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CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF YAKIMA

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF YAKIMA (Washington) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,563,194 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($2,254,454). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$55M
Funders on record
28
Grants received
$7.6M
Net assets
$52M
20/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Yakima does

Mission

Motivated by christ's love, we bring hope to life, especially for those most in need. Vision: we envision communities where people are treated with dignity and respect, their basic needs are met, and they are empowered to enhance the quality of their own lives.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Behavioral health services:outpatient counseling - individual, marital, family, and group counseling is offered to community members seeking service for abuse, parent-child problems, grief and loss, adjustment, depression, anxiety, attachment, bonding, and other issues affecting optimal mental health functioning. A strength-based approach is used to empower individuals and families with a focus on health and wellness.valley intervention program - "hands on" parent training is provided within a behavioral intervention model for preschool children who are experiencing behavior problems. The program assists parents in regaining control of their preschool-aged child and focusing attention on positive behavior. Therapeutic classrooms with integrated behavioral health services provide an option for children with social, emotional, or behavioral issues to prepare them for success in kindergarten.crisis mental health services - provides behavioral health services and mobile crisis outreach to children, youth and adults experiencing a crises episode. Crisis services works with community partners on determining the least restrictive level of care to resolve a critical event. These services…

    $17,507,180 spentof which $549,031 as grants$22,225,455 earned by the program
    45% of program spending
  2. Early learning services: carroll children's center and growing hope child and family development center - licensed child care and early education facilities that provide developmental classrooms serving children ages one month through five years of age. The programs include low-income children and their families served through the early childhood education and assistance program (eceap) and early eceap to prepare infants, toddlers and preschoolers for success in kindergarten through its focus on the well-being of the whole child by providing comprehensive nutrition, health, education and family support services.eclipse / enhanced eceap - an early learning program that provides mental health consultation and behavior planning within therapeutic classrooms services to high-risk children three-months through five years of age. The children spend six hours per day in a therapeutic classroom environment participating in developmentally appropriate activities which promote optimal social and emotional development. The family support home visitor works with parents/caregivers in collaboration with allied service providers to support positive parenting.child care nutrition - provides…

    $13,646,861 spentof which $3,849,788 as grants$1,071,525 earned by the program
    35% of program spending
  3. Child, youth, and family services:family parenting - provides parents, families, and children with in-home parenting instruction and support groups to strengthen families and increase their skills through parent education.foster teen programs - helps foster youth to develop the skills needed to make a successful transition to adulthood through education, employment, housing support, and family relationships.young adult homeless services - assists young adults ages 18 24 who are homeless, or at "high risk" for homelessness, find appropriate housing, and teach them essential life skills. Catholic charities also provides rental assistance to these young adults through various state and federal grants.lifeset - a program for young adults ages 17.5 22. Lifeset provides one-on-one support to young people who have experienced foster care or juvenile incarceration and are struggling to transition into independence. Case managers work with young adults to complete goals, manage crises, build life skills, and strengthen long-term support.prepares - pregnancy and parenting support is provided to pregnant women and young families with children up to age five, through volunteer mentors and a…

    $4,790,288 spentof which $1,426,983 as grants$16,135 earned by the program
    12% of program spending
  4. Elder services:volunteer services - recruits community volunteers to provide low-income elderly persons and adults with disabilities assistance to remain independent within their own homes. Volunteers assist with minor home repairs, yard work, shopping, transportation, laundry, housework, and many other tasks to help those in need.senior companion program - utilizes senior volunteers to provide companionship to isolated low-income seniors or elderly persons and individuals with disabilities who live in assisted facilities or in their own homes.retired senior volunteer program - volunteer opportunities for individuals age 55 and over to make a difference in the lives of those in need in their local community.

    $1,385,571 spentof which $649,101 as grants
    4% of program spending
  5. St. Vincent centers:st. Vincent centers provides works of charity that include person to person assistance that promotes human dignity and integrity, maintaining an inventory of goods to give away to needy families and individuals. This assistance is provided through its thrift store, food bank, and emergency services program.

    $1,823,509 spentof which $1,382,001 as grants
    5% of program spending

The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $39,153,409.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($27M) Expenses 100 ($26M) Net assets 100 ($9.6M)2018 Revenue 111 ($31M) Expenses 114 ($30M) Net assets 107 ($10M)2019 Revenue 118 ($32M) Expenses 116 ($30M) Net assets 128 ($12M)2020 Revenue 117 ($32M) Expenses 118 ($31M) Net assets 141 ($14M)2021 Revenue 129 ($35M) Expenses 125 ($33M) Net assets 166 ($16M)2022 Revenue 177 ($49M) Expenses 135 ($35M) Net assets 300 ($29M)2023 Revenue 169 ($46M) Expenses 149 ($39M) Net assets 375 ($36M)2024 Revenue 180 ($49M) Expenses 162 ($42M) Net assets 449 ($43M)2025 Revenue 200 ($55M) Expenses 177 ($46M) Net assets 544 ($52M)
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Revenue (200)Expenses (177)Net assets (544)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $48M to $56M (+16%).

$24M
$25M
$27M
$33M
$37M
$44M
$48M
$56M
$63M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 81% · 2018 68% · 2019 49% · 2020 41% · 2021 41% · 2022 49% · 2023 43% · 2024 43% · 2025 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.2M
’17
$699k
’18
$2.0M
’19
$1.3M
’20
$2.4M
’21
$13M
’22
$7.2M
’23
$7.1M
’24
$8.5M
’25
5.1
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Darlene Darnell

President and CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+5+2+6+4+3+5+0+4
No longer listed·22532422
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 13 funders, grant income fell $1.0M → $697k.

11 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF YAKIMA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 28 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF YAKIMA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF YAKIMA.

30%
largest funder
61%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 74% · 2019 41% · 2020 64% · 2021 58% · 2022 33% · 2023 39% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

63% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF YAKIMA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.

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Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

55% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF YAKIMA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3.4M that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Washington funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Government funding CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF YAKIMA receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.0M on record.

Federal$9.0M
grants $9.0Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Corporation for National and Community Service$9.0M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 15%Fundraising 1%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Catholic Charities Housing Services - Diocese of Yakima · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF YAKIMA?
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF YAKIMA (Washington) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,563,194 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($2,254,454). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF YAKIMA have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $7,563,194 in grants to CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF YAKIMA, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF YAKIMA?
SEATTLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,254,454 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF YAKIMA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 28 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing