· Private foundation
Tom and Meg Names Family Fdn
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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $187k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $835k
- $250k+5 grants · $5.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| MOMCO BY MOPS INTERNATIONAL | $100,000 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY | $50,000 |
| ONLY7SECONDS | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY | $50,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF S PUGET SOUND | $46,736 |
| NORTHWEST FURNITURE BANK | $40,000 |
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 (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 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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $572k 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
- MBMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +50%
- WCWESTMONT COLLEGE6× · 2019–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +11%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND4× · 2019–2023 · $975k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- MPMANSON PARK & RECREATION DISTRICTone grant, 2019 · $100k
- ATALATHEIA THERAPUEDIC RIDING CENTERone grant, 2022 · $75k
- GHGIG HARBOR FISH FOOD BANKone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
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.
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.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
Creating access, excellence and success for the peninsula college community by providing funds for students and programs.
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.
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.
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…
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.
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism and empowering women.
We are a community of cpas and financial professionals cultivating authentic relationships, unique learning experiences, and purposeful advocacy for our future.
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Tacoma Community Foundation and 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.
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 47 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 53 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 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 ONLY 7 SECONDS ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR PARKS ↗
- Who funds NW FURNITURE BANK ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds FIRST TEE OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds PUSH for Dreams ↗
- Who funds HILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE ↗
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: 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
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 Tom and Meg Names Family Fdn 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.
- 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
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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