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United Way of Central Washington

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

$739k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$45k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$2.8MHealth$602kHousing & Shelter$380kYouth Development$370kFood & Nutrition$368kPublic Safety & Disaster$176kEmployment$123kPhilanthropy$115kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $289,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $739,407 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $449,907 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $275k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PARENT TRUST FOR WASHINGTON CHILD: $2k → 9%UPPER KITTITAS COUNTY SENIOR CENTER: $18k → 11%SKOOKUM KIDS: $54k → 12%YAKIMA FAMILY YMCA: $126k → 17%PARENT TRUST FOR WASHINGTON CHILD: $1k → 9%SKOOKUM KIDS: $30k → 12%YAKIMA FAMILY YMCA: $116k → 17%PARENT TRUST FOR WASHINGTON CHILD: $1k → 9%SKOOKUM KIDS: $10k → 12%YAKIMA FAMILY YMCA: $116k → 17%APOYO: $10k → 11%YAKIMA FAMILY YMCA: $77k → 17%ELMVIEW: $8k → 11%ELMVIEW: $8k → 11%YAKIMA FAMILY YMCA: $45k → 17%LOWER VALLEY CRISIS & SUPPORT SERVICES: $43k → 11%LOWER VALLEY CRISIS & SUPPORT SERVICES: $43k → 11%ELMVIEW: $8k → 11%LOWER VALLEY CRISIS & SUPPORT SERVICES: $43k → 11%ELMVIEW: $7k → 11%LOWER VALLEY CRISIS & SUPPORT SERV: $40k → 11%THE LIGHTHOUSE: $22k → 11%THE LIGHTHOUSE: $22k → 11%THE LIGHTHOUSE: $22k → 11%LA CASA HOGAR: $33k → 17%THE LIGHTHOUSE - ADVOCACY PREVENTION AND EDUCATION CENTER: $15k → 11%LA CASA HOGAR (YAKIMA INTERFAITH COALITION): $33k → 17%LA CASA HOGAR (YAKIMA INTERFAITH COALITION): $33k → 17%LA CASA HOGAR (YAKIMA INTERFAITH COALITION): $33k → 17%YAKIMA FAMILY YMCA: $27k → 17%HOPESOURCE: $2k → 11%LA CASA HOGAR: $21k → 17%LA CASA HOGAR: $21k → 17%LA CASA HOGAR: $21k → 17%HOPESOURCE: $1k → 11%LA CASA HOGAR: $20k → 17%HOPESOURCE: $1k → 11%YAKIMA FAMILY YMCA: $11k → 17%YAKIMA FAMILY YMCA: $11k → 17%PEGASUS PROJECT FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%PEOPLE FOR PEOPLE: $22k → 17%PEOPLE FOR PEOPLE: $22k → 17%PEOPLE FOR PEOPLE: $22k → 17%PEOPLE FOR PEOPLE: $22k → 17%OIC OF WASHINGTON: $10k → 17%OIC OF WASHINGTON: $10k → 17%PEOPLE FOR PEOPLE: $5k → 17%PEOPLE FOR PEOPLE: $5k → 17%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.3M · 54 repeat orgs$163k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
10

Total granted

$5.3M
$101k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+13%

Still filing today

69%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentEmploymentEducationOther
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

  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $530k · revenue +4%
  • YW
    YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF YAKIMA
    7× · 2017–2024 · $302k · revenue +234%
  • YN
    YAKIMA NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH SERVICES
    7× · 2017–2024 · $256k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • YV
    YAKIMA VALLEY HEARING & SPEECH CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $29k
  • VA
    VALLEY ALCOHOL COUNCIL dba MERIT RESOURCE SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $17k · revenue +25%
  • C
    CASCADIANOW
    one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +13%
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
Young Women's Christian Association of Bellingham

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.

Human Services
2
Recovery Cafe Skagit

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.

Education
3
Tahoma Indian Center

We are a full indigenous-led organization that creates a meaningful pathway to serve up to 700 indigenous relatives, mostly unhoused, each month.

Arts & Culture
4
Tenino Community Service Center

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…

Food & Nutrition
5
Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission

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…

Human Services
6
Southwest Youth and Family Services

SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.

Human Services
7
Nami Southwest Washington

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…

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8
Volunteers of America Western Washington

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,…

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9
Citizens for Safe Yakima Valley Communities

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…

Community Improvement
10
Northwest Counseling Service Inc

Housing Counseling Services

Housing & Shelter
11
Youth Eastside 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,…

