· Private foundation
The Bamford Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k105 grants · $538k
- $10k–50k49 grants · $780k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $217k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $166,667 |
| GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FIRST 5 FUNDAMENTALS | $40,000 |
| FOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT MUSEUM | $40,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $32,500 |
| TACOMA COMMUNITY BOAT BUILDERS | $27,000 |
| ASIA PACIFIC CULTURAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| GRAND CINEMA | $25,000 |
| TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE | $24,262 |
| LINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN | $23,377 |
| RAISING GIRLS | $20,000 |
| SAFE STREETS CAMPAIGN | $20,000 |
| TACOMA PARKS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| PALMER SCHOLARS | $18,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND | $18,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
187 repeat relationships: 106 still active in FY2024, 81 since wound down; 49 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GGREENTRIKE8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +116%
- AWANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOLS7× · 2017–2024 · $515k · revenue +71%
- FWFOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT8× · 2017–2024 · $506k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- PCPIERCE COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +47%
- GHGIG HARBOER FISH FOOD BANKone grant, 2021 · $75k
- PDPOINT DEFIANCE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2018 · $60k · revenue -43%
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.
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.
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…
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,…
Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.
Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…
Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.
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…
Equip the public and public decision-makers with the policy research and practical tools they need to embed the values of fairness, care, and opportunity into the foundations of Washington's economy.
Washington Progress Fund is building a permanent and powerful social change movement in Washington state supported by a network of committed donors. WPF envisions a Washington state where government serves the public interest and we all…
To grow a lasting culture of generosity and well-being in the South Puget Sound through connection, leadership, and investment.
Parent trust for washington children creates lasting change and hope for the future by promoting safe, healthy families and communities.
Provide and promote constructive and collaborative approaches to conflict resolution through mediation, training, facilitation, supervised visits and community education.
To provide economic development financing to serve the needs of small businesses in the state of washington that would not qualify for private financing under conventional financing criteria.
How this is measured
199 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. 199 of the 316 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 GREENTRIKE ↗
- Who funds GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds FOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds Tacoma Community House ↗
- Who funds KBTC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE STREETS CAMPAIGN ↗
- Who funds Asia Pacific Cultural Center ↗
- Who funds PEACE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds TACOMA ARTS LIVE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS ↗
- Who funds Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds DEGREES OF CHANGE ↗
- Who funds R MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP ↗
- Who funds Tacoma Urban League ↗
- Who funds FIRST FIVE FUNDAMENTALS ↗
- Who funds TACOMA COMMUNITY BOAT BUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds Tacoma Art Museum ↗
- Who funds Refugee Choir Project ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMARA ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds Brightspark Early Learning Services ↗
- Who funds ARTS IMPACT ↗
- Who funds TACID ↗
- Who funds College Success Foundation ↗
- Who funds Pierce County Aids Foundation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · The Norcliffe Foundation · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Woodworth Family Foundation · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine · Heidner Marco J Char Trust · Forest Foundation · Sequoia Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc · The Russell Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bamford Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bamford Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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