· Private foundation
Gary E Milgard Family Foundation - Mark
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k21 grants · $524k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE HUMANE SOCIETY - TACOMA & PIERCE CO | $1,200,000 |
| PASADO'S SAFE HAVEN | $405,900 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND | $400,000 |
| TACOMA RESCUE MISSION | $310,000 |
| GINGER'S PET RESCUE | $250,000 |
| FORGOTTEN DOGS RESCUE | $225,000 |
| DOG IS MY COPILOT | $175,000 |
| AUBURN VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY | $160,000 |
| PAWS | $125,000 |
| THE NOAH CENTER | $125,000 |
| THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY | $100,000 |
| CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH | $100,000 |
| ORCA NETWORK | $100,000 |
| HEARTWOOD HAVEN | $100,000 |
| KINDRED SOULS 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 (FY18–21, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $693k 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
- PSPASADO'S SAFE HAVEN8× · 2017–2024 · $6.6M · revenue +113% · 36% of their budget
- CFCENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +94% · 55% of their budget
- DIDOG IS MY COPILOT5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +140% · 29% of their budget
Funded once
- GMGreater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +48%
- TAThe Against Malaria Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue +29%
- TPTACOMA PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2019 · $151k
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.
NorthWest Wag Rescue is dedicated to representing the rights of animals everywhere. We work tirelessly to get animals out of shelters and dangerous situations and find them loving forever homes in the Pacific NorthWest.
Dog rescue
To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…
Decrease over population of feral cats by trapping and doing spay or neuter. Provide veterinarian care to kittens. Take owner relinquishments of pets they can no longer care for. Taking in abandoned animals and providing veterinary care.…
Idaho Animal Rescue Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Idaho that works in Idaho and Eastern Washington to educate, advocate, and network with other rescues and law enforcement in Idaho regarding animal cruelty and neglect. We are…
Animal Welfare
Dog Gone Seattle is a Washington-based nonprofit organization dedicated to saving homeless dogs in high-kill shelters in Washington and beyond through rescue, foster, and adoption. We are a foster-based organization, and our rescue is 100%…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heartwood Haven and the most unlike its peers is Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Lori. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
91 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 91 of the 107 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 PASADO'S SAFE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds DOG IS MY COPILOT ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds GINGER'S PET RESCUE ↗
- Who funds ORCA NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN DOGS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds SR3 Sealife Response Rehabilitation and Research ↗
- Who funds Kindred Souls Foundation ↗
- Who funds AUBURN VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds Nourish Pierce County ↗
- Who funds SAVE A FORGOTTEN EQUINE ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST SPAY & NEUTER CENTER ↗
- Who funds POINT DEFIANCE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Heartwood Haven ↗
- Who funds SARVEY WILDLIFE CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOR A HEALTHY BAY ↗
- Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHIMPANZEE SANCTUARY NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds Thefilmschool ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE AREA FELINE RESCUE FKA ANIMAL TALK RESCUE ↗
- Who funds GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds We Heart Seattle ↗
- Who funds Sunny Skys Animal Rescue and Hospital ↗
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: 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
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 - Mark 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.
- 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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