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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.

$23M
Granted FY2025still arriving
105
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$4.7M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Employment$110MRecreation & Sports$2.5MCommunity Improvement$888kYouth Development$460kEducation$397kHousing & Shelter$366kHuman Services$184kCivil Rights$124kOther$0
02FY2025 · 105 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 105 grants below total $21,358,217, the rows itemized in this filing. The $22,501,640 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,143,423 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k35 grants · $226k
  • $10k–50k43 grants · $833k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+10 grants · $19M
$15,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEIGBORHOOD HOUSE: $2.2M → 9%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $2.1M → 9%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $1.4M → 9%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $905k → 9%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $451k → 9%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $253k → 9%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $194k → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING & REFERRAL: $192k → 9%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $175k → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING & REFERRAL: $165k → 9%El Centro De La Raza: $80k → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING & REFERRAL: $16k → 9%ERITREAN ASSOCIATION: $15k → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICES: $1.9M → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING & REFERRAL SERVICE: $1.5M → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING & REFERRAL SERVICE: $1.2M → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING & REFERRAL SERVICE: $1.1M → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING & REFERRAL SERVICE: $594k → 9%PUGET SOUND INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTER: $49k → 9%Pioneer Human Services: $100k → 9%Pioneer Human Services: $25k → 9%THE ORGANIZATION FOR PROSTITUTION SURVIVORS: $197k → 9%YWCA OF SEATTLE KING SNOHOMISH: $2.6M → 9%YWCA: $2.4M → 9%YWCA: $1.3M → 9%YWCA: $1.3M → 9%YWCA: $724k → 9%YWCA: $376k → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING & REFERRAL SERVICE: $262k → 9%YWCA: $195k → 9%THE ORGANIZATION FOR PROSTITUTION SURVIVORS: $55k → 9%YWCA: $64k → 9%YWCA: $48k → 9%THE ORGANIZATION FOR PROSTITUTION SURVIVORS: $42k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $49k → 9%KHMER COMMUNITY OF SEATTLEKING COUNTY: $51k → 9%FILIPINO COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE: $135k → 9%HORN OF AFRICA SERVICES: $51k → 9%Neighborhood House: $933k → 9%EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $48k → 9%Neighborhood House: $915k → 9%Neighborhood House: $753k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $269k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $99k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $72k → 9%CHINESE INFORMATION AND SERVICE CENTER: $58k → 9%Youthcare: $168k → 9%Youthcare: $74k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MN
IL
NY
MA
CA
MO
VA
MD
DC
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$109M · 71 repeat orgs$6.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
57

Total granted

$109M
$4.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+6%

Still filing today

51%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationEmploymentCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NH
    Neighborhood House INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9.9M · revenue +84%
  • AC
    ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $7.1M · revenue +93%
  • WD
    WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL SEATTLE-KI
    3× · 2021–2023 · $3.5M · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • KC
    KING COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES
    one grant, 2020 · $1.3M
  • UL
    URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE
    one grant, 2024 · $441k
  • BA
    Boys and Girls club
    one grant, 2019 · $316k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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.

1
Community Credit Lab

To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.

Human Services
2
Working Washington

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…

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3
Pathwaves Washington

Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.

Education
4
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

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…

Education
5
Seattle Economic Development Fund Business Impact Nw

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.

Community Improvement
6
Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission

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…

Human Services
7
Spokane Area Workforce Development Council

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.

Community Improvement
8
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

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,…

Employment
9
Economic Opportunity Institute

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.

Community Improvement
10
Washington Community Action Network

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…

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11
Bike Works Seattle

Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.

Recreation & Sports
12
Washington African American Chamber of Commerce

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Womens Christian Association of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County; 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.
04the grantee network

