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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.

$2.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$172k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$2.2MHousing & Shelter$1.1MEducation$730kFood & Nutrition$612kEmployment$473kPhilanthropy$324kHealth$295kRecreation & Sports$87kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 39 grants below total $1,041,345 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,889,286 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,847,941 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $527k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $448k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Tacoma Community House$172,000
Multicultural Child and Family Hope Center$100,000
Goodwill of the Olympic and Rainier Region$76,000
CJK Community Homes$50,000
New Phoebe House Association$50,000
Associated Ministries of Tacoma$48,000
Making A Difference Foundation$45,000
Help A Student Fund$36,070
St Vincent DePaul Society$35,000
Mi Centro$30,000
YWCA Pierce County$27,000
LASA$25,000
Sound Outreach$22,600
Food Backpacks 4 Kids$20,000
Tacoma Community College$20,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.0M) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Heartfulness Institute: $10k → 9%Sound Outreach: $227k → 9%Multicultural Child and Family Hope Center: $100k → 9%Pioneer Human Services: $30k → 9%Pioneer Human Services: $30k → 9%Pioneer Human Services: $23k → 9%Mi Centro: $30k → 9%Tacoma Urban League: $21k → 9%Multicultural Child and Family Hope Center: $20k → 9%Multicultural Child and Family Hope Center: $20k → 9%Multicultural Child and Family Hope Center: $20k → 9%Multicultural Child and Family Hope Center: $20k → 9%Multicultural Child and Family Hope Center: $20k → 9%Centro Latino: $15k → 9%Tacoma Urban League: $15k → 9%Centro Latino: $15k → 9%Tacoma Urban League: $15k → 9%Tacoma Urban League: $15k → 9%Mi Centro: $15k → 9%Centro Latino: $15k → 9%Centro Latino: $15k → 9%Tacoma Urban League: $15k → 9%Korean Women's Association: $38k → 9%Korean Women's Association: $38k → 9%Korean Women's Association: $38k → 9%Korean Women's Association: $38k → 9%Korean Women's Association: $10k → 9%Food Backpacks 4 Kids: $20k → 9%Eatonville Family Agency: $10k → 9%Korean Women's Association: $38k → 9%L'Arche Tahoma Hope: $5k → 9%Children's Home Society: $25k → 9%Children's Home Society: $25k → 9%Children's Home Society: $25k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.3M · 39 repeat orgs$422k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
11

Total granted

$5.3M
$221k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+17%

Still filing today

74%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthEducationEmploymentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • SS
    SOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES
    3× · 2021–2025 · $478k · revenue +30%
  • MA
    MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $202k · revenue +14%
  • MC
    MULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $200k · revenue +453%

Funded once

  • WR
    WASHINGTON RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue +67%
  • CP
    Clover Park Technical College
    one grant, 2021 · $56k
  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LAKEWOOD INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +15%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Family Promise of Pierce County

To empower families experiencing housing insecurity through intervention, prevention,and stabilization services.

Housing & Shelter
2
Peninsula Community Health Services of Alaska

Strengthening the community by providing accessible and affordable health care.

Health
3
Network Services

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…

Human Services
4
Housing Connector

Housing connector partners with property owners and managers to lower barriers to housing and increase our region's affordable housing capacity.

Housing & Shelter
5
Northwest Counseling Service Inc

Housing Counseling Services

Housing & Shelter
6
Exodus Housing

To serve diverse households fleeing domestic violence with equitable, client-centered services that are inclusive, foster long-term self-sufficiency and promote access to permanent housing and community resources.hope - through compassion…

Housing & Shelter
7
Lutheran Community Services Northwest

LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.

Human Services
8
Pierce County Accountable Community of Health

To advance the health of our population by eliminating health disparities including promoting equitable access to high quality and cost effective health and human services and resources, to prevent disease and improve health, to improve…

Health
9
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center

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,…

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10
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
11
Building Changes

Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…

Health
12
Port Angeles Food Bank

Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Associated Ministries of Tacoma-Pierce County and the most unlike its peers is Childrens International Health Relief. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%6%<5yr13%6%5–10yr18%9%10–20yr18%32%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr14%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr13%2%5–10yr18%3%10–20yr18%33%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr14%41%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/65
the rest of the field
14%
524/3,759

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.

