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Washington Education Association

The mission of the WASHINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION is to advance the professional interests of its members in order to make public education the best it can be for students, staff, and communities.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$374k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Public Benefit$2.1MCivil Rights$1.9MEducation$389kEmployment$365kCommunity Improvement$353kPhilanthropy$128kReligion$50kFood & Nutrition$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $1,039,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,076,183 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $36,683 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $108k
  • $250k+3 grants · $924k
$40,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$48M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NO 2109-001$374,000
FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON$300,000
INVEST IN WASHINGTON NOW CAMPAIGN$250,000
DEFEND WASHINGTON$40,000
WASHINGTON COMMUNITY ALLIANCE ACTIO$25,000
WASHINGTON STATE LABOR COUNCIL$23,000
NORTHWEST ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT$20,000
URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTL$7,500
02The need
03

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 (FY17–21, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHILDREN OF THE VALLEY: $10k → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF SKAGIT COUNTY: $10k → 11%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $20k → 9%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $15k → 9%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $10k → 9%El Centro de la Raza: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.8M · 13 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
37

Total granted

$3.8M
$835k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+28%

Still filing today

62%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $747k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesArts & CulturePublic BenefitCivil RightsOther

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

  • WS
    WASHINGTON STATE LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO
    5× · 2018–2024 · $327k · revenue +19%
  • EO
    Economic Opportunity Institute
    4× · 2017–2023 · $60k · revenue +35%
  • EC
    EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA
    4× · 2017–2021 · $55k · revenue +125%

Funded once

  • SH
    Safe & Health Youth Washington
    one grant, 2020 · $150k
  • RU
    Raise Up Washington
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • TA
    THE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2018 · $55k · revenue -70%

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.

1
Washingtonians for Public Banking

Washingtonians for Public banking promotes education and civic engagement on public banking and banking reform within Washington state. The organization organizes, educates, and advocates for the establishment of public banking, and…

Community Improvement
2
Working Washington

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

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3
Washington Progress Fund

Washington Progress Fund is building a permanent and powerful social change movement in Washington state supported by a network of committed donors. WPF envisions a Washington state where government serves the public interest and we all…

Philanthropy
4
Washington Community Alliance

Washington Community Alliance WCA is a statewide network of over 70 organizations working to advance multiracial social democracy by coordinating values aligned civic engagement

Civil Rights
5
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
6
Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund

The Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund elects candidates, educates voters and decision-makers, and amplifies the voices and priorities of people and communities most impacted by housing instability and homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
7
Pacific Northwest Economic Region Foundation

To increase the economic well-being and quality of life for all citizens of the region; to coordinate provincial, territorial, and state policies throughout the region; to identify and promote "models of success and to serve as a conduit…

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8
Win Win Network

To build a civically powerful network working together to advance racial, social, and economic equity across Washington State.

Community Improvement
9
Futurewise

Futurewise works throughout Washington state to encourage healthy, equitable and opportunity-rich communities, and to protect our most valuable farmlands, forests and water resources through wise land use policies and practices.

Environment
10
Fuse Washington

To achieve progress through government,by the people, and for the people, in Washington state.

Environment
11
Washington Community Action Network

To achieve economic fairness in order to establish a more democratic society characterized by racial, social & gender justice, with respect for diversity, & a decent quality of life for those who reside in WA. We are building a movement of…

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12
Washington Student Association

Increasing postsecondary attainment and creating a more equitable system through state legislative advocacy.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington State Community Action Partnership and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr18%23%20–35yr14%27%35–55yr14%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr18%12%20–35yr14%13%35–55yr14%67%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
7%
4/56
the rest of the field
13%
3,921/30,339

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 56 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/42
Grantees still filing
22/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WEA-PAC — $1,850,000 · OtherWEA-PACInvest in Washington Now Campaign — $1,013,090 · OtherInvest in Washington Now CampaignNO ON 2109 COMMITEE — $374,000 · OtherNO ON 2109 COMMITEEWASHINGTON STATE LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO — $326,500 · OtherWASHINGTON STATE LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIOClass Size Counts — $209,500 · Other+34 more — $987,220 · Other+34 moreFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI — $300,000 · EducationGreen River College Foundation — $25,000 · EducationScholar Fund — $20,000 · Education+3 more — $27,500 · EducationEconomic Opportunity Institute — $60,000 · Community ImprovementWASHINGTON STATE COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP — $25,000 · Community ImprovementSound Alliance — $10,000 · Community ImprovementTECHNOLOGY ACCESS FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Community ImprovementEL CENTRO DE LA RAZA — $55,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF SKAGIT VALLEY — $10,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN OF THE VALLEY — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE WASHINGTON STATE BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER — $22,500 · Public BenefitONEAMERICA — $15,000 · Public BenefitSEATTLE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · PhilanthropyCARING FOR KIDS — $20,000 · Youth Development
Other$4,760,310Education$372,500Community Improvement$100,000Human Services$75,000Public Benefit$37,500Philanthropy$25,000Youth Development$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetInvest in Washington Now Campaign — $1,013,090 over 4y, 42% of budgetNO ON 2109 COMMITEE — $374,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO — $326,500 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI — $300,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSafe & Health Youth Washington — $150,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetNORTHWEST ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT — $95,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetEconomic Opportunity Institute — $60,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetEL CENTRO DE LA RAZA — $55,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNo Tax Cut for the Super Rich — $50,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetDefend Washington — $40,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBest Starts for Kids — $35,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetWashington Community Alliance Action Fund — $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGreen River College Foundation — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON STATE BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER — $22,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCARING FOR KIDS — $20,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetScholar Fund — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONEAMERICA — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKAGIT VALLEY NEIGHBORS IN NEED — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBalance Our Tax Code — $10,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSound Alliance — $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF SKAGIT VALLEY — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCLEARWATER SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE NEA FOUNDATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF SEATTLE KING COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetSUNRISE OUTREACH CENTER OF YAKIMA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN OF THE VALLEY — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSEATTLE OUT AND PROUD INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAIR & OPEN TESTING INC — $7,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS AT HOPE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTECHNOLOGY ACCESS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSEA MAR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON PUBLIC AFFAIRS NETWORK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Seattle FoundationInatai FoundationWashington Progress F…The Norcliffe Foundat…Washington Federation…Puget Sound Energy Fo…School's Out Washingt…Northwest Harvest EmmUnited Way of King Co…Service Employees Int…Washington Progress A…Stolte Family Foundat…
Seattle FoundationWA25.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Inatai Foundation · Washington Progress Fund · The Norcliffe Foundation · Washington Federation of State Employees · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · School's Out Washington · Northwest Harvest Emm · United Way of King County · Service Employees International Union Local 775 · Washington Progress Alliance · Stolte Family 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 Washington Education Association 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your 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
    11report 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, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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