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Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
69
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$134k
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.

Human Services$2.9MEducation$2.6MHealth$1.3MYouth Development$1.2MHousing & Shelter$1.1MFood & Nutrition$812kRecreation & Sports$576kReligion$447kOther$0
02FY2025 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k55 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $284k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DONORSCHOOSEORG$133,625
ASIA PACIFIC CULTURAL CENTER$50,000
TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE$50,000
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$50,000
ASSOCIATED MINISTRIES OF TACOMA-PIERCE CO$35,000
MULTICULTURAL CHILD & FAMILY HOPE CENTER$35,000
TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY CHAPLAINCY$32,000
SANTA'S CASTLE$32,000
TACOMA PARKS FOUNDATION$30,000
SIBLING STRONG$30,000
GOODWILL OF THE OLYMPICS & RAINIER REGION$30,000
PUYALLUP VALLEY ST FRANCIS HOUSE$30,000
DIABETES ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE COUNTY$25,000
SOUND OUTREACH$25,000
REACH OUT AND READ$25,000
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 (FY17–25, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%A FAMILY FOR EVERY CHILD: $35k → 15%PUYALLUP VALLEY ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $30k → 9%PUYALLUP VALLEY ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $30k → 9%SIBLING STRONG: $30k → 10%SIBLING STRONG: $30k → 10%COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $25k → 9%SIBLING STRONG: $30k → 10%SIBLING STRONG: $28k → 10%CHILD CARE RESOURCES: $30k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 9%THE TEARS FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%THE TEARS FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%THE TEARS FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%THE TEARS FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%THE TEARS FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%THE TEARS FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%TACID: $35k → 9%TACID: $30k → 9%TACID: $25k → 9%GIG HARBOR KIWANIS FOUNDATION: $22k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $40k → 9%KOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $36k → 9%KOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $30k → 9%KOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $30k → 9%KOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $30k → 9%OUR SISTER'S HOUSE: $45k → 9%ELISEO: $40k → 9%OUR SISTER'S HOUSE: $30k → 9%NORTHWEST FURNITURE BANK: $25k → 9%NORTHWEST FURNITURE BANK: $25k → 9%NORTHWEST FURNITURE BANK: $25k → 9%SANTA'S CASTLE: $32k → 9%STEP BY STEP: $35k → 9%STEP BY STEP: $30k → 9%STEP BY STEP: $25k → 9%TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $50k → 9%TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $49k → 9%MULTICULTURAL CHILD & FAMILY HOPE CENTER: $40k → 9%MULTICULTURAL CHILD & FAMILY HOPE CENTER: $35k → 9%MULTICULTURAL CHILD & FAMILY HOPE CENTER: $33k → 9%SOUND OUTREACH: $30k → 9%THE BROTHERHOOD RISE CENTER: $30k → 9%SOUND OUTREACH: $30k → 9%TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $25k → 9%SOUND OUTREACH: $25k → 9%TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $25k → 9%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $35k → 9%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $30k → 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
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
TN
DC
HI
LA
TX
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 131 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

131 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2025, 79 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

131
81

Total granted

$10M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+13%

Still filing today

75%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $194k 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 ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterRecreation & 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

  • D
    DONORSCHOOSEORG
    8× · 2017–2025 · $910k · revenue +24%
  • GM
    Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation
    8× · 2018–2025 · $208k · revenue +95%
  • RF
    RAINIER FOOTHILLS WELLNESS FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $185k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • EF
    ELISEO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $62k · revenue -1%
  • TR
    THE RESCUE MISSIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +58%
  • CP
    CLOVER PARK SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
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
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
3
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
4
Project Access Northwest

Project Access Northwest provides low-income families access to medical, dental and Behavioral Health care so they can live a healthier and more productive life.

Health
5
Parent Trust for Washington Children

Parent trust for washington children creates lasting change and hope for the future by promoting safe, healthy families and communities.

Human Services
6
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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7
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
8
Rainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalition

Rainier Beach Action Coalition is a grassroot, Black-led organization devoted to locally driven development. It promotes quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing, and building community capacity in…

Community Improvement
9
Building Changes

Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…

Health
10
Lutheran Community Services Northwest

LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.

Human Services
11
Transitions

Transitions works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane, Washington.

Human Services
12
Bike Works Seattle

Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cares of Washington; the most unlike its peers is Trufant Family Foundation. 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

