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Vashonbeprepared
Disaster preparedness disaster response community education volunteer training
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $271,019 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $341,138 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $70,119 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 · FY2021
- Under $10k1 grant · $4k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $137k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VASHON INTERFAITH COUNCIL | $79,675 |
| VASHON MAURY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $50,100 |
| VASHON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES | $37,853 |
| VASHON ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT | $28,769 |
| VASHON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $21,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL VASHON | $18,000 |
| VASHON SENIOR CENTER | $17,622 |
| DOVE PROJECT | $14,000 |
| VASHON ISLAND GROWERS ASSN | $4,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $211k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
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 FY2021, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- VMVASHON MAURY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK2× · 2020–2021 · $119k · revenue +43%
- VIVASHON-MAURY ISLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE2× · 2020–2021 · $38k · revenue +80%
- VSVASHON-MAURY SENIOR CENTER2× · 2020–2021 · $32k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- VOVOICE OF VASHONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +28%
- VIVASHON-MAURY ISLAND HERITAGE ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +130%
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 develop affordable housing, improve housing conditions, and provide permanently affordable access to land, homes, and workplaces on vashon island for low and moderate income families and individuals, especially the disabled, the…
Enrich the aging process by providing services on vashon island in support of the mission of vashon island community care. develop a self-sustaining source of broad-based community funding for vashon lsland community care.
Creating transformative nature experiences through community science, research, and education for the benefit of our island home and the entire salish sea.
Home and assisted living center on vashon island, washington
The Vashon Island Chorale engages, enriches and unites our island community by providing opportunities for all people to participate in, learn about and enjoy fine choral music.
Disaster preparedness disaster response community education volunteer training
To conserve and care for vashon island's wild and working lands.
To reduce the use of alcoho and drugs amoung teens
The Foundation's primary purpose is to raise the funds necessary to sustain the excellence of Vashon Island School District's educational programs.
To solicit & coordinate financial support from the community for vashon island school district's graduating seniors who wished to continue their education and training.
Community theatre productions
The Vashon Parks Foundation preserves improves and promotes the Vashon Park Districts projects programs facilities and trails for the benefit of all existing and potential users through fundraising support and community outreach.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vashon Youth and Family Services and the most unlike its peers is The Dove Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
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 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 11 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 VASHON INTERFAITH COUNCIL TO PREVENT HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds VASHON MAURY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds VASHON-MAURY ISLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds VASHON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds VASHON-MAURY SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL O ↗
- Who funds THE DOVE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds VASHON ISLAND GROWERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VOICE OF VASHON ↗
- Who funds VASHON-MAURY ISLAND HERITAGE ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Health Center Volunteers · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Tch W & F Hendrix Fdn · The Royal Little Family Foundation · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Vashonbeprepared 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.
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.
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