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WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
Workforce snohomish invests government and private funding to continuously increase the global competitiveness and prosperity of our businesses and workforce, to fill current and emerging jobs, and to provide full employment.
$5.1M
Granted FY2023
20
Grants
2
Communities
$2.2M
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 91% of WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL’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
2020
socialhealtheascgrowth
2021
cares actact responseeascgrowth
2022
cares actact response
2023
empower
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 20 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $167k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $776k
- $250k+5 grants · $4.1M
$98,030
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
- CAREER PATH SERVICES$2,207,625
- VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA$667,268
- PACIFIC ASSOCIATES$531,954
- COCOON HOUSE$417,958
- SNOHOMISH COUNTY$252,241
- TERRA SERVICES INC$186,800
- SEATTLE JOBS INITIATIVE$140,967
- REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES NORTHWEST$131,588
- HOWELL CONSULTING$123,119
- HOUSING HOPE$98,030
- EDMONDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE$95,939
- ACCESS LASER COMPANY$30,122
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY$28,325
- POINT ECHO SOLUTIONS$26,947
- SOUNDAIR REPAIR GROUP LLC$23,640
02The need
04
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 (FY20–20, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
26%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 13 repeat orgs$34M to everyone else
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
13
1223
Total granted
$12M
$33M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+16%
+43%
Still filing today
54%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EmploymentHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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
- CPCAREER PATH SERVICES2× · 2022–2023 · $2.2M · revenue +16%
- RIREFUGEE IMMIGRANT SERVICES4× · 2020–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +252%
- VOVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA3× · 2021–2023 · $889k · revenue +488%
Funded once
- PAPROPELLER AIRPORTS PAINE FIELD LLCone grant, 2021 · $1.0M
- ETEXOTIC TOOL WELDINGone grant, 2021 · $832k
- GMGLOBAL MACHINE WORKS INCone grant, 2021 · $832k
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
Washington Vocational Services
Dedicated to successful community placement for persons with disabilities.
Employment
2
Workforce Development Council
Workforce snohomish invests government and private funding to continuously increase the global competitiveness and prosperity of our businesses and workforce, to fill current and emerging jobs, and to provide full employment. our…
Education
3
Snohomish County-Camano Association of
Enhance members' abilities to conduct their business with integrity and competency.
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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
Snoqualmie Valley Food Bank
We are dedicated to providing food assistance to low income individuals to help our neighbors and community thrive.
Food & Nutrition
6
Greater Spokane Valley Chamber
Committed to fostering relationships between members and the community. to serve the interest of members by acting as a catalyst for a vibrant sustainable economy.
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7
United Way of Snohomish County
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
Philanthropy
8
Southwest Washington Workforce
Workforce development
Philanthropy
9
Nourish Pierce County
To provide food to individuals in need with compassion, dignity and respect. No one needing assistance is turned away.
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10
Spokane Helpers Network
Human Services
11
Economic Alliance Snohomish County
Foster job development, education, and training in snohomish county.
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12
Innovative Services Nw
Providing an array of services that meet the needs of disabled and other vulnerable populations.
Employment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Housing Hope and the most unlike its peers is Snohomish County Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul. 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
17 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$42,643,376Employment$2,474,722Housing & Shelter$1,518,521Human Services$76,180Education$30,480Philanthropy$28,325Community Improvement$24,873Arts & Culture$10,000
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.
Economic Alliance Snohomish CountyWA28.3× affinity20 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Economic Alliance Snohomish County · Evertrust Foundation · The Whitehorse Foundation · North Sound Accountable Community Of · Ndc Housing & Economic Development · Seattle-King County Workforce · United Way of Snohomish County · Community Foundation of Snohomish County · Building Changes · Providence Health & Services - · Medina Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington
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 WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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: MARYSVILLE COOPERATIVE PRESCHOOL.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 371484657 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 MARYSVILLE COOPERATIVE PRESCHOOL, 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
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 28% of their budget — diversified.
- 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 Workforce Development Council?
Find your warmest path to Workforce Development Council 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