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Names Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
177
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Health$8.6MRecreation & Sports$7.1MHuman Services$5.9MEducation$3.9MPhilanthropy$3.4MEnvironment$2.9MYouth Development$2.3MArts & Culture$401kOther$0
02FY2024 · 177 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k71 grants · $184k
  • $10k–50k83 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+7 grants · $4.2M
$10,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$178M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MULTICARE HEALTH FOUNDATION$1,489,010
YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES$755,880
BELLARMINE PREPARATORY SCHOOL$500,000
GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$456,786
GAME TIME WAY$450,000
GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$300,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$268,000
GIG HARBOR CANOE KAYAK RACING TEAM$135,000
GREATER METRO PARKS FOUNDATION DBA TACOMA PARKS FOUNDATION$135,000
RAINIER ADAPTIVE SPORTS$125,000
SEATTLE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$120,000
PARTNERS FOR PARKS$100,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND$100,000
GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$100,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS WASHINGTON$80,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $6.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMPUTEE BLADE RUNNERS: $50k → 14%MOPS INTERNATIONAL: $39k → 12%AMPUTEE BLADE RUNNERS: $20k → 14%MOPS INTERNATIONAL (DBA MOMCO): $28k → 12%COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $25k → 9%MOPS INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 12%PUYALLUP FOOD BANK: $25k → 9%THE COFFEE OASIS: $150k → 10%AMPUTEE BLADE RUNNERS: $80k → 14%AMPUTEE BLADE RUNNERS: $43k → 14%THE COFFEE OASIS: $50k → 10%AMPUTEE BLADE RUNNERS: $25k → 14%COFFEE OASIS THE: $27k → 10%AMPUTEE BLADE RUNNERS: $25k → 14%NEW LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY: $25k → 10%SEVEN ACRES FOUNDATION: $213k → 9%SEVEN ACRES FOUNDATION: $200k → 9%SEVEN ACRES FOUNDATION: $100k → 9%SEVEN ACRES FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%SEVEN ACRES FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%SEVEN ACRES FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%SEVEN ACRES FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%SEVEN ACRES FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%TAKING THE REINS: $78k → 14%TAKING THE REINS: $78k → 14%EVERGREENHEALTH FOUNDATION: $30k → 9%EVERGREEN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%TAKING THE REINS: $50k → 14%TAKING THE REINS: $20k → 14%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $1.0M → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $1.0M → 9%NW FURNITURE BANK: $28k → 9%NW FURNITURE BANK: $20k → 9%HOPESPARKS: $30k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $766k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $756k → 9%MULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER: $100k → 9%MULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER: $100k → 9%MULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER: $40k → 9%SUNDANCE CIRCLE HIPPOTHERAPY FOUNDATION: $60k → 9%SUNDANCE CIRCLE HIPPOTHERAPY FOUNDATION: $55k → 9%GAME TIME WAY: $450k → 9%STEP BY STEP: $36k → 9%STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $30k → 9%STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $30k → 9%STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $25k → 9%STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $25k → 9%STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $20k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
WA
ID
MT
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 15% of Names Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 78% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Names Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.4% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$29M · 179 repeat orgs$4.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

179 repeat relationships — 92 still active in FY2024, 87 since wound down; 41 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

179
162

Total granted

$29M
$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+28%

Still filing today

80%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

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

  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES
    5× · 2019–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +28%
  • MF
    MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS
    6× · 2019–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +163%
  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    4× · 2019–2023 · $2.8M · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
  • SC
    SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $202k
  • THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $185k · revenue +134%

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
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
2
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
3
Spokane Parks Foundation

The Spokane Parks Foundation cultivates the health, growth, and continued enjoyment of our communities by inspiring giving and passion for our parks.

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4
Washington Bikes

Washington Bikes works to ensure that all who ride a bicycle in Washington have safe comfortable and convenient places to ride. Organization advocates for bicyclists rights and shapes policies.

