· Public charity
United Way of Lewis County
The mission of UNITED WAY OF LEWIS COUNTY (uwlc) is connecting people and resources to improve the quality of life in lewis county.
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 4 grants below total $85,030 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $102,049 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $17,019 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 $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION | $35,304 |
| COLLEGIATE HOUSING INTERNATIONAL CENTRALIA | $32,600 |
| POPE KIDS PLACE CFD | $11,943 |
| LEWIS COUNTY FOOD BANK COALITION CFD | $5,183 |
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, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +67% since the first grant, against -58% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 1 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, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- LCLEWIS COUNTY FOOD BANK COALITION5× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +825%
- HRHOUSING RESOURCE CENTER OF LEWIS COUNTY4× · 2017–2020 · $94k · revenue +16%
- RERELIABLE ENTERPRISES5× · 2017–2021 · $73k · revenue +127%
Funded once
- CSCENTRALIA SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2021 · $47k
- TITEATER-CROCKER INCone grant, 2021 · $40k
- CSCHEHALIS SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2021 · $34k
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.
To impact families and the community through strong partnerships and high quality early childhood education services, so that families are more self-sufficient and children are school ready and prepared for lifelong learning.
Vocational Rehabilitation
Working with people in need to promote a higher quality of life in our community.
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…
Cowlitz Wahkiakum Legal Aid seeks to assure justice for low income people in the civil courts. We provide access to legal help for people whose livelihood, family and wellness are threatened.
To improve the health and well-being of the community by providing quality and compassionate health care services in a patient-centered atmosphere, respecting individual and cultural diversity.
To provide assistance to low-income individuals through the operation of a thrift store and by direct financial aid.
The mission of the lewis clark valley chamber is to connect resources, businesses, and members to promote, advocate, and grow a properous local economy.
Improving Lewis Creek and its watershed
To improve the lives of those in need through quality legal assistance.
Children's advocacy centers of washington is a membership organization that provides support to communities that have formed or wish to form a children's advocacy center and promotes awareness of the incidence and impact of child abuse in…
To ensure equitable access to high-quality care and early education for douglas county, oregon families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Action Council of Lewis Mason & Thurston Counties and the most unlike its peers is Adna Booster Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 28 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 LEWIS COUNTY FOOD BANK COALITION ↗
- Who funds HOUSING RESOURCE CENTER OF LEWIS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds RELIABLE ENTERPRISES ↗
- Who funds Hope Alliance Public Benefit Non-Profit Corporation ↗
- Who funds LEWIS COUNTY AUTISM COALITION ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEWIS COUNTY BAR LEGAL AID ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LEWIS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COASTAL HARVEST ↗
- Who funds CENTRALIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds POPE'S KIDS PLACE ↗
- Who funds Fire Mountain Arts Council ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL OF LEWIS MASON & THURSTON COUNTIES ↗
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: The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington Peak Credit Union · Inatai Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Lewis 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.
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.