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United Way of Thurston County

UNITED WAY OF THURSTON COUNTY mobilizes the caring power of our community to fight for the health, education and financial stability of every person in thurston county.

$108k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$73k
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$2.1MYouth Development$1.4MHealth$1.3MFood & Nutrition$1.0MEducation$439kReligion$313kCommunity Improvement$215kPhilanthropy$139kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $73k
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$720k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTH PUGET SOUND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUND$73,420
UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE$30,000
UNITED WAYS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST$5,000
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, $1.7M) 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%WA-ID VOLUNTEER CENTER INC: $19k → 11%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES: $150k → 9%HUMAN SERVICE COUNCIL: $15k → 9%SKAGIT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION: $16k → 11%CATHOLIC COMMUNIY SERVICES: $76k → 9%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES: $19k → 9%SOUTH SOUND YMCA - BRIGGS: $349k → 9%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 9%SOUTH SOUND YMCA - BRIGGS: $200k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $18k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $1k → 9%SAFEPLACE: $25k → 9%CIELO PROJECT: $15k → 9%FAMILY EDUCATION & SUPPORT SERVICES: $15k → 9%CIELO PROJECT: $15k → 9%CIELO PROJECT: $13k → 9%FAMILY EDUCATION & SUPPORT SERVICES: $11k → 9%CIELO PROJECT: $11k → 9%PIZZA KLATCH: $10k → 9%SOUTH SOUND YMCA - BRIGGS: $10k → 9%SOUTH SOUND YMCA - BRIGGS: $10k → 9%FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF SOUTH SOUND: $178k → 9%PIZZA KLATCH: $8k → 9%FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $7k → 9%FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $7k → 9%FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $5k → 9%CHILDCARE ACTION COUNCIL: $346 → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $150k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $98k → 9%COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $25k → 9%COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $25k → 9%COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $20k → 9%COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $15k → 9%CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL: $10k → 9%CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL: $8k → 9%CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL: $3k → 9%CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL: $2k → 9%CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL: $2k → 9%ROCHESTER ORGANIZATION OF FAMILIES: $69k → 9%ROCHESTER ORGANIZATION OF FAMILIES: $17k → 9%ROCHESTER ORGANIZATION OF FAMILIES: $17k → 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.7M · 27 repeat orgs$329k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
21

Total granted

$6.7M
$324k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+46%

Still filing today

93%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 ServicesPhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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

  • SS
    SENIOR SERVICES FOR SOUTH SOUND
    4× · 2020–2023 · $733k · revenue +14%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY
    6× · 2017–2023 · $639k · revenue +37%
  • SS
    SOUTH SOUND YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN
    3× · 2020–2022 · $569k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • RS
    ROCHESTER SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • RS
    RAINIER SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 307
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • TS
    Tumwater School District No33
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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
United Way of Central Washington

United way of central washington gathers together people, ideas and resources to strengthen communities and improve lives.

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3
United Way of Clallam County

Our mission is to strengthen our community by helping people live safe, healthy, and productive lives.

Philanthropy
4
United Way of Washington County Maryland Inc

Through strategic leadership and investments, united way of washington county, md will impact community improvement and inspire collaboration to address critical needs in education, income and health.

Philanthropy
5
United Way of the Columbia-Willamette

At United Way of the Columbia-Willamette (UWCW), we envision an Oregon and Southwest Washington where every child and family - regardless of geography, race, or family incomehas a stable foundation and access to the resources and support…

Philanthropy
6
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
7
Communities in Schools of Puyallup

The mission of communities in schools of puyallup (cisp) is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
8
Washington State Community Connectors

Family-Driven Community of Support for caregivers of children with a range of behavioral health needs.

Human Services
9
United Way of Washington County-East

The mission of the united way of washington county - east is to unite our community and local resources to give each person the opportunity to build a better life.

