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Multicare Health System

MULTICARE HEALTH SYSTEM's mission is partnering for healing and a healthy future.

$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
61
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$5.3M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Health$55MEducation$8.3MPhilanthropy$3.6MHuman Services$1.6MHousing & Shelter$512kFood & Nutrition$410kInternational$340kYouth Development$221kOther$0
02FY2024 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k53 grants · $738k
  • $250k+3 grants · $10M
$12,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.3B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS$5,311,422
MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$3,725,948
PACIFIC NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
YWCA SPOKANE$25,000
SENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIES$25,000
LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NW$25,000
PARTNERS WITH FAMILIES & CHILDREN$25,000
HISPANIC BUSINESS PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SPOKANE$20,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF SPOKANE$20,000
LINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN$20,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES HOUSING SERVICES$20,000
NAMI WASHINGTON$20,000
WELLNESS HOUSE$20,000
TACOMA PIERCE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$16,000
TOGETHER (THURSTON)$15,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.

area typical 8%NEW HOPE & KIDS HOPE: $10k → 14%SHARE & CARE HOUSE: $10k → 9%PUYALLUP VALLEY ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $10k → 9%KITSAP IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $10k → 10%FISHLINE: $10k → 10%SOUTH SOUND YMCA: $10k → 9%MULTI-SERVICE CENTER: $10k → 9%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES- WESTERN WA: $10k → 9%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WA: $10k → 9%PEOPLE FOR PEOPLE: $10k → 17%TACOMA URBAN LEAGUE: $10k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $20k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $15k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $15k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $15k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $13k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $10k → 9%SAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%ZONE PROJECT: $10k → 12%MIA MUJERES IN ACTION: $10k → 12%MULTI-SERVICE CENTER: $15k → 9%THE TEARS FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%SPECTRUM: $10k → 12%THE TEARS FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%OPERATIONS HEALTHY FAMILY: $15k → 12%KOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $12k → 9%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTH WEST: $25k → 12%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NW: $25k → 12%NAMI WASHINGTON: $20k → 9%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $25k → 12%YWCA SPOKANE: $25k → 12%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NW: $23k → 12%YWCA SPOKANE: $23k → 12%SOMALI HEALTH BOARD: $10k → 9%YWCA SPOKANE: $20k → 12%PIONEER HUMAN SERVICES: $20k → 12%FOOD BACKPACK FOR KIDS: $13k → 9%PIONEER HUMAN SERVICES: $19k → 12%YWCA SPOKANE: $18k → 12%MULTICULTURAL CHILD & FAMILY HOPE CENTER: $13k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $10k → 9%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NW: $15k → 12%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NW: $15k → 12%PIONEER HUMAN SERVICES: $15k → 12%EATONVILLE AREA COUNCILFAMILY AGENCY: $15k → 9%EATONVILLE AREA COUNCIL DBA EATONVILLE FAMILY AGENCY: $15k → 9%KOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $20k → 9%THE TEARS FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$69M · 105 repeat orgs$877k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.

105 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 60 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

105
89

Total granted

$69M
$699k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+43%

Still filing today

93%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $178k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • MF
    MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS
    7× · 2018–2024 · $27M · revenue +163% · 47% of their budget
  • MB
    MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $27M · revenue +130% · 33% of their budget
  • PN
    PACIFIC NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $8.0M · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • GS
    GREATER SPOKANE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +4%
  • DP
    Deer Park Volunteer Ambulance
    one grant, 2020 · $22k · revenue -31%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -15%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
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
3
Recovery Cafe Skagit

Provide a safe, healing, and restorative community that empowers long-term transformation through human connection for those recovering from the trauma of homelessness, addictions, and mental health challenges.

Education
4
Snoqualmie Valley Food Bank

Our mission is to provide food and key resources to help our neighbors and community thrive. we lead the effort to feed, educated and advocate ending hunger in the snoqualmie valley and beyond.

Food & Nutrition
5
Port Angeles Food Bank

Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.

Food & Nutrition
6
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
7
South Peninsula Behavioral Health Services Inc

The organization operates primarily on the Southern Kenai Peninsula and its operations include the following:Community Mental Health - Counseling, evaluation, consultation and crisis mental health services for Adults and…

Health
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,…

—
9
Southwest Youth and Family Services

SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.

