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

Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine reported 69 grants totaling $1,410,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 69 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (24%), Education (21%), Health (10%).

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

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Donorschooseorg ($910k), Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation ($208k), Nourish Pierce County ($190k).

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

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine 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- Sunshine?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai, The Bamford Foundation.

Where is Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine based?

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

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Washington · Private foundation

Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 69
Grants FY2025: 67
Organizations funded FY2024: 25%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $133,625
Organizations funded a year: 47 to 69; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 4
Total assets, FY2025: $41M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $293k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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
FY2025still arriving	67	$1.4M	22%
FY2024	67	$1.3M	25%
FY2023	61	$1.4M	31%
FY2022	69	$1.6M	36%
FY2021	57	$1.3M	35%
FY2020	47	$950k	23%
FY2019	63	$1.4M	41%
FY2018	60	$1.5M	48%

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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 2025.

Human Services$2.9MEducation$2.6MHealth$1.3MYouth Development$1.2MHousing & Shelter$1.1MFood & Nutrition$812kRecreation & Sports$576kReligion$447kOther$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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Donorschooseorg	$909,611	8	0%
Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation	$208,300	8	2%
Nourish Pierce County	$190,000	4	0%
The University of Puget Sound	$190,000	8	0%
Tears Foundation	$185,000	8	5%
Rainier Foothills Wellness Foundation	$185,000	7	8%
St Francis House	$180,000	6	7%
Communities in Schools of Tacoma	$170,000	6	7%
Diabetes Assoc of Pierce County	$166,000	7	20%
Our Lady Queen of Heaven Church	$164,000	7	n/a

