How much does United Way of Pierce County give?

United Way of Pierce County reported 39 itemized grants totaling $1,041,345, out of $2,889,286 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 42 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does United Way of Pierce County fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (37%), Housing & Shelter (19%), Education (12%).

Who are United Way of Pierce County's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Tacoma Community House ($760k), South Sound Outreach Services ($478k), Goodwill of the Olympics and Rainier Region ($308k).

Does United Way of Pierce County fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Pierce County?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine, Woodworth Family Foundation.

Where is United Way of Pierce County based?

United Way of Pierce County is based in WA.

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Washington · Public charity

United Way of Pierce County

We mobilize and unite the caring power of Pierce County to tackle our community's toughest challenges to improve lives in measurable and lasting ways. Our bold goal is to lift 15,000 households out of poverty in Pierce County by 2028.

$2.9M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 39
Itemized grants FY2025: 31
Organizations funded FY2024: 6%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $1.0M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $172,000
Organizations funded a year: 27 to 42; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $17M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations United Way of Pierce County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEmploymentPublic Safety & DisasterHousing & ShelterOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	36	$996k	36%
FY2024	31	$1.2M	6%
FY2023	27	$642k	7%
FY2022	33	$704k	9%
FY2021	42	$1.4M	24%
FY2020	33	$739k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$2.2MHousing & Shelter$1.1MEducation$730kFood & Nutrition$612kEmployment$473kPhilanthropy$324kHealth$295kRecreation & Sports$87kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Tacoma Community House	$759,800	6	4%
South Sound Outreach Services	$478,050	3	17%
Goodwill of the Olympics and Rainier Region	$308,300	3	0%
Associated Ministries of Tacoma-Pierce County	$299,250	6	3%
Tacoma Community College	$206,833	6	n/a
Making a Difference Foundation	$202,000	6	1%
New Phoebe House	$200,000	6	5%
Korean Women's Association	$200,000	6	0%
Multicultural Child and Family Hope Center	$200,000	6	1%
Lasa	$180,000	6	2%

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All grantees of United Way of Pierce County by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Tacoma Community House	$759,800	6	4%
South Sound Outreach Services	$478,050	3	17%
Goodwill of the Olympics and Rainier Region	$308,300	3	0%
Associated Ministries of Tacoma-Pierce County	$299,250	6	3%
Tacoma Community College	$206,833	6	n/a
Making a Difference Foundation	$202,000	6	1%
New Phoebe House	$200,000	6	5%
Korean Women's Association	$200,000	6	0%
Multicultural Child and Family Hope Center	$200,000	6	1%
Lasa	$180,000	6	2%
Diabetes Assoc of Pierce County	$161,679	6	51%
Housing Authority of the City of Tacoma	$151,150	3	n/a
Helping Hand House	$150,000	5	1%
Franklin Pierce School District No 402	$143,900	5	n/a
Nourish Pierce County	$126,010	6	0%
Communities in Schools of Tacoma	$125,000	5	7%
St Leo's Food Connection	$123,768	6	n/a
Emergency Food Network	$120,000	6	n/a
YWCA Pierce County	$112,704	6	1%
Mi Centro	$105,000	6	2%
Cares of Washington	$95,000	6	1%
Lindquist Dental Clinic for Children	$90,000	6	1%
Pioneer Human Services Inc	$82,500	3	0%
Tacoma Urban League	$80,500	5	2%
United Way Childrens Emergency Fund	$75,687	6	n/a
Peace Community Center	$75,000	4	2%
Childrens Home Society of Washington	$75,000	3	0%
United Way of King County	$69,980	6	0%
Washington Restaurant Association Education Foundation	$60,000	1	20%
Clover Park Technical College	$56,338	1	n/a
Cjk Community Homes	$50,000	1	n/a
Communities in Schools of Peninsula	$47,917	2	2%
Our Savior Lutheran Church	$46,000	5	n/a
Bellarmine Preparatory School	$40,000	3	n/a
Particular Council of Tacoma Society of Saint Vincent de Paul	$35,000	1	2%
Shared Housing Services	$30,000	2	5%
Mary Bridge Children's Foundation	$25,798	3	n/a
Communities in Schools of Puyallup	$25,120	4	1%
Communities in Schools of Lakewood Inc	$25,000	1	2%
Catholic Community Services of Western Washington	$21,218	3	0%
Food Backpacks 4 Kids	$20,000	1	1%
Pierce County Labor Community Services Agency	$20,000	1	46%
GoodRoots Northwest	$20,000	1	n/a
The Rescue Mission	$19,128	2	0%
Planned Parenthood Great Northwest Hawaii Alaska Indiana and Kentucky	$17,856	3	0%
Commonspirit Washington F/K/A Franciscan Health System	$13,453	2	0%
Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation	$12,232	2	0%
Inner City Action Network	$10,000	1	n/a
Next Chapter Foundation	$10,000	1	3%
Eatonville Area Council DBA Eatonville Family Agency	$10,000	1	n/a
True Vision 360 and Beyond	$10,000	1	n/a
Corporation of Gonzaga University	$10,000	1	0%
Central Ave Elementary School P T a 5 5 10	$10,000	1	n/a
Asia Pacific Cultural Center	$10,000	1	0%
Childrens International Health Relief	$9,000	1	6%
Greenhouse Foundation	$9,000	1	n/a
Breathe For Change Inc	$7,980	1	n/a
Pierce County Housing Authority	$7,500	1	n/a
Visitation Catholic School	$7,061	1	n/a
Awld Foundation	$7,000	1	n/a
Multicare Health System	$6,695	1	0%
Habitat for Humanity of Washington State	$5,896	1	1%
L'Arche Tahoma Hope Community	$5,102	1	n/a

United Way of Pierce County supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 41.

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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.

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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.

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About United Way of Pierce County

How much does United Way of Pierce County give?: United Way of Pierce County reported 39 itemized grants totaling $1,041,345, out of $2,889,286 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 42 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does United Way of Pierce County fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (37%), Housing & Shelter (19%), Education (12%).
Who are United Way of Pierce County's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Tacoma Community House ($760k), South Sound Outreach Services ($478k), Goodwill of the Olympics and Rainier Region ($308k).
Does United Way of Pierce County fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Pierce County?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine, Woodworth Family Foundation.
Where is United Way of Pierce County based?: United Way of Pierce County is based in WA.