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Associated Ministries of Tacoma-Pierce County

Our mission is to inspire and mobilize communities of faith to reduce poverty and homelessness, while centering equity and advocating for system change. We do this through a variety of direct services, faith community involvement, education and advocacy. Areas of service include housing and shelter resources, services to homeless and…

$2.6M
Granted FY2023
9
Itemized grants FY2023
9
Organizations funded FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$123k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$8,461
Largest grant, FY2023
$32,657
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$2.8M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Salvation Army$32,6571n/a
Helping Hand House$27,79110%
The Rescue Mission$12,19510%
YWCA Women's Shelter$11,1851n/a
Lasa$8,46110%
Comprehensive Mental Health Center of Tacoma-Pierce County$8,07610%
The Coffee Oasis$8,07610%
Catholic Community Services of Western Washington$7,91510%
Harbor Hope Center$6,73011%

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Building ChangesWA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Building Changes · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Sequoia Foundation · Woodworth Family Foundation · The Bamford Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Associated Ministries of Tacoma-Pierce County?

Find your warmest path to Associated Ministries of Tacoma-Pierce County through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Associated Ministries of Tacoma-Pierce County

How much does Associated Ministries of Tacoma-Pierce County give?
Associated Ministries of Tacoma-Pierce County reported 9 itemized grants totaling $123,086, out of $2,635,074 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing.
What does Associated Ministries of Tacoma-Pierce County fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2023, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (67%), Religion (27%), Human Services (6%).
Who are Associated Ministries of Tacoma-Pierce County's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2023: The Salvation Army ($33k), Helping Hand House ($28k), The Rescue Mission ($12k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Associated Ministries of Tacoma-Pierce County?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Building Changes, Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, Sequoia Foundation.
Where is Associated Ministries of Tacoma-Pierce County based?
Associated Ministries of Tacoma-Pierce County is based in WA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1.1M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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