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United Ways of the Pacific Northwest

To equitably advance the common good throughout the pacific northwest by enhancing the individual and collective ability of member united ways to impact their communities and collaborate on regional and statewide issues.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.6MPhilanthropy$902kPublic Safety & Disaster$471kCommunity Improvement$90kEmployment$57kFood & Nutrition$21kYouth Development$21kEducation$16kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $105k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $124k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $293k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.9M
$8,350
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION$1,625,179
UNITED WAYS OF PIERCE COUNTY$306,631
UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY$111,250
UNITED WAY OF SPOKANE COUNTY$63,750
UNITED WAY OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY$58,750
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL WASHINGTON$58,750
UNITED WAY OF COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE$30,537
HISPANIC BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL AS$25,000
WOMEN OF WISDOM TRI-CITIES$25,000
GREATER SEATTLE BUSINESS ASSOCIATIO$13,500
BLACK HEALING FUND$10,000
BLACK COFFEE NORTHWEST$10,000
FORGE$10,000
BLACK EDUCATION STRATEGY ROUNDTABLE$8,350
COMMUNITY NETWORK COUNCIL$8,000
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 (FY24–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.

area typical 9%MI CENTRO: $7k → 9%WOMEN OF WISDOM TRI-CITIES: $25k → 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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$958k · 6 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -10% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
14

Total granted

$958k
$206k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-10%
-10%

Still filing today

100%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’24
PhilanthropyCrime & LegalHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsYouth 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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY
    2× · 2020–2024 · $357k · revenue -10%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $236k · revenue +36%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY
    2× · 2020–2024 · $161k · revenue -38%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF WHITMAN COUNTY
    one grant, 2020 · $36k · revenue +5%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF COWLITZ COUNTY
    one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue -10%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $33k · revenue +186%
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 Clallam County

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

Philanthropy
2
United Ways of the Pacific Northwest

To equitably advance the common good throughout the pacific northwest by enhancing the individual and collective ability of member united ways to impact their communities and collaborate on regional and statewide issues.

—
3
United Way of Umatilla & Morrow Counties

United way of umatilla and morrow counties empowers individual givers to support their communities in caring for those in need.

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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 Washington County

Working to raise, collect and distribute funds to assist 18 local health and human service agencies to provide basic needs to disadvantaged area residents.

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6
United Way of Eastern Oregon

To unite union & baker counties in supporting local non-profit agencies which provide human services for its residents.

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7
United Way of Washington County

Our mission is to unite people, resources and organizations to improve lives in washington county. the united way of washington county envisions a community where everyone achieves their human potential through education, financial…

Philanthropy
8
United Way of Grays Harbor

The mission of united way of grays harbor is to unite resources with people to build a healthier, stronger community. we bring together people and organizations with passion, expertise and resources to get things done. we take on…

Philanthropy
9
United Way of Anchorage

We unite caring people to give volunteer and take action to remove barriers to opportunities. Thats been our mission since we first started serving Alaska. It guides how we solve our communitys toughest challenges and is why weve been able…

Philanthropy
10
United Way of Marquette County

Focusing community resources to meet community needs the United Way of Marquette County works to advance the common good by connecting people with health and human care issues they are concerned about and to provide the oversight the…

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11
United Way of Waco-Mclennan County

United way of waco-mclennan county strengthens the community by mobilizing resources to measurably improve lives.

Philanthropy
12
United Way of Sumner County

To mobilize the caring power of our community to improve the quality of life in sumner county as a place to grow up, raise a family, work, achieve dreams, and grow older.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Washington; the most unlike its peers is Greater Seattle Business Association. 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

40 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. 40 of the 46 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
9/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $1,625,179 · OtherTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL WASHINGTON: $75,532 · Other+17 more: $219,425 · Other+17 moreUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY: $356,631 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTYUNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY INC: $236,227 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY INCUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $161,250 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTYUNITED WAY OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $99,406 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SNOHOMISH COUNTYUnited Way of Spokane County: $95,673 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Spokane CountyUNITED WAY OF BENTON & FRANKLIN COUNTIES: $89,826 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF BENTON & FRANKLIN COUNTIES+10 more: $205,297 · Philanthropy+10 moreWOMEN OF WISDOM WOW TRICITIES: $25,000 · Human ServicesThe Foundation WA: $6,500 · Human ServicesMI CENTRO: $6,500 · Human ServicesFREEDOM PROJECT: $8,000 · Crime & LegalLEVELED UP RE-ENTRY: $6,500 · Crime & LegalProgress House Association: $6,500 · Crime & LegalMILLENNIA MINISTRIES: $6,000 · Crime & LegalGreater Seattle Business Association: $13,500 · Community ImprovementBLACK HEALING FUND: $10,000 · Community ImprovementBLACK EDUCATION STRATEGY ROUNDTABLE: $8,350 · Civil RightsCOMMUNITY NETWORK COUNCIL: $8,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,920,136Philanthropy$1,244,310Human Services$38,000Crime & Legal$27,000Community Improvement$23,500Civil Rights$8,350Youth Development$8,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $1,625,179 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY: $356,631 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY INC: $236,227 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY: $161,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $99,406 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetUnited Way of Spokane County: $95,673 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BENTON & FRANKLIN COUNTIES: $89,826 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL WASHINGTON: $75,532 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MID-WILLAMETTE VALLEY: $61,318 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WHITMAN COUNTY: $36,047 over 1y, 21% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $34,706 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS: $32,860 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LANE COUNTY: $32,823 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Way of the Columbia-Willamette: $30,537 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN OF WISDOM WOW TRICITIES: $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WHATCOM COUNTY: $19,584 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THURSTON COUNTY: $15,467 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KITSAP COUNTY: $14,623 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGreater Seattle Business Association: $13,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUnited Way of Skagit County: $12,619 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBLACK HEALING FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetBLACK EDUCATION STRATEGY ROUNDTABLE: $8,350 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY NETWORK COUNCIL: $8,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFREEDOM PROJECT: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTABOR 100 INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWA THERAPY FUND FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST: $7,422 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $7,422 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Foundation WA: $6,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCJK COMMUNITY HOMES: $6,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLEVELED UP RE-ENTRY: $6,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMI CENTRO: $6,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetProgress House Association: $6,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMILLENNIA MINISTRIES: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Way of Mason County: $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTWIN COUNTY UNITED WAY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUnited Way of Grant County: $5,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LEWIS COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

Puget Sound Energy Fo…Seattle FoundationLumen Clarke M Willia…Kaiser Foundation Hea…Inatai FoundationGates FoundationUnited Way of the Col…Philanthropy NorthwestThe Norcliffe Foundat…United Way WorldwidePerigee FundUnited Way of King Co…
Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE30.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington · Inatai Foundation · Gates Foundation · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette · Philanthropy Northwest · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Perigee Fund · United Way of King County

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 Ways of the Pacific Northwest funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Ways of the Pacific Northwest. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • United Way of Lane County: 31% of income from government
  • United Way of the Columbia-Willamette: 25% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • United Way of Jackson County Inc: 11% of income from government
  • United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
17report 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 46 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home