· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
To embrace, equip, and empower immigrants through access to culturally informed essential services, and facilitate covnnections to grow deeper roots and thrive in Spokane.
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.
To prepare a diverse range of students for a life of learning in post-secondary education, citizenship, and leadership.
SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.
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…
Provide care to refugee families.
The Spokane Parks Foundation cultivates the health, growth, and continued enjoyment of our communities by inspiring giving and passion for our parks.
To make known the gifts of people with development disabilities, revealed through mutually transforming relationships, to foster an environment in community that responds to the changing needs of members while being faithful to the core…
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 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…
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
Programs for children with special needs from birth to six. sparc offers opportunities for family education, participation and support so that familiies may become more knowledgeable about their childs needs and goals are are better able…
How this is measured
71 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. 71 of the 79 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization United Way of Spokane County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Spokane County. Bigger dots raise more.
- United Way of the Columbia-Willamette: 25% of income from government
How this is measured
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