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United Way of Snohomish County

UNITED WAY OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

$44k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$28k
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 2025.

Human Services$3.4MHousing & Shelter$2.8MPhilanthropy$2.8MYouth Development$476kHealth$380kEducation$275kFood & Nutrition$186kEmployment$142kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$28,150
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEST DENTAL HELP$28,150
SNOHOMISH AND ISLAND CLC HARDSHIP FUND$15,462
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 (FY17–22, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $6k → 14%YOUTHNET: $8k → 11%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES WW: $79k → 12%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES: $7k → 12%YWCA SEATTLEKING COSNOHOMISH CO: $356k → 9%YWCA SEATTLEKING COSNOHOMISH CO: $322k → 9%YWCA SEATTLE-KING CO-SNOHO CO: $86k → 9%YMCA OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $245k → 9%YMCA OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $240k → 9%PARENT TRUST FOR WA CHILDREN: $23k → 9%YMCA OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $210k → 9%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NW: $48k → 9%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NW: $244k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $35k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $7k → 9%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NW: $48k → 9%HOMAGE SENIOR SERVICES: $6k → 9%HOMAGE - SENIOR SERVICES OF SNO CO: $57k → 9%GREATER TRINITY CHRISTIAN LEARNING ACADEMY: $11k → 9%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.0M · 36 repeat orgs$539k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
34

Total granted

$9.0M
$511k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+19%

Still filing today

86%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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 ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyEmploymentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SA
    Stanwood-Camano Area Foundation
    5× · 2017–2021 · $815k · revenue +446% · 31% of their budget
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $435k · revenue +61%
  • CH
    COCOON HOUSE
    5× · 2017–2021 · $365k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • WO
    WORK OPPORTUNITIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $86k · revenue +28%
  • EC
    EDMONDS COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $39k
  • CF
    Center for Human Servicesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $32k · revenue +197%
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
Network Services

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…

Human Services
3
Project Access Northwest

Project Access Northwest provides low-income families access to medical, dental and Behavioral Health care so they can live a healthier and more productive life.

Health
4
Northwest Counseling Service Inc

Housing Counseling Services

Housing & Shelter
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
Domestic Violence Services of Snohomish

Domestic violence services of snohomish county is dedicated to ending domestic abuse by providing diverse and equitable services for individuals impacted by intimate partner violence, including their children, and by facilitating social…

Human Services
7
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
8
Community Health Center of Snohomish County

Community health center of snohomish county (chc) provides our diverse communities with access to high quality, affordable primary health care.

Health
9
Solid Ground Washington

At Solid Ground, we work passionately to end poverty and build a more equitable community. Our services support people experiencing poverty by helping them achieve stability and expand their skills to realize their dreams. And that's just…

Housing & Shelter
10
Housing Connector

Housing connector partners with property owners and managers to lower barriers to housing and increase our region's affordable housing capacity.

Housing & Shelter
11
Futurewise

Futurewise works throughout Washington state to encourage healthy, equitable and opportunity-rich communities, and to protect our most valuable farmlands, forests and water resources through wise land use policies and practices.

Environment
12
Southwest Youth and Family Services

SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Services of Snohomish County; the most unlike its peers is Givers Trust Inc. 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

