How much does Yakima Valley Community Foundation give?

Yakima Valley Community Foundation reported 43 itemized grants totaling $2,860,291, out of $3,093,468 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 64 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Yakima Valley Community Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (33%), Health (17%), Human Services (7%).

Who are Yakima Valley Community Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Yakima Rotary Trust ($6.0M), University of Washington Foundation ($1.7M), Yakima Rotary Charities ($1.4M).

Does Yakima Valley Community Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Yakima Valley Community Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Central Washington, Inatai Foundation, Seattle Foundation.

Where is Yakima Valley Community Foundation based?

Yakima Valley Community Foundation is based in WA.

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Yakima Valley Community Foundation

Our work is focused on equity in education, health, and civic engagement. We address complex conditions and systems, and provide opportunities for those who have been historically and frequently overlooked and left behind. Our role is to guide strategic investments, provide community leadership, and grant to organizations for tangible…

$3.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 43
Itemized grants FY2024: 39
Organizations funded FY2023: 33%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $2.9M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $24,572
Largest grant, FY2024: $997,577
Organizations funded a year: 39 to 64; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $87M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Yakima Valley Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $827k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	41	$2.9M	29%
FY2023	39	$2.7M	33%
FY2022	53	$2.5M	25%
FY2021	64	$4.4M	34%
FY2020	63	$5.6M	44%
FY2019	58	$3.6M	34%
FY2018	53	$3.0M	36%
FY2017	48	$2.2M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$8.8MHealth$4.6MHuman Services$2.0MFood & Nutrition$1.8MHousing & Shelter$1.7MCommunity Improvement$1.5MPhilanthropy$1.5MRecreation & Sports$1.2MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Yakima Rotary Trust	$5,998,131	7	82%
University of Washington Foundation	$1,749,750	8	0%
Yakima Rotary Charities	$1,375,077	5	32%
The Memorial Foundation	$1,177,868	8	6%
Northwest Harvest Emm	$1,036,880	3	1%
International Scholarship and Tuition Services Inc	$833,500	1	n/a
Young Womens Christian Assoc of Yakima	$664,237	8	12%
Tri-Cities Prep a Catholic High School	$540,000	2	23%
United States Catholic Conference	$525,639	7	n/a
Yakima Neighborhood Health Services	$417,372	5	1%

