How much does United Way of Central Washington give?

United Way of Central Washington reported 16 itemized grants totaling $289,500, out of $739,407 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 46 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does United Way of Central Washington fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (54%), Health (12%), Housing & Shelter (7%).

Who are United Way of Central Washington's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Catholic Family & Childrens Services of Yakima ($698k), The Salvation Army ($639k), Young Men's Christian Association ($530k).

Does United Way of Central Washington fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Central Washington?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Yakima Valley Community Foundation, Northwest Harvest Emm, Inatai Foundation.

Where is United Way of Central Washington based?

United Way of Central Washington is based in WA.

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Washington · Public charity

United Way of Central Washington

UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL WASHINGTON gathers together people, ideas and resources to strengthen communities and improve lives.

$739k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 16
Itemized grants FY2025: 18
Organizations funded FY2024: 11%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $290k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $45,000
Organizations funded a year: 18 to 46; FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $1.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations United Way of Central Washington funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthHousing & ShelterCommunity 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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	16	$290k	38%
FY2024	18	$431k	11%
FY2022	43	$627k	14%
FY2021	36	$439k	14%
FY2020	46	$808k	33%
FY2019	32	$1.0M	0%
FY2018	33	$875k	6%
FY2017	34	$958k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$2.8MHealth$602kHousing & Shelter$380kYouth Development$370kFood & Nutrition$368kPublic Safety & Disaster$176kEmployment$123kPhilanthropy$115kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Catholic Family & Childrens Services of Yakima	$697,688	8	n/a
The Salvation Army	$638,610	8	n/a
Young Men's Christian Association	$529,581	8	2%
Young Womens Christian Assoc of Yakima	$301,784	7	4%
Yakima Neighborhood Health Services	$256,075	7	1%
The Lighthouse- Advocacy Prevention and Education Center	$251,450	8	7%
Sunrise Outreach Center of Yakima	$228,170	6	5%
Boy Scouts of America 614 Grand Columbia Council	$220,000	6	13%
La Casa Hogar	$215,285	8	8%
Rod's House	$204,200	5	2%

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All grantees of United Way of Central Washington by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Catholic Family & Childrens Services of Yakima	$697,688	8	n/a
The Salvation Army	$638,610	8	n/a
Young Men's Christian Association	$529,581	8	2%
Young Womens Christian Assoc of Yakima	$301,784	7	4%
Yakima Neighborhood Health Services	$256,075	7	1%
The Lighthouse- Advocacy Prevention and Education Center	$251,450	8	7%
Sunrise Outreach Center of Yakima	$228,170	6	5%
Boy Scouts of America 614 Grand Columbia Council	$220,000	6	13%
La Casa Hogar	$215,285	8	8%
Rod's House	$204,200	5	2%
American Red Cross Emergency Svcs	$161,000	6	n/a
Wellness House	$119,000	7	10%
Union Gospel Mission of Yakima Wash	$108,920	4	0%
Toppenish Community Chest	$105,300	8	22%
People for People	$98,146	6	0%
Yakima Advocates for the Mentally Ill	$95,000	8	12%
Skookum Kids	$93,750	3	4%
Sunrise Outreach	$59,405	2	n/a
Girl Scouts of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho	$58,001	6	1%
Entrust Community Services	$56,710	6	1%
Retired Senior Volunteer Program	$53,400	6	n/a
Pegasus Project Foundation	$50,750	3	7%
Grandview Community Fund	$44,500	6	n/a
Page Ahead Childrens Literacy Prgm	$44,000	5	1%
Youth Services of Kittitas County Inc	$42,500	6	4%
City of Toppenish	$37,500	6	n/a
Catholic Charities Housing Services Diocese of Yakima	$37,500	5	0%
White Swan Community Fund	$32,627	3	n/a
Elmview Inc	$30,536	6	0%
Yakima Valley Hearing & Speech Center	$28,800	1	n/a
Voices for Children Foundation	$28,150	6	n/a
First Baptist Comunidad Cristiana Church	$25,000	3	n/a
Generating Hope Inc	$25,000	6	1%
Ellensburg Community Health Clinic	$24,500	6	n/a
Forge Youth Mentoring	$24,000	3	9%
Love in the Name of Christ of Yakima	$22,300	4	3%
St Michaels Pantry	$21,775	3	n/a
Opportunities Industrialization Center of Washington	$20,000	2	0%
Central Lutheran Church	$20,000	3	n/a
College Success Foundation	$20,000	2	0%
Yakima Police Athletic League	$19,691	6	4%
Unityworks Foundation	$19,000	3	10%
Edith L Bishel Center for the Blind	$18,750	6	3%
Upper Kittitas County Senior Center Upper Kittitas County Senior Center	$17,500	1	3%
VALLEY ALCOHOL COUNCIL dba MERIT RESOURCE SERVICES	$16,800	1	0%
Yakima Specialties Inc	$16,500	6	1%
Between the Ridges	$16,500	3	19%
Kittitas County Community Public Safety Health and Safety Network	$15,000	3	n/a
Yakima Housing Authority	$14,000	5	n/a
In This Together	$13,000	2	n/a
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences	$12,750	3	0%
Cascadianow	$12,500	1	4%
Yakima Rotary Food Bank	$11,500	4	0%
Court Advocates for Children of Kittitas County	$11,499	3	2%
Campbell Farm	$10,000	1	n/a
Apoyo	$10,000	1	1%
Peacekeeper Society	$10,000	1	2%
Selah-Naches Food Bank	$10,000	1	n/a
On Fire Ministries	$10,000	1	n/a
Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital Association	$9,000	3	0%
Madison House Youth Center of Yakima Wa	$7,500	1	6%
Swan Vocational Enterprises	$7,500	1	n/a
White Swan Arts & Recreation Committee	$5,500	3	3%
Yakima Valley Council on Alcoholism	$5,000	1	0%
Northwest Communities' Education Center	$5,000	1	0%
Dispute Resolution Center	$5,000	1	0%
Parent Trust for Washington Children	$4,000	3	0%
Gallery One	$3,779	3	1%
Hopesource	$3,500	3	0%
Hospice Friends	$2,000	3	2%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget United Way of Central Washington supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 49.

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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.

Yakima Valley Community FoundationWA67.6× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Yakima Valley Community Foundation · Northwest Harvest Emm · Inatai Foundation · Greater Columbia Accountable Community of Health · Hein Legacy Foundation · Multicare Health System · Seattle Foundation · Philanthropy Northwest · Second Harvest Inland Northwest · School's Out Washington · The Lee and Kay Peterson Family Foundation Inc · Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital Association

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.

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About United Way of Central Washington

How much does United Way of Central Washington give?: United Way of Central Washington reported 16 itemized grants totaling $289,500, out of $739,407 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 46 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does United Way of Central Washington fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (54%), Health (12%), Housing & Shelter (7%).
Who are United Way of Central Washington's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Catholic Family & Childrens Services of Yakima ($698k), The Salvation Army ($639k), Young Men's Christian Association ($530k).
Does United Way of Central Washington fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Central Washington?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Yakima Valley Community Foundation, Northwest Harvest Emm, Inatai Foundation.
Where is United Way of Central Washington based?: United Way of Central Washington is based in WA.