Kitsap Credit Union
Bremerton, WA · EIN 91-0333066. Reported 81 grants totalling $1,579,046 to 41 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. 41 distinct organizations, with 32% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 60% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $6,000 and $12,500; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $250,988. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kcucares Foundation | Tacoma, WA | $500,988 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Central Kitsap School District | Silverdale, WA | $300,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Metro Parks Tacoma | Tacoma, WA | $82,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Harbor Soccer Club | Gig Harbor, WA | $43,433 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Foundation for Western Washington University and Alumni | Bellingham, WA | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Downtown Bremerton Association | Bremerton, WA | $36,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| United Way of Pierce County | Tacoma, WA | $32,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| United Way of Kitsap County | Silverdale, WA | $31,550 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Greater Kitsap Chamber | Silverdale, WA | $30,250 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Kitsap Economic Development Alliance | Silverdale, WA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| North Kitsap Fishline | Poulsbo, WA | $27,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Central Kitsap Food Bank | Silverdale, WA | $25,500 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Kitsap Building Association | Bremerton, WA | $24,775 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sharenet Food Bank | Kingston, WA | $24,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Greater Gig Harbor Foundation | Gig Harbor, WA | $22,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Gig Harbor-Peninsula Area Chamber of Commerce | Gig Harbor, WA | $21,600 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of South Puget Sound | Tacoma, WA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Kitsap Community Foundation | Silverdale, WA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Northwest Harvest E M M | Seattle, WA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Bainbridge Island Youth Soccer Club | Bainbridge Is, WA | $14,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Puyallup Food Bank | Puyallup, WA | $13,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Bremerton Backpack Brigade | Bremerton, WA | $12,250 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Bremerton Foodline | Bremerton, WA | $12,200 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Chimacum Backpacks for Kids | Chimacum, WA | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| First Christian Church | Port Orchard, WA | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Food Backpacks 4 Kids | Gig Harbor, WA | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Food Bank Farm and Gardens of Jefferson County | Port Townsend, WA | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Gig Harbor Peninsula Fish | Gig Harbor, WA | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society | Arlington, VA | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| North Mason Coalition of Churches and Community | Belfair, WA | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| North Mason Food Bank | Belfair, WA | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Nourish Pierce County | Tacoma, WA | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Parkway Community Services | Spanaway, WA | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Port Townsend Kiwanis Charitable Trust | Port Townsend, WA | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| South Kitsap Helpline | Port Orchard, WA | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Kitsap Fair and Stampede Association | Bremerton, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southeastern Credit Union Foundation Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| United Nations Foundation Inc | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Olympic College Foundation | Bremerton, WA | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Helpline House | Bainbridge Is, WA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Jefferson County Food Bank Association | Port Hadlock, WA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
35 of 41 (85%) 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.
- Kcu Cares Foundation
TO FUND EFFORTS THAT PROVIDE FOOD, SHELTER, & THE STEPPINGSTONES TO FINANCIAL WELLBEING - Central Kitsap School District
ATHLETIC COMPLEX SPONSORSHIP - Metro Parks Tacoma
WILD WONDERS OUTDOOR THEATER SPONSORSHIP - Wwu Foundation
SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER DONATION - United Way of Pierce County
CENTER FOR STRONG FAMILIES DONATION, BACK PACK FEEDING DONATION - Sharenet
BACK PACK FEEDING DONATION/FOOD BANK SPONSORSHIP
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 29 of 41 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 | 29 | $334,700 | $6,250 |
| 2022 | 34 | $424,300 | $6,750 |
| 2023 | 10 | $465,850 | $12,250 |
| 2024 | 8 | $354,196 | $13,012 |
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
98% 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 Kitsap Credit Union'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 5 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 3 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: 155 Washington Avenue, Bremerton, WA, 98337.
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