165 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. 165 of the 229 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
42
Early backer (in before they grew)
160/165
Grantees still filing
106/165
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TACOMA YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $270,000 · OtherTACOMA YOUTH FOR CHRISTGreater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation: $208,300 · OtherNourish Pierce County: $190,000 · OtherST FRANCIS HOUSE: $180,000 · Other+94 more: $4,127,449 · Other+94 moreTears Foundation: $185,000 · Human ServicesTears FoundationTacoma Community House: $149,000 · Human ServicesTacoma Community HouseKOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $126,000 · Human ServicesSIBLING STRONG: $117,500 · Human ServicesCancer Pathways: $110,000 · Human ServicesTACID: $110,000 · Human ServicesMULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER: $108,000 · Human ServicesOur Sisters House: $95,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Connection Place: $95,000 · Human ServicesSTEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $90,000 · Human ServicesNW FURNITURE BANK: $85,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES: $85,000 · Human ServicesSANTAS CASTLE: $85,000 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCES CABRINI CHARITABLE SERVICES: $80,000 · Human Services+22 more: $876,000 · Human Services+22 moreDONORSCHOOSEORG: $909,611 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORGTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $190,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF P…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TACOMA: $170,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHO…A STEP AHEAD IN PIERCE COUNTY: $160,000 · EducationA STEP AHEAD IN PIE…DEGREES OF CHANGE: $140,000 · EducationDEGREES OF CHANGER MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP: $100,000 · Education+14 more: $369,500 · Education+14 moreRAINIER FOOTHILLS WELLNESS FOUNDATION: $185,000 · HealthRAINIER FO…DIABETES ASSOC OF PIERCE COUNTY: $166,000 · HealthDIABETES A…GREATER LAKES MENTAL HEALTHCARE: $130,000 · HealthGREATER LA…OLIVE CREST: $105,000 · HealthOLIVE CRES…TACOMA PIERCE COUNTY CHAPLAINCY: $102,000 · HealthTACOMA PIE…CATHERINE PLACE: $70,000 · HealthCATHERINE …TACOMA PIERCE COUNTY BLOOD BANK INC: $60,000 · HealthTACOMA PIE…COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE: $55,000 · HealthPierce County Project Access: $50,000 · Health+9 more: $181,500 · Health+9 moreCAMP KOREY: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LAKEWOOD INC: $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentTREEHOUSE: $115,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PENINSULA: $91,744 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentCARING FOR KIDS: $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentSeattle Area Youth for Christ: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN TACOMA: $25,000 · Youth Development+4 more: $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentRebuilding Together South Sound: $110,000 · Housing & ShelterHELPING HAND HOUSE: $105,000 · Housing & ShelterCHRIST THE KING COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $84,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE RESCUE MISSION: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterMARYMOUNT ASSOCIATION FOR SENIOR HOUSING: $49,000 · Housing & ShelterCJK COMMUNITY HOMES: $45,000 · Housing & ShelterEXODUS HOUSING: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterTACOMAPIERCE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANIT: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterHOMEWARD BOUND IN PUYALLUP: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterNEW PHOEBE HOUSE: $20,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterPUSH for Dreams: $135,000 · PhilanthropyTOY RESCUE MISSION: $70,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 · PhilanthropyAAUW-WA SPECIAL PROJECTS FUND: $12,050 · PhilanthropyCHILDRENS INTERNATIONAL HEALTH RELIEF: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$4,975,749Human Services$2,396,500Education$2,039,111Health$1,104,500Youth Development$731,744Housing & Shelter$563,000Philanthropy$267,050

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $909,611 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation: $208,300 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetNourish Pierce County: $190,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $190,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTears Foundation: $185,000 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetRAINIER FOOTHILLS WELLNESS FOUNDATION: $185,000 over 7y, 8.0% of budgetST FRANCIS HOUSE: $180,000 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TACOMA: $170,000 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetDIABETES ASSOC OF PIERCE COUNTY: $166,000 over 7y, 20% of budgetA STEP AHEAD IN PIERCE COUNTY: $160,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetCAMP KOREY: $150,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTacoma Community House: $149,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetDEGREES OF CHANGE: $140,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetPUSH for Dreams: $135,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetGREATER LAKES MENTAL HEALTHCARE: $130,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $126,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LAKEWOOD INC: $120,000 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetSIBLING STRONG: $117,500 over 4y, 19% of budgetAsia Pacific Cultural Center: $115,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTREEHOUSE: $115,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCancer Pathways: $110,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetTACID: $110,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetRebuilding Together South Sound: $110,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetMULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER: $108,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHELPING HAND HOUSE: $105,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetOLIVE CREST: $105,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATED MINISTRIES OF TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY: $105,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTACOMA PIERCE COUNTY CHAPLAINCY: $102,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetR MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP: $100,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetZEE SPEED: $95,300 over 4y, 39% of budgetOur Sisters House: $95,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetCommunity Connection Place: $95,000 over 2y, 70% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PENINSULA: $91,744 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $90,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $90,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetGREENTRIKE: $85,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNW FURNITURE BANK: $85,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES: $85,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetSANTAS CASTLE: $85,000 over 5y, 45% of budgetCHRIST THE KING COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $84,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSAINT FRANCES CABRINI CHARITABLE SERVICES: $80,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $80,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTeamChild: $80,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetGoodwill of the Olympics and Rainier Region: $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSumner Community Food Bank: $75,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCATHERINE PLACE: $70,000 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetShared Housing Services: $70,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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 DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
  • Who funds Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Nourish Pierce County ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
  • Who funds Tears Foundation ↗
  • Who funds RAINIER FOOTHILLS WELLNESS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TACOMA ↗
  • Who funds DIABETES ASSOC OF PIERCE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds A STEP AHEAD IN PIERCE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds CAMP KOREY ↗
  • Who funds Tacoma Community House ↗
  • Who funds DEGREES OF CHANGE ↗
  • Who funds PUSH for Dreams ↗
  • Who funds GREATER LAKES MENTAL HEALTHCARE ↗
  • Who funds KOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LAKEWOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds SIBLING STRONG ↗
  • Who funds Asia Pacific Cultural Center ↗
  • Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Cancer Pathways ↗
  • Who funds TACID ↗
  • Who funds Rebuilding Together South Sound ↗
  • Who funds MULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HELPING HAND HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATED MINISTRIES OF TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds TACOMA PIERCE COUNTY CHAPLAINCY ↗
  • Who funds R MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP ↗
  • Who funds ZEE SPEED ↗
  • Who funds Our Sisters House ↗
  • Who funds Community Connection Place ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PENINSULA ↗

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 Bamford FoundationWoodworth Family Foun…The Norcliffe Foundat…Kilworth Florence Cha…Multicare Health Syst…Heidner Marco J Char …Puget Sound Energy Fo…Korum for Kids Founda…Forest FoundationSequoia Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • A Family for Every Child: 33% of income from government
  • Medical Teams International: 14% of income from government
  • Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Western Rivers Conservancy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
67report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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- Sunshine 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 229 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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