Recreation & Sports
5
Great Peninsula Conservancy

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

Environment
6
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
7
Northwest Sarcoma Foundation

We provide hope, education and support to sarcoma patients and their families in the pacific northwest while investing in research to improve cure rates for sarcomas.

Human Services
8
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences

Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences educates and trains health care professionals emphasizing service among rural and medically under-served communities throughout the Northwest.

Education
9
Washington State University Foundation

The mission of the Foundation is to promote, accept, and maximize private support for programs, initiatives, and properties of Washington State University and its regional campuses. The Foundation also prudently manages, invests, and…

Education
10
Community Foundation of Snohomish County

The Community Foundation of Snohomish County (the Foundation) is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization incorporated under the laws of the State of Washington. The Foundation serves as a community foundation, supporting a broad spectrum of…

Philanthropy
11
Spokane Regional Sports Commission

Economic and community development through sport tourism. bid to host and create major sporting events, and facility consultation and optimization.

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12
Discover Your Northwest

Discover Your Northwest promotes the discovery of northwest public lands, enriches the experience of visitors and builds community stewardship of these special places today and for generations to come.

Recreation & Sports

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 Natalie Giorgi Sunshine Foundation. 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 backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Youth Sports ProgramsCommunity College Foundatio…Affordable Housing Construc…Animal Rescue and ShelterCancer Support ServicesDevelopmental Disabilities …Christian Missionary Organi…School Parent OrganizationsCommunity FoundationsPregnancy Support ServicesYouth Development CentersPublic Library OperationsLocal Food System Organizat…Senior Support ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Dance Arts OrganizationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Women & Girls Leadership De…Affordable Housing Developm…Food Banks and PantriesLocal History MuseumsYouth Development ServicesEquine Therapy ProgramsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Community FoundationsCommunity Arts CentersDomestic Violence ServicesChristian Youth CampsImmigrant Worker SupportIndependent K-12 SchoolsMilitary Veterans SupportEnvironmental Conservation …
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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%5%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr18%28%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr15%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%2%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr15%29%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.3%1/308
the rest of the field
12%
4,744/38,660

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.

05the grantee network

288 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. 288 of the 391 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
68
Early backer (in before they grew)
282/288
Grantees still filing
199/288
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BELLARMINE PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $1,779,060 · OtherBELLARMINE PREPARATORY SCHOOLGreater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation — $1,666,100 · OtherGreater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma…Individual grant recipient — $1,012,311 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSeattle Children's Foundation — $801,000 · OtherSeattle Children's FoundationBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND — $518,290 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION (ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT) — $484,000 · Other+113 more — $6,673,489 · Other+113 moreYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES — $3,567,168 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIA…Seven Acres Foundation — $734,104 · Human ServicesSeven Acres Foundati…THE GAME TIME WAY — $450,000 · Human ServicesTHE GAME TIME WAYAmputee Blade Runners — $262,800 · Human ServicesMULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER — $240,000 · Human ServicesTHE COFFEE OASIS — $234,182 · Human ServicesTAKING THE REINS — $225,000 · Human Services+15 more — $862,970 · Human Services+15 moreMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS — $3,115,534 · HealthMULTICARE FOUNDATI…Children's Hospital Los Angeles — $1,250,000 · HealthChildren's Hospita…THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $642,500 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX …THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 · Health+15 more — $648,892 · Health+15 moreGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $3,409,920 · PhilanthropyGREATER TAC…+2 more — $106,500 · PhilanthropyTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $2,812,091 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST…+6 more — $102,050 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF AMERICAN LAKE VETERANS GOLF COURSE — $840,000 · Recreation & SportsFIRST TEE OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND — $285,650 · Recreation & SportsOutdoors for all Foundation — $230,000 · Recreation & SportsRainier Adaptive Sports — $180,000 · Recreation & SportsTACOMA ATHLETIC COMMISSION — $170,500 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF SEQUOIA THERAPEUTIC RECREATION — $120,000 · Recreation & SportsWASHINGTON YOUTH SOCCER FOUNDATION — $110,000 · Recreation & SportsMOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER — $106,208 · Recreation & SportsPARTNERS FOR PARKS — $100,000 · Recreation & Sports+9 more — $291,111 · Recreation & SportsCascade Christian Schools — $711,845 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $294,000 · EducationWENATCHEE VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $140,510 · EducationPacific Lutheran University — $64,100 · EducationHILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE — $61,500 · Education+7 more — $165,541 · Education
Other$12,934,250Human Services$6,576,224Health$5,856,926Philanthropy$3,516,420Environment$2,914,141Recreation & Sports$2,433,469Education$1,437,496

