· Private foundation
Thomas V Giddens Jr Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $718k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ruth's Place | $70,000 |
| Tacoma Parks Foundation | $50,000 |
| NW Children's Foundation | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| Multicultural Child and Family Hope Center | $35,000 |
| Olive Crest | $30,000 |
| Kindering | $30,000 |
| Olympic Angels | $30,000 |
| Youthnet | $30,000 |
| HopeCentral | $30,000 |
| Rainbow Room | $30,000 |
| Carry Lynn Children's Center | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| Spokane Tribal Network | $25,000 |
| Rebuilding Hope | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 18% 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.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 11 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k 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
- PRPALUXY RIVER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC5× · 2017–2022 · $299k · revenue +202%
- RPRUTHS PLACE CLINIC6× · 2017–2024 · $270k · revenue +166%
LEGAL COUNSEL FOR YOUTH AND CHILDREN7× · 2017–2024 · $185k · revenue +389%
Funded once
- PFPartners for Our ChildrenUniversity of Washington School of Social Workone grant, 2017 · $100k
- JCJOHNSON COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERone grant, 2021 · $80k
- SKSkookum Kidsgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $70k · revenue +58%
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.
SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.
Family law casa is committed to positive long-term outcomes for children, families, and communities navigating economic injustice across king county. we advance intersectional equity by providing free advocacy services for children…
Mobilizing the community to uplift children and families impacted by foster care in Oregon.
Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…
Family solutions is a community based, comprehensive behavioral health provider cultivating the wellness of southwest washington by offering hope and health to children, youth and families.
KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…
Strengthening families by promoting the safety, stability and wellbeing of children.
We inspire hope and well-being for people of all ages by providing counseling, education and support.
Northwest youth services collaborates with at-risk, runaway, and homeless youth to foster self-reliance. the organization's goal is to keep youth safe, heal family relationships, and reconnect youth to the community. the organization…
To empower families experiencing housing insecurity through intervention, prevention,and stabilization services.
Youth Eastside Services (YES) is a lifeline for kids and families coping with challenges such as emotional distress, substance abuse, and violence. Through intervention, outreach and prevention, YES build confidence and responsibility,…
Supporting children and families through individual, community-based services. We provide behavioral health services to severely emotionally disturbed children (ages 2 to 24) and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is Empire Health Foundation. 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 28 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% 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.
85 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. 85 of the 147 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 PALUXY RIVER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RUTHS PLACE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL COUNSEL FOR YOUTH AND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MISSION GRANBURY INC ↗
- Who funds KINDERING CENTER ↗
- Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CARRIE LYNN CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds NW Childrens Foundation ↗
- Who funds HopeSparks ↗
- Who funds NEXUS YOUTH AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds PARENT TRUST FOR WASHINGTON CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CHILDHAVEN ↗
- Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
- Who funds Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YOUTH ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE FIRST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds SHERWOOD & MYRTIE FOSTER'S HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Room One ↗
- Who funds PROGRAM FOR EARLY PARENT SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds YOUTHNET ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds MULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Skookum Kids ↗
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: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Medina Foundation · Seattle Foundation · School's Out Washington · Perigee Fund · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · NW Childrens Foundation · Inatai Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Moccasin Lake 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 Thomas V Giddens Jr Charitable 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.
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% 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.
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