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Yakima Valley Community Foundation
Our work is focused on equity in education, health, and civic engagement.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 43 grants below total $2,860,291 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,093,468 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $233,177 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $525k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $973k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YAKIMA ROTARY TRUST | $997,577 |
| YAKIMA COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION | $311,000 |
| THE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $172,550 |
| YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION | $150,400 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| UW FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES SERVING CENTRAL | $100,000 |
| KITTITAS COUNTY HEALTH NETWORK | $80,000 |
| ST JOSEPHMARQUETTE CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $65,378 |
| LATINX LLC | $55,000 |
| FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER | $50,000 |
| YAKIMA HERALD REPUBLIC | $50,000 |
| TRI-CITIES PREP A CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| YAKIMA FREE CLINIC | $35,000 |
| NACHES VALLEY DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS | $35,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of Yakima Valley Community Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 86% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +51% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
93 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 64 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $567k 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
- YRYAKIMA ROTARY TRUST7× · 2017–2023 · $6.0M · revenue +31% · 82% of their budget
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +46%
- TMTHE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +115%
Funded once
- ISINTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP AND TUITION SERVICES INCone grant, 2017 · $834k
- CWCENTRAL WASHINGTON FAIR ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $400k · revenue +329% · 28% of their budget
- YPYAKIMA PARKS AND RECREATIONone grant, 2018 · $188k
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.
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism and empowering women.
The mission of yvfwc is to improve lives and strengthen the health of the communities we serve by providing quality and accessible health care to all regardless of ability to pay.
Trade association dedicated to providing educational opportunities, legal and regulatory advice, quality compliance assistance, lobbying and discounted group member benefits for long-term care facilities.
Domestic violence response and prevention - the ywca of kitsap county is dedicated to ensuring the personal safety, rights, welfare, and dignity of those who experience domestic abuse while building partnerships and increasing community…
Provide and promote constructive and collaborative approaches to conflict resolution through mediation, training, facilitation, supervised visits and community education.
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
We exist to be an advocate for our members and our business community to strengthen the development of our economy.
Discover Your Northwest promotes the discovery of northwest public lands, enriches the experience of visitors and builds community stewardship of these special places today and for generations to come.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
Restoring hope, building futures, and strengthening our communities through programs with youth, young adults and families. we support the behavioral health of at-risk and in-crisis youth across the greater south king county area. we take…
RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.
To build and enhance the competitiveness of Washington State's film and associated creative industry. We accomplish this by marketing and managing the state's production incentive program, representing the state in national and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alaska & Washington and the most unlike its peers is Apoyo. 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 34 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
135 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. 135 of the 178 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
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 YAKIMA ROTARY TRUST ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YAKIMA ROTARY CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds THE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF YAKIMA ↗
- Who funds TRI-CITIES PREP A CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YAKIMA NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL WASHINGTON FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Wellness House ↗
- Who funds LA CASA HOGAR ↗
- Who funds ROD'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds YAKIMA VALLEY COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF YAKIMA ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION OF YAKIMA WASH ↗
- Who funds YAKIMA COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION dba NEW VISION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Generating Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds Yakima Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE OUTREACH CENTER OF YAKIMA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TTAWAXT BIRTH JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH OF CENTRAL WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds Latino Community Fund of Washington State ↗
- Who funds College Success Foundation ↗
- Who funds PROJECT MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTER OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds YAKIMA VALLEY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL ASSOC ↗
- Who funds DISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds Nuestra CASA ↗
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 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
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 Yakima Valley Community Foundation 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.