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Kiwanis Club of Tacoma Foundation at a glance

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Kiwanis Club of Tacoma Foundation

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.

$23k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$6k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$77kYouth Development$53kEducation$35kInternational$16kPhilanthropy$10kFood & Nutrition$5kHealth$2kCommunity Improvement$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$269k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KIWANIS FOUNDATION$5,792
TACOMA PUBLIC SCHOOLS$4,000
HABITAT FOR HUMMANITY$3,000
DAFFODIL FESTIVAL FOUNDATION$2,000
TACOMA RESCUE MISSION$1,650
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$1,500
UC SAN DIEGO$1,500
PARKLAND COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION$1,000
GREENTRIKE$1,000
EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK$926
TACOMA TREE FOUNDATION$350
Individual grant recipient$300
UNIVERSITY YMCA$100
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 10%UC SAN DIEGO: $2k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF SO CAL: $1k → 14%KCCP SEATTLE CHILDRENS: $1k → 8%KIWANIS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $7k → 16%CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 9%WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $4k → 12%KIWANIS FOUNDATION: $6k → 16%STADIUM HIGH SCHOOL: $1k → 9%KIWANIS FOUNDATION: $6k → 16%STADIUM HIGH SCHOOL: $1k → 9%KIWANIS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%STADIUM HIGH SCHOOL: $1k → 9%LINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDRE: $1k → 9%KIWANIS CHILDRENS FUND: $3k → 16%STADIUM HIGH SCHOOL: $1k → 9%KIWANIS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL KEY CLUB: $2k → 9%KIWANIS CHILDRENS FUND: $1k → 16%LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL KEY CLUB: $1k → 9%LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL KEY CLUB: $1k → 9%DAFFODIL FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL KEY CLUB: $1k → 9%DAFFODIL FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL KEY CLUB: $1k → 9%DAFFODIL FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%DAFFODIL FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK: $2k → 9%TACOMA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $4k → 9%SAMI HIGH SCHOOL: $1k → 9%TACOMA YOUTH MARINE FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%SAMI HIGH SCHOOL: $1k → 9%TACOMA RESCUE MISSION: $53k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $5k → 9%GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $4k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $3k → 9%TACOMA RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 9%TACOMA RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 9%TACOMA RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $2k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $2k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $2k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $2k → 9%HABITAT FOR HUMMANITY: $8k → 9%HABITAT FOR HUMMANITY: $3k → 9%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $3k → 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$163k · 21 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
31

Total granted

$163k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
0%

Still filing today

29%
16%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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

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EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionCommunity 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TR
    THE RESCUE MISSION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $61k · revenue +161%
  • KI
    KIWANIS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $16k · revenue +76%
  • EF
    EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $5k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • WW
    WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
  • TK
    TERRIFIC KIDS PROGRAM SUPPLIES
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • G
    GEIGER
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
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
Portland State University Foundation

Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.

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2
Peninsula College Foundation

Creating access, excellence and success for the peninsula college community by providing funds for students and programs.

Philanthropy
3
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

—
4
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
5
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
6
The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound

To grow a lasting culture of generosity and well-being in the South Puget Sound through connection, leadership, and investment.

Philanthropy
7
Kitsap Community Foundation

: a catalyst for the greater good. we partner with donors and others to invest in our region's nonprofit organizations to foster a more vibrant kitsap peninsula for the benefit of all.

Philanthropy
8
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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9
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
10
Seattle Foundation

Seattle foundation's mission is to ignite powerful and rewarding philanthropy to make greater seattle a stronger, more vibrant community for all.

Philanthropy
11
Portland Community College Foundation Inc

A community where anyone can thrive through education. every person deserves the opportunity and support necessary to achieve their educational goals. (continued on schedule o)we actively seek out and invest in prospective and current…

Philanthropy
12
Pacific Science Center Foundation

Pacific science center (pacsci) ignites curiosity in every child and fuels a passion for discovery, experimentation, and critical thinking in all of us.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Tacoma Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Parkland Community Association. 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

15 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. 15 of the 58 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $18,933 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONHABITAT FOR HUMMANITY: $13,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMMANITYKIWANIS FOUNDATION: $11,477 · OtherKIWANIS FOUNDATIONLINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL KEY CLUB: $6,650 · OtherLINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL KEY CLUBSTADIUM HIGH SCHOOL: $5,400 · OtherDAFFODIL FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherTACOMA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $4,933 · OtherWESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $4,000 · Other+39 more: $35,022 · Other+39 moreTHE RESCUE MISSION: $61,186 · Housing & ShelterTHE RESCUE MISSIONKIWANIS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $15,763 · PhilanthropyKIWANIS INTERN…GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $9,460 · PhilanthropyGREATER TACOMA…UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY: $1,000 · PhilanthropyEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY: $4,968 · Food & NutritionCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $1,500 · EducationR MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP: $550 · EducationCollege Success Foundation: $200 · EducationGREENTRIKE: $1,000 · Arts & CultureFOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT: $250 · Arts & CultureParkland Community Association: $1,000 · Community Improvement
Other$104,415Housing & Shelter$61,186Philanthropy$26,223Food & Nutrition$4,968Education$2,250Arts & Culture$1,250Community Improvement$1,000

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 RESCUE MISSION: $61,186 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetKIWANIS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $15,763 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $9,460 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY: $4,968 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN: $1,344 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetParkland Community Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetR MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $477 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTACOMA TREE FOUNDATION: $350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollege Success Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $100 over 1y, 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 THE RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds KIWANIS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Parkland Community Association ↗
  • Who funds GREENTRIKE ↗
  • Who funds R MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP ↗
  • Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TACOMA TREE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Forest FoundationWoodworth Family Foun…Gary E Milgard Family…The Bamford FoundationGreater Tacoma Commun…The Baker FoundationThe Dimmer Family Fou…Sequoia FoundationHeidner Marco J Char …Kilworth Florence Cha…Fuchsg & M Fdn TaiKorum for Kids Founda…
Forest FoundationWA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Forest Foundation · Woodworth Family Foundation · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine · The Bamford Foundation · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · The Baker Foundation · The Dimmer Family Foundation · Sequoia Foundation · Heidner Marco J Char Trust · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · Korum for Kids 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 Kiwanis Club of Tacoma Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kiwanis Club of Tacoma Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 58 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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