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· Public charity
WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF
To lead collaboration among law enforcement executives to enhance public safety.
$18M
Granted FY2024
169
Grants
1
Communities
$2.4M
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 94% of WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
firearm transactiongang databasepolicesheriffs officeresponse teamsheriff's officesafe neighborhood
2019
firearm investigationprevention authoritymanagement reviewresponse teamsfield responsesafe neighborhoods
2020
firearm transactionssex offenderoffender addresssheriffs officealternatives federalresponse teamskent
2021
verification trafficnotification trafficresponse trafficlegislative directedtraffic waspctraffic addressnotification waspc
2022
force dutyduty interveneintervene trainingfield respnserespnse teamswellness behavioralbehavioral health
2023
force dutyduty interveneintervene trainingtraffic equipmentteam truebloodofficer wellnessbicycle helmet
2024
traffic suppliesbody wornworn camerasex offenderoffender addressteams truebloodfirearm purchase
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 169 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k58 grants · $244k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $970k
- $50k–250k53 grants · $5.7M
- $250k+19 grants · $11M
$31,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
- SPOKANE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE$2,437,617
- CITY OF FEDERAL WAY$1,209,081
- OLYMPIC PENINSULA COMMUNITY CLINC$905,907
- CONQUER ADDICTION PLLC$741,517
- CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON$643,922
- CITY OF AIRWAY HEIGHTS$640,329
- KING COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE$598,006
- SNOHOMISH CO SHERIFF'S OFFICE$541,620
- BLUE MOUNTAIN HEART TO HEART$480,682
- PIERCE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE$411,048
- CITY OF AUBURN$318,527
- KITSAP COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE$317,404
- SPOKANE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE$310,659
- CITY OF KIRKLAND$306,623
- SNOHOMISH CO SHERIFF'S OFFICE$301,638
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 9%. 92% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$96M · 128 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +242% since the first grant, against +67% for the ones you funded once.
128 repeat relationships — 92 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
128
84
Total granted
$96M
$1.6M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+242%
+67%
Still filing today
5%
5%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $209k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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
- OPOLYMPIC PENINSULA COMMUNITY CLINIC4× · 2021–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +430% · 27% of their budget
- CCCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON4× · 2021–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +71%
- CHCOMPREHENSIVE HEALTHCARE4× · 2020–2023 · $952k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- CPCOMMUNITY PASSAGEWAYSgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $184k · revenue +6894%
- WSWASHINGTON STATE PATROLone grant, 2019 · $106k
- PHPIONEER HUMAN SERVICESone grant, 2021 · $96k · revenue +24%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Therapeutic Health Services
Provide services to substance abusers and culturally relevant mental health services.
Health
2
Community Wellness Collective
mental health, drug abuse support
Health
3
The Center for Community Transitions
CCT strengthens our community by helping people with criminal records find a healthier and more productive way of living. Our work provides employment and transition services: supports alternatives to incarceration: and restores and…
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4
Community Health Center of
To provide our diverse community with access to high quality, affordable primary health care
Health
5
Healthy Community Forum for Sacramento
Healthy Community Forum for the Greater Sacramento Region operates under the name Community HealthWorks (formally Sacramento Covered), a not-for-profit philanthropic organization, is an innovative leader in developing and implementing a…
Health
6
Kitsap Mental Health Services
Kitsap Mental Health Services is a community mental health center that provides recovery-focused, comprehensive mental and behavioral health care services to children,
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Northwest Community Health Care
The organization is a federally qualified health center that provides primary medical, dental, behavioral health, pharmacy and related patient support services to more than 18,000 individuals regardless of ability to pay.
Health
8
Northwest Counseling Service Inc
Housing Counseling Services
Housing & Shelter
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Recovery Cafe Skagit
Provide a safe, healing, and restorative community that empowers long-term transformation
Education
10
Pathways Counseling Center Inc
Community Mental Health, Drug Abuse and Alcoholism Services.
Education
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Project Access Northwest
Project Access Northwest provides low-income families access to medical, dental and Behavioral Health care so they can live a healthier and more productive life.
Health
12
We Heart Seattle
We Heart Seattle is an action-based, boots-on-the-ground movement that organizes trash cleanups in our public spaces and offers resources to those in need. Through our direct civic engagement we lead the way to a more compassionate and…
Community Improvement
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pioneer Human Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cultures United. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$91,976,029Health$3,544,138Human Services$1,899,833Youth Development$183,616
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.
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.
North Sound Accountable Community OfWA33.2× affinity15 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: North Sound Accountable Community Of · Better Health Together · Inatai Foundation · National Recreation and Park Association · Delta Dental of Washington · Blue Mountain Community Foundation · Southwest Washington Regional Health · Washington Tourism Alliance · Greater Columbia Accountable Community · Center for Technology and Civic Life · Whatcom Community Foundation · Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc
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 organisation WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: GATEWAY TO FREEDOM.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 2 filed years.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
2 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.4× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 384092006 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on GATEWAY TO FREEDOM, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 55% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Washington Association Of?
Find your warmest path to Washington Association Of through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines