· Private foundation
The Thomas Tilford Family Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $42k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ODYSSEY YOUTH MOVEMENT | $12,000 |
| BUZZYS BEES | $10,000 |
| TREEHOUSE | $10,000 |
| WOMENS AND CHILDRENS FREE RESTAURANT | $10,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $8,000 |
| EVERETT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- OYODYSSEY YOUTH CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +43%
- BBBUZZYS BEES5× · 2021–2025 · $63k · revenue +0% · 29% of their budget
- TTREEHOUSE9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +172%
Funded once
- SHSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWESTone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue -9%
- SSSpokane Symphony Societyone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +21%
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.
Empowering Spokane area women and children to achieve their fullest potential, by building a strong, diverse community of educated, engaged, and strategic givers.
Joya is dedicated to igniting hope, empowering children and families, and establishing lifelong skills. We provide exceptional pediatric therapy and support services, engage families, and remove financial barriers. Our community is built…
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…
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…
WWIN provides scholarships and supports to help Washington women facing barriers to opportunity succeed in college and careers so they, their families and our communities can thrive.
The mission of Spokane County United Way is to mobilize our community resources to create measurable results that improve the lives of the people living in our community and advance the idea of the common good. (Continued on Schedule O)Our…
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…
The mission of Impact Public Schools is to prepare a diverse student population to succeed in college and impact communities as the next generation of equity-driven, innovative leaders. (Continued on Schedule O)Impact Public Schools makes…
We provide a unique integrated system of supports and scholarships to inspire underserved, low-income students to finish high school, graduate from college and succeed in life.
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.
School's out washington (sowa) drives positive systemic change so that all washington's children and youth, particularly those furthest from justice, have access to a robust ecosystem of high-quality expanded learning programs.
Northeast Youth & Family Services NEYFS is a family resource center committed to empowering generations by providing access and support to children and their families in Northeast Spokane. To better connect children, youth, and families to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Treehouse and the most unlike its peers is Odyssey Youth Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 20 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 ODYSSEY YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds BUZZYS BEES ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Spokane County ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HOPE & HEALING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Women & Children's Free Restaurant & Community Kitchen ↗
- Who funds Innovia Foundation ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds PARTNERING FOR PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds REACH FOR THE FUTURE ↗
- Who funds Everett Public Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds Spokane Symphony Society ↗
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: The Avista Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Women Helping Women Fund · Smith-Barbieri Progressive Fund a Charitable Foundation · Innovia Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Thomas Tilford 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.
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.