· Public charity
Washington Tourism Alliance
The sole purpose of the WASHINGTON TOURISM ALLIANCE is marketing washington to tourists.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k47 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k12 grants · $696k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VISIT ISSAQUAH | $82,000 |
| WASHINGTON FILMWORKS | $75,000 |
| ECONOMIC ALLIANCE OF LEWIS COUNTY | $65,000 |
| KITTITAS COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $61,000 |
| VISIT TRI CITIES | $60,000 |
| SUQUAMISH INDIAN TRIBE | $53,110 |
| CITY OF WESTPORT | $50,000 |
| CITY OF BINGEN | $50,000 |
| OLYMPIC PENINSULA VISITORS BUREAU | $50,000 |
| MAKE SHIFT ART SPACE | $50,000 |
| PORT ANGELES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $50,000 |
| VISITOR AND CONVENTION BUREAU OF THURSTON COUNTY | $50,000 |
| PORT GAMBLE S'KLALLAM FOUNDATION | $48,615 |
| WOODINVILLE WINE COUNTRY | $48,000 |
| CITY OF KENMORE | $46,800 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 62 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- VIVISIT ISSAQUAH2× · 2022–2024 · $90k · revenue +71% · 27% of their budget
- EAECONOMIC ALLIANCE OF LEWIS COUNTY2× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +98%
- CWCASCADE WINE COUNTRY DBA WOODINVILLE WINE COUNTRY2× · 2022–2024 · $58k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- CGCOLUMBIA GORGE TOURISM ALLIANCE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +32%
- CCCLALLAM COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICEone grant, 2023 · $20k
- CGCOLUMBIA GORGE TOURISM ALLIANCEone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -64% · 65% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of Visit Spokane is to help promote economic development for Spokane County through tourism and tourism promotion.
Serve the small business community and local development.
The mission and purpose of the skamania county chamber of commerce is to foster development of a healthy economic community through the support and promotion of businesses, chamber members and skamania county, washington as an exceptional…
Foster Growth in the Community
The mission of the tourism office is to help promote economic development for the City of Vancouver and Clark County through tourism promotion.
Develop tourism industry in bend,oregon
Enhancing sustainable trail experiences in the Methow Valley.
The Washington Museum Association was established to represent and serve museums of all types and sizes throughout Washington State
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…
Educate public about heritage of the olympic peninsula emphasizing timber industry and forestry
Discover Your Northwest promotes the discovery of northwest public lands, enriches the experience of visitors and builds community stewardship of these special places today and for generations to come.
Promote tourism/economic development
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bellinghamwhatcom County Tourism and the most unlike its peers is Sky Valley Chamber of Commerce. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
64 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. 64 of the 86 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds VISIT ISSAQUAH ↗
- Who funds Washington Filmworks ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC ALLIANCE OF LEWIS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KITTITAS COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds TRI-CITIES VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU ↗
- Who funds CASCADE WINE COUNTRY DBA WOODINVILLE WINE COUNTRY ↗
- Who funds OLYMPIC PENINSULA VISITOR BUREAU ↗
- Who funds VISITORS AND CONVENTION BUREAU OF THURSTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Makeshift ↗
- Who funds Port Angeles Reg Chamber of Commerc ↗
- Who funds PORT GAMBLE S'KLALLAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE OF SKAGIT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ORGANIC FARM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BELLINGHAMWHATCOM COUNTY TOURISM ↗
- Who funds The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust ↗
- Who funds GRAND COULEE DAM AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC COUNTY TOURISM BUREAU ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA GORGE TOURISM ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds GREATER GRAYS HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds SNOQUALMIE VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds Wenatchee Valley Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds MOUNT ADAMS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds Spark Museum of Electrical Invention ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA GORGE TOURISM ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Methow Valley Sports Trail Association ↗
- Who funds Kittitas Environmental Education NETwork ↗
- Who funds Greater Seattle Business Association ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Artsfund · Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs · Seattle Foundation · Washington State Microenterprise Association · Whatcom Community Foundation · North Sound Accountable Community of Health · Inatai Foundation · First Nations Development Institute · The Norcliffe Foundation · Humanities Washington · The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation · First Fed 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 Tourism Alliance 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.
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.