· Public charity
United Way of Spokane County
The mission of Spokane County United Way is to mobilize our community resources to create measurable results that improve the lives of the people living in our community and advance the idea of the common good.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $208,171 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $307,788 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $99,617 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 $10k11 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $126k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Frontier Behavioral Health | $18,125 |
| Spokane Eastside Reunion Association | $15,223 |
| YWCA Spokane | $15,186 |
| Feast World Kitchen | $14,326 |
| YMCA of the Inland Northwest | $13,912 |
| Lutheran Community Services | $13,735 |
| Catholic Charities Eastern Washington | $13,054 |
| Second Harvest Inland Northwest | $12,118 |
| Take up The Cause | $10,497 |
| Transitions | $9,824 |
| Treehouse | $8,876 |
| Refugee and Immigrant Connections Spokane (RICS) | $8,487 |
| Salish School of Spokane | $8,215 |
| Joya Child and Family Development | $8,049 |
| Innovia Foundation | $7,466 |
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 (FY18–25, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +43% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FBFrontier Behavioral Health8× · 2018–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +66%
- YWYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION8× · 2018–2025 · $987k · revenue +91%
- LCLutheran Community Services Northwest8× · 2018–2025 · $568k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- FFFreeman Foundationone grant, 2019 · $28k
- LPLiberty Park Community Development Centeone grant, 2024 · $18k · revenue -13%
- SFSPOKANE FATHERHOOD INITIATIVEone grant, 2024 · $17k · revenue +5%
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 nurture and sustain child-centered, antiracist early learning communities.Our work is to:1) Help families access high quality childcare and after-school care.2) Increase the availability of high-quality care through coaching and…
Partners inland northwest is the sole source of comprehensive community and social services in spokane valley, serving low income and disadvantaged residents between the city of spokane and the idaho border.
SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
To prepare a diverse range of students for a life of learning in post-secondary education, citizenship, and leadership.
The mission of the Community Health Association of Spokane (CHAS Health) is to improve the overall health of the communities we serve by expanding access to quality health and wellness services.
To empower families experiencing housing insecurity through intervention, prevention,and stabilization services.
To help families with children in our community who are situationally homeless achieve sustainable independence through a community based response by providing temporary housing, usually 60-90 days, along with case management.
The mission of Spokane County United Way is to mobilize our community resources to create measurable results that improve the lives of the people living in our community and advance the idea of the common good. (Continued on Schedule O)Our…
To embrace, equip, and empower immigrants through access to culturally informed essential services, and facilitate covnnections to grow deeper roots and thrive in Spokane.
To build broad-based non-partisan civic power organizations in the Spokane region to address the fundamental common needs of the community including the inequities, and injustices facing low-income people and persons subjected to…
In 1911, Tacoma Day Care and Preschool Association established the first preschool in Pierce County with the mission to provide quality, affordable child care. It has a state of the art Early Learning Center serving children fourteen…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Spokane and the most unlike its peers is Priest Lake Lions Club 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 39 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 79 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 Frontier Behavioral Health ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Community Services Northwest ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FAMILY OUTRE ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of the Inland Northwest ↗
- Who funds SPOKANE NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SPOKANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Spokane County ↗
- Who funds Salish School of Spokane ↗
- Who funds Spokane Guilds' School & Neuromuscular Center ↗
- Who funds SPOKANE AREA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SPOKANE ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds Transitions ↗
- Who funds ODYSSEY YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Arc of Spokane ↗
- Who funds HIP OF SPOKANE COUNTY DBA COMMUNITY MINDED ENTERPRISES ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds YFA CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds Excelsior Wellness ↗
- Who funds SPOKANE EASTSIDE REUNION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND NORTH IDAHO ↗
- Who funds Innovia Foundation ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT CONNECTIONS OF SPOKANE ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE INLAND NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds Fuse Innovation Fund ↗
- Who funds Feast Collective ↗
- Who funds DAYBREAK YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OPEN-SHOP APPRENTICESHIP AND JOURNEYMAN TRAINING ↗
- Who funds TeamChild ↗
- Who funds TAKE UP THE CAUSE ↗
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: Innovia Foundation · The Avista Foundation · Better Health Together · Providence Health & Services - Washington · Women Helping Women Fund · Project Beauty Share · Numerica Credit Union · Multicare Health System · School's Out Washington · Seattle Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Smith-Barbieri Progressive Fund a Charitable 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 Spokane 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.
- United Way of the Columbia-Willamette — 25% 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.