58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 72 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
37/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Stanwood-Camano Area Foundation: $814,933 · OtherStanwood-Camano Area FoundationYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $435,132 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATI…Volunteers of America Western Washington: $250,706 · OtherVolunteers of America Western W…CHILDSTRIVE: $226,236 · OtherCHILDSTRIVETHE INTERFAITH ASSOCIATION OF NORTHWEST: $198,613 · OtherTHE INTERFAITH ASSOCIATION OF N…YMCA OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $182,000 · OtherYMCA OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNO…KINDERING CENTER: $128,994 · Other+33 more: $743,250 · Other+33 moreNORTH COUNTIES' FAMILY SERVICES: $1,226,273 · PhilanthropyNORTH COUNTIES' FAMILY SE…Community Foundation of Snohomish County: $1,086,754 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation of S…+4 more: $62,594 · PhilanthropyHOUSING HOPE: $1,833,394 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING HOPECOCOON HOUSE: $364,561 · Housing & ShelterCOCOON HOUSEBABIES OF HOMELESSNESS: $99,881 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $62,451 · Housing & ShelterYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $1,458,717 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN A…Lutheran Community Services Northwest: $340,487 · Human ServicesLutheran Community Servi…DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH: $229,242 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVIC…CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $86,540 · Human Services+6 more: $129,657 · Human Services+6 moreDRUG ABUSE COUNCIL OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $173,208 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY: $43,471 · HealthCenter for Human Services: $31,500 · HealthBEST DENTAL HELP: $28,150 · HealthSecret Harbor: $25,138 · HealthHEARING SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER: $13,224 · HealthFRIENDS OF YOUTH: $11,498 · HealthSTANWOOD-CAMANO FOOD BANK SERVICES: $173,333 · Food & NutritionWORK OPPORTUNITIES INC: $86,131 · EmploymentSHERWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $18,792 · EmploymentHOPEWORKS SOCIAL ENTERPRISES: $18,750 · Employment
Other$2,979,864Philanthropy$2,375,621Housing & Shelter$2,360,287Human Services$2,244,643Health$326,189Food & Nutrition$173,333Employment$123,673

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 budgetHOUSING HOPE: $1,833,394 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $1,458,717 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetNORTH COUNTIES' FAMILY SERVICES: $1,226,273 over 8y, 34% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Snohomish County: $1,086,754 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetStanwood-Camano Area Foundation: $814,933 over 5y, 31% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $435,132 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOCOON HOUSE: $364,561 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetLutheran Community Services Northwest: $340,487 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetVolunteers of America Western Washington: $250,706 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH: $229,242 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetCHILDSTRIVE: $226,236 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE INTERFAITH ASSOCIATION OF NORTHWEST: $198,613 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetSTANWOOD-CAMANO FOOD BANK SERVICES: $173,333 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetDRUG ABUSE COUNCIL OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $173,208 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetKINDERING CENTER: $128,994 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBABIES OF HOMELESSNESS: $99,881 over 3y, 11% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $86,540 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORK OPPORTUNITIES INC: $86,131 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetEverett Public Schools Foundation: $77,930 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetWITHINREACH: $71,250 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $62,326 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHAND IN HAND: $61,339 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetVILLAGE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $52,451 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY: $43,471 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHSHORE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $37,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCenter for Human Services: $31,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBEST DENTAL HELP: $28,150 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $26,475 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSecret Harbor: $25,138 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPARENT TRUST FOR WASHINGTON CHILDREN: $23,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $22,067 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $21,785 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCORRECTIONAL PEACE OFFICERS FOUNDATION INC: $21,772 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAS BEST LOCAL CHARITIES: $20,155 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEVERETT GOSPEL MISSION: $18,901 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSHERWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $18,792 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAFL-CIO SNOHOMISH & ISLAND COUNTY LABOR COUNCIL: $18,500 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetCHILDHAVEN: $18,114 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY HOUSING NORTHWEST: $15,218 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEARING SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER: $13,224 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $13,036 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHSHARE WASHINGTON: $13,029 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF YOUTH: $11,498 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRISE UP ACADEMY: $11,350 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetYOUTHNET: $7,894 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMOUNT BAKER COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $6,695 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT: $6,545 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMILITARY FAMILY AND VETERANS SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS OF AMERICA: $6,432 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Community Foundation …Puget Sound Energy Fo…Employees Community F…North Sound Accountab…Employees Community F…Seattle FoundationThe Whitehorse Founda…Evertrust FoundationThe Employee Communit…The Norcliffe Foundat…Medina FoundationThe Albertsons Compan…
Community Foundation of Snohomish CountyWA60.7× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Snohomish County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · North Sound Accountable Community of Health · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Seattle Foundation · The Whitehorse Foundation · Evertrust Foundation · The Employee Community Foundation Optum Washington · The Norcliffe Foundation · Medina Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 72 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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