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Korum for Kids Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
87
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$415k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$3.1MHuman Services$2.1MYouth Development$1.2MEducation$630kInternational$615kHousing & Shelter$432kReligion$401kArts & Culture$229kOther$0
02FY2025 · 87 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k56 grants · $218k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $345k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $625k
  • $250k+2 grants · $680k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$415,000
YMCA OF PIERCE & KITSAP COUNTIES$265,000
FAITH INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY$100,000
MULTICULTURAL CHILD & FAMILY HOPE CENTER$100,000
STEP BY STEP$100,000
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF TACOMA$100,000
THE RESCUE MISSION$75,000
FUSION$50,000
HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION$50,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SIBLING STRONG: $5k → 10%SCARLET ROAD: $5k → 10%SCARLET ROAD: $5k → 10%TEARS FOUNDATION: $53k → 9%TEARS FOUNDATION: $35k → 9%TEARS FOUNDATION: $30k → 9%TEARS FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%TEARS FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%WA STATE COMMUNITY CONNECTORS: $100k → 9%TEARS FOUNDATION: $23k → 9%MOTHER 2 MANY MINISTRY: $7k → 9%MOTHER 2 MANY MINISTRY: $7k → 9%MOTHER 2 MANY MINISTRY: $6k → 9%MOTHER 2 MANY MINISTRY: $5k → 9%MOTHER 2 MANY MINISTRY: $5k → 9%MOTHER 2 MANY MINISTRY: $5k → 9%NAMI WASHINGTON: $10k → 9%TOYS FOR KIDS: $5k → 9%CANCER PATHWAYS: $5k → 9%CANCER PATHWAYS: $5k → 9%CANCER PATHWAYS: $5k → 9%CANCER PATHWAYS: $5k → 9%CANCER PATHWAYS: $5k → 9%EATONVILLE FAMILY AGENCY: $10k → 9%EATONVILLE FAMILY AGENCY: $10k → 9%EATONVILLE FAMILY AGENCY: $10k → 9%WISHING WELL FOUNDATION: $13k → 9%WISHING WELL FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%WISHING WELL FOUNDATION: $8k → 9%NW FURNITURE BANK: $6k → 9%WISHING WELL FOUNDATION: $8k → 9%STEP BY STEP: $156k → 9%STEP BY STEP: $110k → 9%STEP BY STEP: $100k → 9%STEP BY STEP: $60k → 9%STEP BY STEP: $59k → 9%STEP BY STEP: $55k → 9%STEP BY STEP: $55k → 9%STEP BY STEP: $52k → 9%STEP BY STEP: $30k → 9%PUYALLUP FOOD BANK: $10k → 9%PUYALLUP FOOD BANK: $8k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE & KITSAP COUNTIES: $265k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE & KITSAP COUNTIES: $265k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE & KITSAP COUNTIES: $50k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE & KITSAP COUNTIES: $33k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE & KITSAP COUNTIES: $15k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE & KITSAP COUNTIES: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.7M · 122 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

122
156

Total granted

$7.7M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+8%

Still filing today

61%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $317k 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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationReligionRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • SB
    STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $682k · revenue +616%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $648k · revenue +47%
  • MF
    MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS
    7× · 2017–2025 · $540k · revenue +163%

Funded once

  • PG
    PANORAMA GLOBALgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue +258%
  • WS
    Washington State Community Connectorsgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +38%
  • HS
    HEGETSUS SERVANT FOUNDATION DBA THE SIGNATRY
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
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.

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Nexus Youth and Families

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…

Human Services
2
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
3
Family Promise of Pierce County

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

Housing & Shelter
4
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
5
Mentor Washington

To promote, support and expand quality mentoring that fosters postive youth development, academic success, and job and career readiness.

Philanthropy
6
Futurewise

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.

Environment
7
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
8
Girls on the Run Puget Sound

We inspire girls to be joyful, healthy, and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running.

Recreation & Sports
9
The Sophia Way

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.

Human Services
10
Bike Works Seattle

Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.

Recreation & Sports
11
Southwest Youth and Family Services

SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.

Human Services
12
Sustainable Path Foundation

Sustainable Path Foundation promotes sustainability and health in the Puget Sound region through collaborative approaches informed by scientific understanding and systems thinking.

