· Private foundation
The Titus-Will Families 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| A CHANCE TO PLAY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY | $15,000 |
| TACOMA RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
| THE FOOD CONNECTION | $9,000 |
| EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK | $8,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $8,000 |
| NOURISH FOOD BANKS OF PIERCE COUNTY | $6,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PIERCE COUNTY | $6,000 |
| YMCA WOMEN'S SHELTERRAGS | $5,000 |
| FT LEWIS FISHER HOUSE | $5,000 |
| TACOMA GENERAL-MARY BRIDGE HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| MULTICARE - PAUL TITUS MEMORIAL | $5,000 |
| SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FRANCISCAN FOUNDATION - LEON TITUS MEMORIAL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your 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.
36 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 87% 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +37%
- GMGreater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation7× · 2017–2023 · $102k · revenue +48%
- TRTHE RESCUE MISSION8× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +159%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -10%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k
- SSSOUTH SOUND COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
Acting as a catalyst, connector, and knowledge facilitator to build racially equitable, accessible, inclusive pierce county where all people can shape and activate the systems that affect our communities, now and for generations to come.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
To promote, support and expand quality mentoring that fosters postive youth development, academic success, and job and career readiness.
To provide exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education, and advocacy for all.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
Strengthening the community by providing accessible and affordable health care.
To empower families experiencing housing insecurity through intervention, prevention,and stabilization services.
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
To grow a lasting culture of generosity and well-being in the South Puget Sound through connection, leadership, and investment.
Seattle children's guild association advocates for seattle children's hospital through volunteer, philanthropic and community endeavors to ensure hope, excellent care and advanced cures for children.
Parent trust for washington children creates lasting change and hope for the future by promoting safe, healthy families and communities.
Pacific science center (pacsci) ignites curiosity in every child and fuels a passion for discovery, experimentation, and critical thinking in all of us.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alaska & Washington and the most unlike its peers is Pediatric Interim Care Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 42 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC HARBORS COUNCILBOY SCOUTS ↗
- Who funds EDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds LINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds College Success Foundation ↗
- Who funds HILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds Pediatric Interim Care Center ↗
- Who funds POINTE DU HOC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HANDS ON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY ↗
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: Seattle Foundation · The Bamford Foundation · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Baker Foundation · Sequoia Foundation · Woodworth Family Foundation · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · Korum for Kids Foundation · Multicare Health System
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 Titus-Will Families 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.