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Allison Foundation Trust Tai

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$38k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Human Services$36kArts & Culture$33kHealth$27kYouth Development$26kHousing & Shelter$25kEducation$19kFood & Nutrition$7kAnimals$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$588k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWEST SCHOOL FOR DEAF AND HARD-$1,500
PIERCE COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION$1,500
CAMP KOREY$1,500
TACOMA YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION$1,000
CONGREGATIONS FOR THE HOMELESS$1,000
ENCOMPASS NORTHWEST$1,000
ASHLEY HOUSE$1,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$1,000
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION$1,000
LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER$1,000
VASHON CENTER FOR THE ARTS$1,000
FREE2LUV$1,000
ADULT & YOUTH LEARNING CENTER$1,000
ASIA PACIFIC CULTURAL CENTER$1,000
GREENTRIKE$1,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%NEW HORIZONS: $2k → 9%NEW HORIZONS: $2k → 9%NEW HORIZONS: $2k → 9%HOPESPARKS: $3k → 9%HOPESPARKS FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 9%HOPESPARKS FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 9%HOPESPARKS FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 9%STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $2k → 9%HOPESPARKS: $3k → 9%HOPESPARKS: $1k → 9%FREE2LUV: $1k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $2k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $2k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $2k → 9%ADULT & YOUTH LEARNING CENTER: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$135k · 22 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
15

Total granted

$135k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+25%

Still filing today

91%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • H
    HopeSparks
    6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +41%
  • PC
    PIERCE COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +58%
  • HW
    HUMANITIES WASHINGTON
    4× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN TACOMAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +109%
  • NS
    NORTHWEST SCHOOL FOR DEAF
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • NC
    NEIGHBORHOOD CLINIC
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -1%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Southwest Youth and Family Services

SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.

Human Services
2
Building Changes

Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…

Health
3
Transitions

Transitions works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane, Washington.

Human Services
4
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center

KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…

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5
Network Services

Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…

Human Services
6
Bike Works Seattle

Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.

Recreation & Sports
7
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
8
House Our Neighbors

House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…

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9
Brightspark Early Learning Services

To nurture and sustain child-centered, antiracist early learning communities.Our work is to:1) Help families access high quality childcare and after-school care.2) Increase the availability of high-quality care through coaching and…

Human Services
10
Family Promise of Pierce County

To empower families experiencing housing insecurity through intervention, prevention,and stabilization services.

Housing & Shelter
11
Artist Trust

Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.

Arts & Culture
12
Tacoma Community House

Tacoma Community House creates opportunities for immigrants, refugees and other community members in the Puget Sound regions through comprehensive services focused on self-sufficiency, inclusion and advocacy.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greentrike and the most unlike its peers is FREE2LUV Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth & Family Support Serv…Immigrant & Refugee Communi…Christian International Mis…Recreational Clubs & Facili…Faith-Based Healthcare Syst…Independent Elementary Scho…Family Philanthropic Founda…Youth Mentoring & JusticeAnimal Rescue and AdoptionPacific Northwest Conservat…Supportive Housing Developm…Asian Faith and Cultural Ce…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%4%<5yr15%10%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr19%37%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr13%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%6%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr19%28%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr13%16%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/53
the rest of the field
14%
2,245/16,510

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.

