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The Thomas Tilford Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$52k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$124kYouth Development$100kFood & Nutrition$39kPublic Safety & Disaster$36kArts & Culture$19kReligion$18kHealth$15kPhilanthropy$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $42k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$270k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%BUZZYS BEES: $15k → 8%BUZZYS BEES: $14k → 8%BUZZYS BEES: $14k → 8%BUZZYS BEES: $10k → 8%BUZZYS BEES: $10k → 8%CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $1k → 9%CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $1k → 9%CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $500 → 9%CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $500 → 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$338k · 15 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
2

Total granted

$338k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+21%

Still filing today

47%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsInternationalFood & NutritionHealthOther
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

  • OY
    ODYSSEY YOUTH CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +43%
  • BB
    BUZZYS BEES
    5× · 2021–2025 · $63k · revenue +0% · 29% of their budget
  • T
    TREEHOUSE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +172%

Funded once

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue -9%
  • SS
    Spokane Symphony Society
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +21%
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
Women Helping Women Fund

Empowering Spokane area women and children to achieve their fullest potential, by building a strong, diverse community of educated, engaged, and strategic givers.

Unclassified
2
Spokane Guilds' School & Neuromuscular Center

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…

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3
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
4
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

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…

Education
5
Washington Women in Need

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.

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6
United Way of Spokane County

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…

Philanthropy
7
Washington Progress Fund

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…

Philanthropy
8
Impact Public Schools

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…

Education
9
College Success Foundation

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.

Education
10
Economic Opportunity Institute

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.

Community Improvement
11
School's Out Washington

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.

Youth Development
12
Northeast Youth and Family Services

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…

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Treehouse; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 20 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA: $36,300 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICASecond Harvest Food Bank: $21,000 · OtherSecond Harvest Food BankHOLY NAMES ACADEMY: $18,400 · OtherHOLY NAMES ACADEMYHOLY NAMES MUSIC CENTER: $15,500 · OtherHOLY NAMES MUSIC CENTERWomen & Children's Free Restaurant & Community Kitchen: $10,000 · OtherWomen & Children's Free Restaurant …Children's Alliance E WA: $4,000 · Other+5 more: $9,750 · Other+5 moreODYSSEY YOUTH CENTER: $79,500 · Recreation & SportsODYSSEY YOUTH CENTERTREEHOUSE: $58,175 · Youth DevelopmentTREEHOUSEBoys & Girls Club of Spokane County: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Club of Sp…+1 more: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentBUZZYS BEES: $63,200 · Human ServicesBUZZYS BEESCHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $3,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST HOPE & HEALING FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthInnovia Foundation: $7,500 · PhilanthropySECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST: $7,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$114,950Recreation & Sports$79,500Youth Development$75,175Human Services$66,200Health$15,000Philanthropy$7,500Food & Nutrition$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetODYSSEY YOUTH CENTER: $79,500 over 9y, 5.6% of budgetBUZZYS BEES: $63,200 over 5y, 29% of budgetTREEHOUSE: $58,175 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Spokane County: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHWEST HOPE & HEALING FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetInnovia Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERING FOR PROGRESS: $3,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEverett Public Schools Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSpokane Symphony Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 ↗

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.

The Avista FoundationBnsf Railway Foundati…Seattle FoundationWomen Helping Women F…Smith-Barbieri Progre…Innovia FoundationFirst Interstate Banc…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…
The Avista FoundationWA17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 20 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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