How much does Foundation for Tacoma Students give?

Foundation for Tacoma Students reported 34 itemized grants totaling $1,006,464, out of $1,155,842 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 37 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Foundation for Tacoma Students fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (39%), Youth Development (22%), Arts & Culture (12%).

Who are Foundation for Tacoma Students's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: First Five Fundamentals ($386k), Degrees of Change ($375k), Greentrike ($276k).

Does Foundation for Tacoma Students fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Foundation for Tacoma Students?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, The Bamford Foundation, Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai.

Where is Foundation for Tacoma Students based?

Foundation for Tacoma Students is based in WA.

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Washington · Public charity

Foundation for Tacoma Students

To increase by 50% both the graduation rate of tacoma public schools students and those who complete a college degree or technical certificate. Success will require measuring and closing gaps in access, opportunities and achievement for all students from cradle to college and career.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 34
Itemized grants FY2024: 37
Organizations funded FY2023: 65%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $1.0M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $17,500
Largest grant, FY2024: $351,453
Organizations funded a year: 9 to 37; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $846k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 65% of the organizations Foundation for Tacoma Students funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $482k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	34	$1.0M	29%
FY2023	37	$870k	65%
FY2022	9	$87k	78%
FY2021	31	$817k	55%
FY2020	32	$998k	56%
FY2019	32	$919k	56%
FY2018	18	$169k	39%
FY2017	16	$117k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.9MYouth Development$1.1MArts & Culture$582kHuman Services$453kHousing & Shelter$312kRecreation & Sports$219kCommunity Improvement$98kCrime & Legal$83kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
First Five Fundamentals	$386,453	2	11%
Degrees of Change	$375,000	3	6%
Greentrike	$275,860	5	5%
Tacoma Housing Development Group	$230,500	3	67%
Tacoma Public Schools	$155,640	5	n/a
Franklin Pierce School District No 402	$125,750	3	n/a
College Success Foundation	$121,700	3	0%
Multicultural Child and Family Hope Center	$116,900	5	1%
Asia Pacific Cultural Center	$104,800	6	4%
Brightspark Early Learning Services	$95,000	2	0%

