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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.

$300k
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Human Services$583kHealth$536kYouth Development$337kArts & Culture$327kEducation$300kAnimals$260kFood & Nutrition$238kRecreation & Sports$133kOther$0
02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $95k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $205k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

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.

area typical 10%Elder Help of San Diego: $10k → 11%Shoes That Fit: $25k → 14%Youth Outdoors Unlimited: $13k → 14%Elder Help of San Diego: $10k → 11%Shoes That Fit: $25k → 14%Youth Outdoors Unlimited: $8k → 14%Elder Help of San Diego: $10k → 11%Shoes That Fit: $15k → 14%Youth Outdoors Unlimited: $5k → 14%Elder Help of San Diego: $10k → 11%Shoes That Fit: $15k → 14%Elder Help of San Diego: $7k → 11%Shoes That Fit: $15k → 14%Elder Help of San Diego: $5k → 11%Shoes That Fit: $14k → 14%Elder Help of San Diego: $5k → 11%Shoes That Fit: $14k → 14%Elder Help of San Diego: $5k → 11%Shoes That Fit: $13k → 14%OASIS Institute: $5k → 11%OASIS Institute: $5k → 11%OASIS Institute: $5k → 11%OASIS Institute: $5k → 11%OASIS Institute: $3k → 11%OASIS Institute: $3k → 11%YWCA of San Diego County: $10k → 11%YWCA of San Diego County: $5k → 11%YWCA of San Diego County: $5k → 11%YWCA of San Diego County: $5k → 11%YWCA of San Diego County: $3k → 11%L'Arche Tacoma Hope Community: $5k → 9%L'Arche Tacoma Hope Community: $3k → 9%L'Arche Tahoma Hope Community: $3k → 9%TEARS Foundation: $15k → 9%TEARS Foundation: $10k → 9%TEARS Foundation: $10k → 9%TEARS Foundation: $10k → 9%TEARS Foundation: $10k → 9%TEARS Foundation: $10k → 9%TEARS Foundation: $10k → 9%TEARS Foundation: $10k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

04

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.

DeFalco Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.2M · 78 repeat orgs$128k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

78
22

Total granted

$3.2M
$128k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+15%

Still filing today

85%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentAnimalsOther

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

  • MF
    MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS
    5× · 2017–2021 · $185k · revenue +163%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    5× · 2017–2021 · $136k · revenue +59%
  • ST
    SHOES THAT FIT
    8× · 2017–2024 · $135k · revenue +149%

Funded once

  • LI
    LITTLE ITALY ASSOCIATION OF SAN DIEGO
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -16%
  • TM
    TRA MEDICAL IMAGING FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +44%
  • WASHINGTON HEALTHCARE ACCESS ALLIANCEgraduated
    one 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.

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.

1
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
2
Senior Life Resources Northwest

To preserve and enhance the quality of life at home, with dignity and care.

Human Services
3
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
4
Seattle Foundation

Seattle foundation's mission is to ignite powerful and rewarding philanthropy to make greater seattle a stronger, more vibrant community for all.

Philanthropy
5
Tucson Audubon Society

Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.

Animals
6
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

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.

Animals
7
Disability Rights Washington

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.

Human Services
8
Association of Washington Cities

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…

9
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
10
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
11
Horizon House

Purposeful living in a diverse community. using the power of resident driven community to enhance wellbeing.

Human Services
12
CRAFT3

To build a thriving, just and empowered pacific northwest using capital, relationships and voice.

Community Improvement

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%1%<5yr16%3%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr16%42%20–35yr11%23%35–55yr12%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%2%<5yr16%2%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr16%45%20–35yr11%23%35–55yr12%16%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/84
the rest of the field
15%
7,449/49,666

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.