04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 65 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
27/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Tacoma Community House — $759,800 · Human ServicesTacoma Community HouseSOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES — $478,050 · Human ServicesSOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICESMULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER — $200,000 · Human ServicesMULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CE…KOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION — $200,000 · Human ServicesKOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATIONMI CENTRO — $105,000 · Human ServicesPIONEER HUMAN SERVICES INC — $82,500 · Human ServicesTacoma Urban League — $80,500 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON — $75,000 · Human Services+5 more — $65,820 · Human ServicesASSOCIATED MINISTRIES OF TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY — $299,250 · OtherASSOCIATED MINISTRIES OF TACOMA-PIERCE COUN…TACOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $206,833 · OtherTACOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGELASA — $180,000 · OtherLASAHOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF TACOMA — $151,150 · OtherHOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF TACOMAFranklin Pierce School District No 402 — $143,900 · OtherFranklin Pierce School District No 402Nourish Pierce County — $126,010 · OtherNourish Pierce CountySt Leo's Food Connection — $123,768 · OtherSt Leo's Food ConnectionEmergency Food Network — $120,000 · OtherYWCA PIERCE COUNTY — $112,704 · OtherLINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN — $90,000 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TACOMA — $125,000 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TACOMA+24 more — $622,633 · Other+24 moreNEW PHOEBE HOUSE — $200,000 · Housing & ShelterHELPING HAND HOUSE — $150,000 · Housing & ShelterCJK COMMUNITY HOMES — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE RESCUE MISSION — $19,128 · Housing & Shelter+2 more — $15,896 · Housing & ShelterGoodwill of the Olympics and Rainier Region — $308,300 · EmploymentCARES OF WASHINGTON — $95,000 · EmploymentGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $253,605 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY — $69,980 · Philanthropy+1 more — $9,000 · PhilanthropyDIABETES ASSOC OF PIERCE COUNTY — $161,679 · HealthWASHINGTON RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $60,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY — $17,856 · HealthCOMMONSPIRIT WASHINGTON F/K/A FRANCISCAN HEALTH SYSTEM — $13,453 · Health+1 more — $6,695 · HealthMAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION — $202,000 · International
Human Services$2,046,670Other$2,301,248Housing & Shelter$435,024Employment$403,300Philanthropy$332,585Health$259,683International$202,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTacoma Community House — $759,800 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetSOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES — $478,050 over 3y, 17% of budgetGoodwill of the Olympics and Rainier Region — $308,300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetASSOCIATED MINISTRIES OF TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY — $299,250 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $253,605 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION — $202,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER — $200,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNEW PHOEBE HOUSE — $200,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetKOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION — $200,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLASA — $180,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetDIABETES ASSOC OF PIERCE COUNTY — $161,679 over 6y, 51% of budgetHELPING HAND HOUSE — $150,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetNourish Pierce County — $126,010 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TACOMA — $125,000 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetYWCA PIERCE COUNTY — $112,704 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetMI CENTRO — $105,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetCARES OF WASHINGTON — $95,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetLINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN — $90,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPIONEER HUMAN SERVICES INC — $82,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTacoma Urban League — $80,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetPEACE COMMUNITY CENTER — $75,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY — $69,980 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PENINSULA — $47,917 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetShared Housing Services — $30,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PUYALLUP — $25,120 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LAKEWOOD INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON — $21,218 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPIERCE COUNTY LABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY — $20,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetFOOD BACKPACKS 4 KIDS — $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION — $19,128 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY — $17,856 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMONSPIRIT WASHINGTON F/K/A FRANCISCAN HEALTH SYSTEM — $13,453 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation — $12,232 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAsia Pacific Cultural Center — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEXT CHAPTER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMULTICARE HEALTH SYSTEM — $6,695 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WASHINGTON STATE — $5,896 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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 Tacoma Community House ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Goodwill of the Olympics and Rainier Region ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATED MINISTRIES OF TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NEW PHOEBE HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds KOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds LASA ↗
  • Who funds DIABETES ASSOC OF PIERCE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds HELPING HAND HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Nourish Pierce County ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TACOMA ↗
  • Who funds YWCA PIERCE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds MI CENTRO ↗
  • Who funds CARES OF WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds LINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds PIONEER HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Tacoma Urban League ↗
  • Who funds PEACE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CJK COMMUNITY HOMES ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PENINSULA ↗
  • Who funds PARTICULAR COUNCIL OF TACOMA SOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL ↗
  • Who funds Shared Housing Services ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PUYALLUP ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LAKEWOOD INC ↗

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.

Greater Tacoma Commun…Gary E Milgard Family…Woodworth Family Foun…Fuchsg & M Fdn TaiKilworth Florence Cha…Multicare Health Syst…The Norcliffe Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Medina FoundationForest FoundationThe Bamford FoundationGary E Milgard Family…
Greater Tacoma Community FoundationWA69.1× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine · Woodworth Family Foundation · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Multicare Health System · The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Medina Foundation · Forest Foundation · The Bamford Foundation · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation-Cari

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 United Way of Pierce County 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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