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All grantees of Foundation for Tacoma Students by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
First Five Fundamentals	$386,453	2	11%
Degrees of Change	$375,000	3	6%
Greentrike	$275,860	5	5%
Tacoma Housing Development Group	$230,500	3	67%
Tacoma Public Schools	$155,640	5	n/a
Franklin Pierce School District No 402	$125,750	3	n/a
College Success Foundation	$121,700	3	0%
Multicultural Child and Family Hope Center	$116,900	5	1%
Asia Pacific Cultural Center	$104,800	6	4%
Brightspark Early Learning Services	$95,000	2	0%
R Merle Palmer Minority Scholarship	$85,350	5	4%
Pacific Lutheran University	$81,185	2	0%
Boys and Girls Clubs of South Puget Sound	$72,750	4	0%
Enhanced Prep	$70,000	4	n/a
Peace Community Center	$68,825	4	2%
Hilltop Artists in Residence	$67,200	5	2%
Young Men's Christian Association of Pierce and Kitsap Counties	$66,250	5	0%
Clover Park Technical College Foundation	$65,331	3	5%
Elements of Education Partners	$65,000	2	6%
Tacoma Community College Foundation	$60,000	1	3%
The Game Time Way	$60,000	2	6%
Safe Streets Campaign	$58,000	3	1%
School's Out Washington	$57,382	4	0%
Tacoma Arts Live	$56,000	4	0%
Northwest Education Access	$56,000	3	1%
Pierce County Aids Foundation	$55,000	2	1%
Write253	$54,000	3	19%
Communities in Schools of Tacoma	$52,000	5	7%
Leadership Foundations	$50,000	2	1%
Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation	$50,000	1	1%
University of Washington Foundation	$49,000	3	0%
City of Fife	$47,928	1	n/a
Build 2 Lead	$46,500	2	9%
Peninsula School District	$46,200	2	n/a
Tacoma Urban League	$41,750	3	1%
Shunpike	$41,481	2	1%
Pierce College	$40,000	1	n/a
Kbtc Association	$40,000	2	2%
Tacoma Urban Performing Arts Center	$40,000	1	17%
Tacoma Ministerial Alliance	$37,500	1	8%
Tacoma Community Boat Builders Inc	$35,000	2	2%
Scholarship Fund for Rainier Scholars	$35,000	1	11%
The Rescue Mission	$35,000	1	0%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound	$35,000	1	1%
City of Buckley	$30,000	2	n/a
Krownless Kings	$30,000	2	18%
The Strong Experience	$30,000	1	n/a
Camp Fire	$30,000	1	19%
Gridiron Foundation	$30,000	1	n/a
Collaborative Effort Inc	$29,000	1	n/a
Imagine Justice	$28,000	1	n/a
Friends of the Children	$26,000	2	n/a
Hopes and Dreams Foundation	$25,000	2	21%
United Way of Pierce County	$25,000	1	0%
HopeSparks	$25,000	1	0%
Boys and Girls Clubs of South Puget Sound	$25,000	1	n/a
Mi Centro	$25,000	2	2%
South Kitsap School District	$25,000	2	n/a
Kbtc	$25,000	1	n/a
Tacoma Shine Youth Athletics	$25,000	1	n/a
Ark Institute of Learning	$25,000	2	2%
Metropolitan Development Council	$25,000	1	0%
Shared Housing Services	$25,000	1	2%
Tacoma Youth Symphony Association	$24,950	2	1%
Brotherhood Rise Center	$24,500	1	2%
Tacoma Art Museum	$24,000	2	n/a
Communities in Schools of Peninsula	$22,033	1	2%
Metro Aquatics	$20,000	1	n/a
Reading Is Fundamental Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Speak Up	$20,000	1	n/a
Children of Light Community Center	$20,000	1	n/a
Push Inspiration LLC	$20,000	1	n/a
Building Youth Through Music	$20,000	1	6%
Bates Technical College Foundation	$20,000	1	2%
Washington Trafficking Prevention	$20,000	1	10%
Arts Corps	$20,000	1	1%
Priceless Inspiration Foundation	$19,000	1	n/a
Mi Chiantla	$19,000	1	n/a
Communities in Schools of Lakewood Inc	$18,853	1	2%
Puyallup Watershed Initiative	$18,274	1	n/a
Metro Parks District of Tacom	$17,229	3	n/a
Supportive Housing Association	$16,227	1	n/a
Mountain View Community Center	$15,000	1	2%
Goodwill of the Olympics and Rainier Region	$15,000	1	0%
Microsoft Corporation (Us)	$13,197	1	n/a
Na'ah Illahee Fund	$11,738	1	0%
Tacoma Pierce County Employment	$11,500	1	n/a
Technology Access Foundation	$11,073	1	0%
Launch Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Studycom LLC	$10,000	1	n/a
Jsol Studios LLC	$10,000	1	n/a
Donorschooseorg	$9,853	1	0%
Portland State University Foundation	$8,873	1	0%
Walkership LLC	$8,797	1	n/a
The University of Puget Sound	$8,625	2	0%
Eastside Pathways	$8,000	1	1%
United Way of the Blue Mountains	$8,000	1	1%
Seattle University	$8,000	1	0%
Heritage University	$8,000	1	0%
Northeast Community Center Association	$8,000	1	0%
Community Center for Education Results	$8,000	1	0%
Rvc Seattle	$8,000	1	0%
Page Ahead Childrens Literacy Prgm	$7,693	1	0%
9th and 10th Horse Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers	$7,200	1	2%
Carver's Camp Canoe Journey -Ashley Mocorro Powell	$6,930	1	n/a
Innovative Change Makers	$6,852	1	4%
Zeno	$6,500	1	0%
Tacoma Community College	$6,500	1	n/a
University of Washington	$6,500	1	n/a
Co-Rippling	$6,000	1	n/a
Our Sisters House	$5,250	1	0%
Hilltop Urban Gardens Co Tacoma Urban League	$5,250	1	n/a
The People's Assembly	$5,000	1	n/a
Housing Authority of the City of Tacoma	$5,000	1	n/a
Washington State Historical Society	$5,000	1	n/a
Tacoma Musical Playhouse	$2,800	1	n/a
Tacoma Community House	$2,500	1	0%

Foundation for Tacoma Students supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 76 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 76.

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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 Community FoundationWA106.6× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · The Bamford Foundation · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · School's Out Washington · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Woodworth Family Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine · Heidner Marco J Char Trust · Seattle Foundation · Medina 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.

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About Foundation for Tacoma Students

How much does Foundation for Tacoma Students give?: Foundation for Tacoma Students reported 34 itemized grants totaling $1,006,464, out of $1,155,842 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 37 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Foundation for Tacoma Students fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (39%), Youth Development (22%), Arts & Culture (12%).
Who are Foundation for Tacoma Students's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: First Five Fundamentals ($386k), Degrees of Change ($375k), Greentrike ($276k).
Does Foundation for Tacoma Students fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Foundation for Tacoma Students?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, The Bamford Foundation, Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai.
Where is Foundation for Tacoma Students based?: Foundation for Tacoma Students is based in WA.