· Public charity
United Way of Grays Harbor
The mission of UNITED WAY OF GRAYS HARBOR is to unite resources with people to build a healthier, stronger community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $138,060 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $147,602 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,542 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 |
|---|---|
| COASTAL HARVEST | $24,593 |
| DOLLY PARTON IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $22,728 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $20,359 |
| COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES FOR PARENTING EDUCATION (COPE) | $16,315 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF GRAYS HARBOR | $12,504 |
| CONNECTIONS A CENTER FOR HEALTHY FAMILIES | $10,781 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER | $10,533 |
| SOUTH BEACH CHRISTIAN OUTRE | $10,239 |
| GH CHILD ADVOCATES(CASA) | $10,008 |
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, $474k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% 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 +43% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- CHCOASTAL HARVEST9× · 2017–2025 · $141k · revenue +39%
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Grays Harbor8× · 2017–2024 · $81k · revenue +43%
THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $76k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- SCSumner Community Food Bankone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +9%
- BSBEYOND SURVIVALone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -14%
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.
Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…
CARE. Commitment to improving quality of life. Advocacy for mental health and overall well-being. Response to community needs. Effective treatment with measurable outcomes.
The Crisis Center for South Suburbia is a non-profit community organization providing emergency shelter and essential services for individuals and families victimized by domestic violence while addressing the societal issues contributing…
Columbia river mental health services is a full service mental health agency offering a wide spectrum of behavioral health services to children and adults of clark county, washington.
The organization operates primarily on the Southern Kenai Peninsula and its operations include the following:Community Mental Health - Counseling, evaluation, consultation and crisis mental health services for Adults and…
CASA's Goal is to provide a carefully researched background of the children who are experiencing abuse and neglect to help the court make a sound decision about the childrens future.
To protect children, support families, and bring hope and healing through compassionate, coordinated, and child-centered advocacy, through specialized programs and services, such as multi-disciplinary team coordination, forensic…
To eradicate domestic violence in craven, jones, and pamlico counties and to help families break the cycle of domestic violence and acquire the skills necessary to promote healthy family relationships. the organization provides crisis…
Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.
Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.
PAWS cares for lost, abandoned and abused animals and finds them new homes with responsible owners. PAWS also provides low cost spay and neuter services, a pet food pantry, and community education. During 2024 PAWS adopted out 577 pets.…
Administer programs designed to provide services, education, and consultation in the areas of mental health and substance use to the Seward, Alaska area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Domestic Violence Center of Grays Harbor and the most unlike its peers is South Beach Christian Outreach. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 21 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 COASTAL HARVEST ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Grays Harbor ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS A CENTER FOR HEALTHY FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds COASTAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GRAYS HARBOR ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BEACH CHRISTIAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ↗
- Who funds GRAYS HARBOR COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds Sumner Community Food Bank ↗
- Who funds CRISIS SUPPORT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GRAYS HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BEYOND SURVIVAL ↗
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: Grays Harbor Community Foundation · Medina Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Seabrook Community Foundation · Goldberg Family Charitable Foundation · Druzianich Family Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Grays Harbor 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.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
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.
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