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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 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, FY2018 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NW$25,000
YWCA SPOKANE$25,000
PARTNERS WITH FAMILIES & CHILDREN$25,000
SENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIES$25,000
LINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN$20,000
HISPANIC BUSINESS PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SPOKANE$20,000
NAMI WASHINGTON$20,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF SPOKANE$20,000
WELLNESS HOUSE$20,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES HOUSING SERVICES$20,000
TACOMA PIERCE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$16,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SPOKANE COUNTY$15,000
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 (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 its 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%TACOMA URBAN LEAGUE: $10k → 9%PEOPLE FOR PEOPLE: $10k → 17%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%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $25k → 12%NAMI WASHINGTON: $20k → 9%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTH WEST: $25k → 12%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NW: $25k → 12%YWCA SPOKANE: $25k → 12%YWCA SPOKANE: $23k → 12%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NW: $23k → 12%SOMALI HEALTH BOARD: $10k → 9%FOOD BACKPACK FOR KIDS: $13k → 9%YWCA SPOKANE: $20k → 12%PIONEER HUMAN SERVICES: $20k → 12%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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +43% for those 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

+67%
+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
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

  • 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%
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
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,…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peer Washington; 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.
04the grantee network

199 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. 199 of the 211 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
62
Early backer (in before they grew)
196/199
Grantees still filing
156/199
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS: $26,952,960 · HealthMULTICARE FOUNDATIONSMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $26,521,656 · HealthMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION+23 more: $418,622 · HealthPACIFIC NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $7,999,999 · EducationPACIFIC NORTH…+16 more: $359,500 · EducationGOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION: $2,725,579 · OtherMULTICARE SOUTH KING HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,080,822 · Other+82 more: $1,707,000 · 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+54 more: $740,750 · 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$53,893,238Education$8,359,499Other$5,513,401Human Services$1,341,350Philanthropy$918,500International$340,000Crime & Legal$245,000

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 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 budgetEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY: $75,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNourish 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 budgetInnovia Foundation: $61,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Health Association of Spokane: $61,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTACOMAPIERCE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANIT: $61,000 over 6y, 0.2% 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 budgetEatonville Area Council DBA Eatonville Family Agency: $50,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetThe Big Table: $50,000 over 5y, 1.1% 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 budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION: $45,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNuestras Raices Centro Comunitario DBA Nuestras Raices: $45,000 over 3y, 4.0% 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 budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTacoma Urban League: $35,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetHIP OF SPOKANE COUNTY DBA COMMUNITY MINDED ENTERPRISES: $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPierce County Aids Foundation: $35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetKOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $31,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES HOUSING SERVICES DIOCESE OF YAKIMA: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE STREETS CAMPAIGN: $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetAt the Core: $30,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetFAILSAFE FOR LIFE: $30,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetTOGETHER: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST: $30,000 over 3y, 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.

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 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

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 Multicare Health System funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Multicare Health System. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%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
  • 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
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 211 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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