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Trufant Family 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.

$5k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$49kYouth Development$15kHealth$9kHuman Services$7kPhilanthropy$5kRecreation & Sports$4kInternational$2kFood & Nutrition$250Other$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$17k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUFANT FAMILY FOUNDATION$5,000
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 (FY20–20, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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%TACOMA URBAN LEAGUE: $6k → 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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$32k · 10 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
21

Total granted

$32k
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-8%
+31%

Still filing today

40%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23
EducationHealthInternationalHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & 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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k
  • LW
    LENNY WILKENS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue -98%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k

Funded once

  • TP
    TACOMA PUBLIC SCHOOLS - TRUFANT TACOMA SCHOLARSHIP
    one grant, 2019 · $23k
  • NE
    NORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +32%
  • Tacoma Urban League
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -54%
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
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences

Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences educates and trains health care professionals emphasizing service among rural and medically under-served communities throughout the Northwest.

Education
2
Foundation for the Seattle Colleges

The Foundation for the Seattle Colleges exists to advance fundraising efforts for the Seattle Community College District. We seek to attract financial resources which support students so they may be successful; maintain the quality and…

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3
South Seattle College Foundation

Our mission is to change lives by providing students with scholarships so they can pursue quality academic and vocational education. we do this through relationship building, fundraising and stewarding resources.

Education
4
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
5
City University of Seattle

See schedule ofounded in 1973, city university of seattle's mission is to change lives for good by offering high quality and relevant lifelong education to anyone with the desire to learn. city university's vision is to provide underserved…

Education
6
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
7
Seattle University Foundation

Fundraising activities to support Seattle University

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8
South Puget Sound Community College Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to engage community and build resources to support success for all students.

Education
9
Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Seattle Chapter

Arcs foundation advances science and technology in the united states by providing financial awards to academically outstanding u.s. citizens studying to complete degrees in science, engineering and medical research.

Education
10
Puget Sound Community School

Founded in 1994, PSCS is a small, independent middle and high school located in the Chinatown/International District of downtown Seattle. PSCS is committed to co-creating a brave space for community-centered education, critical curriculum,…

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11
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
12
Northwest University

We, the people of northwest university, carry the call of god by continually building a learning community dedicated to spiritual vitality, academic excellence, and empowered engagement with human need.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Education Access; the most unlike its peers is Arc Dance Productions 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

14 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. 14 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TACOMA PUBLIC SCHOOLS - TRUFANT TACOMA SCHOLARSHIP: $23,000 · OtherTACOMA PUBLIC SCHOOLS - TRUFANT TACOMA SCHOLARSHIPBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $10,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTRUFANT FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherTRUFANT FAMILY FOUNDATIONSPECIAL OLYMPICS USA GAMES: $3,300 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $3,000 · OtherWESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $3,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $3,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN SICKLE CELL TASK FORCE: $3,000 · Other+14 more: $14,253 · Other+14 moreNORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS: $9,000 · EducationNORTHWEST ED…UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND: $1,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…College Success Foundation: $500 · EducationTacoma Urban League: $6,000 · Human ServicesLENNY WILKENS FOUNDATION: $4,500 · HealthRACHEL LYNN HENLEY FOUNDATION: $1,020 · HealthBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND: $3,050 · Youth DevelopmentMAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION: $250 · InternationalArc Dance Productions Inc: $100 · Arts & Culture
Other$72,553Education$10,500Human Services$6,000Health$5,520Youth Development$3,050International$250Arts & Culture$100

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 budgetNORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS: $9,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTacoma Urban League: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLENNY WILKENS FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND: $3,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLOVER PARK TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,400 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF TACOMA: $1,825 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollege Success Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASTER BUILDERS ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE COUNTY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArc Dance Productions Inc: $100 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 NORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS ↗
  • Who funds Tacoma Urban League ↗
  • Who funds LENNY WILKENS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds CLOVER PARK TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF TACOMA ↗
  • Who funds RACHEL LYNN HENLEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND ↗
  • Who funds College Success Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MASTER BUILDERS ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Arc Dance Productions Inc ↗

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.

Seattle FoundationThe Bamford FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Seattle FoundationWA14.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Bamford Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Trufant Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trufant Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • University of Portland: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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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How do I get to Trufant Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Trufant Family Foundation 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 32 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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