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Washington State Employees Credit Union

To provide services to members which are mandated in the credit union act to charters and to provide a means whereby members can provide each other with needed financial services.

$986k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your 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.

Education$483kArts & Culture$250kRecreation & Sports$35kInternational$30kCommunity Improvement$30kPublic Benefit$25kFood & Nutrition$18kPhilanthropy$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 18 grants below total $881,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $986,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $105,000 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–50k12 grants · $263k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $361k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HANDS OF CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$250,000
UNIVERSITY OF WA FOUNDATION$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL$100,000
SEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION$100,000
EASTERN WA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$60,500
WA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION$35,000
SPSCC FOUNDATION$35,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT$30,000
PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY$30,000
TVW$25,000
THE BREAKFAST GROUP$25,000
OFFICE OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT$20,000
SECOND HARVEST$18,000
UNITED WAY OF THURSTON COUNTY$15,000
PEACE WORKS UNITED$10,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $100k → 9%HANDS OF CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $250k → 9%PEACE WORKS UNITED: $10k → 9%SECOND HARVEST: $18k → 12%THE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%WA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $35k → 9%SAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY: $15k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WA FOUNDATION: $100k → 9%EASTERN WA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $61k → 12%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $30k → 9%UNITED WAY OF THURSTON COUNTY: $15k → 9%LAUNCH STUDENT SUCCESS: $8k → 9%ROOTS YOUNG ADULT SHELTER: $10k → 9%TVW: $25k → 9%PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $30k → 9%THE BREAKFAST GROUP: $25k → 9%THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL: $100k → 9%SPSCC FOUNDATION: $35k → 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 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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Seattle University

Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.

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2
Washington State University Foundation

The mission of the Foundation is to promote, accept, and maximize private support for programs, initiatives, and properties of Washington State University and its regional campuses. The Foundation also prudently manages, invests, and…

Education
3
Seattle Pacific University

Seattle pacific university is a christian university fully committed to engaging the culture and changing the world by graduating people of competence and character, becoming people of wisdom, and modeling grace-filled community.

Education
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Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
5
Central Washington University Foundation

In partnership with cwu and our donors, our mission is to transform the lives of current and future generations of students by developing and stewarding resources that provide access, opportunity, and hope.

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Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Seattle Chapter

Arcs foundation advances science and technology in the united states by providing financial awards to academically outstanding u.s. citizens studying to complete degrees in science, engineering and medical research.

Education
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City University of Seattle

See schedule ofounded in 1973, city university of seattle's mission is to change lives for good by offering high quality and relevant lifelong education to anyone with the desire to learn. city university's vision is to provide underserved…

Education
8
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences

Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences educates and trains health care professionals emphasizing service among rural and medically under-served communities throughout the Northwest.

Education
9
Independent Colleges of Washington

Independent colleges of washington is the leading advocate for not-for-profit, private campuses in washington state.

Education
10
Portland State University Foundation

Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.

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11
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
12
Bellevue College Foundation

Bellevue college foundation brings together people and resources across the community to invest in bc students, faculty, and staff to realize their goals and dreams.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Washington Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Breakfast Group. 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

14 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. 14 of the 19 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.

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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
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $200,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATIONSEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EducationSEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATIONEastern Washington University Foundation — $60,500 · EducationEastern Washington University FoundationPacific Lutheran University — $30,000 · EducationPacific Lutheran UniversitySAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY — $14,500 · Education+1 more — $10,000 · EducationHANDS ON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $250,000 · Arts & CultureHANDS ON CHILDREN'S MUSEUMWASHINGTON PUBLIC AFFAIRS NETWORK — $25,000 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON PUBLIC AFFAIRS NETWORKSOUTH PUGET SOUND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUND — $35,000 · OtherSOUTH PUGET SOUN…WASHINGTON STATE PARKS DEPARTMENT — $35,000 · OtherWASHINGTON STATE…The Breakfast Group — $25,000 · OtherThe Breakfast Gr…UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON — $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WA…PEACE WORKS UNITED INC — $10,000 · OtherPEACE WORKS UNIT…LAUNCH STUDENT SUCCESS — $7,500 · OtherLAUNCH STUDENT S…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON — $30,000 · InternationalSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST — $18,000 · Food & NutritionUNITED WAY OF THURSTON COUNTY — $15,000 · PhilanthropyROOTS YOUNG ADULT SHELTER — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $5,400 · Health
Education$415,000Arts & Culture$275,000Other$132,500International$30,000Food & Nutrition$18,000Philanthropy$15,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Health$5,400

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 budgetHANDS ON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $250,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetEastern Washington University Foundation — $60,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON — $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPacific Lutheran University — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON PUBLIC AFFAIRS NETWORK — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Breakfast Group — $25,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST — $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THURSTON COUNTY — $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY — $14,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROOTS YOUNG ADULT SHELTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $5,400 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.

Credit Unions in the …Seattle FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…Multicare Health Syst…The Community Foundat…Medina FoundationTides FoundationBaird Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings F…Morgan Stanley Global…Verizon FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …
Credit Unions in the State of WashingtonWA19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Multicare Health System · The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound · Medina Foundation · Tides Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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 State Employees Credit Union 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.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    5report 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 19 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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