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Workforce Development Council Snohomish County
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL SNOHOMISH COUNTY’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $4,285,957 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,144,157 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,858,200 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
- $10k–50k3 grants · $68k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $988k
- $250k+5 grants · $3.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAREER PATH SERVICES | $1,858,139 |
| COCOON HOUSE | $453,280 |
| PACIFIC ASSOCIATES | $363,855 |
| SNOHOMISH COUNTY | $293,464 |
| LATINO EDUCATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE | $261,717 |
| NW INNOVATION RESOURCE CENTER | $233,564 |
| SEATTLE JOBS INITIATIVE | $184,273 |
| TRAC ASSOCIATES INC | $168,119 |
| BUSINESS IMPACT NW | $147,700 |
| MILLENNIA MINISTRIES | $131,134 |
| REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES NORTHWEST | $122,713 |
| HOWELL CONSULTING | $25,499 |
| REFUGEE EMPOWERMENT HUB | $22,500 |
| SNOHOMISH COUNTY LABOR COUNCIL | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $731k 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
- CPCAREER PATH SERVICES EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING4× · 2022–2025 · $6.6M · revenue +80%
- RIREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT SERVICES NORTHWEST6× · 2020–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +196%
- VOVolunteers of America Western Washington3× · 2021–2023 · $889k · revenue +17%
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.
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.
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Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.1% lost their exemption, against 21% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 1,274 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 CAREER PATH SERVICES EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT SERVICES NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds COCOON HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HOUSING HOPE ↗
- Who funds Volunteers of America Western Washington ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE JOBS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST INNOVATION RESOURCE CTR ↗
- Who funds LATINO EDUCATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE ↗
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: Economic Alliance Snohomish County · The Whitehorse Foundation · Evertrust Foundation · Workforce Development Council Seattle-Ki · North Sound Accountable Community of Health · Ndc Housing & Economic Development Corporation - Group Return · United Way of Snohomish County · Community Foundation of Snohomish County · Ventures · Building Changes · Hubbard Family Foundation · Hazel Miller 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 Snohomish County 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.