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The Babare Foundation at a glance

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The Babare Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$290k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$372kHealth$288kHuman Services$195kEnvironment$130kEducation$130kFood & Nutrition$120kArts & Culture$105kRecreation & Sports$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MBCHC TREE HOUSE$30,000
VIOLET SEES$25,000
LOCAL CHURCH$25,000
DIABETES ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE COUNTY$25,000
AGNUS DEI LUTHERAN CHURCH$25,000
PEDIATRIC INTERIM CARE CENTER$20,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS$20,000
EMEGENCY FOOD NETWORK$20,000
GH TIDES SCHOLARSHIP FUND - RPC MEMORIAL FUND$15,000
NW WATERSHED INSTITUTE$15,000
HARBOR HISTORY MUSEUM$15,000
HARBOR WILDWATCH$15,000
THE SANDMAN FOUNDATION$10,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED$10,000
NARROWS BASEBALL CLUB$10,000
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 (FY20–23, $35k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AMARA: $10k → 9%AMARA: $5k → 9%AMARA: $5k → 9%AMARA: $5k → 9%GH PENSINSULA FISH: $10k → 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 22 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +101% since the first grant, against +64% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
10

Total granted

$1.3M
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+101%
+64%

Still filing today

50%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • DA
    DIABETES ASSOC OF PIERCE COUNTY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $85k · revenue +24%
  • VS
    VIOLET SEES
    8× · 2018–2025 · $83k · revenue +69%
  • GH
    GIG HARBOR PENINSULA HISTORICAL SOC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $75k · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • HC
    HARBOR CHRISTIAN CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $11k
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY FOR TACOMA PIERCE COUNTY SOCIETY PREVENTION CRUELTY ANIMALS
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
Great Peninsula Conservancy

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

Environment
2
Puget Sound Restoration Fund

To restore habitat, water quality and native species in the puget sound

Environment
3
Pacific Shellfish Institute

Fostering sustainable shellfish resources and a healthy marine environment through research and education.

Science & Tech
4
Mid Puget Sound Fisheries Enhancement Gr

Engaging people in on-the-ground efforts to help salmon and our communities thrive.

Animals
5
Pacific Marine Research

The organization's mission is to promote respect and appreciation for Puget Sound by teaching principles of environmental stewardship and inspire observation of and involvement with Puget Sound. Through its Marine Science Afloat program,…

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6
Peninsula Community Health Services

Pchs exemplifies a culture of community service.

Health
7
Peninsula Community Health Services of Alaska

Strengthening the community by providing accessible and affordable health care.

Health
8
Gig Harbor Chamber of Commerce

Serve the small business community and local development.

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9
Gig Harbor Waterfront Alliance

The gig harbor waterfront alliance promotes economic vitality by maintaining a historic waterfront community that attracts diverse businesses and people through collaboration, outreach and activities.

Arts & Culture
10
Paws of Grays Harbor

PAWS cares for lost, abandoned and abused animals and finds them new homes with responsible owners. PAWS also provides low cost spay and neuter services, a pet food pantry, and community education. During 2024 PAWS adopted out 577 pets.…

Animals
11
Portland Harbor Community Coalition

Portland Harbor Community Coalition (PHCC) organizes frontline groups and individuals to heal the water, land, and air in and around the Wa'lmaomt (Willamette River) federal Superfund area, polluted from over a century of heavy industrial…

Environment
12
International Pacific Halibut Commission

To develop the stocks of pacific halibut in the convention waters to those levels which will permit the optimum yield from the fishery and to maintain the stocks at those levels.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities in Schools of Peninsula; the most unlike its peers is Violet Sees. 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

16 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. 16 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AGNUS DEI EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $165,000 · OtherAGNUS DEI EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCHMBCHC TREE HOUSE: $165,000 · OtherMBCHC TREE HOUSELOCAL CHURCH: $155,000 · OtherLOCAL CHURCHEMEGENCY FOOD NETWORK: $80,000 · OtherEMEGENCY FOOD NETWORKGIG HARBOR PENINSULA HISTORICAL SOC: $75,000 · OtherGIG HARBOR PENINSULA HISTORICAL SOCCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $65,000 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLSGH TIDES SCHOLARSHIP FUND - RPC MEMORIAL FUND: $42,000 · Other+14 more: $165,500 · Other+14 moreDIABETES ASSOC OF PIERCE COUNTY: $85,000 · HealthDIABETES ASSOC OF PIER…VIOLET SEES: $82,500 · HealthVIOLET SEESPediatric Interim Care Center: $65,000 · HealthPediatric Interim Care…MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $55,000 · HealthMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S…HARBOR WILDWATCH: $65,000 · EnvironmentHARBOR WIL…NORTHWEST WATERSHED INSTITUTE: $55,000 · EnvironmentNORTHWEST …Ducks Unlimited Inc: $10,000 · EnvironmentDucks Unli…NARROWS BASEBALL CLUB: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsGREATER GIG HARBOR FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsAMARA: $25,000 · Human ServicesGIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH: $10,000 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY: $20,000 · Food & NutritionGIG HARBOR TIDES SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Education
Other$912,500Health$287,500Environment$130,000Recreation & Sports$35,000Human Services$35,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Education$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDIABETES ASSOC OF PIERCE COUNTY: $85,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetVIOLET SEES: $82,500 over 8y, 21% of budgetGIG HARBOR PENINSULA HISTORICAL SOC: $75,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetHARBOR WILDWATCH: $65,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetPediatric Interim Care Center: $65,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHWEST WATERSHED INSTITUTE: $55,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetNARROWS BASEBALL CLUB: $30,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetAMARA: $25,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIG HARBOR TIDES SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY FOR TACOMA PIERCE COUNTY SOCIETY PREVENTION CRUELTY ANIMALS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER GIG HARBOR FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PENINSULA: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds DIABETES ASSOC OF PIERCE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds VIOLET SEES ↗
  • Who funds GIG HARBOR PENINSULA HISTORICAL SOC ↗
  • Who funds HARBOR WILDWATCH ↗
  • Who funds Pediatric Interim Care Center ↗
  • Who funds MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST WATERSHED INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds NARROWS BASEBALL CLUB ↗
  • Who funds AMARA ↗
  • Who funds EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds GIG HARBOR TIDES SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY FOR TACOMA PIERCE COUNTY SOCIETY PREVENTION CRUELTY ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
  • Who funds GIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH ↗
  • Who funds GREATER GIG HARBOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PENINSULA ↗

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…Kilworth Florence Cha…Ben B Cheney Foundati…The Russell Family Fo…Puget Sound Energy Fo…The Meacham FoundationSequoia FoundationFuchsg & M Fdn TaiGary E Milgard Family…Multicare Health Syst…Seattle FoundationAnne Hampton Foundati…
Greater Tacoma Community FoundationWA25.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc · The Russell Family Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Meacham Foundation · Sequoia Foundation · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine · Multicare Health System · Seattle Foundation · Anne Hampton Foundation

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 The Babare Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Babare Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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