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Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1.0M
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, 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
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+8 grants · $3.7M
$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$127M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TACOMA RESCUE MISSION$1,000,000
TRA MEDICAL IMAGING FOUNDATION$1,000,000
GOODROOTS$339,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND$300,000
KITSAP HUMANE SOCIETY$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
OLIVE CREST$100,000
TOY RESCUE MISSION$100,000
MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION$100,000
KOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION$100,000
EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK$100,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%A FAMILY FOR EVERY CHILD: $35k → 15%THE NARROW DOOR: $50k → 11%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $250k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $250k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $250k → 9%CHILD CARE RESOURCES: $50k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $250k → 9%SOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES: $85k → 9%TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $75k → 9%SOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES: $60k → 9%AMARA: $200k → 9%AMARA: $150k → 9%TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $50k → 9%AMARA: $100k → 9%AMARA: $50k → 9%AMARA: $20k → 9%SOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES: $35k → 9%GIG HARBOR KIWANIS FOUNDATION: $60k → 9%FOOD BACKPACKS 4 KIDS: $10k → 9%FOOD BACKPACKS 4 KIDS: $10k → 9%KOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $100k → 9%HOPESPARKS FAMILY SERVICES: $250k → 9%HOPESPARKS FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 9%HOPESPARKS: $100k → 9%FRANKE TOBEY JONES: $500k → 9%FRANKE TOBEY JONES: $500k → 9%STEP BY STEP: $250k → 9%STEP BY STEP: $125k → 9%STEP BY STEP: $100k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $50k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $10k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 70%.

Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Carilessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 25% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$34M · 48 repeat orgs$6.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
50

Total granted

$34M
$5.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+27%

Still filing today

79%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentAnimalsHealthHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
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

  • MF
    MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS
    3× · 2017–2021 · $11M · revenue +163% · 91% of their budget
  • TR
    THE RESCUE MISSION
    5× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +159%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $1.5M · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • AP
    Asia Pacific Cultural Centergraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $750k · revenue +41%
  • GM
    Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +48%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $350k
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
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
3
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
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
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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6
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
7
Paws of Grays Harbor

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.…

Animals
8
Peninsula Community Health Services of Alaska

Strengthening the community by providing accessible and affordable health care.

Health
9
Network Services

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…

Human Services
10
Friends of Seattle Waterfront

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.

Community Improvement
11
Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho

To provide exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education, and advocacy for all.

Health
12
Olympic Peninsula Community Clinic

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

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childrens Home Society of Washington; 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.
05the grantee network

77 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. 77 of the 103 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/77
Grantees still filing
47/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS: $11,028,200 · HealthMULTICARE FOUNDATIONSTRA MEDICAL IMAGING FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · HealthTRA MEDICAL IMAGING FOUNDATIONOLIVE CREST: $550,000 · Health+3 more: $370,000 · HealthLUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NW: $1,300,000 · OtherLUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NWGOODROOTS: $782,000 · OtherGOODROOTSYWCA PIERCE COUNTY: $650,000 · OtherNourish Pierce County: $646,000 · OtherPACK-PEOPLE FOR ANIMAL CARE AND KINDNESS: $600,000 · OtherUSO: $500,000 · OtherMULTICARE GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION: $500,000 · OtherGreater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation: $500,000 · OtherTOY RESCUE MISSION: $432,500 · OtherMAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION: $500,000 · OtherEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY: $690,000 · OtherEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND…+55 more: $5,809,370 · Other+55 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND: $3,155,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GI…WASHINGTON STATE FAIR FOUNDATION: $755,000 · Youth DevelopmentWASHINGTON …+5 more: $305,000 · Youth Development+5 moreFRANKE TOBEY JONES: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesFRANKE TOBE…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S…AMARA: $520,000 · Human ServicesAMARASTEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $475,000 · Human ServicesSTEP BY STE…HopeSparks: $450,000 · Human ServicesHopeSparksSOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES: $180,000 · Human Services+8 more: $510,000 · Human Services+8 moreTHE RESCUE MISSION: $1,630,000 · Housing & ShelterTACOMAPIERCE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANIT: $650,000 · Housing & ShelterNEW PHOEBE HOUSE: $305,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $1,510,000 · EducationPAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM: $155,583 · EducationCHILDRENS FUND: $150,000 · EducationGREENTRIKE: $810,000 · Arts & CultureAsia Pacific Cultural Center: $750,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Glass: $250,000 · Arts & Culture
Health$12,948,200Other$12,909,870Youth Development$4,215,000Human Services$4,135,000Housing & Shelter$2,615,000Education$1,815,583Arts & Culture$1,810,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS: $11,028,200 over 3y, 91% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND: $3,155,000 over 8y, 7.4% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION: $1,630,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $1,510,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFRANKE TOBEY JONES: $1,000,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGREENTRIKE: $810,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE FAIR FOUNDATION: $755,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetAsia Pacific Cultural Center: $750,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY: $690,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTACOMAPIERCE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANIT: $650,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetYWCA PIERCE COUNTY: $650,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetNourish Pierce County: $646,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetOLIVE CREST: $550,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAMARA: $520,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetMAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetGreater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation: $500,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetSTEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $475,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetHopeSparks: $450,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTOY RESCUE MISSION: $432,500 over 6y, 64% of budgetGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetKITSAP HUMANE SOCIETY: $350,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPeople for Animal Care and Kindness: $335,000 over 5y, 87% of budgetASSOCIATED MINISTRIES OF TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY: $316,840 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetNEW PHOEBE HOUSE: $305,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetCLARK ASSISTANCE FUND: $300,000 over 1y, 91% of budgetPOINT DEFIANCE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $250,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetMuseum of Glass: $250,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY: $225,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetKEY PENINSULA COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $205,380 over 2y, 25% of budgetMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS FOR PARKS: $200,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH SOUND CARE FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetLINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN: $200,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetPASADO'S SAFE HAVEN: $195,106 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES: $180,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetPAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM: $155,583 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetWORLD VETS: $152,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetRebuilding Hope Sexual Assault Center: $150,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTacoma Community House: $125,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTACOMA PIERCE COUNTY BLOOD BANK INC: $120,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSumner Community Food Bank: $81,300 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE YOUTH MARINE FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetCHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $70,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPEACE COMMUNITY CENTER: $65,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTHE CAROL MILGARD BREAST CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 Norcliffe Foundat…The Bamford FoundationWoodworth Family Foun…Gary E Milgard Family…Kilworth Florence Cha…The Russell Family Fo…Ben B Cheney Foundati…Multicare Health Syst…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Sequoia Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
33report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari 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 103 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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