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Gary E Milgard Family Foundation - Mark

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k21 grants · $524k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.6M
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$120M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
HEARTWOOD HAVEN$100,000
KINDRED SOULS FOUNDATION$100,000
ORCA NETWORK$100,000
THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY$100,000
CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH$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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UPLIFT NORTHWEST: $10k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
OR
WY
CA
MO
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$35M · 57 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
36

Total granted

$35M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+21%

Still filing today

79%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $693k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEnvironmentHealthScience & TechYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • PS
    PASADO'S SAFE HAVEN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6.6M · revenue +113% · 36% of their budget
  • CF
    CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +283% · 55% of their budget
  • DI
    DOG IS MY COPILOT
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +140% · 29% of their budget

Funded once

  • GM
    Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +48%
  • TA
    The Against Malaria Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue +29%
  • TP
    TACOMA PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2019 · $151k
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
Northwest Wag Rescue

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.

Animals
2
Washington Basset Rescue

Dog rescue

Animals
3
World Vets

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…

Animals
4
Sos Lost Pet Rescue Nw Inc

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.…

Animals
5
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
6
Happy Tails Animal Rescue of Washin County Virginia
Animals
7
Idaho Animal Rescue Network

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…

Animals
8
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
9
Starfish Animal Rescue
Animals
10
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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11
Dog Gone Seattle

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%…

Animals
12
Wild Souls Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heartwood Haven; 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.
04the grantee network

91 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

17
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
88/91
Grantees still filing
59/91
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PASADO'S SAFE HAVEN: $6,594,818 · AnimalsPASADO'S SAFE HAVENDOG IS MY COPILOT: $1,625,000 · AnimalsDOG IS MY COPILOTHumane World for Animals Inc: $1,200,000 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals IncGINGER'S PET RESCUE: $895,000 · AnimalsORCA NETWORK: $788,000 · AnimalsFORGOTTEN DOGS RESCUE: $750,000 · AnimalsSR3 Sealife Response Rehabilitation and Research: $647,500 · AnimalsKindred Souls Foundation: $636,000 · AnimalsAUBURN VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $585,000 · Animals+36 more: $3,211,604 · Animals+36 moreTHE HUMANE SOCIETY - TACOMA & PIERCE CO: $8,362,432 · OtherTHE HUMANE SOCIETY - TACOMA & PIERCE COPAWS: $1,445,000 · OtherPAWSGreater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation: $500,000 · Other+41 more: $4,615,455 · Other+41 moreCENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH: $1,640,938 · Science & TechOceans Initiative: $80,000 · Science & TechPACIFIC MAMMAL RESEARCH: $80,000 · Science & TechTHE RESCUE MISSION: $1,519,124 · Housing & ShelterUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $1,500,000 · EducationBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND: $1,000,050 · Youth DevelopmentCARING FOR KIDS: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $250,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITIES FOR A HEALTHY BAY: $245,000 · EnvironmentWESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY: $41,000 · EnvironmentRE SOURCES: $40,000 · EnvironmentHARBOR WILDWATCH: $25,000 · Environment+6 more: $32,930 · Environment
Animals$16,932,922Other$14,922,887Science & Tech$1,800,938Housing & Shelter$1,519,124Education$1,500,000Youth Development$1,050,050Environment$633,930

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPASADO'S SAFE HAVEN: $6,594,818 over 8y, 36% of budgetCENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH: $1,640,938 over 8y, 55% of budgetDOG IS MY COPILOT: $1,625,000 over 5y, 29% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION: $1,519,124 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $1,500,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $1,200,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND: $1,000,050 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetGINGER'S PET RESCUE: $895,000 over 5y, 37% of budgetORCA NETWORK: $788,000 over 8y, 23% of budgetFORGOTTEN DOGS RESCUE: $750,000 over 5y, 41% of budgetSR3 Sealife Response Rehabilitation and Research: $647,500 over 4y, 12% of budgetKindred Souls Foundation: $636,000 over 8y, 57% of budgetAUBURN VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $585,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetGreater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation: $500,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $352,673 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNourish Pierce County: $350,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSAVE A FORGOTTEN EQUINE: $345,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetNORTHWEST SPAY & NEUTER CENTER: $316,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetPOINT DEFIANCE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $315,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetHeartwood Haven: $295,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetSARVEY WILDLIFE CARE CENTER: $270,000 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $250,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOR A HEALTHY BAY: $245,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $200,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCHIMPANZEE SANCTUARY NORTHWEST: $179,500 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetThefilmschool: $170,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetSEATTLE AREA FELINE RESCUE FKA ANIMAL TALK RESCUE: $158,210 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSunny Skys Animal Rescue and Hospital: $130,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetWe Heart Seattle: $130,000 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetRESILIENT HEARTS ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $110,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetEarthcorps: $105,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGREYHOUND PETS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetNORTHWEST ORGANIZATION FOR ANIMAL HELP: $100,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetNORTHWEST TREK FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetKITSAP HUMANE SOCIETY: $95,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPALS4PAWS: $90,000 over 1y, 70% of budgetOceans Initiative: $80,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetPUGET SOUND PET FOOD BANK: $77,687 over 2y, 43% of budgetConcern for Animals: $75,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetRainfall Ranch Rescue: $72,000 over 2y, 51% of budgetJUSTCARE ANIMAL RESCUE: $70,000 over 2y, 92% of budgetRAINIER FOOTHILLS WELLNESS FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetBECKS PLACE: $60,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetSAVING GREAT ANIMALS: $60,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetWASHINGTON ST ANIMAL RESPONSE TEAM DBA WASART: $59,056 over 1y, 43% of budgetHELLO PITTY RESCUE: $50,220 over 2y, 36% 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.

  • 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 Sunny Skys Animal Rescue and Hospital ↗
  • Who funds We Heart Seattle ↗

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 Fo…The Norcliffe Foundat…Seattle FoundationThe Russell Family Fo…Greater Tacoma Commun…Gary E Milgard Family…Gary E Milgard Family…Mightycause Charitabl…Svanee's FoundationThe Hugh and Jane Fer…Fuchsg & M Fdn TaiThe Bamford Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Western Rivers Conservancy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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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How do I get to Gary E Milgard Family Foundation - Mark?

Find your warmest path to Gary E Milgard Family Foundation - Mark 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 107 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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