· Public charity
Emergency Food Network of Tacoma and Pierce County
Providing pierce county, wa with a consistent and nutritious food supply, so that no person goes hungry.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 32 grants below total $915,532 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $25,179,079 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $24,263,547 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $203k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $307k
- $250k+1 grant · $313k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELOISE'S COOKING POT | $312,991 |
| GOODROOTS NORTHWEST | $76,427 |
| NOURISH OF PIERCE COUNTY | $71,269 |
| FEEDING FEASIBLE FEASTS | $58,471 |
| FOOD CONNECTION | $50,747 |
| PARKWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES | $50,220 |
| BASH FOOD BANK | $41,254 |
| SUMNER COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $37,357 |
| A COMMON THREAD | $36,385 |
| TACOMA ADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES (TACS) | $20,594 |
| FOOD BACKPACKS 4 KIDS | $17,806 |
| FIFE MILTON FOOD BANK | $13,276 |
| EATONVILLE FAMILY AGENCY | $12,681 |
| KEY PENINSULA COMMUNITY SERVICES (KPCS) | $11,909 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY - TACOMA | $11,342 |
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 (FY24–24, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
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.
Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.
To provide food at no cost in a caring an respectful manner to those in need in our community, while preserving the dignity of those we serve
West Seattle Food Bank strengthens the community through the power of neighbors helping neighbors, working to ensure all in our community have access to the essential necessities of living.
Serving our community with healthy food and care.
Our mission is to provide a variety of food products to families and individuals who are in need. We are open one day a week.
The mission of Lake Chelan Food Bank is to treat each person we serve with dignity and respect and to provide balanced and varied options that give each person the liberty to meet the specific food needs for themsevles and/or their family.
To provide food and services in a caring and dignified manner to neighbors in need
Our mission is to provide food and key resources to help our neighbors and community thrive. we lead the effort to feed, educated and advocate ending hunger in the snoqualmie valley and beyond.
Renewal Food Bank provides food to needy and economically vulnerable individuals who live in Bellevue, Washington and surrounding communities
Food distribution to needy individuals and families.
Our mission is to provide food and referral services at no cost in a caring and respectful manner to those in need. We strive to eliminate hunger and restore the quality of life in our clients.
Address hunger and poverty in North Kitsap while respecting the dignity of those we serve in a nourshing environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Unlimited Network and the most unlike its peers is Bash Bikers Against Statewide Hunger. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
31 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.
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 MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GoodRoots Northwest ↗
- Who funds Nourish Pierce County ↗
- Who funds FEEDING FEASIBLE FEASTS ↗
- Who funds BASH Bikers Against Statewide Hunger ↗
- Who funds Sumner Community Food Bank ↗
- Who funds ACT-A Common Thread ↗
- Who funds Tacoma Adventist Community Services ↗
- Who funds FOOD BACKPACKS 4 KIDS ↗
- Who funds Eatonville Area Council DBA Eatonville Family Agency ↗
- Who funds KEY PENINSULA COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES UNLIMITED NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Orting Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds KEY PENINSULA BISCHOFF FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE PRISON SCHOLAR FUND ↗
- Who funds MULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MY SISTERS PANTRY ↗
- Who funds TILLICUM WOODBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
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: Food Lifeline · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Northwest Harvest Emm · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine · The Bamford Foundation · Woodworth Family Foundation · United Way of Pierce County · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · Multicare Health System · The Russell Family Foundation · Harvest Against Hunger
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 Emergency Food Network of Tacoma and Pierce County 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.