED BOUNTY3× · 2020–2023 · $44k · revenue +41%
- TTOGETHER2× · 2020–2022 · $40k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTYone grant, 2020 · $225k · revenue +2%
- CECADENCE EDUCATION LLCone grant, 2020 · $211k
- SSSOUTH SOUND YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSNgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $184k · revenue +46%
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.
TPS works to foster and advocate for a robust and equitable theatre community in the Puget Sound Region.
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…
Providing live theatre and education programs that inspire through stories reflecting the vibrancy of our diverse community.
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.
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…
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,…
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…
Foster Growth in the Community
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dispute Resolution Center and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 22% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
100 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. 100 of the 705 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 ↗
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 · 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
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 Thurston County Economic Development Cou 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.