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Forest Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
56
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.6MEducation$1.2MHuman Services$602kHealth$376kYouth Development$341kHousing & Shelter$160kCivil Rights$148kRecreation & Sports$122kOther$0
02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $570k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $370k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$100,000
MUSEUM OF GLASS$70,000
TACOMA ART MUSEUM$50,000
MARY BRIDGE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION$50,000
VIRGINIA MASON FOUNDATION$50,000
SEATTLE SYMPHONY$50,000
GRAND TACOMA CINE CLUB$40,000
TACOMA ARTS LIVE$35,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND$30,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY TACOMA PIERCE COUNTY$25,000
REBUILDING HOPE SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER$25,000
SYMPHONY TACOMA$25,000
VALEO VOCATION$25,000
NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT$20,000
TACOMA YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION$20,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $463k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE COFFEE OASIS: $10k → 10%SCARLET ROAD: $5k → 10%SCARLET ROAD: $5k → 10%NORTHWEST HOSPITALITY: $10k → 10%COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $20k → 9%NORTHWEST HOSPITALITY: $5k → 10%NORTHWEST HOSPITALITY: $5k → 10%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $30k → 9%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WA: $30k → 9%MULTICULTURAL CHILD & FAMILY HOPE CENTER: $25k → 9%THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $5k → 9%TACOMA URBAN LEAGUE: $20k → 9%THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $5k → 9%TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $18k → 9%THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $5k → 9%TACOMA URBAN LEAGUE: $15k → 9%THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $5k → 9%TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $15k → 9%THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $4k → 9%TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $15k → 9%TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $15k → 9%SOUND OUTREACH: $10k → 9%SOUND OUTREACH: $10k → 9%BRIGHTSPARK EARLY LEARNING SERVICES: $10k → 9%SOUND OUTREACH: $10k → 9%SOUND OUTREACH: $8k → 9%SOUND OUTREACH: $8k → 9%TACOMA URBAN LEAGUE: $5k → 9%BETHEL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 9%BETHEL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 9%BETHEL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 9%BETHEL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 9%GIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH: $15k → 9%EATONVILLE AREA COUNCIL: $10k → 9%EATONVILLE AREA COUNCIL: $10k → 9%EATONVILLE AREA COUNCIL: $10k → 9%EATONVILLE AREA COUNCIL: $10k → 9%NORTHWEST FURNITURE BANK: $10k → 9%AMARA: $10k → 9%AMARA: $10k → 9%GIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH: $10k → 9%CHILD CARE RESOURCES: $10k → 9%CHILDCARE RESOURCES: $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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 67 repeat orgs$712k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

67 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
41

Total granted

$4.4M
$477k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
0%

Still filing today

87%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentHousing & ShelterHealthOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $575k · revenue +11%
  • MO
    Museum of Glass
    5× · 2021–2025 · $530k · revenue +83%
  • TACOMA ARTS LIVE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $195k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF PUGET SOUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +34%
  • MC
    MULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +28%
  • EF
    EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
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
Family Promise of Pierce County

To empower families experiencing housing insecurity through intervention, prevention,and stabilization services.

Housing & Shelter
2
Re Sources

RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.

Environment
3
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
4
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
5
Tenino Community Service Center

Tenino Community Service Center/Tenino Food Bank Plus is a deep-rooted community-based service center dedicated to feeding those within the Tenino school district (Tenino and Bucoda) that may be disadvantaged. In addition, it is our…

Food & Nutrition
6
Whatcom Dispute Resolution Center

Provide and promote constructive and collaborative approaches to conflict resolution through mediation, training, facilitation, supervised visits and community education.

Unclassified
7
Artist Trust

Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.

Arts & Culture
8
Rainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalition

Rainier Beach Action Coalition is a grassroot, Black-led organization devoted to locally driven development. It promotes quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing, and building community capacity in…

Community Improvement
9
Pacific Northwest Economic Region Foundation

To increase the economic well-being and quality of life for all citizens of the region; to coordinate provincial, territorial, and state policies throughout the region; to identify and promote "models of success and to serve as a conduit…

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10
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center

KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…

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11
Tacoma Little Theatre and Drama League Inc

Providing live theatre and education programs that inspire through stories reflecting the vibrancy of our diverse community.

