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Heidner Marco J Char Trust at a glance

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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.

$322k
Granted FY2025still arriving
63
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$548kPhilanthropy$360kHuman Services$238kArts & Culture$129kHousing & Shelter$96kEducation$90kInternational$73kYouth Development$66kOther$0
02FY2025 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k57 grants · $184k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $73k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$4,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUND$65,000
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER$20,000
BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE$18,000
MARY BRIDGE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION$15,000
LINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN$10,000
MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL$10,000
TACOMA URBAN LEAGUE$5,000
GREENTRIKE$5,000
SEATTLE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION$5,000
TACOMA BOAT BUILDERS$5,000
TACOMA CONCERT BAND$5,000
TACOMA REFUGEE CHOIR$5,000
THE HUMANE SOCIETY F TACOMA AND PIERCE C$5,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON$5,000
TACOMA OPERA ASSOCIATION$5,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%OFFICE MOMS & DADS: $2k → 9%PUYALLUP VALLEY ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $7k → 9%EILEEN & CALLIE'S PLACE: $1k → 12%PUYALLUP VALLEY ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $5k → 9%PUYALLUP VALLEY ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $5k → 9%PUYALLUP VALLEY ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $3k → 9%PUYALLUP VALLEY ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $2k → 9%THE MOORE WRIGHT GROUP: $2k → 9%BIRTHDAY DREAMS: $1k → 9%TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5k → 9%BIRTHDAY DREAMS: $1k → 9%TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5k → 9%TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $5k → 9%TACOMA URBAN LEAGUE: $5k → 9%BROTHERHOOD RISE CENTER: $5k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $3k → 9%TACOMA URBAN LEAGUE: $5k → 9%SAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $6k → 9%TACOMA URBAN LEAGUE: $5k → 9%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $6k → 9%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $5k → 9%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $5k → 9%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL: $5k → 9%MULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY: $2k → 9%TACOMA URBAN LEAGUE: $2k → 9%TACOMA URBAN LEAGUE: $2k → 9%TACOMA AREA COALITION OF INDIVIDUALS: $6k → 9%TACOMA AREA COALITION OF INDIVIDUALS: $5k → 9%TACOMA AREA COALITION OF INDIVIDUALS WIT: $5k → 9%TACOMA AREA COALITION OF INDIVIDUALS: $5k → 9%TACOMA AREA COALITION OF INDIVIDUALS: $2k → 9%COMMUNITY CONNECTION PLACE: $1k → 9%NW FURNITURE BANK: $4k → 9%NW FURNITURE BANK: $4k → 9%NW FURNITURE BANK: $4k → 9%HOPESPARKS: $3k → 9%NW FURNITURE BANK: $4k → 9%THE WISHING WELL FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%HOPESPARKS FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 9%WISHING WELL FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%WISHING WELL FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%HOPESPARKS FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 9%THE WISHING WELL FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $2k → 9%VETERAN RITES INC: $3k → 9%THE MUSTARD SEED PROJECT OF KEY PENINSUL: $5k → 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.
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 74 repeat orgs$275k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
41

Total granted

$1.2M
$178k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+5%

Still filing today

81%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationInternationalHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • FH
    FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER
    3× · 2020–2022 · $67k · revenue +11%
  • MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL
    5× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +22%
  • FH
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
    2× · 2024–2025 · $43k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • BR
    BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • VM
    VIRGINIA MASON HEALTH SYSTEM
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue 0%
  • SH
    Shared Housing Services
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -42%
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
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
3
House Our Neighbors

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…

—
4
Housing Connector

Housing connector partners with property owners and managers to lower barriers to housing and increase our region's affordable housing capacity.

Housing & Shelter
5
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
6
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
7
Nourish Pierce County

To provide food to individuals in need with compassion, dignity and respect. No one needing assistance is turned away.

—
8
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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9
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
10
Transitions

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

Human Services
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Associated Ministries of Tacoma-Pierce County; 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.
04the grantee network

