· Private foundation
Ruth Evans Charitable Trust Tai
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k11 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $67k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND | $67,467 |
| UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY | $13,500 |
| TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY AFFORDABLE HOUSING | $13,500 |
| KEY PENINSULA CIVIC CENTER ASSOCIATION | $13,500 |
| AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM TACOMA | $13,500 |
| MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $13,500 |
| BATES TECHNICAL COLLEGE NURSING | $11,239 |
| PIERCE COLLEGE | $11,239 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON TACOMA | $11,239 |
| CLOVER PARK TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $11,239 |
| PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY | $11,239 |
| TACOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $11,239 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TCTACOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $52k · revenue +14%
- EAEatonville Area Council DBA Eatonville Family Agency3× · 2021–2024 · $22k · revenue +24%
- TTACID2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONone grant, 2024 · $58k
- HHopeSparksgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +41%
- BCBETHEL COMMUNITY SERVICESone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -43%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Providing live theatre and education programs that inspire through stories reflecting the vibrancy of our diverse community.
To empower families experiencing housing insecurity through intervention, prevention,and stabilization services.
Founded in 1994, PSCS is a small, independent middle and high school located in the Chinatown/International District of downtown Seattle. PSCS is committed to co-creating a brave space for community-centered education, critical curriculum,…
Rainier Beach Action Coalition is a grassroot, Black-led organization devoted to locally driven development. It promotes quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing, and building community capacity in…
The Mission of Puget Sound Training Center is to provide customized skills training opportunities for the low income individuals in the Puget Sound Region, and to develop and provide employment opportunities at a
In 1911, Tacoma Day Care and Preschool Association established the first preschool in Pierce County with the mission to provide quality, affordable child care. It has a state of the art Early Learning Center serving children fourteen…
Provide and promote constructive and collaborative approaches to conflict resolution through mediation, training, facilitation, supervised visits and community education.
The purpose of Pierce County Alliance is to plan, organize, operate, establish, and evaluate human and social services for the residents of Pierce County.
Rebuilding Hope offers support toward healing through advocacy and therapy for those affected by sexual assault abuse and commercial sexual exploitation. Through education and collaboration Rebuilding Hope improves the communitys response…
Serve the small business community and local development.
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
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Streets Campaign and the most unlike its peers is Tacoma Tool Library. 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.
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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
29 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. 29 of the 51 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds Pacific Lutheran University ↗
- Who funds PIERCE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TACOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLOVER PARK TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YWCA PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Pierce County Aids Foundation ↗
- Who funds Eatonville Area Council DBA Eatonville Family Agency ↗
- Who funds TACID ↗
- Who funds BATES TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tacoma Urban League ↗
- Who funds SAFE STREETS CAMPAIGN ↗
- Who funds HopeSparks ↗
- Who funds BETHEL COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Tacoma Community House ↗
- Who funds KEY PENINSULA CIVIC CENTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HEARING SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds GIG HARBOR NOW ↗
- Who funds TACOMA TOOL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Bamford Foundation · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine · The Norcliffe Foundation · Foundation for Tacoma Students · Woodworth Family Foundation · Multicare Health System · Seattle Foundation · Sequoia 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 Ruth Evans Charitable Trust Tai 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.
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.