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Volunteers of America Western Washington

We serve and empower individuals, families, and communities. We respond to over 200,000 comprehensive human service requests for assistance each year in the following service areas: basic needs, community information & referral, developmental disability, dispute resolution, emergency mental health, family and children, and housing…

$80M
Granted FY2023
17
Itemized grants FY2023
17
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$619k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$33,790
Largest grant, FY2023
$80,031
Organizations funded a year
15 to 17
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$57M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Volunteers of America Western Washington funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Community ImprovementFood & Nutrition
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202317$619k0%
FY202217$156k12%
FY202115$86k0%
FY202015$52k0%
FY201915$52kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Food & Nutrition$964k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lynnwood Food Bank$122,99471%
Marysville Community Food Bank$103,91872%
Edmonds Methodist Church$93,4187n/a
Stanwood-Camano Food Bank Services$91,31873%
Sky Valley Food Bank$83,55872%
Snohomish Community Food Bank$71,32672%
Lake Stevens Community Food Bank Association$59,47871%
Arlington Community Food Bank$50,96671%
The Salvation Army$46,6537n/a
Hope Creek Charitable Foundation$42,56624%
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All grantees of Volunteers of America Western Washington by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lynnwood Food Bank$122,99471%
Marysville Community Food Bank$103,91872%
Edmonds Methodist Church$93,4187n/a
Stanwood-Camano Food Bank Services$91,31873%
Sky Valley Food Bank$83,55872%
Snohomish Community Food Bank$71,32672%
Lake Stevens Community Food Bank Association$59,47871%
Arlington Community Food Bank$50,96671%
The Salvation Army$46,6537n/a
Hope Creek Charitable Foundation$42,56624%
Concern for Neighbors Food Bank$42,45373%
Maltby Food Bank$38,74172%
Christian Family of God Center and Food Bank$33,9407n/a
Stilly Valley Center$31,08271%
Mukilteo Food Bank$21,22679%
Westgate Chapel$21,1467n/a
Darrington Food Bank$9,61725%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Volunteers of America Western Washington supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLynnwood Food Bank: $122,994 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetMarysville Community Food Bank: $103,918 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetStanwood-Camano Food Bank Services: $91,318 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetSky Valley Food Bank: $83,558 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetSnohomish Community Food Bank: $71,326 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetLake Stevens Community Food Bank Association: $59,478 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetArlington Community Food Bank: $50,966 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetHope Creek Charitable Foundation: $42,566 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetConcern for Neighbors Food Bank: $42,453 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetMaltby Food Bank: $38,741 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetStilly Valley Center: $31,082 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetMukilteo Food Bank: $21,226 over 7y, 9.3% of budgetDarrington Food Bank: $9,617 over 2y, 5.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Food LifelineWA36.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Volunteers of America Western Washington

How much does Volunteers of America Western Washington give?
Volunteers of America Western Washington reported 17 itemized grants totaling $619,486, out of $80,481,551 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 17 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Volunteers of America Western Washington fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2023, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (100%).
Who are Volunteers of America Western Washington's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2023: Lynnwood Food Bank ($123k), Marysville Community Food Bank ($104k), Edmonds Methodist Church ($93k).
Does Volunteers of America Western Washington fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Volunteers of America Western Washington?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Food Lifeline, Northwest Harvest Emm, Community Foundation of Snohomish County.
Where is Volunteers of America Western Washington based?
Volunteers of America Western Washington is based in WA.

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 17 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 2023, released 2023. 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 $26M 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 FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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