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News Tribune Scholarship Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$57k
Granted FY2018
12
Grants FY2018
9
Organizations funded FY2018
89%
First-time grantees FY2018
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81% of News Tribune Scholarship Foundation’s FY2018 grant dollars went to Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2018 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

0
’17
0
’18

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2018
$1,200
Largest grant, FY2018
$42,506
Organizations funded a year
4 to 9
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 89% of the organizations News Tribune Scholarship Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 89% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20189$11k89%
FY20174$6kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Philanthropy$47kEducation$17k

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2018.

THE GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$42,506
THE GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$4,163
NOELLE MISTEREK & TACOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE$1,200
DUSTIN BEENE & WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY$1,200
COLTON SMITH & LEWIS-CLARK STATE UNIVERSITY$1,200
ERIKA LANE & BAYLOR UNIVERSITY$1,200
MARLEYNA BEENE & UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$1,000
AMANDA LANE & WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY$1,000
ERIKA LANE & BAYLOR UNIVERSITY$1,000
AMY PAHN & UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$1,000
MADELINE EMERSON & UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$1,000
JOSEF MAYOR & UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$1,000

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Find your warmest path to News Tribune Scholarship 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.

About News Tribune Scholarship Foundation

How much does News Tribune Scholarship Foundation give?
News Tribune Scholarship Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $57,469 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does News Tribune Scholarship Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Philanthropy (74%), Education (26%).
Does News Tribune Scholarship Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 89% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does News Tribune Scholarship Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is News Tribune Scholarship Foundation based?
News Tribune Scholarship Foundation is based in WA.

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 13 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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