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alaska & Washington; 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.
04the grantee network

175 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
164/175
Grantees still filing
91/175
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $2,017,550 · HealthMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS: $540,000 · HealthMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS+17 more: $313,421 · Health+17 moreSTEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $681,840 · Human ServicesSTEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPO…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $647,500 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASS…Tears Foundation: $193,000 · Human ServicesTears FoundationMULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER: $100,000 · Human ServicesWashington State Community Connectors: $100,000 · Human ServicesFUSION-FRIENDS UNITED TO SHELTER: $79,500 · Human Services+17 more: $278,400 · Human Services+17 morePIERCE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $172,680 · OtherPIERCE COLLEGE FOUNDATIONST FRANCIS HOUSE: $152,000 · OtherST FRANCIS HOUSEANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOLS: $145,850 · OtherANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOLSFAITH INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · OtherHEGETSUS SERVANT FOUNDATION DBA THE SIGNATRY: $100,000 · OtherTHE RESCUE MISSION: $77,500 · Other+119 more: $1,548,503 · Other+119 moreTHE YOUTH MARINE FOUNDATION: $500,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE YOUTH MA…WASHINGTON STATE FAIR FOUNDATION: $291,052 · Youth DevelopmentWASHINGTON S…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF T…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND: $37,633 · Youth Development+9 more: $101,315 · Youth Development+9 morePANORAMA GLOBAL: $500,000 · InternationalCONVOY OF HOPE: $85,000 · InternationalWORLD VISION INC: $50,000 · InternationalGREENTRIKE: $147,200 · Arts & CultureFred Oldfield Western Heritage & Art Center: $31,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST SINFONIETTA INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureARTS DOWNTOWN: $17,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $8,000 · Arts & CultureARK INSTITUTE OF LEARNING: $72,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PUYALLUP: $42,700 · EducationCascade Christian Schools: $20,000 · EducationNORTHWEST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationYOUR MONEY MATTERS: $10,000 · EducationOriginal Design Ministries: $10,000 · EducationNICOLAS FUND FOR EDUCATION: $10,000 · EducationCollege Success Foundation: $6,500 · Education+3 more: $10,000 · Education
Health$2,870,971Human Services$2,080,240Other$2,296,533Youth Development$990,000International$635,000Arts & Culture$228,200Education$191,200

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $2,017,550 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetSTEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $681,840 over 9y, 7.3% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $647,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS: $540,000 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetTHE YOUTH MARINE FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetPANORAMA GLOBAL: $500,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE FAIR FOUNDATION: $291,052 over 9y, 7.3% of budgetTears Foundation: $193,000 over 7y, 8.6% of budgetPIERCE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $172,680 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetST FRANCIS HOUSE: $152,000 over 9y, 9.3% of budgetGREENTRIKE: $147,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOLS: $145,850 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWashington State Community Connectors: $100,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE: $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFUSION-FRIENDS UNITED TO SHELTER: $79,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION: $77,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARK INSTITUTE OF LEARNING: $72,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSumner Community Food Bank: $54,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWISHING WELL FOUNDATION: $53,500 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetGreater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation: $51,400 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CARE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY: $48,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEatonville Area Council DBA Eatonville Family Agency: $45,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PUYALLUP: $42,700 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetNORTHWEST NETWORK FOUNDATION THE: $42,500 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION: $40,100 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND: $37,633 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHARMONY HILL OF UNION: $37,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetMOTHER 2 MANY MINISTRY: $35,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetHELPING HAND HOUSE: $32,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetFred Oldfield Western Heritage & Art Center: $31,000 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetNW FURNITURE BANK: $30,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPEAK 7 ADVENTURES: $30,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetNEW PHOEBE HOUSE: $30,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetLINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN: $30,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDIABETES ASSOC OF PIERCE COUNTY: $27,750 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetSeattle Area Youth for Christ: $27,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON: $26,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST TREK FOUNDATION: $26,250 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOME SPUN MINISTRIES: $25,200 over 4y, 22% of budgetNORTHWEST SINFONIETTA INC: $25,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetThe Mom and Me Mobile Medical Clinic: $25,000 over 4y, 0.6% 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 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 WORLD VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Greater Tacoma Community FoundationWA110.2× affinity59 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Korum for Kids Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Korum for Kids Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
55report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Korum for Kids Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Korum for Kids Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 312 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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