· Private foundation
Heidner Marco J Char Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k57 grants · $184k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $73k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUND | $65,000 |
| FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER | $20,000 |
| BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $18,000 |
| MARY BRIDGE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| LINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| TACOMA REFUGEE CHOIR | $5,000 |
| TACOMA URBAN LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| NORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS | $5,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER SOUTH SOUND | $5,000 |
| TACOMA CONCERT BAND | $5,000 |
| SEATTLE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TACOMA YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| THE HUMANE SOCIETY F TACOMA AND PIERCE C | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +18% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k 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
- FHFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER3× · 2020–2022 · $67k · revenue +11%
MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL5× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +22%- FHFred Hutchinson Cancer Center2× · 2024–2025 · $43k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- BRBENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE ATone grant, 2022 · $25k
- VMVIRGINIA MASON HEALTH SYSTEMone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue 0%
- HAHARVEST AGAINST HUNGERgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +32%
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.
To empower families experiencing housing insecurity through intervention, prevention,and stabilization services.
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…
House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…
Housing connector partners with property owners and managers to lower barriers to housing and increase our region's affordable housing capacity.
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…
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…
To provide food to individuals in need with compassion, dignity and respect. No one needing assistance is turned away.
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,…
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
Transitions works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane, Washington.
Parent trust for washington children creates lasting change and hope for the future by promoting safe, healthy families and communities.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Associated Ministries of Tacoma-Pierce County and the most unlike its peers is Benaroya Research Institute At Virginia. 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.
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 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
101 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 101 of the 135 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 The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound ↗
- Who funds MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUND ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds LINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
- Who funds BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SOUND CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Rebuilding Together South Sound ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds HILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE ↗
- Who funds TACID ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCES CABRINI CHARITABLE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Puyallup Valley St Francis House ↗
- Who funds CATHERINE PLACE ↗
- Who funds PIERCE COUNTY CENTER FOR DISPUTE RESOLUT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LAKEWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds Tacoma Urban League ↗
- Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
- Who funds TACOMA CONCERT BAND ↗
- Who funds SAFE STREETS CAMPAIGN ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS ↗
- Who funds TACOMA YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YWCA PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NW FURNITURE BANK ↗
- Who funds GREENTRIKE ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds Tacoma Community House ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA MASON HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds REACH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds UNITED THROUGH READING ↗
- Who funds TACOMA ARTS LIVE ↗
- Who funds WISHING WELL FOUNDATION ↗
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: Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · The Bamford Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine · Woodworth Family Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Forest Foundation · Sequoia Foundation · Multicare Health System · Wm Kilworth Fdn Tw
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 Heidner Marco J Char Trust 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.
- Medical Teams International — 14% 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.