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United Way of Skagit County

United Way of Skagit County's mission is to build a positive and sustainable quality of life for all.

$129k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$705kHuman Services$542kPhilanthropy$328kHealth$282kFood & Nutrition$251kYouth Development$200kEmployment$84kCrime & Legal$81kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $10,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $128,554 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $118,554 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.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$590k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
United General District 304$10,000
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 (FY17–23, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $10k → 7%BRIGID COLLINS-SKAGIT VALLEY FAMILY SUPPORT: $32k → 12%BRIGID COLLINS-SKAGIT VALLEY FAMILY SUPPORT: $31k → 12%COMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY: $103k → 11%BRIGID COLLINS-SKAGIT VALLEY FAMILY SUPPORT: $30k → 12%COMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY: $94k → 11%Brigid Collins-Skagit Valley Family Support: $27k → 12%Brigid Collins: $27k → 12%COMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY: $67k → 11%BRIGID COLLINS-SKAGIT VALLEY FAMILY SUPPORT: $24k → 12%BRIGID COLLINS-SKAGIT VALLEY FAMILY SUPPORT: $22k → 12%YOUTHNET: $33k → 11%SKAGIT VALLEY FAMILY YMCA: $32k → 11%SKAGIT VALLEY FAMILY YMCA: $32k → 11%Youthnet: $30k → 11%SKAGIT COUNCIL ON AGING-MEALS ON WHEELS: $28k → 11%SKAGIT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT: $27k → 11%SKAGIT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT: $27k → 11%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $26k → 11%SKAGIT COUNCIL ON AGING-MEALS ON WHEELS: $26k → 11%SKAGIT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT: $26k → 11%SKAGIT COUNCIL ON AGING: $25k → 11%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $25k → 11%Youthnet: $25k → 11%YOUTHNET: $21k → 11%YOUTHNET: $21k → 11%Community Action of Skagit County: $20k → 11%Community Action of Skagit County: $20k → 11%COMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY: $20k → 11%SKAGIT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT: $19k → 11%YOUTHNET: $17k → 11%COMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY: $16k → 11%YOUTHNET: $16k → 11%SKAGIT VALLEY FAMILY YMCA: $15k → 11%SKAGIT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT: $11k → 11%Skagit Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault: $11k → 11%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 11%Skagit Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault: $10k → 11%Skagit Valley Family YMCA: $8k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS - MT BAKER: $22k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS - MT BAKER: $19k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS - MT BAKER: $19k → 11%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 22 repeat orgs$324k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
5

Total granted

$2.2M
$324k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+117%

Still filing today

95%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentEmploymentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • FO
    Foundation of District 304
    9× · 2017–2025 · $390k · revenue +61% · 46% of their budget
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $340k · revenue +62%
  • BC
    BRIGID COLLINS HOUSE
    7× · 2017–2023 · $193k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • TP
    THIRD PARTY PROCESSED DIRECT PAID DESIGNATIONS
    one grant, 2017 · $272k
  • WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +42%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $16k
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
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
2
Snoqualmie Valley Food Bank

Our mission is to provide food and key resources to help our neighbors and community thrive. we lead the effort to feed, educated and advocate ending hunger in the snoqualmie valley and beyond.

Food & Nutrition
3
Skagit Gleaners

Food recovery for low income families over 600 families served

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4
Community Foundation of Snohomish County

The Community Foundation of Snohomish County (the Foundation) is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization incorporated under the laws of the State of Washington. The Foundation serves as a community foundation, supporting a broad spectrum of…

Philanthropy
5
United Way of Skagit County

United Way of Skagit County's mission is to build a positive and sustainable quality of life for all.

Philanthropy
6
South Peninsula Behavioral Health Services Inc

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…

Health
7
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center

KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…

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8
Skagit Valley Hospitality House Association

To reflect the heart of God by feeding, sheltering, clothing, healing and empowering those in need. Programs include housing, a cafe and job training system, shelter resources, and more. Our core values are: compassion, respect, joy and…

Housing & Shelter
9
Skagit Regional Health Foundation

To raise, manage and distribute funds to assure the continued availability of quality health care services and programs through skagit valley hospital. the foundation will foster community awareness of, and support for, skagit valley…

Health
10
Southwest Youth and Family Services

SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.