05the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/82
Grantees still filing
58/82
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $83,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLindquist Dental Clinic for Childre — $78,000 · OtherYoung Life Arizona Region — $75,000 · OtherOptimist Club Fdn Point Loma — $60,000 · OtherSALMON FOR SOLDIERS — $107,000 · OtherSALMON FOR SOLDIERSMentorKids USA — $68,750 · OtherUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC — $60,000 · Other+52 more — $982,000 · Other+52 moreMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS — $185,000 · HealthMULTICARE FOUN…Banner Health Foundation — $53,000 · HealthBanner Health …CATHERINE PLACE — $43,750 · HealthCATHERINE PLAC…THE NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CLINIC INC — $35,500 · HealthTHE NEIGHBORHO…THE CAROL MILGARD BREAST CENTER — $35,000 · HealthTHE CAROL MILG…Downtown Emergency Service Center — $29,500 · HealthDowntown Emerg…Acres of Diamonds — $15,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $15,000 · Health+4 more — $32,500 · Health+4 moreSHOES THAT FIT — $135,000 · Human ServicesSHOES THAT FITTears Foundation — $85,000 · Human ServicesTears Foundati…ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO — $61,500 · Human ServicesELDERHELP OF S…Tacoma Community House — $45,000 · Human ServicesTacoma Communi…YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $28,000 · Human ServicesYWCA OF SAN DI…SAN DIEGO OASIS — $25,500 · Human ServicesSAN DIEGO OASI…YOUTH OUTDOORS UNLIMITED — $25,500 · Human ServicesYOUTH OUTDOORS…NW FURNITURE BANK — $25,000 · Human ServicesNW FURNITURE B…+1 more — $10,500 · Human ServicesGREENTRIKE — $125,000 · Arts & CultureGREENTRIKEADMIRAL THEATRE FOUNDATION — $47,000 · Arts & CultureADMIRAL TH…SAN DIEGO CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $40,000 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO …TACOMA YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $35,000 · Arts & CultureTACOMA YOU…LITTLE ITALY ASSOCIATION OF SAN DIEGO — $25,000 · Arts & CultureLITTLE ITA…Fern Street Community Arts Inc — $17,500 · Arts & CultureFern Stree…+3 more — $24,200 · Arts & Culture+3 morePOINT DEFIANCE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $140,000 · AnimalsPOINT DEF…ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO — $100,000 · AnimalsZOOLOGICA…HARBOR ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTEERS FOR ANIMALS — $19,500 · AnimalsHARBOR AS…THE ROLLING DOG FARM — $10,000 · AnimalsYOUNG LIFE — $135,500 · Youth DevelopmentCHOOSE 180 — $26,500 · Youth DevelopmentJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PENINSULA — $22,550 · Youth DevelopmentEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY — $68,500 · Food & NutritionWaste Not Inc — $60,000 · Food & NutritionST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $29,000 · Food & NutritionMAMA'S KITCHEN — $20,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,514,500Health$444,250Human Services$441,000Arts & Culture$313,700Animals$269,500Youth Development$209,550Food & Nutrition$177,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS — $185,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPOINT DEFIANCE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $140,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $135,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHOES THAT FIT — $135,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetGREENTRIKE — $125,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetSALMON FOR SOLDIERS — $107,000 over 8y, 20% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO — $100,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTears Foundation — $85,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetMentorKids USA — $68,750 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY — $68,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO — $61,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetWaste Not Inc — $60,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC — $60,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBanner Health Foundation — $53,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF AMERICAN LAKE VETERANS GOLF COURSE — $50,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetHUSTLE USA — $48,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetADMIRAL THEATRE FOUNDATION — $47,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTacoma Community House — $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe New School — $44,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMY SISTERS PANTRY — $44,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetCATHERINE PLACE — $43,750 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetSAN DIEGO CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $40,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY — $39,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHANCE PARK CONSERVANCY — $37,500 over 5y, 54% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $37,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CLINIC INC — $35,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN — $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGENEVA FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTACOMA YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $35,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CAROL MILGARD BREAST CENTER — $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation — $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetGOT YOUR 6 FISHING — $30,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDowntown Emergency Service Center — $29,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $29,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $28,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWashington Women in Need — $27,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCHOOSE 180 — $26,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHOME START INC — $26,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO OASIS — $25,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH OUTDOORS UNLIMITED — $25,500 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetUNITED THROUGH READING — $25,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNW FURNITURE BANK — $25,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLITTLE ITALY ASSOCIATION OF SAN DIEGO — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH — $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS — $25,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PENINSULA — $22,550 over 5y, 0.8% 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.

  • 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.

The Norcliffe FoundationWA35.1× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%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
    31report 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, FY2025

    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 101 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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