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Tom and Meg Names Family Fdn

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$2.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$7.5MHuman Services$6.2MHealth$3.0MRecreation & Sports$2.8MPhilanthropy$1.2MInternational$898kYouth Development$472kArts & Culture$175kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $187k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $835k
  • $250k+5 grants · $5.8M
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEVEN ACRES FOUNDATION$2,800,000
UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND$1,428,571
WESTMONT COLLEGE$600,000
MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FDN$575,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON ATHLETICS$400,000
UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND ATHLETICS$200,000
GREENTRIKE FUND$160,000
BRAVE WARRIOR PROJECT$125,000
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY$100,000
MOMCO BY MOPS INTERNATIONAL$100,000
ONLY7SECONDS$50,000
UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY$50,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY$50,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF S PUGET SOUND$46,736
NORTHWEST FURNITURE BANK$40,000
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 (FY19–24, $7.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MOPS INTERNATIONAL INC: $250k → 12%SEVEN ACRES FOUNDATION: $2.8M → 9%MOPS INTERNATIONAL: $250k → 12%SEVEN ACRES FOUNDATION: $1.4M → 9%MOPS INTERNATIONAL INC: $100k → 12%YMCA OF PIERCE & KITSAP COUNTIES: $50k → 9%SEVEN ACRES FOUNDATION: $950k → 9%MOMCO BY MOPS INTERNATIONAL: $100k → 12%SEVEN ACRES FOUNDATION: $725k → 9%MOPS INTERNATIONAL INC: $100k → 12%MOPS INTERNATIONAL INC: $98k → 12%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $50k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $50k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $50k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $50k → 9%NORTHWEST FURNITURE BANK: $40k → 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20M · 25 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
17

Total granted

$20M
$473k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+84%

Still filing today

60%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $572k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
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

  • MB
    MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +50%
  • WC
    WESTMONT COLLEGE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +11%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND
    4× · 2019–2023 · $975k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • MP
    MANSON PARK & RECREATION DISTRICT
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • AT
    ALATHEIA THERAPUEDIC RIDING CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $75k
  • PF
    PARTNERS FOR PARKSgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +174%
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
University Cooperative School

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.

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2
Northwest Conference

Through its values, the northwest conference unites its member colleges and universities in the pacific northwest to empower student-athletes in their pursuit of academic and athletic excellence at the division iii level.

Recreation & Sports
3
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
4
Peninsula College Foundation

Creating access, excellence and success for the peninsula college community by providing funds for students and programs.

Philanthropy
5
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
6
Portland State University Foundation

Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.

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7
Nexus Youth and Families

Restoring hope, building futures, and strengthening our communities through programs with youth, young adults and families. we support the behavioral health of at-risk and in-crisis youth across the greater south king county area. we take…

Human Services
8
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities accredits institutions of higher education by applying evidence-informed standards and processes to support continuous improvements and promote equitable student achievement and success.

Education
9
Young Womens Christian Association

The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism and empowering women.

Human Services
10
Washington Society of Certified Public a

We are a community of cpas and financial professionals cultivating authentic relationships, unique learning experiences, and purposeful advocacy for our future.

—
11
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
12
Seattle Pacific University

Seattle pacific university is a christian university fully committed to engaging the culture and changing the world by graduating people of competence and character, becoming people of wisdom, and modeling grace-filled community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Tacoma Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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

31 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. 31 of the 53 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
16/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Seven Acres Foundation: $5,875,000 · Human ServicesSeven Acres FoundationMOMCO GLOBAL INC: $898,000 · Human ServicesMOMCO GLOBAL INCYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $250,000 · Human Services+1 more: $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $3,672,142 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUNDWESTMONT COLLEGE: $1,915,000 · EducationWESTMONT COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND: $975,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND+3 more: $220,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON ATHLETICS: $2,000,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHING…PIERCE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $300,000 · OtherPIERCE COLLEGE FOUNDA…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF PUGET SOUND: $225,000 · OtherONLY7SECONDS CONNECTION CURRICULUM: $225,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND ATHLETICS: $200,000 · OtherGREENTRIKE FUND: $170,000 · OtherGreater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation: $165,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY PLACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $150,000 · Other+22 more: $849,236 · Other+22 moreMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $2,445,047 · HealthMARY BRIDGE CH…American Heart Association Inc: $275,000 · HealthAmerican Heart…+3 more: $75,000 · HealthGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,100,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY: $100,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTACOMA ATHLETIC COMMISSION: $160,000 · Recreation & SportsPARTNERS FOR PARKS: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsFIRST TEE OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsGREENTRIKE: $150,000 · Arts & CultureFOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$7,063,000Education$6,782,142Other$4,284,236Health$2,795,047Philanthropy$1,225,000Recreation & Sports$235,000Arts & Culture$160,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSeven Acres Foundation: $5,875,000 over 4y, 89% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $3,672,142 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $2,445,047 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetWESTMONT COLLEGE: $1,915,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,100,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND: $975,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMOMCO GLOBAL INC: $898,000 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetPIERCE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $275,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF PUGET SOUND: $225,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetOregon State University Foundation: $190,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation: $165,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetTACOMA ATHLETIC COMMISSION: $160,000 over 6y, 24% of budgetGREENTRIKE: $150,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTHE BRAVE WARRIOR PROJECT: $125,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY: $100,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARTNERS FOR PARKS: $50,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetONLY 7 SECONDS: $50,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetNW FURNITURE BANK: $40,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUSH for Dreams: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetFIRST TEE OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND: $25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetASHLEY HOUSE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRISTTACOMA AREA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGirls Inc of the Pacific Northwest: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 Seven Acres Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
  • Who funds MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WESTMONT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND ↗
  • Who funds MOMCO GLOBAL INC ↗
  • Who funds PIERCE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF PUGET SOUND ↗
  • Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TACOMA ATHLETIC COMMISSION ↗
  • Who funds GREENTRIKE ↗
  • Who funds THE BRAVE WARRIOR PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS FOR PARKS ↗
  • Who funds ONLY 7 SECONDS ↗
  • Who funds NW FURNITURE BANK ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
  • Who funds PUSH for Dreams ↗
  • Who funds FIRST TEE OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND ↗
  • Who funds ASHLEY HOUSE ↗

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.

Woodworth Family Foun…Names Family Foundati…The Bamford FoundationGreater Tacoma Commun…Ben B Cheney Foundati…Korum for Kids Founda…Kilworth Florence Cha…Fuchsg & M Fdn TaiThe Baker FoundationThe Dimmer Family Fou…Forest FoundationMedina Foundation
Woodworth Family FoundationWA38.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Woodworth Family Foundation · Names Family Foundation · The Bamford Foundation · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc · Korum for Kids Foundation · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · The Baker Foundation · The Dimmer Family Foundation · Forest Foundation · Medina Foundation

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 Tom and Meg Names Family Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tom and Meg Names Family Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest: 4% of income from government
  • University of Portland: 1% of income from government
  • Oregon State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Tom and Meg Names Family Fdn through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 53 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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