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

Gary E Milgard Family Foundation - Mark reported 45 grants totaling $4,900,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 45 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Gary E Milgard Family Foundation - Mark fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (77%), Education (5%), Housing & Shelter (4%).

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

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Pasado's Safe Haven ($6.6M), Center for Whale Research ($1.6M), Dog Is My Copilot ($1.6M).

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

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Gary E Milgard Family Foundation - Mark 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 - Mark?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Puget Sound Energy Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation, Seattle Foundation.

Where is Gary E Milgard Family Foundation - Mark based?

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

Foundation Dossiers

Washington · Private foundation

Gary E Milgard Family Foundation - Mark

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 45
Grants FY2024: 36
Organizations funded FY2023: 36%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $1,200,000
Organizations funded a year: 25 to 45; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 6
Total assets, FY2024: $120M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Gary E Milgard Family Foundation - Mark funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $542k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsEnvironmentHealthCommunity ImprovementScience & TechHuman ServicesOther

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	44	$4.9M	25%
FY2023	36	$5.0M	36%
FY2022	45	$5.7M	33%
FY2021	31	$4.7M	26%
FY2020	25	$3.8M	36%
FY2019	25	$4.7M	44%
FY2018	25	$4.6M	32%
FY2017	29	$4.5M	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.

Animals$30MEducation$1.9MHousing & Shelter$1.6MYouth Development$1.5MEnvironment$986kRecreation & Sports$636kFood & Nutrition$593kInternational$553kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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
Pasado's Safe Haven	$6,594,818	8	36%
Center for Whale Research	$1,640,938	8	55%
Dog Is My Copilot	$1,625,000	5	29%
The Rescue Mission	$1,519,124	8	3%
University of Washington Foundation	$1,500,000	2	1%
Humane World for Animals Inc	$1,200,000	6	0%
Boys and Girls Clubs of South Puget Sound	$1,000,050	6	7%
Ginger's Pet Rescue	$895,000	5	37%
Orca Network	$788,000	8	23%
Forgotten Dogs Rescue	$750,000	5	41%

