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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $881,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $986,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $105,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
SEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF WA FOUNDATION$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL$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
ROOTS YOUNG ADULT SHELTER$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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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
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 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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4
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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6
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
7
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
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
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities accredits institutions of higher education by applying evidence-informed standards and processes to support continuous improvements and promote equitable student achievement and success.

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Washington Foundation; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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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
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 NETWORKWASHINGTON STATE PARKS DEPARTMENT: $35,000 · OtherWASHINGTON STATE…SOUTH PUGET SOUND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUND: $35,000 · OtherSOUTH PUGET SOUN…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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetPacific Lutheran University: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Washington State Employees Credit Union funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Washington State Employees Credit Union. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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