· Private foundation
Bruce W Gilpin Memorial Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
98% of Bruce W Gilpin Memorial Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Bruce W Gilpin Memorial Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $91k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k10 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK | $20,000 |
| PUGET SOUND PET FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| SOUTH SOUND CARE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE | $10,000 |
| PACIFIC PUG RESCUE | $7,500 |
| DANNY & RON'S RESCUE | $5,000 |
| KINDRED SOULS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NW FURNITURE BANK | $5,000 |
| TACOMA BOAT BUILDERS | $5,000 |
| LINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC | $5,000 |
| CHARLIE'S ACRES | $2,500 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $2,500 |
| RAISING GIRLS | $2,000 |
| THRIVE ANIMAL RESCUE | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2021, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- DADIABETES ASSOC OF PIERCE COUNTY5× · 2017–2022 · $87k · revenue +11% · 26% of their budget
- EFEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY6× · 2017–2022 · $70k · revenue +34%
AMARA3× · 2017–2019 · $42k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +49%
The Houston Food Bankgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +107%- WWWISHING WELL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +8%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Dog Gone Seattle is a Washington-based nonprofit organization dedicated to saving homeless dogs in high-kill shelters in Washington and beyond through rescue, foster, and adoption. We are a foster-based organization, and our rescue is 100%…
To provide food to individuals in need with compassion, dignity and respect. No one needing assistance is turned away.
NorthWest Wag Rescue is dedicated to representing the rights of animals everywhere. We work tirelessly to get animals out of shelters and dangerous situations and find them loving forever homes in the Pacific NorthWest.
Provide food, supplies, veterinary services & toys to Pierce & King counties food banks, shelters & to low income and homeless individuals.
Dog rescue
Decrease over population of feral cats by trapping and doing spay or neuter. Provide veterinarian care to kittens. Take owner relinquishments of pets they can no longer care for. Taking in abandoned animals and providing veterinary care.…
Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…
Pacific Pups Rescue saves Dogs & Puppies & puts them with a Foster Parent so they can be adopted by a loving Family
To serve our community by promoting animal welfare and strengthening the animal-human bond. to improve the lives of pets through education and protection. to shelter stray, abandoned, and surrendered pets and find them loving homes.
Trap Neuter Return of cats in Thurston County, WA.
Through placement and prevention programs, partnering with other shelters and rescue groups, purrfect pals works to end cat homelessness in the puget sound region with a focus on special needs cats. resources are provided for low income…
We opened up our clinic and through the low-cost wellness we provided, we kept approximately 14,600 dogs in their homes which means they werent in shelters, the streets, or being rehomed in 2024 and provided access to low-cost care to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Unlimited Network and the most unlike its peers is Charlies Acres. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
23 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. 23 of the 29 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIABETES ASSOC OF PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds AMARA ↗
- Who funds PUGET SOUND PET FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC PUG RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Kindred Souls Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE ↗
- Who funds NW FURNITURE BANK ↗
- Who funds LINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds TACOMA COMMUNITY BOAT BUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds DANNY & RONS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SOUND CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds WISHING WELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Charlies Acres ↗
- Who funds RAISING GIRLS ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES UNLIMITED NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THRIVE ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Korum for Kids Foundation · The Bamford Foundation · Names Family Foundation · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · The Norcliffe Foundation · The Dimmer Family Foundation · Woodworth Family Foundation · Heidner Marco J Char Trust · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine · Multicare Health System
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 Bruce W Gilpin Memorial Foundation 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.
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.