Health
12
Bike Works Seattle

Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People for People; 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.
04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 70 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/53
Grantees still filing
37/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES OF YAKIMA: $697,688 · OtherCATHOLIC FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES OF YAKIMATHE SALVATION ARMY: $638,610 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF YAKIMA: $301,784 · OtherYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF YAKIMABOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 614 GRAND COLUMBIA COUNCIL: $220,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 614 GRAND COLUMBIA COUNCILAMERICAN RED CROSS EMERGENCY SVCS: $161,000 · OtherWellness House: $119,000 · OtherUNION GOSPEL MISSION OF YAKIMA WASH: $108,920 · Other+35 more: $827,677 · Other+35 moreYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $529,581 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOC…THE LIGHTHOUSE- ADVOCACY PREVENTION AND EDUCATION CENTER: $251,450 · Human ServicesTHE LIGHTHOUSE- ADVOCACY PR…LA CASA HOGAR: $215,285 · Human ServicesLA CASA HOGARPEOPLE FOR PEOPLE: $98,146 · Human ServicesPEOPLE FOR PEOPLESkookum Kids: $93,750 · Human ServicesSkookum KidsPEGASUS PROJECT FOUNDATION: $50,750 · Human Services+6 more: $85,536 · Human Services+6 moreSUNRISE OUTREACH CENTER OF YAKIMA: $228,170 · Housing & ShelterSUNRISE OU…ROD'S HOUSE: $204,200 · Housing & ShelterROD'S HOUS…CATHOLIC CHARITIES HOUSING SERVICES DIOCESE OF YAKIMA: $37,500 · Housing & ShelterCATHOLIC C…Generating Hope Inc: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterYAKIMA NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH SERVICES: $256,075 · HealthVALLEY ALCOHOL COUNCIL dba MERIT RESOURCE SERVICES: $16,800 · Health+2 more: $14,000 · HealthTOPPENISH COMMUNITY CHEST: $105,300 · Food & NutritionSelah-Naches Food Bank: $10,000 · Food & NutritionENTRUST COMMUNITY SERVICES: $56,710 · EmploymentYAKIMA SPECIALTIES INC: $16,500 · EmploymentSwan Vocational Enterprises: $7,500 · EmploymentPAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM: $44,000 · EducationCollege Success Foundation: $20,000 · EducationPACIFIC NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $12,750 · Education
Other$3,074,679Human Services$1,324,498Housing & Shelter$494,870Health$286,875Food & Nutrition$115,300Employment$80,710Education$76,750

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 budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $529,581 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF YAKIMA: $301,784 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetYAKIMA NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH SERVICES: $256,075 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetTHE LIGHTHOUSE- ADVOCACY PREVENTION AND EDUCATION CENTER: $251,450 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetSUNRISE OUTREACH CENTER OF YAKIMA: $228,170 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 614 GRAND COLUMBIA COUNCIL: $220,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetLA CASA HOGAR: $215,285 over 8y, 7.6% of budgetROD'S HOUSE: $204,200 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetWellness House: $119,000 over 7y, 10% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION OF YAKIMA WASH: $108,920 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTOPPENISH COMMUNITY CHEST: $105,300 over 8y, 22% of budgetPEOPLE FOR PEOPLE: $98,146 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYAKIMA ADVOCATES FOR THE MENTALLY ILL: $95,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetSkookum Kids: $93,750 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetGirl Scouts of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho: $58,001 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetENTRUST COMMUNITY SERVICES: $56,710 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPEGASUS PROJECT FOUNDATION: $50,750 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetPAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM: $44,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetYouth Services of Kittitas County Inc: $42,500 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES HOUSING SERVICES DIOCESE OF YAKIMA: $37,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetELMVIEW INC: $30,536 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGenerating Hope Inc: $25,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetForge Youth Mentoring: $24,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetLOVE IN THE NAME OF CHRIST OF YAKIMA: $22,300 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetOPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTER OF WASHINGTON: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCollege Success Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYAKIMA POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE: $19,691 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetUNITYWORKS FOUNDATION: $19,000 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetEDITH L BISHEL CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $18,750 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetUPPER KITTITAS COUNTY SENIOR CENTER UPPER KITTITAS COUNTY SENIOR CENTER: $17,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetVALLEY ALCOHOL COUNCIL dba MERIT RESOURCE SERVICES: $16,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYAKIMA SPECIALTIES INC: $16,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetBETWEEN THE RIDGES: $16,500 over 3y, 19% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $12,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCASCADIANOW: $12,500 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetYakima Rotary Food Bank: $11,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCourt Advocates for Children of Kittitas County: $11,499 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetAPOYO: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPEACEKEEPER SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetYAKIMA VALLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON HOUSE YOUTH CENTER OF YAKIMA WA: $7,500 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetWHITE SWAN ARTS & RECREATION COMMITTEE: $5,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetYAKIMA VALLEY COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST COMMUNITIES' EDUCATION CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPARENT TRUST FOR WASHINGTON CHILDREN: $4,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGallery One: $3,779 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHOPESOURCE: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 OPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTER OF WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds College Success Foundation ↗

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 Communi…Northwest Harvest EmmInatai FoundationGreater Columbia Acco…Hein Legacy FoundationMulticare Health Syst…Seattle FoundationPhilanthropy NorthwestSecond Harvest Inland…School's Out Washingt…The Lee and Kay Peter…Yakima Valley Memoria…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Way of Central Washington funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Central Washington. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 70 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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