84 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 84 of the 207 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/84
Grantees still filing
55/84
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRAC ASSOCIATES: $27,819,583 · OtherTRAC ASSOCIATESPACIFIC ASSOCIATES: $11,878,533 · OtherPACIFIC ASSOCIATESSEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $8,142,929 · OtherSEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARYIndividual grant recipient: $7,016,064 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKING COUNTY EMPLOYMENT & EDUCATION RESOURCES: $3,100,500 · Other+140 more: $17,199,356 · Other+140 moreNeighborhood House INC: $9,898,129 · Human ServicesNeighborhood House INCYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $9,013,161 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSO…ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $7,083,285 · Human ServicesASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERR…+19 more: $2,269,230 · Human Services+19 moreWORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL SEATTLE-KI: $3,517,569 · EmploymentSEATTLE JOBS INITIATIVE: $1,650,078 · EmploymentCAREER PATH SERVICES EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING: $1,185,253 · Employment+7 more: $843,095 · EmploymentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY: $2,509,587 · Recreation & SportsPARTNER IN EMPLOYMENT: $445,505 · EducationINTERCONNECTION: $234,750 · EducationKD HALL FOUNDATION: $148,588 · EducationHIGHLINE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $106,944 · EducationTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF WASHINGTON: $67,500 · EducationACE ACADEMY: $64,999 · EducationCASA LATINA: $48,770 · Education+8 more: $149,409 · EducationCOMMUNITY PASSAGEWAYS: $413,191 · Youth DevelopmentBUILD 2 LEAD: $128,388 · Youth DevelopmentCHOOSE 180: $20,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $21,500 · Youth DevelopmentWELD SEATTLE: $361,733 · Crime & LegalSAFEFUTURES YOUTH CENTER: $192,485 · Crime & Legal
Other$75,156,965Human Services$28,263,805Employment$7,195,995Recreation & Sports$2,509,587Education$1,266,465Youth Development$583,079Crime & Legal$554,218

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetNeighborhood House INC: $9,898,129 over 9y, 5.6% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $9,013,161 over 9y, 4.9% of budgetASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $7,083,285 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetWORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL SEATTLE-KI: $3,517,569 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY: $2,509,587 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetEVERGREEN GOODWILL OF NORTHWEST WASHINGTON: $1,679,679 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSEATTLE JOBS INITIATIVE: $1,650,078 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetCAREER PATH SERVICES EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING: $1,185,253 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE: $998,920 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetEL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $448,997 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPARTNER IN EMPLOYMENT: $445,505 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetCHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $440,101 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY PASSAGEWAYS: $413,191 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetWELD SEATTLE: $361,733 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetORGANIZATION FOR PROSTITUTION SURVIVORS: $293,523 over 3y, 17% of budgetYOUTHCARE: $241,944 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetINTERCONNECTION: $234,750 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetFARESTART: $198,755 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSAFEFUTURES YOUTH CENTER: $192,485 over 2y, 12% of budgetWASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS: $182,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetORION INDUSTRIES: $179,713 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJUMA VENTURES INC: $170,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSeattle Good Business Network DBA Good Business Network of Washington: $157,149 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetThe Imagine Institute: $150,632 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOFFICE OF PORT JOB OPPORTUNITIES AND BUSINESS SUPPORT: $148,450 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetPro-Equity Anti-Racism Institute: $131,339 over 3y, 93% of budgetBUILD 2 LEAD: $128,388 over 4y, 13% of budgetPIONEER HUMAN SERVICES INC: $124,547 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHLINE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $106,944 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $96,930 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAEROSPACE MACHINISTS JOINT TRAINING COMM: $92,875 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSKILLS INC: $90,518 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAINIER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND: $81,834 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWASHINGTON ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH: $74,346 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetChinese Information and Service Center: $69,800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF WASHINGTON: $67,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetHORN OF AFRICA SERVICES: $63,079 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $62,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPuget Sound OIC dba Puget Sound Training Center: $61,369 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetSOUND GENERATIONS: $61,021 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKHMER COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE KING COUNTY: $50,550 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetHIGHLINE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE: $50,377 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNorthwest Energy Efficiency Council: $50,219 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCASA LATINA: $48,770 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetEast African Community Services: $47,904 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUW PHYSICIANS NETWORK: $40,339 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC: $33,761 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON WORKFORCE ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 7.6% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

United Way of King Co…Seattle FoundationSchool's Out Washingt…Credit Unions in the …The Norcliffe Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Kaiser Foundation Hea…Medina FoundationInatai FoundationLucky Seven FoundationNorthwest Harvest EmmSheng-Yen Lu Foundati…
United Way of King CountyWA78× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Workforce Development Council Seattle-Ki funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Workforce Development Council Seattle-Ki. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
  • Economic Mobility Pathways Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
47report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 207 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home