Human Services
10
Brightspark Early Learning Services

To nurture and sustain child-centered, antiracist early learning communities.Our work is to:1) Help families access high quality childcare and after-school care.2) Increase the availability of high-quality care through coaching and…

Human Services
11
Olympic Peninsula Community Clinic

Improving the quality of life for the people in the Olympic Peninsula Community by providing increased access to health and wellness services for the underserved

Health
12
Spokane Area Workforce Development Council

The SWC mobilizes partnerships, data-driven innovation,and strategic investment to build an equitable workforce ecosystem where every individual can access opportunity, every business can find talent, and every community can thrive.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peer Washington and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCollege Access and Career R…Animal Rescue and Shelter S…Recreational Sports ClubsHealthcare Systems and Serv…International Faith-Based D…Professional AssociationsElementary & Secondary Scho…Independent Early Childhood…Local History MuseumsAffordable Senior HousingImmigrant & Refugee Cultura…Youth & Family Support Serv…Community Food BanksFamily Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr15%6%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr18%32%20–35yr12%23%35–55yr13%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr18%72%20–35yr12%14%35–55yr13%9%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.5%1/211
the rest of the field
13%
2,521/18,977

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.

04the grantee network

199 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. 199 of the 211 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
62
Early backer (in before they grew)
196/199
Grantees still filing
153/199
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS — $26,952,960 · HealthMULTICARE FOUNDATIONSMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $26,521,656 · HealthMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION+24 more — $423,622 · HealthPACIFIC NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES — $7,999,999 · EducationPACIFIC NORTH…+17 more — $364,500 · EducationGOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION — $2,725,579 · OtherMULTICARE SOUTH KING HEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,080,822 · Other+84 more — $1,717,000 · OtherLutheran Community Services Northwest — $142,500 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $110,000 · Human ServicesVINE MAPLE PLACE — $96,100 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SPOKANE — $55,000 · Human ServicesPIONEER HUMAN SERVICES INC — $53,500 · Human ServicesEatonville Area Council DBA Eatonville Family Agency — $50,000 · Human ServicesTears Foundation — $47,500 · Human ServicesTransitions — $46,000 · Human Services+50 more — $720,750 · Human ServicesGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $515,000 · PhilanthropySEATTLE FOUNDATION — $250,000 · PhilanthropyInnovia Foundation — $61,000 · PhilanthropyThe Big Table — $50,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $42,500 · PhilanthropyMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL — $340,000 · InternationalPartners with Families and Children Spokane — $137,500 · Crime & LegalVANESSA BEHAN — $67,500 · Crime & LegalSAFE STREETS CAMPAIGN — $30,000 · Crime & LegalSPOKANE REGIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COALITION — $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Health$53,898,238Education$8,364,499Other$5,523,401Human Services$1,321,350Philanthropy$918,500International$340,000Crime & Legal$245,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS — $26,952,960 over 7y, 47% of budgetMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $26,521,656 over 7y, 33% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES — $7,999,999 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION — $2,725,579 over 2y, 38% of budgetMULTICARE SOUTH KING HEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,080,822 over 2y, 68% of budgetGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $515,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL — $340,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN — $155,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetLutheran Community Services Northwest — $142,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPartners with Families and Children Spokane — $137,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $110,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetVINE MAPLE PLACE — $96,100 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetNourish Pierce County — $75,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY — $75,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Promise of Spokane — $72,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SPOKANE COUNTY — $70,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetVANESSA BEHAN — $67,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTACOMAPIERCE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANIT — $61,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetInnovia Foundation — $61,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Health Association of Spokane — $61,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SPOKANE — $55,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPIONEER HUMAN SERVICES INC — $53,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH WORKS — $52,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetEastern Washington University Foundation — $50,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Big Table — $50,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetEatonville Area Council DBA Eatonville Family Agency — $50,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTears Foundation — $47,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTransitions — $46,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetASHLEY HOUSE — $45,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNuestras Raices Centro Comunitario DBA Nuestras Raices — $45,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION — $45,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST FIVE FUNDAMENTALS — $40,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $37,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI WASHINGTON — $37,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSOUTH PUGET SOUND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $37,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPierce County Aids Foundation — $35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHIP OF SPOKANE COUNTY DBA COMMUNITY MINDED ENTERPRISES — $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM — $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTacoma Urban League — $35,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetKOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION — $31,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE STREETS CAMPAIGN — $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAILSAFE FOR LIFE — $30,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetAt the Core — $30,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTOGETHER — $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Tacoma Commun…The Norcliffe Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Medina FoundationFuchsg & M Fdn TaiGary E Milgard Family…Woodworth Family Foun…The Bamford FoundationKilworth Florence Cha…School's Out Washingt…Credit Unions in the …Heidner Marco J Char …
Greater Tacoma Community FoundationWA112.8× affinity61 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Medina Foundation · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine · Woodworth Family Foundation · The Bamford Foundation · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · School's Out Washington · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · 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 Multicare Health System 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your 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
  • Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
113report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 211 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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