· Public charity
United Way of Central Washington
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL WASHINGTON gathers together people, ideas and resources to strengthen communities and improve lives.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $289,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $739,407 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $449,907 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YAKIMA FAMILY YMCA | $45,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY YAKIMA | $35,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES SERVING CENTRAL WASHINGTON | $32,000 |
| SUNRISE OUTREACH | $30,000 |
| LA CASA HOGAR | $20,000 |
| UPPER KITTITAS COUNTY SENIOR CENTER | $17,500 |
| TOPPENISH COMMUNITY CHEST | $15,000 |
| THE LIGHTHOUSE - ADVOCACY PREVENTION AND EDUCATION CENTER | $15,000 |
| NAMI YAKIMA | $15,000 |
| ROD'S HOUSE | $10,000 |
| COLLEGE SUCCESS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ON FIRE MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| SELAH NACHES FOOD BANK (SNFB) | $10,000 |
| CAMPBELL FARM | $10,000 |
| MADISON HOUSE YOUTH CENTER | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +56% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k 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
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2025 · $530k · revenue +4%
- YWYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF YAKIMA7× · 2017–2024 · $302k · revenue +234%
- YNYAKIMA NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH SERVICES7× · 2017–2024 · $256k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- YVYAKIMA VALLEY HEARING & SPEECH CENTERone grant, 2017 · $29k
- VAVALLEY ALCOHOL COUNCIL dba MERIT RESOURCE SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $17k · revenue +25%
- CCASCADIANOWone grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +13%
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.
YWCA Bellingham is part of a national network of programs with the shared mission of eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, and freedom for all.
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.
We are a full indigenous-led organization that creates a meaningful pathway to serve up to 700 indigenous relatives, mostly unhoused, each month.
Tenino Community Service Center/Tenino Food Bank Plus is a deep-rooted community-based service center dedicated to feeding those within the Tenino school district (Tenino and Bucoda) that may be disadvantaged. In addition, it is our…
Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission is led by and for Indigenous people, and envisions a just society in which we are treated with honor, fairness and respect. Our mission is to uphold our individual civil rights through education…
SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.
NAMI provides advocacy, education, support and public awareness so that all individuals and families affected by mental illness can build better lives. The three largest groups were WRAP, Family to Family and the Connections and Family…
We serve and empower individuals, families, and communities. we respond to over 200,000 comprehensive human service requests for assistance each year in the following service areas: basic needs, community information & referral,…
Our mission is to recruit and focus the efforts of individuals, civic clubs, private and public agencies, school, faith based organizations, and government entities- in a coordinated, collaborative, group-directed and aligned effort- to…
Housing Counseling Services
Youth Eastside Services (YES) is a lifeline for kids and families coping with challenges such as emotional distress, substance abuse, and violence. Through intervention, outreach and prevention, YES build confidence and responsibility,…
Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People for People and the most unlike its peers is Apoyo. 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 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 70 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
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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF YAKIMA ↗
- Who funds YAKIMA NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE- ADVOCACY PREVENTION AND EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE OUTREACH CENTER OF YAKIMA ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 614 GRAND COLUMBIA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LA CASA HOGAR ↗
- Who funds ROD'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Wellness House ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION OF YAKIMA WASH ↗
- Who funds TOPPENISH COMMUNITY CHEST ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds YAKIMA ADVOCATES FOR THE MENTALLY ILL ↗
- Who funds Skookum Kids ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho ↗
- Who funds ENTRUST COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PEGASUS PROJECT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM ↗
- Who funds Youth Services of Kittitas County Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES HOUSING SERVICES DIOCESE OF YAKIMA ↗
- Who funds ELMVIEW INC ↗
- Who funds Generating Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds Forge Youth Mentoring ↗
- Who funds LOVE IN THE NAME OF CHRIST OF YAKIMA ↗
- Who funds College Success Foundation ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTER OF 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.
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
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 United Way of Central Washington 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.