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Vashonbeprepared

Disaster preparedness disaster response community education volunteer training

$341k
Granted FY2021
9
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Food & Nutrition$254kHousing & Shelter$149kCommunity Improvement$38kHealth$38kCrime & Legal$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kArts & Culture$1k
02FY2021 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $271,019, the rows itemized in this filing. The $341,138 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $70,119 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k1 grant · $4k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $137k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
$21,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$208k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%VASHON INTERFAITH COUNCIL: $80k → 9%VASHON INTERFAITH COUNCIL: $70k → 9%ST VINCENT DE PAUL VASHON: $18k → 9%VASHON SENIOR CENTER: $18k → 9%VASHON SENIOR CENTER: $15k → 9%ST VINCENT DE PAUL VASHON: $12k → 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$461k · 8 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$461k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+130%

Still filing today

88%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21
Human ServicesCrime & LegalFood & NutritionArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • VM
    VASHON MAURY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    2× · 2020–2021 · $119k · revenue +43%
  • VI
    VASHON-MAURY ISLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $38k · revenue +80%
  • VS
    VASHON-MAURY SENIOR CENTER
    2× · 2020–2021 · $32k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • VO
    VOICE OF VASHONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +28%
  • VI
    VASHON-MAURY ISLAND HERITAGE ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +130%
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
Vashon Household

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…

Housing & Shelter
2
Vashon Community Care Foundation

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.

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3
Vashon-Maury Island Nature Center

Creating transformative nature experiences through community science, research, and education for the benefit of our island home and the entire salish sea.

Environment
4
Vashon Island Community Care

Home and assisted living center on vashon island, washington

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5
Vashon Island Chorale

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.

Arts & Culture
6
VashonBePrepared

Disaster preparedness disaster response community education volunteer training

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Vashon-Maury Island Land Trust

To conserve and care for vashon island's wild and working lands.

Environment
8
Vashon Alliance to Reduce Substance Abuse - Varsa

To reduce the use of alcoho and drugs amoung teens

Education
9
Vashon Island Public Schools Foundation

The Foundation's primary purpose is to raise the funds necessary to sustain the excellence of Vashon Island School District's educational programs.

Education
10
Vashon Community Scholarship Fndn

To solicit & coordinate financial support from the community for vashon island school district's graduating seniors who wished to continue their education and training.

Education
11
Vashon Repertory Theatre

Community theatre productions

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12
Vashon Parks and Recreation Foundation

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.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vashon Youth and Family Services; 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.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 11 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VASHON MAURY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $118,819 · OtherVASHON MAURY COMMUNITY FOOD BANKVASHON ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT: $66,480 · OtherVASHON ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICTVASHON-MAURY ISLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $38,260 · OtherVASHON-MAURY ISLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE+1 more: $1,000 · OtherVASHON INTERFAITH COUNCIL TO PREVENT HOMELESSNESS: $149,225 · Human ServicesVASHON INTERFAITH COUNCIL TO PREVENT HOMELESSNE…VASHON-MAURY SENIOR CENTER: $32,447 · Human ServicesVASHON-MAURY SENIOR CENTERSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL O: $29,600 · Human ServicesSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OVASHON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $37,853 · HealthTHE DOVE PROJECT: $20,000 · Crime & LegalVASHON ISLAND GROWERS ASSOCIATION: $6,400 · Food & NutritionVOICE OF VASHON: $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$224,559Human Services$211,272Health$37,853Crime & Legal$20,000Food & Nutrition$6,400Arts & Culture$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVASHON INTERFAITH COUNCIL TO PREVENT HOMELESSNESS: $149,225 over 2y, 20% of budgetVASHON MAURY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $118,819 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetVASHON-MAURY ISLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $38,260 over 2y, 14% of budgetVASHON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $37,853 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetVASHON-MAURY SENIOR CENTER: $32,447 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL O: $29,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DOVE PROJECT: $20,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetVASHON ISLAND GROWERS ASSOCIATION: $6,400 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetVOICE OF VASHON: $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetVASHON-MAURY ISLAND HERITAGE ASSOCIATION: $1,000 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.

Health Center Volunte…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Seattle FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Tch W & F Hendrix FdnThe Royal Little Fami…Greater Tacoma Commun…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Health Center VolunteersWA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%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
    6report 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, FY20–24
    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.
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    How do I get to Vashonbeprepared?

    Find your warmest path to Vashonbeprepared through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 11 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $20k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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