04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
32/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HEARTBEAT SERVING WOUNDED WARRIORS — $10,000 · OtherHEARTBEAT SERVING WOUNDED WARRIORSPIERCE COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherPIERCE COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATIONNORTHWEST SCHOOL FOR DEAF AND HARD- — $3,500 · OtherNORTHWEST SCHOOL FOR DEAF — $3,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA WESTERN — $3,000 · OtherFOOD LIFELINE — $6,000 · OtherFOOD LIFELINEOne Heart Wild — $4,000 · OtherOne Heart Wild+21 more — $27,000 · Other+21 moreHopeSparks — $12,000 · Human ServicesHopeSparksNEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES — $6,000 · Human ServicesNEW HORIZONS MIN…VISION HOUSE — $6,000 · Human ServicesVISION HOUSESTEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER — $2,000 · Human ServicesSTEP BY STEP FAM…Adult & Youth Learning Center — $1,000 · Human ServicesFREE2LUV INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesHUMANITIES WASHINGTON — $8,000 · Arts & CultureHUMANITIES WASHI…SEATTLE ARTS AND LECTURES — $6,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE ARTS AND…Tacoma Art Museum — $6,000 · Arts & CultureTacoma Art Museu…VASHON ALLIED ARTS — $3,000 · Arts & CultureVASHON ALLIED AR…TACOMA YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $1,000 · Arts & CultureAsia Pacific Cultural Center — $1,000 · Arts & CultureGREENTRIKE — $1,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE ART MUSEUM — $1,000 · Arts & CultureRefugee Choir Project — $1,000 · Arts & CultureTREEHOUSE — $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentTREEHOUSEYOUTH IN FOCUS — $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH IN FOCUSFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN TACOMA — $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE…CAMP KOREY — $3,500 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP KOREYPongo Publishing Inc — $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentPongo Publishi…CLOTHES FOR KIDS — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentGEEKING OUT KIDS OF COLOR — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOYOTE CENTRAL — $9,000 · EducationCOYOTE CENTRA…ARK INSTITUTE OF LEARNING — $7,000 · EducationARK INSTITUTE…A STEP AHEAD IN PIERCE COUNTY — $3,000 · EducationA STEP AHEAD …HILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE — $2,000 · EducationHILLTOP ARTIS…DEGREES OF CHANGE — $1,000 · EducationAcres of Diamonds — $6,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 · HealthDRUG ABUSE COUNCIL OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $2,000 · HealthASHLEY HOUSE — $1,000 · HealthLITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $7,000 · Recreation & SportsGeorge Pocock Rowing Foundation — $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$66,500Human Services$28,000Arts & Culture$28,000Youth Development$23,500Education$22,000Health$12,500Recreation & Sports$8,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHopeSparks — $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTBEAT SERVING WOUNDED WARRIORS — $10,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetPIERCE COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCOYOTE CENTRAL — $9,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHUMANITIES WASHINGTON — $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetARK INSTITUTE OF LEARNING — $7,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE ARTS AND LECTURES — $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES — $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTREEHOUSE — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTacoma Art Museum — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH IN FOCUS — $6,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAcres of Diamonds — $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVISION HOUSE — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN TACOMA — $4,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOne Heart Wild — $4,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCAMP KOREY — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVASHON ALLIED ARTS — $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetA STEP AHEAD IN PIERCE COUNTY — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CLINIC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDRUG ABUSE COUNCIL OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPongo Publishing Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCJK COMMUNITY HOMES — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE STREETS CAMPAIGN — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTACOMA YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAsia Pacific Cultural Center — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRainbow Center — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREACH MINISTRIES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWe Heart Seattle — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEGREES OF CHANGE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE ART MUSEUM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAdult & Youth Learning Center — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCLOTHES FOR KIDS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFREE2LUV INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBALLARD FOOD BANK — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRefugee Choir Project — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetShared Housing Services — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetENCOMPASS NORTHWEST — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Norcliffe Foundat…Kilworth Florence Cha…Fuchsg & M Fdn TaiPuget Sound Energy Fo…Helen Martha Schiff F…Heidner Marco J Char …Seattle FoundationThe Bamford FoundationMedina FoundationDv & Ida McEachern Ch…Gary E Milgard Family…Greater Tacoma Commun…
The Norcliffe FoundationWA69.2× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Norcliffe Foundation · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Helen Martha Schiff Foundation · Heidner Marco J Char Trust · Seattle Foundation · The Bamford Foundation · Medina Foundation · Dv & Ida McEachern Charitable Tr · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation

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 Allison Foundation Trust Tai 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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