· Public charity
Workforce Development Council Seattle-Ki
The workforce development council of seattle king county (wdc) is a nonprofit organization driving regional strategies to create an equitable, inclusive and resilient workforce system.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 105 grants below total $21,358,217 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $22,501,640 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,143,423 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $226k
- $10k–50k43 grants · $833k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+10 grants · $19M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRAC ASSOCIATES | $4,664,939 |
| PACIFIC ASSOCIATES | $3,328,978 |
| YWCA OF SEATTLE KING SNOHOMISH | $2,575,037 |
| NEIGBORHOOD HOUSE | $2,206,831 |
| ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICES | $1,939,482 |
| KING COUNTY EMPLOYMENT & EDUCATION RESOURCES | $1,550,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF KING COUNTY | $711,134 |
| CAREER PATH SERVICES | $614,020 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE | $569,017 |
| EMPLOYMENT SECURITY DEPARTHR DEPT | $366,780 |
| EVERGREEN GOODWILL | $249,208 |
| TABOR 100 | $177,000 |
| IMAGINE INSTITUTE | $150,632 |
| FILIPINO COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE | $135,000 |
| WETRAIN | $117,497 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $28.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +31% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
71 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 78 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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
- NHNeighborhood House INC9× · 2017–2025 · $9.9M · revenue +84%
- ACASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE9× · 2017–2025 · $7.1M · revenue +93%
- WDWORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL SEATTLE-KI3× · 2021–2023 · $3.5M · revenue +99%
Funded once
- KCKING COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICESone grant, 2020 · $1.3M
- ULURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLEone grant, 2024 · $441k
- BABoys and Girls clubone grant, 2019 · $316k
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.
To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.
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…
Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.
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…
To provide economic development financing to serve the needs of small businesses in the state of washington that would not qualify for private financing under conventional financing criteria.
Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission is led by and for Indigenous people, and envisions a just society in which we are treated with honor, fairness and respect. Our mission is to uphold our individual civil rights through education…
The SWC mobilizes partnerships, data-driven innovation,and strategic investment to build an equitable workforce ecosystem where every individual can access opportunity, every business can find talent, and every community can thrive.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Equip the public and public decision-makers with the policy research and practical tools they need to embed the values of fairness, care, and opportunity into the foundations of Washington's economy.
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…
Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.
WAACOC nonprofit organization focuses on promoting economic development by providing crucial business development and technical assistance services. Through strategic partnerships and targeted programs we support entrepreneurs and small…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Womens Christian Association of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County and the most unlike its peers is Pro-Equity Anti-Racism Institute. 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 23 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 16% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
83 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. 83 of the 207 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Neighborhood House INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE ↗
- Who funds WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL SEATTLE-KI ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN GOODWILL OF NORTHWEST WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE JOBS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds CAREER PATH SERVICES EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA ↗
- Who funds PARTNER IN EMPLOYMENT ↗
- Who funds CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PASSAGEWAYS ↗
- Who funds WELD SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZATION FOR PROSTITUTION SURVIVORS ↗
- Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
- Who funds INTERCONNECTION ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
- Who funds SAFEFUTURES YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS ↗
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: United Way of King County · Seattle Foundation · School's Out Washington · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington · Medina Foundation · Inatai Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Northwest Harvest Emm · Sheng-Yen Lu 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 Workforce Development Council Seattle-Ki 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
- Economic Mobility Pathways Inc — 6% of income from government
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.