Philanthropy
10
Volunteers of America Western Washington

We serve and empower individuals, families, and communities. we respond to over 200,000 comprehensive human service requests for assistance each year in the following service areas: basic needs, community information & referral,…

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11
United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley

Uniting people and resources to build thriving and resilient communities. We find every dollar we can to address these critical issues, but we are more than fundraisers. Our work is centralized around four focus areas; developing housing…

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12
Southwest Washington Workforce Development Council

Swwdc's mission is to prepare and promote a skilled and adaptive workforce for a thriving economy in southwest washington. swwdc and its community partners provide job search assistance, education and training to individuals and assist…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Grays Harbor; the most unlike its peers is Rochester Organization of Families. 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

39 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. 39 of the 51 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
28/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THURSTON COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT: $1,109,975 · OtherTHURSTON COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENTSENIOR SERVICES FOR SOUTH SOUND: $732,550 · OtherSENIOR SERVICES FOR SOUTH SOUNDINTERFAITH WORKS: $325,300 · OtherINTERFAITH WORKSSOUTH PUGET SOUND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUND: $223,143 · OtherSOUTH PUGET SOUND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDTHURSTON COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $105,000 · Other+17 more: $433,973 · Other+17 moreSOUTH SOUND YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN: $569,387 · Human ServicesSOUTH SOUND YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN…The Family Support Center of South Sound: $504,509 · Human ServicesThe Family Support Center of Sout…COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL OF LEWIS MASON & THURSTON COUNTIES: $266,853 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL OF LEWIS…CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $254,250 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WE…SAFEPLACE: $103,825 · Human ServicesRochester Organization of Families: $102,400 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $85,000 · Human Services+7 more: $172,270 · Human Services+7 moreTHURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $1,043,509 · Food & NutritionTHURSTON COUNTY …BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY: $639,177 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIR…UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY: $50,071 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $30,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Spokane County: $13,118 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $12,832 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GRAYS HARBOR: $11,726 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS: $10,862 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF LEWIS COUNTY: $10,302 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF KITSAP COUNTY: $8,012 · PhilanthropyTOGETHER: $84,126 · HealthSOUTH SOUND READING FOUNDATION: $37,800 · EducationScholar Fund: $15,000 · EducationOLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationKITCHEN GARDEN PROJECT INC GARDEN-RAISED BOUNTY: $60,250 · Environment
Other$2,929,941Human Services$2,058,494Food & Nutrition$1,043,509Youth Development$639,177Philanthropy$146,923Health$84,126Education$67,800Environment$60,250

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 budgetTHURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $1,043,509 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES FOR SOUTH SOUND: $732,550 over 4y, 17% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY: $639,177 over 6y, 9.3% of budgetSOUTH SOUND YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN: $569,387 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetThe Family Support Center of South Sound: $504,509 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetINTERFAITH WORKS: $325,300 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL OF LEWIS MASON & THURSTON COUNTIES: $266,853 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $254,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHURSTON COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetSAFEPLACE: $103,825 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetRochester Organization of Families: $102,400 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $85,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTOGETHER: $84,126 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetBEHAVIORAL HEALTH RESOURCES: $61,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKITCHEN GARDEN PROJECT INC GARDEN-RAISED BOUNTY: $60,250 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCIELO PROJECT AT RADIO RANCH: $53,408 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetTHURSTON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL CENTER FOR BUSINESS INNOVATION: $53,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY: $50,071 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA of Olympia: $45,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON: $40,625 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetSOUTH PUGET SOUND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSOUTH SOUND READING FOUNDATION: $37,800 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetFAMILY EDUCATION & SUPPORT SERVICES: $26,693 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL OF THURSTON COUNTY: $24,846 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWA-ID VOLUNTEER CENTER INC: $18,548 over 1y, 13% of budgetPIZZA KLATCH: $17,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY: $16,198 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY IN MOTION: $15,077 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetScholar Fund: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetUNITED GOOD NEIGHBORS OF JEFFERSON COUNT: $14,640 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $12,832 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GRAYS HARBOR: $11,726 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS: $10,862 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LEWIS COUNTY: $10,302 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KITSAP COUNTY: $8,012 over 1y, 0.4% 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 Community Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Thurston County Econo…Dawkins Charitable Tr…Medina FoundationSchool's Out Washingt…The Norcliffe Foundat…Credit Unions in the …Pacific Mountain Work…Renah Blair Rietzke F…Seattle FoundationMulticare Health Syst…
The Community Foundation of South Puget SoundWA56.8× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Thurston County Economic Development Cou · Dawkins Charitable Trust · Medina Foundation · School's Out Washington · The Norcliffe Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington Peak Credit Union · Pacific Mountain Workforce Development Council · Renah Blair Rietzke Family Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Multicare Health System

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%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
    19report 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 51 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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