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All grantees of Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Donorschooseorg	$909,611	8	0%
Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation	$208,300	8	2%
Nourish Pierce County	$190,000	4	0%
The University of Puget Sound	$190,000	8	0%
Tears Foundation	$185,000	8	5%
Rainier Foothills Wellness Foundation	$185,000	7	8%
St Francis House	$180,000	6	7%
Communities in Schools of Tacoma	$170,000	6	7%
Diabetes Assoc of Pierce County	$166,000	7	20%
Our Lady Queen of Heaven Church	$164,000	7	n/a
A Step Ahead in Pierce County	$160,000	7	1%
Camp Korey	$150,000	6	1%
Tacoma Community House	$149,000	4	1%
Degrees of Change	$140,000	6	3%
PUSH for Dreams	$135,000	5	14%
Greater Lakes Mental Healthcare	$130,000	4	0%
Korean Women's Association	$126,000	4	0%
Communities in Schools of Lakewood Inc	$120,000	6	6%
Tacoma Public Schools	$119,000	3	n/a
Sibling Strong	$117,500	4	19%
Asia Pacific Cultural Center	$115,000	3	1%
Treehouse	$115,000	4	0%
Cancer Pathways	$110,000	7	2%
Tacid	$110,000	4	6%
Rebuilding Together South Sound	$110,000	5	3%
Multicultural Child and Family Hope Center	$108,000	3	1%
Helping Hand House	$105,000	4	4%
Olive Crest	$105,000	6	0%
Associated Ministries of Tacoma-Pierce County	$105,000	3	1%
Tacoma Pierce County Chaplaincy	$102,000	4	8%
R Merle Palmer Minority Scholarship	$100,000	4	2%
Zee Speed	$95,300	4	39%
Our Sisters House	$95,000	3	11%
Community Connection Place	$95,000	2	70%
Communities in Schools of Peninsula	$91,744	4	5%
The Trust for Public Land	$90,000	2	0%
Step by Step Family Support Center	$90,000	3	1%
Greentrike	$85,000	3	1%
Nw Furniture Bank	$85,000	4	1%
South Sound Outreach Services	$85,000	3	2%
Santas Castle	$85,000	5	45%
Christ the King Community Outreach	$84,000	2	2%
St Leos Parish	$82,691	4	n/a
Saint Frances Cabrini Charitable Services	$80,000	3	13%
Girl Scouts of Western Washington	$80,000	3	0%
TeamChild	$80,000	6	1%
Parkway Community Services	$80,000	5	n/a
Goodwill of the Olympics and Rainier Region	$80,000	2	0%
Sumner Community Food Bank	$75,000	2	1%
Catherine Place	$70,000	6	5%
Shared Housing Services	$70,000	3	6%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$70,000	3	0%
Toy Rescue Mission	$70,000	2	n/a
Brightspark Early Learning Services	$65,000	3	0%
Wishing Well Foundation	$65,000	4	9%
Eliseo Foundation	$61,680	1	9%
Tacoma Pierce County Blood Bank Inc	$60,000	2	1%
Eatonville Area Council DBA Eatonville Family Agency	$60,000	4	1%
The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Seattle (6871)	$60,000	2	0%
Mercy Housing Northwest	$60,000	3	0%
Puyallup Valley St Francis House	$60,000	2	2%
Community Health Care	$55,000	4	0%
The Mountaineers	$55,000	3	0%
Brotherhood Rise Center	$55,000	3	3%
Caring for Kids	$55,000	2	15%
Neighborhood Clinic	$52,000	5	3%
The Rescue Mission	$50,000	1	0%
Washington Trails Association	$50,000	4	0%
Clover Park School District	$50,000	1	n/a
Pierce County Project Access	$50,000	3	2%
Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Marymount Association for Senior Housing	$49,000	2	7%
Eliseo	$47,500	2	0%
Soulumination	$47,500	4	7%
Birthday Dreams	$47,000	5	2%
Rainbow Center	$45,000	3	2%
Cjk Community Homes	$45,000	3	8%
Communities in Schools of Puyallup	$45,000	2	4%
Hilltop Artists in Residence	$45,000	2	3%
All Saints Catholic Church	$45,000	5	n/a
Metropolitan Development Council	$40,000	2	0%
Exodus Housing	$40,000	4	1%
Mountain View Community Center	$40,000	2	4%
Rainier Scholars	$37,500	2	0%
Harbor Wildwatch	$35,000	2	13%
Reach Out and Read Inc	$35,000	2	0%
Northwest Family Life Learning And Counseling Center	$35,000	2	2%
Ashley House	$35,000	1	0%
A Family for Every Child	$35,000	1	6%
Northwest Association for Blind Athletes	$32,500	4	1%
Pierce Center for Arts and Technology DBA ARIVVA	$31,500	2	3%
YWCA Pierce County	$30,400	2	1%
Seattle Area Youth for Christ	$30,000	6	1%
The Homestead Community	$30,000	2	4%
Special Olympics Washington	$30,000	2	0%
White River Senior Housing	$30,000	1	n/a
University of Washington Foundation	$30,000	1	0%
The Prison Scholar Fund	$30,000	1	3%
First Tee of South Puget Sound	$29,250	1	4%
Greater Gig Harbor Foundation	$27,500	4	2%
Lindquist Dental Clinic for Children	$27,500	2	1%
South Umpqua Historical Society	$27,000	3	n/a
Operation Warm Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Regional Education & Training Center at Satsop	$25,000	1	12%
Friends of the Children Tacoma	$25,000	1	n/a
Emergency Food Network of Tacoma and Pierce County	$25,000	1	0%
Bloodworks	$25,000	1	0%
