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Bruce W Gilpin Memorial Foundation at a glance

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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.

$91k
Granted FY2021
14
Grants FY2021
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

9
’17
9
’18
14
’19
9
’20
14
’21
6
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Philanthropy$2.0MHealth$159kFood & Nutrition$117kAnimals$107kHuman Services$69kYouth Development$30k
02FY2021 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k10 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK$20,000
COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE$10,000
SOUTH SOUND CARE FOUNDATION$10,000
PUGET SOUND PET FOOD BANK$10,000
PACIFIC PUG RESCUE$7,500
LINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC$5,000
NW FURNITURE BANK$5,000
TACOMA BOAT BUILDERS$5,000
KINDRED SOULS FOUNDATION$5,000
DANNY & RON'S RESCUE$5,000
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY$2,500
CHARLIE'S ACRES$2,500
RAISING GIRLS$2,000
THRIVE ANIMAL RESCUE$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WISHING WELL FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%NORTHWEST FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 9%NORTHWEST FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 9%NW FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 9%NORTHWEST FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 9%AMARA: $20k → 9%AMARA: $12k → 9%AMARA: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$424k · 15 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
8

Total granted

$424k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+75%

Still filing today

87%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
AnimalsHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionInternationalPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • DA
    DIABETES ASSOC OF PIERCE COUNTY
    5× · 2017–2022 · $87k · revenue +11% · 26% of their budget
  • EF
    EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $70k · revenue +34%
  • AMARA
    3× · 2017–2019 · $42k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +49%
  • WW
    WISHING WELL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +1%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF TACOMA
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Dog Gone Seattle

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%…

Animals
2
Nourish Pierce County

To provide food to individuals in need with compassion, dignity and respect. No one needing assistance is turned away.

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3
Northwest Wag Rescue

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.

Animals
4
People for Animal Care and Kindness

Provide food, supplies, veterinary services & toys to Pierce & King counties food banks, shelters & to low income and homeless individuals.

Animals
5
Washington Basset Rescue

Dog rescue

Animals
6
Sos Lost Pet Rescue Nw Inc

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.…

Animals
7
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Tampa Bay Florida Inc

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…

Animals
8
Pacific Pups Rescue

Pacific Pups Rescue saves Dogs & Puppies & puts them with a Foster Parent so they can be adopted by a loving Family

Health
9
Juneau Animal Rescue

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.

Animals
10
Feisty Felines

Trap Neuter Return of cats in Thurston County, WA.

Animals
11
Purrfect Pals

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…

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12
Wag Again Rescue

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…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Unlimited Network; 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.
04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
17/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,986,877 · PhilanthropyGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+1 more: $18,000 · PhilanthropyDIABETES ASSOC OF PIERCE COUNTY: $87,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH CARE: $20,000 · HealthSOUTH SOUND CARE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $9,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $7,500 · HealthEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY: $70,000 · Food & NutritionPUGET SOUND PET FOOD BANK: $40,000 · Food & NutritionPACIFIC PUG RESCUE INC: $30,000 · AnimalsKindred Souls Foundation: $25,000 · AnimalsDANNY & RONS RESCUE: $15,000 · Animals+3 more: $6,000 · AnimalsAMARA: $42,000 · Human ServicesNW FURNITURE BANK: $20,000 · Human ServicesWISHING WELL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human Services+2 more: $4,000 · Human ServicesLINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $15,500 · OtherTACOMA YOUTH MARINE CENTER: $9,000 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF TACOMA: $5,000 · OtherThe Houston Food Bank: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON: $3,000 · International
Philanthropy$2,004,877Health$133,500Food & Nutrition$110,000Animals$76,000Human Services$71,000Other$69,500International$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,986,877 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetDIABETES ASSOC OF PIERCE COUNTY: $87,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY: $70,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMARA: $42,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPUGET SOUND PET FOOD BANK: $40,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetPACIFIC PUG RESCUE INC: $30,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetKindred Souls Foundation: $25,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CARE: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNW FURNITURE BANK: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTACOMA COMMUNITY BOAT BUILDERS INC: $18,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetDANNY & RONS RESCUE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH SOUND CARE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISHING WELL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharlies Acres: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAISING GIRLS: $2,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFAMILIES UNLIMITED NETWORK: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHRIVE ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Greater Tacoma Commun…Korum for Kids Founda…The Bamford FoundationNames Family Foundati…Kilworth Florence Cha…Fuchsg & M Fdn TaiThe Norcliffe Foundat…The Dimmer Family Fou…Woodworth Family Foun…Heidner Marco J Char …Gary E Milgard Family…Multicare Health Syst…
Greater Tacoma Community FoundationWA30.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bruce W Gilpin Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bruce W Gilpin Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 29 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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