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All grantees of Yakima Valley Community Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Yakima Rotary Trust	$5,998,131	7	82%
University of Washington Foundation	$1,749,750	8	0%
Yakima Rotary Charities	$1,375,077	5	32%
The Memorial Foundation	$1,177,868	8	6%
Northwest Harvest Emm	$1,036,880	3	1%
International Scholarship and Tuition Services Inc	$833,500	1	n/a
Young Womens Christian Assoc of Yakima	$664,237	8	12%
Tri-Cities Prep a Catholic High School	$540,000	2	23%
United States Catholic Conference	$525,639	7	n/a
Yakima Neighborhood Health Services	$417,372	5	1%
Central Washington Fair Association	$400,000	1	28%
Wellness House	$393,812	4	20%
Latinx LLC	$379,000	2	n/a
La Casa Hogar	$374,045	8	13%
Rod's House	$353,961	6	17%
Yakima Valley Council on Alcoholism	$349,000	4	2%
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Yakima	$326,465	6	0%
Union Gospel Mission of Yakima Wash	$324,389	7	3%
Yakima Herald Republic	$323,689	4	n/a
YAKIMA COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION dba NEW VISION FOUNDATION	$311,000	1	22%
Generating Hope Inc	$285,894	7	14%
Yakima Symphony Orchestra	$285,776	8	16%
Scholarship America Inc	$280,000	8	n/a
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences	$279,825	7	0%
La Salle Foundation of Yakima	$264,897	2	n/a
Campbell Farm	$235,320	4	n/a
Sunrise Outreach Center of Yakima	$234,769	4	4%
Young Men's Christian Association	$234,179	4	3%
Ttawaxt Birth Justice Center	$199,692	3	35%
Community Health of Central Washington	$190,000	3	0%
Latino Community Fund of Washington State	$181,000	2	2%
College Success Foundation	$180,000	5	0%
Project Mercy Inc	$165,000	3	4%
Opportunities Industrialization Center of Washington	$160,000	4	1%
Educational Service District 105	$153,750	3	n/a
Yakima Valley Museum & Historical Assoc	$145,169	6	8%
Dispute Resolution Center	$140,273	4	10%
Comprehensive Healthcare	$137,525	2	0%
Nuestra CASA	$128,500	4	17%
Yakima Town Hall	$127,000	5	12%
Capitol Theatre Committee	$117,793	6	4%
Grace City Outreach	$116,000	2	11%
Hopesource	$108,000	2	1%
Heritage University	$106,900	6	0%
Habitat for Humanity International Yakima Valley Partners Hfh	$100,500	1	4%
Yakama Power	$100,000	1	n/a
People for People	$96,000	4	0%
United Way of Central Washington	$95,760	6	4%
Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho	$95,000	4	0%
Cowiche Canyon Conservancy	$94,750	5	4%
Yakima Valley Visitors & Convention Fdn	$93,528	1	67%
Yakima Greenway Foundation	$91,625	5	3%
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center	$91,250	2	0%
Justice Housing Yakima	$90,000	2	28%
Peacekeeper Society	$80,000	3	15%
Kittitas County Health Network	$80,000	1	4%
Entrust Community Services	$77,500	3	1%
Apoyo	$75,690	3	8%
Degrees of Change	$75,000	2	2%
Greater Columbia Accountable Community of Health	$75,000	2	9%
Yakima Leadership Foundation	$75,000	2	n/a
Northwest Communities' Education Center	$74,500	1	2%
Yakima Schools Foundation	$73,955	5	10%
Heartlinks	$68,582	4	1%
Washington First Robotics	$65,000	3	1%
Teach for America Inc	$65,000	2	0%
Highland Food Bank	$65,000	2	12%
Yakima School District	$63,500	3	n/a
Washington Association for Infant Mental Health	$63,000	2	7%
Presbyterian Church USA	$61,828	5	n/a
Yakima Advocates for the Mentally Ill	$57,250	2	25%
Yakima Music En Accion	$57,000	2	8%
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute	$52,610	2	0%
Children's Trust Fund Alliance	$50,000	2	3%
Garden Village	$50,000	2	0%
TeamChild	$50,000	1	2%
Roslyn Downtown Association	$48,000	2	6%
The Seasons Musical Festival	$47,997	2	11%
Mt Adams School District	$47,500	3	n/a
Unidos Nueva Alianza Foundation	$45,000	2	4%
Scholar Fund	$45,000	1	1%
Yakima County Development Association	$40,000	2	11%
The Mockingbird Society	$40,000	3	1%
Yakima Pride	$40,000	1	n/a
Fish	$39,510	2	1%
Kittitas Conservation Trust	$39,400	1	3%
Yakima Area Arboretum & Botanical Garden	$36,250	2	4%
Young Life	$35,500	1	0%
Citizens for Safe Yakima Valley Communities	$35,000	1	44%
Unityworks Foundation	$35,000	2	n/a
Oneamerica	$35,000	2	1%
Yakima Free Clinic	$35,000	1	30%
Junior Achievement of Washington	$34,120	2	1%
Mabton School District #120	$32,935	3	n/a
City of Yakima	$30,256	3	n/a
Kittitas County Habitat for Humanity	$30,000	1	3%
Centro de Servicios Comunitarios LLC	$30,000	1	n/a
Toppenish Community Chest	$30,000	1	18%
Free the Oppressed	$30,000	2	1%
Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement	$30,000	1	3%
The Salvation Army	$27,500	1	n/a
Granger School District	$27,500	3	n/a
Humanities Washington	$27,500	2	1%
Seattle Children's Hospital	$27,494	1	0%
Grace of Christ Presbyterian Church of Yakima	$27,000	3	n/a
Canyon Blooms Petals For Patients	$25,500	1	10%
Hoover Family Connection PTO	$25,000	1	n/a
Kittitas County Early Learning Coalition	$25,000	3	n/a
Rural Community Development Resources	$25,000	1	2%
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project	$25,000	1	0%