Trinity Presbyterian Church	$25,000	2	n/a
Bridges of Love NW	$25,000	2	n/a
Easter Seals Washington	$25,000	1	0%
Community Youth Services	$25,000	1	0%
Team Gleason Foundation	$25,000	1	0%
Tacomapierce County Habitat for Humanit	$25,000	1	0%
E-Lib4all	$24,500	2	5%
Tacoma Urban League	$22,000	2	1%
Gig Harbor Kiwanis Foundation	$22,000	1	33%
Operation Homefront Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Austen Everett Foundation	$20,000	1	n/a
Girls on the Run of Westsound	$20,000	2	3%
Homeward Bound in Puyallup	$20,000	1	4%
New Phoebe House	$20,000	1	3%
Prison Pet Partnership Program	$20,000	1	3%
Multicare Foundations	$20,000	1	0%
Medical Teams International	$20,000	1	0%
Pierce County Library Foundation	$20,000	1	2%
Foundation for Tacoma Students	$20,000	1	n/a
Edge Foundation	$19,500	1	2%
Plain Community Church	$17,500	2	n/a
Your Money Matters	$17,500	2	3%
Children of Light Community Center	$17,500	2	2%
Ted Brown Music Outreach	$16,000	2	11%
Saint Louis School	$15,500	3	n/a
Listen and Talk	$15,000	1	0%
Oasis Youth Center	$15,000	1	n/a
Next Chapter Foundation	$15,000	1	n/a
Foss Waterway Seaport	$15,000	1	1%
Team Wrk	$15,000	1	10%
Cancer Lifeline	$15,000	2	1%
Recovery Cafe Orting Valley	$15,000	1	3%
Washington First Robotics	$15,000	1	1%
Pierce County Aids Foundation	$15,000	1	0%
College Success Foundation	$15,000	1	0%
Building Youth Through Music	$15,000	1	2%
Hearing Speech and Deafness Center Dba Hearing Speech and Deaf Center	$15,000	1	0%
West Pierce Cares	$14,127	1	n/a
Sound Generations	$12,500	1	0%
Winston Area Community Partnership	$12,500	2	12%
Aauw-Wa Special Projects Fund	$12,050	4	3%
AHAT Homecare	$12,000	1	3%
Childrens International Health Relief	$10,000	1	10%
Multi-Service Center	$10,000	2	0%
It Takes a Village	$10,000	1	n/a
Tacoma Events Commission	$10,000	1	4%
Pearl Foundation of Puget Sound	$10,000	2	4%
Douglas Trojan Booster Club	$10,000	1	n/a
Roseburg Senior Center	$10,000	2	4%
Washington Home Builders Foundation	$10,000	1	8%
Jumpstart Enterprises	$10,000	2	n/a
Centerforce	$10,000	1	1%
Foundation for Healthy Generations	$10,000	1	1%
Second Cycle Community Bicycle Shop	$10,000	1	2%
Gig Harbor Now	$10,000	1	3%
Mi Centro	$10,000	1	0%
Cares of Washington	$10,000	1	0%
Raising Girls	$10,000	1	9%
Tacoma Fire Buff Battalion	$9,123	1	n/a
Western Rivers Conservancy	$6,900	1	0%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc	$6,500	2	0%
The Soup Ladies	$5,000	1	n/a
Puyallup Police Foundation	$5,000	1	n/a
The Mom and Me Mobile Medical Clinic	$5,000	1	n/a
Zero Waste Washington	$5,000	1	n/a
Convene Foundation	$5,000	1	n/a
Thrive Washington	$5,000	1	0%
Cavalcade of Authors West	$5,000	1	n/a
Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center	$5,000	1	0%
Innovative Change Makers	$5,000	1	n/a
Mercy Ships International	$3,000	1	0%
Smile Train Inc	$3,000	1	0%
Tacoma Area Literacy Council	$2,000	1	n/a
Safe Streets Campaign	$1,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.

Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 149 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 149.

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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.

Greater Tacoma Community FoundationWA157.8× affinity84 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 Bamford Foundation · Woodworth Family Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Multicare Health System · Heidner Marco J Char Trust · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Korum for Kids Foundation · Forest 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.

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About Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine

How much does Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine give?: Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine reported 69 grants totaling $1,410,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 69 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (24%), Education (21%), Health (10%).
Who are Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Donorschooseorg ($910k), Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation ($208k), Nourish Pierce County ($190k).
Does Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine 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- Sunshine?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai, The Bamford Foundation.
Where is Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine based?: Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine is based in WA.