· Public charity
Volunteers of America Western Washington
We serve and empower individuals, families, and communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $619,486 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $80,481,551 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $79,862,065 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $349k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $262k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lynnwood Food Bank | $80,031 |
| Edmonds Food Bank | $60,821 |
| Marysville Food Bank | $60,821 |
| Stanwood Food Bank | $60,821 |
| Snohomish Food Bank | $49,950 |
| Monroe Food Bank | $44,661 |
| Lake Stevens Food Bank | $40,547 |
| Arlington Food Bank | $33,790 |
| Mill Creek Community Food Bank | $33,790 |
| Stillaguamish Senior | $27,227 |
| Salvation Army | $27,032 |
| Concern for Neighbors | $27,032 |
| Granite Falls Food Bank | $20,274 |
| Maltby Food Bank | $17,875 |
| Mukilteo Food Bank | $13,516 |
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 (FY19–23, $82k) 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.
17 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MCMARYSVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK7× · 2017–2023 · $104k · revenue +84%
- SFSTANWOOD-CAMANO FOOD BANK SERVICES7× · 2017–2023 · $91k · revenue +87%
- SCSNOHOMISH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK7× · 2017–2023 · $71k · revenue +29%
Funded once
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.
Increase sustainable food security in South Corvallis by providing emergency food and supplies.
The mission of Lake Chelan Food Bank is to treat each person we serve with dignity and respect and to provide balanced and varied options that give each person the liberty to meet the specific food needs for themsevles and/or their family.
Providing nutritious food to low income families and individuals in south clatsop county
The Foothills Food Bank works to ensure access to quality, nutritious food to community members in need, and deliver services with respect and dignity.
Our mission is to provide food and key resources to help our neighbors and community thrive. we lead the effort to feed, educated and advocate ending hunger in the snoqualmie valley and beyond.
Our mission is to provide a variety of food products to families and individuals who are in need. We are open one day a week.
Food distribution to needy individuals and families.
Provide food and other necessities to asotin county residents in need.
To fight hunger and poverty by providing food, education, programs and resources to families in a dignified, personal and expeditious manner directly as a food pantry and as a food bank; without zip code restrictions.
To provide food to the needy residents of Dickenson County Virginia
Provide food to local needy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stanwood-Camano Food Bank Services and the most unlike its peers is Hope Creek Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 17 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 LYNNWOOD FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MARYSVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds STANWOOD-CAMANO FOOD BANK SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SKY VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SNOHOMISH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LAKE STEVENS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HOPE CREEK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONCERN FOR NEIGHBORS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MALTBY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds STILLY VALLEY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Mukilteo Food Bank ↗
- Who funds DARRINGTON FOOD BANK ↗
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: Food Lifeline · Northwest Harvest Emm · Community Foundation of Snohomish County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · The Norcliffe Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · EastWest Food Rescue · Windermere Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Enterprise Holdings 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 Volunteers of America Western Washington 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.