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Tacoma Rotary 8 Foundation

The tacoma rotary foundation, an independent 501(c)(3) collects and maintains funds for the rotary club of tacoma to be used exclusively for charitable works in the local and global community.

$186k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
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 FY2017–2025.

Community Improvement$173kHealth$166kHuman Services$154kYouth Development$98kFood & Nutrition$84kEducation$71kPhilanthropy$51kInternational$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 11 grants below total $87,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $186,046 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $98,546 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
METROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL$8,000
LINDQUIST DENTAL$8,000
NEIGHBORHOOD CLINIC$8,000
RAISING GIRLS$8,000
REBUILDING HOPE$8,000
SKOOLIE FOUNDATION$8,000
VALEO VOCATION$8,000
EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK$8,000
MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION$8,000
FRIENDS OF CHILDREN$8,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH PUGETSOUND$7,500
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 (FY17–24, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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%THE COFFEE OASIS: $6k → 10%TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $30k → 9%YMCA: $8k → 9%MULTICULTURAL CHILD & FAMILY HOPE CENTER: $6k → 9%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 9%HOPE SPARKS: $6k → 9%FRANKE TOBY JONES: $6k → 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.

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 49% of Tacoma Rotary 8 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, 99% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 54% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Tacoma Rotary 8 Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$763k · 27 repeat orgs$210k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
23

Total granted

$763k
$178k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+13%

Still filing today

89%
96%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • NC
    NEIGHBORHOOD CLINIC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +130%
  • YP
    YWCA PIERCE COUNTY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +28%
  • EF
    EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY
    7× · 2018–2025 · $43k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue -11%
  • REACH OUT AND READ INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $23k · revenue +109%
  • TI
    TRANSFORM INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -33%

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
Family Promise of Pierce County

To empower families experiencing housing insecurity through intervention, prevention,and stabilization services.

Housing & Shelter
2
Tacoma Day Care & Preschool Association

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…

Human Services
3
Parent Trust for Washington Children

Parent trust for washington children creates lasting change and hope for the future by promoting safe, healthy families and communities.

Human Services
4
Building Changes

Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…

Health
5
Friends of the Children - Sw Washington

We commit to standing alongside our community's youth as they work to overcome barriers to success. each child receives 1:1 support and guidance from a salaried, professional mentor (called a friend), from kindergarten through high school…

Youth Development
6
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
7
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
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
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
10
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
11
Communities in Schools of Puyallup

The mission of communities in schools of puyallup (cisp) is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
12
Tenino Community Service Center

Tenino Community Service Center/Tenino Food Bank Plus is a deep-rooted community-based service center dedicated to feeding those within the Tenino school district (Tenino and Bucoda) that may be disadvantaged. In addition, it is our…

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Streets Campaign and the most unlike its peers is Transform International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr15%9%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr19%36%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr12%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%6%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr19%33%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr12%47%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/54
the rest of the field
14%
2,245/16,509

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

49 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. 49 of the 54 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
27/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ROTARY CLUB OF TACOMA — $164,571 · OtherROTARY CLUB OF TACOMANEIGHBORHOOD CLINIC — $60,000 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD CLINICYWCA PIERCE COUNTY — $44,500 · OtherYWCA PIERCE COUNTYLINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN — $36,500 · OtherLINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDRENBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF PUGET SOUND — $29,000 · OtherNourish Pierce County — $26,376 · OtherUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY — $30,000 · OtherPEACE COMMUNITY CENTER — $28,000 · Other+19 more — $155,200 · Other+19 moreHILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE — $36,000 · EducationHILLTOP ARTI…REACH OUT AND READ INC — $22,500 · EducationREACH OUT AN…DEGREES OF CHANGE — $17,500 · EducationDEGREES OF C…College Success Foundation — $16,500 · EducationCollege Succ…R MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP — $14,000 · EducationR MERLE PALM…+1 more — $3,500 · EducationTacoma Community House — $40,000 · Human ServicesTacoma Co…RAISING GIRLS — $8,000 · Human ServicesRAISING G…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES — $8,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN…MULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER — $6,000 · Human ServicesMULTICULT…HopeSparks — $6,000 · Human ServicesHopeSpark…FRANKE TOBEY JONES — $6,000 · Human ServicesFRANKE TO…THE COFFEE OASIS — $6,000 · Human ServicesTHE COFFE…CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON — $5,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC …CHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER — $25,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH CARE — $12,500 · HealthNORTHWEST INFANT SURVIVAL ALLIANCE SIDS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthFoundation for Healthy Generations — $10,000 · HealthTACOMA PIERCE COUNTY BLOOD BANK INC — $8,094 · HealthMAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION — $32,000 · InternationalTRANSFORM INTERNATIONAL — $10,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON — $8,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN TACOMA — $27,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentWASHINGTON STATE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS ASSO — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY — $43,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$574,147Education$110,000Human Services$85,000Health$65,594International$50,000Youth Development$45,000Food & Nutrition$43,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROTARY CLUB OF TACOMA — $164,571 over 2y, 27% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CLINIC — $60,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetYWCA PIERCE COUNTY — $44,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY — $43,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTacoma Community House — $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN — $36,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE — $36,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetMAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION — $32,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY — $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF PUGET SOUND — $29,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPEACE COMMUNITY CENTER — $28,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN TACOMA — $27,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetNourish Pierce County — $26,376 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER — $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC — $22,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDEGREES OF CHANGE — $17,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCollege Success Foundation — $16,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetR MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP — $14,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetRebuilding Hope Sexual Assault Center — $14,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CARE — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOINT DEFIANCE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPARTICULAR COUNCIL OF TACOMA SOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHWEST INFANT SURVIVAL ALLIANCE SIDS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetSAFE STREETS CAMPAIGN — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTRANSFORM INTERNATIONAL — $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetFoundation for Healthy Generations — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTACOMA PIERCE COUNTY BLOOD BANK INC — $8,094 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVALEO VOCATION — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON — $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTACOMA SUNRISE ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetMULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHopeSparks — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRANKE TOBEY JONES — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COFFEE OASIS — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlchemy Indoor Skate Park & Education Center — $6,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEOWNERSHIP CENTER OF TACOMA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON FIRST ROBOTICS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS ASSO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREENTRIKE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTAHOMA CENTER ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARK INSTITUTE OF LEARNING — $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% 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 Bamford FoundationWoodworth Family Foun…Fuchsg & M Fdn TaiThe Norcliffe Foundat…Heidner Marco J Char …Kilworth Florence Cha…Multicare Health Syst…Gary E Milgard Family…Sequoia FoundationBen B Cheney Foundati…Gary E Milgard Family…
Greater Tacoma Community FoundationWA69.8× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · The Bamford Foundation · Woodworth Family Foundation · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · The Norcliffe Foundation · Heidner Marco J Char Trust · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Multicare Health System · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine · Sequoia Foundation · Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari

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 Tacoma Rotary 8 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 · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 54 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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