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 budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES — $3,567,168 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $3,409,920 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS — $3,115,534 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $2,812,091 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGreater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation — $1,666,100 over 6y, 81% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $1,250,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF AMERICAN LAKE VETERANS GOLF COURSE — $840,000 over 6y, 32% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation — $801,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSeven Acres Foundation — $734,104 over 5y, 20% of budgetCascade Christian Schools — $711,845 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $642,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GAME TIME WAY — $450,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetGIG HARBOR CANOE KAYAK RACING TEAM — $385,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $294,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST TEE OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND — $285,650 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetGREENTRIKE — $282,391 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO — $268,995 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetAmputee Blade Runners — $262,800 over 5y, 17% of budgetMULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER — $240,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetTHE COFFEE OASIS — $234,182 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetOutdoors for all Foundation — $230,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetTAKING THE REINS — $225,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSTEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER — $199,560 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $185,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION — $180,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetRainier Adaptive Sports — $180,000 over 2y, 70% of budgetTACOMA ATHLETIC COMMISSION — $170,500 over 5y, 64% of budgetTHE BAR X PROJECT INC — $160,000 over 6y, 34% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $145,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWENATCHEE VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $140,510 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetCAMP KOREY — $135,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTH SOUND CARE FOUNDATION — $126,665 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetSUPREME FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 5y, 56% of budgetFRIENDS OF SEQUOIA THERAPEUTIC RECREATION — $120,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetTACOMAPIERCE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANIT — $115,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSundance Circle Hippothery Foundation — $115,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetMOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER — $106,208 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetCamp Spalding — $100,500 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetPARTNERS FOR PARKS — $100,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetMOMCO GLOBAL INC — $99,925 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetONLY 7 SECONDS — $96,040 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS WASHINGTON — $92,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNW Hearts United — $85,500 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetUSTA-PACIFIC NORTHWEST SECTION — $85,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetYWCA PIERCE COUNTY — $83,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLewy Body Dementia Association Inc — $82,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetPHOTO CENTER NW — $67,500 over 5y, 1.8% 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.

  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES ↗
  • Who funds GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF AMERICAN LAKE VETERANS GOLF COURSE ↗
  • Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Seven Acres Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Cascade Christian Schools ↗
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds THE GAME TIME WAY ↗
  • Who funds GIG HARBOR CANOE KAYAK RACING TEAM ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FIRST TEE OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND ↗
  • Who funds GREENTRIKE ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds Amputee Blade Runners ↗
  • Who funds MULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE COFFEE OASIS ↗
  • Who funds Outdoors for all Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TAKING THE REINS ↗
  • Who funds THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RAPE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Rainier Adaptive Sports ↗
  • Who funds TACOMA ATHLETIC COMMISSION ↗
  • Who funds THE BAR X PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WENATCHEE VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP KOREY ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH SOUND CARE FOUNDATION ↗

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…Korum for Kids Founda…The Bamford FoundationFuchsg & M Fdn TaiThe Norcliffe Foundat…Gary E Milgard Family…Woodworth Family Foun…Kilworth Florence Cha…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Ben B Cheney Foundati…Forest FoundationThe Dimmer Family Fou…
Greater Tacoma Community FoundationWA94.7× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Korum for Kids Foundation · The Bamford Foundation · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · The Norcliffe Foundation · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine · Woodworth Family Foundation · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc · Forest Foundation · The Dimmer Family Foundation

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 Names Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • National Institute for Children's Health Quality Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
67report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Names Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Names Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 391 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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