How much did GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

social emotionalemotional learningtps sitesprogramming eloceloc approvedapproved siteselo programming

2019

elo providerprovider participationcensuscountelo programmingprogramming tpsincrease access

2020

covid responseresponse activitieshousing shelterfood accessshelter supportsaccess housingactivities food

2021

kphcrootcollaboratingsocial problempermanent housingmeetingsproviders outreach

2022

odysseypassionseamanshipwildernessplacementgivesbattlefield addiction

2023

amherstqueer youthdiseasescholarsartisticnisdisplacement

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 189 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k29 grants · $210k
$10k–50k99 grants · $1.9M
$50k–250k48 grants · $4.2M
$250k+13 grants · $12M

$23,839

Median grant

States reached

$186M

Total assets

Largest grants

BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$2,157,006
NOURISH PIERCE COUNTY$1,857,734
THE MUSTARD SEED PROJECT OF KEY PENINSULA$1,463,935
TACOMA PARKS FOUNDATION$1,319,000
YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES$1,307,630
TURNING POINTE SURVIVOR ADVOCACY CENTER$850,000
JEFFERSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$812,932
TACOMA PIERCE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$424,500
GEORGE WEYERHAEUSER PACIFIC RIM BONSAI COLLECTION$402,800
CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC$400,000
THE TACOMA EDUCATION DREAM FUND$350,000
TACOMA PUBLIC SCHOOLS$332,054
STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER$261,500
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN TACOMA$200,000
LAKEWOLD GARDENS$197,145

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $10.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$70M · 305 repeat orgs$9.9M to everyone else

305 repeat relationships — 155 still active in FY2024, 150 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

305

212

Total granted

$70M

$5.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+59%

Still filing today

78%

66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.9M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

YO
YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +30%
TF
THE FRIENDS OF LAKEWOLD
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +144% · 60% of their budget
JC
JEFFERSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +289% · 29% of their budget

Funded once

TP
TACOMA PUBLIC SCHOOLS - BUDGET OFFICE
one grant, 2022 · $537k
GP
GLOBAL PEACE FILM FESTIVAL INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $150k · revenue +40%
MA
MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $115k · revenue +260%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - Tag

Elevate the voice of those impacted by the Duwamish River pollution and other environmental injustices for a clean, healthy, equitable environment for people and wildlife. We promote place-keeping and prioritize communit

Environment

Whatcom Land Trust

Protecting the rich and vibrant lands for a healthy, thriving Whatcom County for generations to come.

Environment

Friends of Seattle Waterfront

To support, through outreach, fundraising and stewardship, the City's Waterfront Seattle project: Creation of a park along the central shoreline to benefit the public

Community Improvement

Dispute Resolution Center of Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties

To build long-lasting conflict solutions between to people and groups across Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties.

Crime & Legal

Family Promise of Pierce County

To empower families experiencing housing insecurity through intervention, prevention,and stabilization services.

Housing & Shelter

Re Sources

RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.

Environment

Skagit Gleaners

Food recovery for low income families over 600 families served

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Cascade Pacific Rc&D Area

To enhance communities through social, economic, educational, and environmental recovery improvements

Community Improvement

Recovery Cafe Skagit

Provide a safe, healing, and restorative community that empowers long-term transformation

Education

Eastside Pathways

Transforming the way our community stakeholders work together, harnessing and aligning our individual and collective experience, to positively impact the lives of children and youth; intergenerationaly. we mobilize individuals and public,…

Education

Pacific Northwest Economic Region

To increase the economic well-being and quality of life for all citizens of the region; to coordinate provincial, territorial, and state policies throughout the region; to identify and promote "models of success and to serve as a conduit…

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Puget Sound Restoration Fund

To restore habitat, water quality and native species in the puget sound

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philanthropy Northwest and the most unlike its peers is Greentrike. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%10/530

the rest of the field

12%

1,947/16,414

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.

05the grantee network

417 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

151

Early backer (in before they grew)

398/417

Grantees still filing

304/417

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$41,639,224Human Services$11,000,225Arts & Culture$8,058,474Philanthropy$6,299,134Education$4,792,715Health$4,312,299Environment$3,880,432

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.

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.

The Bamford FoundationWA185.7× affinity97 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bamford Foundation · Woodworth Family Foundation · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Multicare Health System · Foundation for Tacoma Students · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Russell Family Foundation · Korum for Kids Foundation · Forest Foundation · Sequoia 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 organisation GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FORT NISQUALLY FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~66 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 911493318 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FORT NISQUALLY FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 66 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 96% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Greater Tacoma Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Greater Tacoma Community Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

417 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Greater Tacoma Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph

GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

417 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Greater Tacoma Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph