How much does Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari give?

Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari reported 23 grants totaling $4,874,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 41 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (32%), Human Services (18%), Youth Development (14%).

Who are Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Multicare Foundations ($11M), Boys and Girls Clubs of South Puget Sound ($3.2M), The Rescue Mission ($1.6M).

Does Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari?

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

Where is Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari based?

Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari is based in WA.

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Washington · Private foundation

Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.9M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 23
Grants FY2025: 21
Organizations funded FY2024: 33%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $100,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $1,000,000
Organizations funded a year: 11 to 41; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $127M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsInternationalOther

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
FY2025still arriving	21	$4.9M	14%
FY2024	21	$4.6M	33%
FY2023	11	$901k	18%
FY2022	15	$1.8M	27%
FY2021	11	$11M	0%
FY2020	21	$2.9M	24%
FY2019	21	$4.8M	38%
FY2018	41	$4.5M	49%

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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 2025.

Health$13MHuman Services$7.4MYouth Development$5.7MHousing & Shelter$3.0MAnimals$2.3MEducation$2.2MFood & Nutrition$2.0MArts & Culture$1.5MOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Multicare Foundations	$11,028,200	3	91%
Boys and Girls Clubs of South Puget Sound	$3,155,000	8	7%
The Rescue Mission	$1,630,000	5	6%
University of Washington Foundation	$1,510,000	3	0%
Franke Tobey Jones	$1,000,000	2	4%
Tra Medical Imaging Foundation	$1,000,000	1	n/a
Young Men's Christian Association of Pierce and Kitsap Counties	$1,000,000	4	1%
Greentrike	$810,000	3	17%
Washington State Fair Foundation	$755,000	2	31%
Asia Pacific Cultural Center	$750,000	1	9%

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All grantees of Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Multicare Foundations	$11,028,200	3	91%
Boys and Girls Clubs of South Puget Sound	$3,155,000	8	7%
The Rescue Mission	$1,630,000	5	6%
University of Washington Foundation	$1,510,000	3	0%
Franke Tobey Jones	$1,000,000	2	4%
Tra Medical Imaging Foundation	$1,000,000	1	n/a
Young Men's Christian Association of Pierce and Kitsap Counties	$1,000,000	4	1%
Greentrike	$810,000	3	17%
Washington State Fair Foundation	$755,000	2	31%
Asia Pacific Cultural Center	$750,000	1	9%
Emergency Food Network of Tacoma and Pierce County	$690,000	7	0%
Tacomapierce County Habitat for Humanit	$650,000	2	3%
YWCA Pierce County	$650,000	6	3%
Nourish Pierce County	$646,000	4	3%
Olive Crest	$550,000	6	0%
Amara	$520,000	5	3%
Making a Difference Foundation	$500,000	6	1%
Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation	$500,000	1	17%
Step by Step Family Support Center	$475,000	3	6%
HopeSparks	$450,000	3	1%
Toy Rescue Mission	$432,500	6	64%
Kitsap Humane Society	$350,000	2	1%
People for Animal Care and Kindness	$335,000	5	87%
Associated Ministries of Tacoma-Pierce County	$316,840	6	1%
New Phoebe House	$305,000	3	17%
Clark Assistance Fund	$300,000	1	91%
Point Defiance Zoological Society	$250,000	1	10%
Museum of Glass	$250,000	1	6%
Safe Streets Campaign	$250,000	1	n/a
United Way of Pierce County	$225,000	3	1%
Key Peninsula Community Council	$205,380	2	25%
Medical Teams International	$200,000	2	0%
Partners for Parks	$200,000	1	35%
South Sound Care Foundation	$200,000	8	4%
Lindquist Dental Clinic for Children	$200,000	2	3%
Pasado's Safe Haven	$195,106	1	4%
South Sound Outreach Services	$180,000	2	7%
Page Ahead Childrens Literacy Prgm	$155,583	4	6%
World Vets	$152,000	1	14%
Rebuilding Hope Sexual Assault Center	$150,000	1	5%
Childrens Fund	$150,000	1	n/a
Tacoma Community House	$125,000	2	1%
Tacoma Pierce County Blood Bank Inc	$120,000	2	1%
Caring for Kids	$100,000	2	n/a
Korean Women's Association	$100,000	1	n/a
Friends of the Children	$100,000	1	1%
Sumner Community Food Bank	$81,300	2	1%
The Youth Marine Foundation	$80,000	1	5%
Childrens Home Society of Washington	$70,000	3	0%
Peace Community Center	$65,000	1	4%
Gig Harbor Kiwanis Foundation	$60,000	1	n/a
The Carol Milgard Breast Center	$50,000	1	0%
Brightspark Early Learning Services	$50,000	1	0%
Friend to Friend-America	$50,000	1	n/a
Charles Wright Academy	$50,000	1	0%
Narrow Door	$50,000	1	n/a
Eliseo Foundation	$42,440	1	6%
Pcc Farmland Trust	$35,880	1	1%
Neighborhood Clinic	$35,000	2	8%
A Family for Every Child	$35,000	1	6%
Cjk Community Homes	$30,000	1	4%
Frankie's Friends Inc	$25,000	1	3%
Communities in Schools of Peninsula	$24,000	1	6%
Western Rivers Conservancy	$21,000	1	0%
Noahs Pet Project	$20,000	1	n/a
Food Backpacks 4 Kids	$20,000	2	1%
Good Samaritan Foundation	$20,000	2	0%
Soar Inc	$20,000	2	n/a
Puget Sound Pet Food Bank	$15,000	1	n/a
Green Lantern Lunch Program	$12,500	1	13%
Northwest Harvest Emm	$10,000	1	0%
Hope for Heroes Horsemanship Center	$5,000	1	n/a
Elements of Education Partners	$3,500	2	0%
Calvary Community Church	$3,500	2	n/a
Sustainable Harvest International	$1,000	1	0%
Pacific Premier F C	$1,000	1	0%
Young Life	$1,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.1M), not named here.

Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

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 64.

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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 FoundationWA82.3× affinity39 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 Norcliffe Foundation · The Bamford Foundation · Woodworth Family Foundation · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · The Russell Family Foundation · Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc · Multicare Health System · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Sequoia 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 Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari

How much does Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari give?: Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari reported 23 grants totaling $4,874,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 41 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (32%), Human Services (18%), Youth Development (14%).
Who are Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Multicare Foundations ($11M), Boys and Girls Clubs of South Puget Sound ($3.2M), The Rescue Mission ($1.6M).
Does Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai, The Norcliffe Foundation.
Where is Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari based?: Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari is based in WA.