· Private foundation
Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+8 grants · $3.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TACOMA RESCUE MISSION | $1,000,000 |
| TRA MEDICAL IMAGING FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| GOODROOTS | $339,000 |
| KITSAP HUMANE SOCIETY | $300,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND | $300,000 |
| HOPESPARKS FAMILY SERVICES | $250,000 |
| YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES | $250,000 |
| PACK-PEOPLE FOR ANIMAL CARE AND KINDNESS | $250,000 |
| NOURISH PIERCE COUNTY | $175,000 |
| REBUILDING HOPE | $150,000 |
| KOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK | $100,000 |
| MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL | $100,000 |
| TOY RESCUE MISSION | $100,000 |
| MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $4.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 70% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MFMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS3× · 2017–2021 · $11M · revenue +163% · 91% of their budget
- TRTHE RESCUE MISSION5× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +159%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $1.5M · revenue +46%
Funded once
- APAsia Pacific Cultural Centergraduatedone grant, 2024 · $750k · revenue +41%
- GMGreater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +48%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $350k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To empower families experiencing housing insecurity through intervention, prevention,and stabilization services.
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.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
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,…
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
PAWS cares for lost, abandoned and abused animals and finds them new homes with responsible owners. PAWS also provides low cost spay and neuter services, a pet food pantry, and community education. During 2024 PAWS adopted out 577 pets.…
Strengthening the community by providing accessible and affordable health care.
Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…
To bring people, communities, and resources together to ensure waterfront park thrives as a vibrant gathering space - uplifting locals, fostering connections and honoring seattle's natural beauty and stories.
To provide exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education, and advocacy for all.
Improving the quality of life for the people in the Olympic Peninsula Community by providing increased access to health and wellness services for the underserved
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childrens Home Society of Washington and the most unlike its peers is Soar Inc. 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 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
77 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. 77 of the 103 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRANKE TOBEY JONES ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds TRA MEDICAL IMAGING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENTRIKE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Asia Pacific Cultural Center ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YWCA PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TACOMAPIERCE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANIT ↗
- Who funds Nourish Pierce County ↗
- Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
- Who funds AMARA ↗
- Who funds MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds HopeSparks ↗
- Who funds TOY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds KITSAP HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds People for Animal Care and Kindness ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED MINISTRIES OF TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NEW PHOEBE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CLARK ASSISTANCE FUND ↗
- Who funds Museum of Glass ↗
- Who funds POINT DEFIANCE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAFE STREETS CAMPAIGN ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KEY PENINSULA COMMUNITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR PARKS ↗
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: 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
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 Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari 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.
- A Family for Every Child — 33% of income from government
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
- Western Rivers Conservancy — 0% of income from government
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.
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