· Private foundation
The Dimmer Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k75 grants · $211k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $94k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON | $25,000 |
| LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| GREENTRIKE | $13,830 |
| MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $10,100 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON-TACOMA COE | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND | $10,000 |
| COLLEGE SUCCESS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| YMCA OF PIERCE & KITSAP COUNTIES | $9,200 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF PIERCE COUNTY | $6,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF TACOMA #8 | $5,900 |
| GOODWILL | $5,768 |
| ALS NORTHWEST | $5,100 |
| ASSOCIATED MINISTRIES TACOMA | $5,000 |
| ARMY EMERGENY RELIEF | $5,000 |
| VETERAN GOLFERS ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
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, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
111 repeat relationships — 75 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 7 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- GGREENTRIKE5× · 2020–2024 · $85k · revenue +63%
- CSCollege Success Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $51k · revenue +93%
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- FTFRANKE TOBEY JONES HOMEone grant, 2023 · $150k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONone grant, 2023 · $25k
- CCChildrens Centerone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +18%
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.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
Greater Metro Parks Foundation's mission is to cultivate a community invested in providing parks and recreation access to all.Its vision is plentiful, equitable access to nature, play, and recreation in Tacoma.
To restore habitat, water quality and native species in the puget sound
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
To grow a lasting culture of generosity and well-being in the South Puget Sound through connection, leadership, and investment.
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
To support our members and promote the growth and quality of oregon's technology industry by providing opportunities for business and professional development through networking and informational programs.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
To bring people, communities, and resources together to ensure waterfront park thrives as a vibrant gathering space - uplifting locals, fostering connections and honoring seattle's natural beauty and stories.
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
Seattle foundation's mission is to ignite powerful and rewarding philanthropy to make greater seattle a stronger, more vibrant community for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Tacoma Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Assistance Dog Club of Puget Sound. 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
99 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. 99 of the 158 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 MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENTRIKE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AMERICAN LAKE VETERANS GOLF COURSE ↗
- Who funds College Success Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF TACOMA ↗
- Who funds TACOMA CITY BALLET ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds R MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP ↗
- Who funds Museum of Glass ↗
- Who funds Tacoma Art Museum ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VETERAN GOLFERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Kindred Souls Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMARA ↗
- Who funds LINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds WEAR BLUE RUN TO REMEMBER ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FIRST TEE OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS ↗
- Who funds Tacoma Community House ↗
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 · The Bamford Foundation · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Names Family Foundation · Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc · The Norcliffe Foundation · Woodworth Family Foundation · Korum for Kids Foundation · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine · LT Murray Family 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 The Dimmer Family 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.
- Food for Lane County — 5% of income from government
- Childrens Center — 0% of income from government
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.