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Emergency Food Network of Tacoma and Pierce County at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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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.

$25M
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$313k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 32 grants below total $915,532, the rows itemized in this filing. The $25,179,079 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $24,263,547 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $93k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $203k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $307k
  • $250k+1 grant · $313k
$9,778
Median grant
1
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MULTICULTURAL CHILD & FAMILY HOPE CENTER: $4k → 9%UNIVERSITY PLACE FOOD BANK (UP): $10k → 9%FOOD BACKPACKS 4 KIDS: $18k → 9%KEY PENINSULA COMMUNITY SERVICES (KPCS): $12k → 9%EATONVILLE FAMILY AGENCY: $13k → 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 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
Port Angeles Food Bank

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.

Food & Nutrition
2
West Seattle Food Bank

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.

Food & Nutrition
3
Central Kitsap Food Bank

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

Food & Nutrition
4
Nooksack Valley Food Bank Association

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.

Food & Nutrition
5
Storehouse Food Bank

Serving our community with healthy food and care.

Food & Nutrition
6
Lake Chelan Food Bank

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.

Food & Nutrition
7
Snohomish Community Food Bank

To provide food and services in a caring and dignified manner to neighbors in need

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8
Snoqualmie Valley Food Bank

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.

Food & Nutrition
9
Sharenet Food Bank

Address hunger and poverty in North Kitsap while respecting the dignity of those we serve in a nourshing environment.

Food & Nutrition
10
Renewal Food Bank

Renewal Food Bank provides food to needy and economically vulnerable individuals who live in Bellevue, Washington and surrounding communities

Human Services
11
Washington County Food Bank Inc

Food distribution to needy individuals and families.

Food & Nutrition
12
Puyallup Food Bank

We are passionate about meeting the urgent needs of our neighbors and partnering to assist them, believing food is the first step on their journey to a more hopeful future!

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Unlimited Network; the most unlike its peers is Red Barn Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

31 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
10/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION: $312,991 · InternationalMAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATIONNourish Pierce County: $71,269 · OtherNourish Pierce CountyST LEOS PARISH: $50,747 · OtherST LEOS PARISHPARKWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50,220 · OtherPARKWAY COMMUNITY SERVICESACT-A Common Thread: $36,385 · OtherACT-A Common ThreadTHE SALVATION ARMY: $14,363 · OtherST MARTIN OF TOURS CHURCH: $13,276 · Other+9 more: $48,835 · Other+9 moreGoodRoots Northwest: $76,427 · Food & NutritionGoodRoots NorthwestFEEDING FEASIBLE FEASTS: $58,471 · Food & NutritionFEEDING FEASIBLE FEASTSBASH Bikers Against Statewide Hunger: $41,254 · Food & NutritionBASH Bikers Against Statewide …Sumner Community Food Bank: $37,357 · Food & NutritionSumner Community Food BankTacoma Adventist Community Services: $20,594 · Food & NutritionTacoma Adventist Community Ser…+2 more: $14,856 · Food & Nutrition+2 moreFOOD BACKPACKS 4 KIDS: $17,806 · Human ServicesEatonville Area Council DBA Eatonville Family Agency: $12,681 · Human ServicesKEY PENINSULA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $11,909 · Human ServicesFAMILIES UNLIMITED NETWORK: $9,778 · Human ServicesMULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER: $4,063 · Human ServicesTHE PRISON SCHOLAR FUND: $5,576 · Crime & LegalMY SISTERS PANTRY: $3,869 · ReligionTILLICUM WOODBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER: $2,805 · Recreation & Sports
International$312,991Other$285,095Food & Nutrition$248,959Human Services$56,237Crime & Legal$5,576Religion$3,869Recreation & Sports$2,805

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION: $312,991 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetGoodRoots Northwest: $76,427 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNourish Pierce County: $71,269 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBASH Bikers Against Statewide Hunger: $41,254 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSumner Community Food Bank: $37,357 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetACT-A Common Thread: $36,385 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTacoma Adventist Community Services: $20,594 over 1y, 15% of budgetFOOD BACKPACKS 4 KIDS: $17,806 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetEatonville Area Council DBA Eatonville Family Agency: $12,681 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKEY PENINSULA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $11,909 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFAMILIES UNLIMITED NETWORK: $9,778 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOrting Food Bank Inc: $7,838 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKEY PENINSULA BISCHOFF FOOD BANK: $7,018 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PRISON SCHOLAR FUND: $5,576 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER: $4,063 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMY SISTERS PANTRY: $3,869 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetTILLICUM WOODBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER: $2,805 over 1y, 2.5% 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.

Food LifelinePuget Sound Energy Fo…Northwest Harvest EmmGreater Tacoma Commun…Gary E Milgard Family…The Bamford FoundationWoodworth Family Foun…United Way of Pierce …Fuchsg & M Fdn TaiMulticare Health Syst…The Russell Family Fo…Harvest Against Hunger
Food LifelineWA56× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Emergency Food Network of Tacoma and Pierce County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Emergency Food Network of Tacoma and Pierce County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 31 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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