SACRED MESSENGERS INC dba Transform Yakima Together	$25,000	1	n/a
Shc Medical Center - Toppenish	$25,000	1	0%
Empowering Latina Leadership & Action	$25,000	1	11%
Nw Expressive Arts Response	$25,000	1	n/a
Central Washington Home Builders Association Foundation	$24,572	1	87%
Zillah School District	$24,381	1	n/a
Presbytery of Northwest Coast	$21,500	1	n/a
Yakima Police Patrolmans Assn	$21,000	1	5%
Crisis Connections	$20,000	1	0%
Center for Latino Leadership	$20,000	1	n/a
Forterra Nw	$20,000	1	0%
Washington State Tree Fruit Association	$20,000	1	1%
County of Yakima Sunnyside School District 201	$20,000	2	n/a
Explore Your Wild	$20,000	1	10%
Sigma Nu Educational Foundation Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Larson Gallery Guild	$19,500	2	3%
Yakima County Volunteer Attorney Services	$19,100	1	9%
Filipino-American Community of Yakima Valley	$17,000	2	n/a
Washington State University Foundation	$17,000	2	0%
Yakima Specialties Inc	$17,000	1	3%
Tieton Arts and Humanities	$16,000	1	7%
Enterprise for Progress in the Community	$16,000	1	0%
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Associatio Evergreen Chapter	$15,000	1	1%
The Lighthouse- Advocacy Prevention and Education Center	$15,000	1	2%
The Yakima Youth Golf Organization	$15,000	1	6%
Nurse-Family Partnership	$15,000	1	0%
West Valley Youth Baseball Association	$14,553	1	n/a
West Valley School District No 208	$14,000	1	n/a
Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation	$13,700	2	n/a
Cascadianow	$12,500	1	4%
Our Place Community Outreach	$12,500	1	0%
University of Washington	$12,250	3	n/a
Central Lutheran Church	$12,000	2	n/a
Retired Senior Volunteer Program	$11,500	2	n/a
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Alaska & Washington	$10,000	1	0%
Imagine Scholar Inc	$10,000	1	2%
First Baptist Comunidad Cristiana Church	$10,000	1	n/a
Yakama Warriors Association	$10,000	1	n/a
Community Resource Group Foster First	$10,000	1	0%
Native Youth Leadership Alliance	$10,000	1	3%
Humangood Affordable Housing	$10,000	1	0%
Mercy Housing Northwest	$10,000	1	0%
Montlake Futures Fund	$10,000	1	0%
Yakima Buddhist Church	$10,000	1	n/a
Boy Scouts of America	$10,000	1	0%
Yakima Valley Conference of Governments	$10,000	1	n/a
Washington State University	$10,000	1	n/a
Love in the Name of Christ of Yakima	$8,500	1	5%
Seattle Pacific University	$8,000	1	0%
Washington Apple Education Foundation	$8,000	1	0%
Eastern Washington University	$7,500	1	n/a
Court Advocates for Children of Kittitas County	$7,300	1	3%
Central Washington University Foundation	$7,000	1	0%
Freedom Pantry for Veterans	$7,000	1	n/a
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc	$7,000	1	0%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$6,750	1	0%
Taberncle of God of Dillon	$6,500	1	n/a
Eastern Oregon University	$6,500	1	n/a
Foundation of Yakima Valley College	$6,500	1	1%
The Mabuhay Foundation	$6,000	1	n/a
Parker Youth and Sports Foundation	$6,000	1	12%
Corporation of Gonzaga University	$5,500	1	0%
Washington Policy Center	$5,500	1	0%
Whitworth University	$5,250	1	0%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($188k), not named here.

Yakima Valley Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 128 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 128.

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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 Central WashingtonWA67.6× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Central Washington · Inatai Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Northwest Harvest Emm · Greater Columbia Accountable Community of Health · School's Out Washington · Philanthropy Northwest · Perigee Fund · Latino Community Fund of Washington State · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Casey Family Programs · United Way of Benton & Franklin Counties

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.

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About Yakima Valley Community Foundation

How much does Yakima Valley Community Foundation give?: Yakima Valley Community Foundation reported 43 itemized grants totaling $2,860,291, out of $3,093,468 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 64 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Yakima Valley Community Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (33%), Health (17%), Human Services (7%).
Who are Yakima Valley Community Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Yakima Rotary Trust ($6.0M), University of Washington Foundation ($1.7M), Yakima Rotary Charities ($1.4M).
Does Yakima Valley Community Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Yakima Valley Community Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Central Washington, Inatai Foundation, Seattle Foundation.
Where is Yakima Valley Community Foundation based?: Yakima Valley Community Foundation is based in WA.