· Private foundation
Korum for Kids Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k56 grants · $218k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $345k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $625k
- $250k+2 grants · $680k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $415,000 |
| YMCA OF PIERCE & KITSAP COUNTIES | $265,000 |
| STEP BY STEP | $100,000 |
| MULTICULTURAL CHILD & FAMILY HOPE CENTER | $100,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF TACOMA | $100,000 |
| FAITH INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| THE RESCUE MISSION | $75,000 |
| FUSION | $50,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $50,000 |
| HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| TEARS FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| GREENTRIKE | $32,700 |
| ARK INSTITUTE OF LEARNING | $30,000 |
| PIERCE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FAITH COVENANT CHURCH | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
122 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2025, 68 since wound down; 28 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $317k 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
- SBSTEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $682k · revenue +616%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES9× · 2017–2025 · $648k · revenue +47%
- MFMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS7× · 2017–2025 · $540k · revenue +163%
Funded once
- PGPANORAMA GLOBALgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue +258%
- HSHEGETSUS SERVANT FOUNDATION DBA THE SIGNATRYone grant, 2023 · $100k
- WSWashington State Community Connectorsgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +38%
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.
Restoring hope, building futures, and strengthening our communities through programs with youth, young adults and families. we support the behavioral health of at-risk and in-crisis youth across the greater south king county area. we take…
Parent trust for washington children creates lasting change and hope for the future by promoting safe, healthy families and communities.
To empower families experiencing housing insecurity through intervention, prevention,and stabilization services.
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
To promote, support and expand quality mentoring that fosters postive youth development, academic success, and job and career readiness.
Futurewise works throughout Washington state to encourage healthy, equitable and opportunity-rich communities, and to protect our most valuable farmlands, forests and water resources through wise land use policies and practices.
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.
We inspire girls to be joyful, healthy, and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running.
The sophia way is a place of hope and change for women. we support them on their journey from homelessness to safe and stable living.
Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.
SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.
Sustainable Path Foundation promotes sustainability and health in the Puget Sound region through collaborative approaches informed by scientific understanding and systems thinking.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alaska & Washington and the most unlike its peers is Greater Tacoma Christian Laymens Outreach. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
175 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. 175 of the 312 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds THE YOUTH MARINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PANORAMA GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tears Foundation ↗
- Who funds PIERCE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GREENTRIKE ↗
- Who funds ANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds MULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Washington State Community Connectors ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds FUSION-FRIENDS UNITED TO SHELTER ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARK INSTITUTE OF LEARNING ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Sumner Community Food Bank ↗
- Who funds WISHING WELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Eatonville Area Council DBA Eatonville Family Agency ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PUYALLUP ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST NETWORK FOUNDATION THE ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds HARMONY HILL OF UNION ↗
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: Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · The Bamford Foundation · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine · Names Family Foundation · Woodworth Family Foundation · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · The Norcliffe Foundation · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Multicare Health System · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Forest Foundation · Heidner Marco J Char Trust
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 Korum for Kids 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.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% 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.
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