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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 39 grants below total $1,041,345, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,889,286 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,847,941 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
New Phoebe House Association$50,000
CJK Community Homes$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
St Leo's Food Connection$20,000
CARES Of Washington$20,000
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 (FY20–25, $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 its 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%Tacoma Urban League: $15k → 9%Tacoma Urban League: $15k → 9%Tacoma Urban League: $15k → 9%Centro Latino: $15k → 9%Tacoma Urban League: $15k → 9%Mi Centro: $15k → 9%Centro Latino: $15k → 9%Centro Latino: $15k → 9%Centro Latino: $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
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.

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

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

+14%
+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
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

  • SS
    SOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES
    3× · 2021–2025 · $478k · revenue +7%
  • GO
    Goodwill of the Olympics and Rainier Region
    3× · 2021–2025 · $308k · revenue +5%
  • MA
    MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $202k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • WR
    WASHINGTON RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue +66%
  • CP
    Clover Park Technical College
    one grant, 2021 · $56k
  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LAKEWOOD INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +15%
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
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
2
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
3
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
4
Partners Inland Northwest

Partners inland northwest is the sole source of comprehensive community and social services in spokane valley, serving low income and disadvantaged residents between the city of spokane and the idaho border.

Human Services
5
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
6
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
7
Project Access Northwest

Project Access Northwest provides low-income families access to medical, dental and Behavioral Health care so they can live a healthier and more productive life.

Health
8
Northwest Counseling Service Inc

Housing Counseling Services

Housing & Shelter
9
Martin Luther King Housing Development Association

We are a Community Based Organization that provides Affordable Housing, Emergency Shelter, Supportive Services and promotes Self-Sufficiency, Homeownership, Neighborhood Revitalization and Economic Development.

Housing & Shelter
10
Solid Ground Washington

At Solid Ground, we work passionately to end poverty and build a more equitable community. Our services support people experiencing poverty by helping them achieve stability and expand their skills to realize their dreams. And that's just…

Housing & Shelter
11
Columbia River Mental Health Services

Columbia river mental health services is a full service mental health agency offering a wide spectrum of behavioral health services to children and adults of clark county, washington.

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Associated Ministries of Tacoma-Pierce County; 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.
04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 65 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Tacoma Community House: $759,800 · Human ServicesTacoma Community HouseSOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES: $478,050 · Human ServicesSOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICESKOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $200,000 · Human ServicesKOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATIONMULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER: $200,000 · Human ServicesMULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CE…MI 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetNEW PHOEBE HOUSE: $200,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetKOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $200,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER: $200,000 over 6y, 0.5% 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 budgetPARTICULAR COUNCIL OF TACOMA SOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL: $35,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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 budgetFOOD BACKPACKS 4 KIDS: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPIERCE COUNTY LABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $20,000 over 1y, 46% 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 budgetNEXT CHAPTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAsia Pacific Cultural Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDRENS INTERNATIONAL HEALTH RELIEF: $9,000 over 1y, 6.1% 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
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 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 NEW PHOEBE HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds KOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

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

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 United Way of Pierce County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Pierce County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's 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
    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.

    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 65 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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