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Visit Issaquah

Organized and operated exclusively to increase the tax revenue of the City of Issaquah by improving the business conditions for retail, meetings, hospitality, recreation, lodging, and activities, thereby alleviating fiscal and personnel burdens of the local government.

$25k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$42kRecreation & Sports$34kAnimals$17kCommunity Improvement$17kEnvironment$9k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$45k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Culture Tug$25,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MOUNTAINS TO SOUND GREENWAY TRUST: $9k → 9%EVERGREEN MOUNTAIN BIKE ALLIANCE: $9k → 9%Culture Tug: $25k → 9%COUGAR MOUNTAIN ZOO: $9k → 9%VILLAGE THEATRE: $9k → 9%ISSAQUAH HISTORY MUSEUMS: $9k → 9%DOWNTOWN ISSAQUAH ASSOCIATION: $9k → 9%FRIENDS OF ISSAQUAH SALMON HATCHERY: $9k → 9%ISSAQUAH ALPS TRAILS CLUB: $9k → 9%FRIENDS OF LAKE SAMMAMISH STATE PARK: $9k → 9%ISSAQUAH SOCCER CLUB: $9k → 9%GREATER ISSAQUAH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $9k → 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 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.

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Visit Issaquah

Organized and operated exclusively to increase the tax revenue of the City of Issaquah by improving the business conditions for retail, meetings, hospitality, recreation, lodging, and activities, thereby alleviating fiscal and personnel…

Public Benefit
2
Friends of Snoqualmie Valley Trail and River
Environment
3
Methow Valley Trails Collaborative

Enhancing sustainable trail experiences in the Methow Valley.

Environment
4
Lummi Island Heritage Trust

To create a legacy of abundant open space, native habitat, and natural resources on Lummi Island by inspiring people to protect and care for the island's farms, forests, wetlands, and shorelines forever.

Environment
5
On the Chisholm Trail Association
Philanthropy
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Issaquah Fc

Issaquah FC is focused on providing a fun and safe soccer environment for boys and girls, ages 5 through 18, to play the game and develop soccer skills. Issaquah FC operates in the geographic footprint of the Issaquah School District, and…

Recreation & Sports
7
Whatcom Land Trust

The mission of the Whatcom Land Trust is to preserve and protect wildlife habitat, scenic, agricultural and open space lands in Whatcom County for future generations by securing interests in land and promoting land stewardship.

Environment
8
Tahoma Bird Alliance

To protect birds and other wildlife through education habitat protection and environmental advocacy.

Environment
9
Stewardship Partners

Stewardship Partners helps private landowners restore and preserve the natural landscapes of WA State. We collaborate with diverse interest groups to build bridges and find solutions that achieve mutual goals of environmental protection,…

Environment
10
Visit Spokane

The mission of Visit Spokane is to help promote economic development for Spokane County through tourism and tourism promotion.

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Cascade Bicycle Club

Cascades mission is to improve lives through bicycling. We deliver community and school based education programs; work with policy makers to advocate for bicyclists and offer world class events & rides.

Recreation & Sports
12
South Sound Estuary Association

Environmental education with a marine/estuary focus to inspire people of all ages to protect Puget Sound. In 2025. 10,031 K-12 students and 79,363 adults took part in an environmental education opportunity focused on marine and estuary…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust; the most unlike its peers is Zoological Society of Washington. 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

11 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. 11 of the 12 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Culture Tug: $25,000 · OtherCulture TugGREATER ISSAQUAH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $8,500 · OtherGREATER ISSAQUAH CHAMBER OF COMMERCEIssaquah Alps Trails Club: $8,500 · OtherIssaquah Alps Trails ClubIssaquah History Museums: $8,500 · OtherIssaquah History MuseumsISSAQUAH SOCCER CLUB: $8,500 · OtherISSAQUAH SOCCER CLUBFRIENDS OF THE ISSAQUAH SALMON HATCHERY: $8,500 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF THE I…Zoological Society of Washington: $8,500 · AnimalsZoological Socie…Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance: $8,500 · EnvironmentEvergreen Mounta…The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust: $8,500 · EnvironmentThe Mountains to…Friends of Lake Sammamish State Park: $8,500 · Recreation & SportsVILLAGE THEATRE: $8,500 · Arts & CultureCOUNCIL FOR HISTORIC DOWNTOWN ISSAQUAH: $8,500 · Community Improvement
Other$59,000Animals$17,000Environment$17,000Recreation & Sports$8,500Arts & Culture$8,500Community Improvement$8,500

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 budgetGREATER ISSAQUAH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $8,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetIssaquah Alps Trails Club: $8,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetIssaquah History Museums: $8,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFriends of Lake Sammamish State Park: $8,500 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISSAQUAH SALMON HATCHERY: $8,500 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetISSAQUAH SOCCER CLUB: $8,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEvergreen Mountain Bike Alliance: $8,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust: $8,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVILLAGE THEATRE: $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZoological Society of Washington: $8,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR HISTORIC DOWNTOWN ISSAQUAH: $8,500 over 1y, 4.2% 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…Mightycause Charitabl…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…Morgan Stanley Global…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Visit Issaquah funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Visit Issaquah. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
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    How do I get to Visit Issaquah?

    Find your warmest path to Visit Issaquah 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 12 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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