· Public charity
United Way of King County
Working side by side with communities to build an equitable future for everyone.
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 196 grants below total $24,739,298 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $28,614,864 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,875,566 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 $10k13 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k86 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k74 grants · $8.4M
- $250k+23 grants · $15M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $1,674,650 |
| KING COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION | $1,574,712 |
| ATLANTIC STREET CENTER | $1,117,190 |
| SOUTHWEST YOUTH & FAMILY SVCS | $1,065,000 |
| MARY'S PLACE SEATTLE | $981,014 |
| EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA | $795,102 |
| HORN OF AFRICA SERVICES | $614,040 |
| HOMESIGHT | $613,000 |
| VOICES OF TOMORROW | $575,108 |
| CHINESE INFORMATION & SERVICES | $554,570 |
| YWCA OF SEATTLE KING COUNTY & | $497,300 |
| SOUTHEAST YOUTH & FAMILY SVCS | $443,313 |
| INTERCULTURAL CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES | $431,752 |
| EDQUITY INC | $430,404 |
| IRAQI COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON | $421,400 |
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, $96.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +49% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
450 repeat relationships — 109 still active in FY2025, 341 since wound down; 82 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.1M 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
- ULURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE8× · 2017–2025 · $21M · revenue ×12 · 57% of their budget
- NHNeighborhood House INC8× · 2017–2025 · $16M · revenue +84%
- KCKING COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION6× · 2019–2025 · $8.2M · revenue +196% · 59% of their budget
Funded once
- NHNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSEone grant, 2023 · $2.3M
- RPRIVERTON PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $1.3M
- ECEL CENTRO DE LA RAZAone grant, 2023 · $1.2M
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.
Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…
To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
To provide economic development financing to serve the needs of small businesses in the state of washington that would not qualify for private financing under conventional financing criteria.
To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
Seattle jobs initiative (sji) creates opportunities for people to support themselves and their families through living-wage careers.
Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.
Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.
We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
To achieve economic fairness in order to establish a more democratic society characterized by racial, social & gender justice, with respect for diversity, & a decent quality of life for those who reside in WA. We are building a movement of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cares of Washington and the most unlike its peers is Kestra Medical Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
605 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. 605 of the 1,099 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 URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood House INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds KING COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Atlantic Street Center ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Solid Ground Washington ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA ↗
- Who funds Southwest Youth And Family Services ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHARD YOUTH OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds ENCOMPASS NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds Chinese Information and Service Center ↗
- Who funds VOICES OF TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds INTERACTION TRANSITION ↗
- Who funds MARY'S PLACE SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds HORN OF AFRICA SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS ↗
- Who funds Refugee Womens Alliance ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds Downtown Emergency Service Center ↗
- Who funds ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KINDERING CENTER ↗
- Who funds INTERCULTURAL CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds RVC SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds IRAQI COMMUNITY 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: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Medina Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Seattle Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · School's Out Washington · Renton Regional Community Fndn · Grousemont Foundation · Sheng-Yen Lu Foundation · Northwest Harvest Emm
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 King County 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.
- Year Up Inc — 0% 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.