Credit Unions in the State of Washington
Olympia, WA · EIN 91-0440744. Reported 85 grants totalling $2,265,494 to 54 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 54 distinct organizations, with 48% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 45% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $15,500; the smallest was $5,100 and the largest $341,075. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twinstar Community Foundation | Olympia, WA | $1,084,437 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| South Puget Sound Community College Foundation | Tumwater, WA | $154,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Saint Martins University | Lacey, WA | $124,502 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Gowest Foundation | Seatac, WA | $89,375 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Multicare Foundations | Tacoma, WA | $85,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| North Thurston Public Schools | Lacey, WA | $72,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| City of Lacey | Lacey, WA | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| United Way of Thurston County | Olympia, WA | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Office of the Secretary of State | Olympia, WA | $38,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Thurston County Chamber of Commerce | Olympia, WA | $32,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Asia Pacific Cultural Center | Tacoma, WA | $25,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Grays Harbor College Foundation Inc | Aberdeen, WA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Washington Center for the Performing Arts | Olympia, WA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| South Sound Young Mens Christian Association | Olympia, WA | $23,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Community Foundation of South Puget Sound | Olympia, WA | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Franklin Pierce School District | Tacoma, WA | $22,292 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Seattle Childrens Foundation | Seattle, WA | $22,125 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Arc of Southwest Washington | Vancouver, WA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| United Way of Lewis County | Chehalis, WA | $18,993 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Gowest Credit Union Association | Seatac, WA | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Evergreen School District 114 Foundation | Vancouver, WA | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Oregon | Portland, OR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Thurston County Economic Development Council | Lacey, WA | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Columbia River Economic Development Council | Vancouver, WA | $10,400 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| A Step Ahead in Pierce Co | Puyallup, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Asian American Council of Oregon | Eugene, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Thurston County | Olympia, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Childrens Miracle Network | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| City of Aberdeen | Aberdeen, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Youth Services | Olympia, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Eugene Public Library Foundation | Eugene, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Olympia Family Theater | Olympia, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oslc Developments Inc | Eugene, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pizza Klatch | Olympia, WA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Together | Tumwater, WA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Central Willamette Credit Union | Albany, OR | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Emergency Food Network of Tacoma and Pierce County | Tacoma, WA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lane Community College Foundation | Eugene, OR | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hope Alliance Public Benefit Non-Profit Corporation | Centralia, WA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Onalaska School District | Onalaska, WA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tumwater Parks and Recreation | Tumwater, WA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Onalaska Alliance for Sustainable Community | Onalaska, WA | $6,692 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound | Bellevue, WA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Police Activities League of Southwest Washington | Vancouver, WA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Family Education & Support Services | Tumwater, WA | $6,375 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City of Lakewood | Lakewood, WA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| City of Olympia | Olympia, WA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Clark County Vocational Skills Center Foundation | Vancouver, WA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Columbia River Mental Health Services | Vancouver, WA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North Thurston Education Foundation | Tumwater, WA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Albany Public Schools Foundation | Albany, OR | $5,902 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Lewis County | Chehalis, WA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Parent to Parent Support Program of Thurston County | Olympia, WA | $5,301 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cielo Project Radio Ranch | Olympia, WA | $5,100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
18 of 54 (33%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Twinstar Community Foundation
COLLEGE/HIGHER ED SCHOLARSHIPS/CLASSROOM ASSISTANCE - Multicare Foundations
HELPING HANDS SPONSORSHIP - North Thurston Public Schools
ONE SCHOOL/ONE BOOK SPONSORSHIP - Spscc Foundation
EVENT SPONSORSHIP; SCHOLARS FUND - Saint Martin's University
ATHLETICS SPONSORSHIP; BUS LEADERSHIP DONATION - City of Lacey
4TH OF JULY CULTURAL/SPONSORSHIP
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 29 of 54 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 11 | $267,900 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 21 | $567,267 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 32 | $807,850 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 21 | $622,477 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
97% of its giving went to organizations in Washington. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Washington.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Credit Unions in the State of Washington's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 19 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 2 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 718, Olympia, WA, 98507.
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