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All grantees of Gary E Milgard Family Foundation - Mark by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Pasado's Safe Haven	$6,594,818	8	36%
Center for Whale Research	$1,640,938	8	55%
Dog Is My Copilot	$1,625,000	5	29%
The Rescue Mission	$1,519,124	8	3%
University of Washington Foundation	$1,500,000	2	1%
Humane World for Animals Inc	$1,200,000	6	0%
Boys and Girls Clubs of South Puget Sound	$1,000,050	6	7%
Ginger's Pet Rescue	$895,000	5	37%
Orca Network	$788,000	8	23%
Forgotten Dogs Rescue	$750,000	5	41%
SR3 Sealife Response Rehabilitation and Research	$647,500	4	12%
Kindred Souls Foundation	$636,000	8	57%
Auburn Valley Humane Society	$585,000	4	6%
Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation	$500,000	1	17%
Nourish Pierce County	$350,000	4	1%
Save a Forgotten Equine	$345,000	8	11%
Northwest Spay & Neuter Center	$316,000	3	11%
Point Defiance Zoological Society	$315,000	2	11%
Heartwood Haven	$295,000	3	19%
Sarvey Wildlife Care Center	$270,000	4	8%
Friends of the Earth	$250,000	5	1%
Communities for a Healthy Bay	$245,000	5	11%
The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee	$200,000	2	2%
The Against Malaria Foundation	$200,000	1	n/a
Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest	$179,500	4	6%
Thefilmschool	$170,000	2	42%
Seattle Area Feline Rescue Fka Animal Talk Rescue	$158,210	3	4%
Tacoma Public Schools	$151,000	1	n/a
Dam Sense	$145,000	4	n/a
Sunny Skys Animal Rescue and Hospital	$130,000	3	11%
We Heart Seattle	$130,000	4	9%
Clover Park School District	$127,795	2	n/a
Resilient Hearts Animal Sanctuary	$110,000	2	22%
Earthcorps	$105,000	4	1%
Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals	$100,000	1	0%
Greyhound Pets Inc	$100,000	1	21%
Northwest Organization for Animal Help	$100,000	1	5%
Northwest Trek Foundation	$100,000	1	48%
Kitsap Humane Society	$95,000	2	1%
Pals4paws	$90,000	1	70%
Oceans Initiative	$80,000	2	5%
Pacific Mammal Research	$80,000	2	n/a
Puget Sound Pet Food Bank	$77,687	2	43%
Concern for Animals	$75,000	2	9%
Rainfall Ranch Rescue	$72,000	2	51%
Justcare Animal Rescue	$70,000	2	92%
Rainier Foothills Wellness Foundation	$65,000	5	3%
Becks Place	$60,000	1	33%
Saving Great Animals	$60,000	2	5%
Washington St Animal Response Team Dba Wasart	$59,056	1	43%
Hello Pitty Rescue	$50,220	2	36%
The Carol Milgard Breast Center	$50,000	1	0%
Toy Rescue Mission	$50,000	1	n/a
The Gentle Barn Foundation	$50,000	1	1%
Caring for Kids	$50,000	1	n/a
American Military Families Action Network Corp	$50,000	1	n/a
Wolf Haven International	$50,000	1	2%
Purrfect Pals	$48,900	1	3%
Houston Humane Society	$46,000	1	0%
Washington's National Park Fund	$43,200	2	3%
Western Rivers Conservancy	$41,000	2	0%
Re Sources	$40,000	2	1%
Pawsitive Alliance	$30,000	1	12%
Humane Animal Rescue Partners of Washington	$25,000	2	25%
Harbor Wildwatch	$25,000	1	6%
Cat Rescue Squad	$25,000	1	67%
Veterinary Care Foundation Incorporated	$20,000	1	1%
Red Rose Animal Rescue	$20,000	1	n/a
Washington Wild	$20,000	1	n/a
South Sound Estuary Association	$17,000	1	3%
In Defense of Animals	$13,000	1	0%
The Place of Horses	$11,568	1	12%
Youthcare	$10,000	1	0%
Path of Hope Rescue	$10,000	1	5%
Oly Camp Kitties	$10,000	1	n/a
Misspits Rescue	$10,000	1	3%
Friends of Discovery Park	$10,000	1	n/a
Frankie's Friends Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Killer Whale Tales	$10,000	1	8%
Uplift Northwest	$10,000	1	0%
Second Chance Dogs	$10,000	1	22%
Northwest Boxer Rescue	$5,000	1	2%
World Wildlife Fund Inc	$2,530	2	0%
National Wildlife Federation	$2,050	2	0%
The Mountaineers	$2,000	2	0%
Pacific Crest Trail Association	$1,500	1	0%
Washington Trails Association	$1,500	2	0%
National Parks Conservation Association	$1,200	2	0%
National Audubon Society Inc	$200	1	0%
Grand Tacoma Cine Club Dba the Grand Cinema	$100	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($12M), not named here.

Gary E Milgard Family Foundation - Mark supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 17 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 78 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 78.

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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.

Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE47.9× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Russell Family Foundation · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Svanee's Foundation · The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · The Bamford 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 - Mark

How much does Gary E Milgard Family Foundation - Mark give?: Gary E Milgard Family Foundation - Mark reported 45 grants totaling $4,900,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 45 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Gary E Milgard Family Foundation - Mark fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (77%), Education (5%), Housing & Shelter (4%).
Who are Gary E Milgard Family Foundation - Mark's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Pasado's Safe Haven ($6.6M), Center for Whale Research ($1.6M), Dog Is My Copilot ($1.6M).
Does Gary E Milgard Family Foundation - Mark fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gary E Milgard Family Foundation - Mark 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 - Mark?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Puget Sound Energy Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation, Seattle Foundation.
Where is Gary E Milgard Family Foundation - Mark based?: Gary E Milgard Family Foundation - Mark is based in WA.