· Private foundation
DeFalco Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $205k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Shoes That Fit | $25,000 |
| Young Life Arizona Region | $25,000 |
| Franciscan Renewal Center | $20,000 |
| Children's Museum of Tacoma | $15,000 |
| TEARS Foundation | $10,000 |
| Banner Health Foundation | $10,000 |
| Mentorkids USA | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Elder Help of San Diego | $10,000 |
| Hustle USA | $10,000 |
| Waste Not Inc | $10,000 |
| Optimist Club Fdn Point Loma | $10,000 |
| Salmon for Soldiers | $10,000 |
| Umom New Day Center Inc | $10,000 |
| Emergency Food Network | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $371k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of DeFalco Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
78 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 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
- MFMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS5× · 2017–2021 · $185k · revenue +163%
- YLYOUNG LIFE5× · 2017–2021 · $136k · revenue +59%
- STSHOES THAT FIT8× · 2017–2024 · $135k · revenue +149%
Funded once
- LILITTLE ITALY ASSOCIATION OF SAN DIEGOone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -16%
- TMTRA MEDICAL IMAGING FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +44%
WASHINGTON HEALTHCARE ACCESS ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +50%
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.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
To preserve and enhance the quality of life at home, with dignity and care.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Seattle foundation's mission is to ignite powerful and rewarding philanthropy to make greater seattle a stronger, more vibrant community for all.
Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Purposeful living in a diverse community. using the power of resident driven community to enhance wellbeing.
To build a thriving, just and empowered pacific northwest using capital, relationships and voice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greentrike and the most unlike its peers is The Rolling Dog Farm. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
82 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. 82 of the 101 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 MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds POINT DEFIANCE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds SHOES THAT FIT ↗
- Who funds GREENTRIKE ↗
- Who funds SALMON FOR SOLDIERS ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Tears Foundation ↗
- Who funds MentorKids USA ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Waste Not Inc ↗
- Who funds UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Banner Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AMERICAN LAKE VETERANS GOLF COURSE ↗
- Who funds HUSTLE USA ↗
- Who funds ADMIRAL THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tacoma Community House ↗
- Who funds The New School ↗
- Who funds MY SISTERS PANTRY ↗
- Who funds CATHERINE PLACE ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HANCE PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds GENEVA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TACOMA YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE CAROL MILGARD BREAST CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds GOT YOUR 6 FISHING ↗
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: The Norcliffe Foundation · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · The Bamford Foundation · The Dimmer Family Foundation · Sequoia Foundation · Woodworth Family Foundation · The Russell Family Foundation · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine · Franciscan Foundation · Forest 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 DeFalco Family Foundation Inc 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.