Arts & Culture
12
House Our Neighbors

House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Tacoma Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Chambers Creek Foundation. 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

97 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. 97 of the 118 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
96/97
Grantees still filing
51/97
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Museum of Glass: $530,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of GlassTacoma Art Museum: $200,000 · Arts & CultureTacoma Art MuseumTACOMA ARTS LIVE: $195,000 · Arts & CultureTACOMA ARTS LIVESYMPHONY TACOMA: $140,000 · Arts & CultureSYMPHONY TACOMANORTHWEST SINFONIETTA INC: $85,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST SINFONIETTA INCGREENTRIKE: $56,000 · Arts & CultureTACOMA OPERA ASSOCIATION PROFESSIONAL SERVICES: $55,000 · Arts & CultureTACOMA YOUTH CHORUS: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $178,500 · Arts & Culture+9 moreUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $575,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON F…FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $150,000 · EducationFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINAR…R MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP: $130,000 · EducationR MERLE PALMER MINORITY SC…College Success Foundation: $105,000 · EducationCollege Success FoundationDEGREES OF CHANGE: $65,000 · EducationDEGREES OF CHANGEHILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE: $50,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS: $50,000 · Education+4 more: $60,000 · EducationBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND: $195,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUG…VIRGINIA MASON FOUNDATION: $150,000 · OtherVIRGINIA MASON FOUNDATIONNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT: $100,000 · OtherNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJEC…YWCA PIERCE COUNTY: $70,000 · OtherTACOMA YOUTH SYMPHONY: $60,000 · Other+54 more: $957,100 · Other+54 moreTacoma Community House: $63,000 · Human ServicesTacoma Com…CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $60,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC C…SOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES: $46,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH SOUN…Tacoma Urban League: $40,000 · Human ServicesTacoma Urb…Eatonville Area Council DBA Eatonville Family Agency: $40,000 · Human ServicesEatonville…Brightspark Early Learning Services: $30,000 · Human ServicesBrightspar…GIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH: $25,000 · Human ServicesGIG HARBOR…MULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER: $25,000 · Human ServicesMULTICULTU…THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $24,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST HOSPITALITY: $20,000 · Human ServicesBETHEL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $20,000 · Human ServicesAMARA: $20,000 · Human Services+4 more: $33,300 · Human Services+4 moreCOMPREHENSIVE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY: $63,500 · HealthMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthEDGE FOUNDATION: $43,000 · HealthTACOMA PIERCE COUNTY CHAPLAINCY: $40,000 · HealthDIABETES ASSOC OF PIERCE COUNTY: $7,000 · HealthUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTACOMA COMMUNITY BOAT BUILDERS INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $3,000 · PhilanthropyNEW PHOEBE HOUSE: $52,000 · Housing & ShelterTACOMAPIERCE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANIT: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterEXODUS HOUSING: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterHELPING HAND HOUSE: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterNEXT CHAPTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Arts & Culture$1,489,500Education$1,185,000Other$1,532,100Human Services$466,300Health$203,500Philanthropy$133,000Housing & Shelter$122,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $575,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Glass: $530,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetTacoma Art Museum: $200,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetTACOMA ARTS LIVE: $195,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSYMPHONY TACOMA: $140,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetR MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP: $130,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetCollege Success Foundation: $105,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT: $100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY: $100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNORTHWEST SINFONIETTA INC: $85,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetYWCA PIERCE COUNTY: $70,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDEGREES OF CHANGE: $65,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCOMPREHENSIVE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY: $63,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTacoma Community House: $63,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENTRIKE: $56,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTACOMA OPERA ASSOCIATION PROFESSIONAL SERVICES: $55,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetNEW PHOEBE HOUSE: $52,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetHILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE: $50,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS: $50,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTACOMA YOUTH CHORUS: $50,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetPIERCE COUNTY CENTER FOR DISPUTE RESOLUT: $47,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES: $46,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetEDGE FOUNDATION: $43,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetFOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT: $41,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTACOMA YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $40,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTACOMA PIERCE COUNTY CHAPLAINCY: $40,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetTacoma Urban League: $40,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetEatonville Area Council DBA Eatonville Family Agency: $40,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetRebuilding Hope Sexual Assault Center: $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM TACOMA PIERCE COUNTY CHAPTER: $34,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetBrightspark Early Learning Services: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTeamChild: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetForeverGreen Trails: $30,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetHOMES FIRST: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFoothills Rails-to-Trails Coalition: $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF PUGET SOUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetA STEP AHEAD IN PIERCE COUNTY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTACOMAPIERCE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANIT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVALEO VOCATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGoodwill of the Olympics and Rainier Region: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $24,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHWEST HOSPITALITY: $20,000 over 3y, 5.6% 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…Fuchsg & M Fdn TaiThe Bamford FoundationKilworth Florence Cha…The Norcliffe Foundat…Sequoia FoundationWoodworth Family Foun…Gary E Milgard Family…Heidner Marco J Char …June & Julian Foss Fo…Ben B Cheney Foundati…Puget Sound Energy Fo…
Greater Tacoma Community FoundationWA123.2× affinity61 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · The Bamford Foundation · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · The Norcliffe Foundation · Sequoia Foundation · Woodworth Family Foundation · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine · Heidner Marco J Char Trust · June & Julian Foss Foundation · Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc · Puget Sound Energy Foundation

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 Forest Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Forest Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
50report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Forest Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Forest Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 118 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home