Human Services
11
Workforce Development Council Snohomish County

Workforce snohomish invests government and private funding to continuously increase the global competitiveness and prosperity of our businesses and workforce, to fill current and emerging jobs, and to provide full employment. our…

Education
12
Skagit Watershed Council

Our mission is to understand, protect and restore the productivity of healthy ecosystems to support sustainable fisheries. designated lead entity under washington state legislation eshb 2496, a salmon recovery planning act, for the skagit…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Skagit Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Sea Mar Community Health Centers. 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

26 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. 26 of the 28 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
23/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY: $340,012 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTYBRIGID COLLINS HOUSE: $193,278 · Human ServicesBRIGID COLLINS HOUSEYOUTHNET: $163,175 · Human ServicesYOUTHNETSKAGIT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES: $130,559 · Human ServicesSKAGIT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVI…The Skagit Valley Family YMCA: $86,962 · Human ServicesThe Skagit Valley Family YMCASKAGIT COUNCIL ON AGING: $78,722 · Human ServicesSKAGIT COUNCIL ON AGINGNORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $61,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICESAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $60,400 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Cha…+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesFoundation of District 304: $389,609 · HealthFoundation of District 3…SKAGIT HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $95,175 · HealthSKAGIT HOSPICE FOUNDATIO…Secret Harbor: $42,460 · HealthSecret HarborSEA MAR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS: $31,600 · HealthSEA MAR COMMUNITY HEALTH…THIRD PARTY PROCESSED DIRECT PAID DESIGNATIONS: $271,518 · OtherTHIRD PARTY PROCE…Volunteers of America Western Washington: $56,020 · OtherVolunteers of Ame…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF WHATCOM SKAGIT: $30,000 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SC…SKAGIT COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH DEPT: $23,000 · OtherSKAGIT COUNTY PUB…Individual grant recipient: $16,290 · Other+1 more: $6,240 · OtherSkagit Preschool and Resource Center: $131,281 · EducationSkagit Presc…FOUNDATION FOR ACADEMIC ENDEAVORS: $90,202 · EducationFOUNDATION F…Skagit Valley College Foundation: $35,000 · EducationSkagit Valle…WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationWASHINGTON S…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SKAGIT COUNTY: $52,773 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP FIRE SAMISH: $50,235 · Youth DevelopmentCHINOOK ENTERPRISES: $58,680 · EmploymentTHE SKAGIT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $56,000 · PhilanthropyANACORTES FAMILY CENTER: $18,000 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$1,124,108Health$558,844Other$403,068Education$276,483Youth Development$103,008Employment$58,680Philanthropy$56,000Housing & Shelter$18,000

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 budgetFoundation of District 304: $389,609 over 9y, 46% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY: $340,012 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetBRIGID COLLINS HOUSE: $193,278 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetYOUTHNET: $163,175 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetSkagit Preschool and Resource Center: $131,281 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetSKAGIT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES: $130,559 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetSKAGIT HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $95,175 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ACADEMIC ENDEAVORS: $90,202 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetThe Skagit Valley Family YMCA: $86,962 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSKAGIT COUNCIL ON AGING: $78,722 over 3y, 18% of budgetNORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $61,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $60,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHINOOK ENTERPRISES: $58,680 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetVolunteers of America Western Washington: $56,020 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SKAGIT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $56,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SKAGIT COUNTY: $52,773 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCAMP FIRE SAMISH: $50,235 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetSecret Harbor: $42,460 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSkagit Valley College Foundation: $35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSEA MAR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS: $31,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF WHATCOM SKAGIT: $30,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetANACORTES FAMILY CENTER: $18,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $10,000 over 1y, 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.

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.

The Skagit Community …Puget Sound Energy Fo…North Sound Accountab…The Albertsons Compan…The Norcliffe Foundat…Jerry H Walton Founda…Medina FoundationTucker Family Foundat…PeaceHealthShell USA Company Fou…Bnsf Railway Foundati…School's Out Washingt…
The Skagit Community FoundationWA45.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Skagit Community Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · North Sound Accountable Community of Health · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Jerry H Walton Foundation · Medina Foundation · Tucker Family Foundation · PeaceHealth · Shell USA Company Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · School's Out Washington

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 Skagit County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Skagit County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 28 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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