101 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. 101 of the 135 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
96/101
Grantees still filing
62/101
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $67,000 · OtherFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTERSOUND: $65,000 · OtherSOUNDLINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN: $53,000 · OtherLINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDRENNEIGHBORHOOD CLINIC: $35,000 · OtherBENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT: $25,000 · OtherRebuilding Together South Sound: $32,500 · OtherTHE RESCUE MISSION: $30,000 · Other+63 more: $394,500 · Other+63 moreThe Community Foundation of South Puget Sound: $350,000 · PhilanthropyThe Community Foundatio…+5 more: $30,000 · Philanthropy+5 moreMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $77,000 · HealthMARY BRIDGE CHILD…Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $43,000 · HealthFred Hutchinson C…BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA: $41,000 · HealthBENAROYA RESEARCH…SOUTH SOUND CARE FOUNDATION: $35,000 · HealthSOUTH SOUND CARE …CATHERINE PLACE: $20,000 · HealthCATHERINE PLACEOLIVE CREST: $18,000 · HealthOLIVE CRESTAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15,000 · HealthAmerican Heart As…VIRGINIA MASON HEALTH SYSTEM: $15,000 · HealthVIRGINIA MASON HE…+4 more: $13,500 · HealthTACID: $23,000 · Human ServicesTACIDSAINT FRANCES CABRINI CHARITABLE SERVICES: $22,000 · Human ServicesSAINT FRAN…Puyallup Valley St Francis House: $21,500 · Human ServicesPuyallup V…Tacoma Urban League: $19,000 · Human ServicesTacoma Urb…NW FURNITURE BANK: $16,000 · Human ServicesNW FURNITU…Tacoma Community House: $15,000 · Human ServicesTacoma Com…WISHING WELL FOUNDATION: $11,000 · Human ServicesWISHING WE…HopeSparks: $8,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $8,000 · Human Services+12 more: $31,000 · Human Services+12 moreHILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE: $30,000 · EducationNORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS: $17,000 · EducationA STEP AHEAD IN PIERCE COUNTY: $11,000 · EducationARK INSTITUTE OF LEARNING: $10,280 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS: $10,000 · EducationR MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP: $9,000 · EducationYOUR MONEY MATTERS: $9,000 · EducationDEGREES OF CHANGE: $7,000 · Education+2 more: $3,000 · EducationTACOMA YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $17,000 · Arts & CultureGREENTRIKE: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTACOMA ARTS LIVE: $13,000 · Arts & CultureTACOMA OPERA ASSOCIATION PROFESSIONAL SERVICES: $11,000 · Arts & CultureRefugee Choir Project: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTacoma Art Museum: $10,000 · Arts & CultureEXECUTIVE COUNCIL FOR THE JOB CARR CABIN: $5,000 · Arts & CultureFOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $4,000 · Arts & CultureMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL: $60,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON: $15,000 · InternationalMAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · InternationalWASHINGTON TRAFFICKING PREVENTION: $3,000 · International+1 more: $2,000 · International
Other$702,000Philanthropy$380,000Health$277,500Human Services$174,500Education$106,280Arts & Culture$89,000International$85,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Community Foundation of South Puget Sound: $350,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $77,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $67,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUND: $65,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL: $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN: $53,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $43,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA: $41,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CLINIC: $35,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetSOUTH SOUND CARE FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetRebuilding Together South Sound: $32,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE: $30,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTACID: $23,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetSAINT FRANCES CABRINI CHARITABLE SERVICES: $22,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetPuyallup Valley St Francis House: $21,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPIERCE COUNTY CENTER FOR DISPUTE RESOLUT: $20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCATHERINE PLACE: $20,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LAKEWOOD INC: $19,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTacoma Urban League: $19,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetOLIVE CREST: $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTACOMA CONCERT BAND: $17,500 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetSAFE STREETS CAMPAIGN: $17,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetYWCA PIERCE COUNTY: $17,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS: $17,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTACOMA YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $17,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNW FURNITURE BANK: $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTacoma Community House: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREENTRIKE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA MASON HEALTH SYSTEM: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREACH MINISTRIES: $13,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED THROUGH READING: $13,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTACOMA ARTS LIVE: $13,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWISHING WELL FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetA STEP AHEAD IN PIERCE COUNTY: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTACOMA OPERA ASSOCIATION PROFESSIONAL SERVICES: $11,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetARK INSTITUTE OF LEARNING: $10,280 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATED MINISTRIES OF TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRefugee Choir Project: $10,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTacoma Art Museum: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTACOMA COMMUNITY BOAT BUILDERS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTREEHOUSE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetR MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP: $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Fuchsg & M Fdn TaiKilworth Florence Cha…The Bamford FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Greater Tacoma Commun…Gary E Milgard Family…Woodworth Family Foun…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Forest FoundationSequoia FoundationMulticare Health Syst…Wm Kilworth Fdn Tw
Fuchsg & M Fdn TaiMN153.2× affinity72 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Heidner Marco J Char Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Heidner Marco J Char Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Medical Teams International: 14% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
47report 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.

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 135 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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