· Private foundation
Wm Kilworth Fdn Tw
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $131k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $198k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND | $30,000 |
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF WASHINGTON | $20,700 |
| R MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP FOUN | $20,000 |
| EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK | $20,000 |
| YWCA PIERCE COUNTY | $15,000 |
| NOURISH PIERCE COUNTY | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $12,000 |
| NORTHWEST SINFONIETTA | $10,000 |
| PUYALLUP VALLEY ST FRANCIS HOUSE | $10,000 |
| TACOMA ARTS LIVE | $10,000 |
| GREENSTRIKE | $10,000 |
| TACOMA YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC | $7,500 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL TACOME-PIERCE COUNTY | $7,500 |
| GOODWILL OLYMPICS & RANIER REGION | $7,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
57 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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
- MCMOUNT CARMEL GUILD BEHAVIORAL HEALTH4× · 2022–2025 · $95k · revenue +3%
- ICINDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF WASHINGTON4× · 2022–2025 · $79k · revenue +8%
- GGREENTRIKE5× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- RMR MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIPgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +59%
- AMASSOCIATED MINISTRIESone grant, 2020 · $20k
- TNTHE NETWORK DBA NETWORK LOBBY FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICEone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -9%
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.
To empower families experiencing housing insecurity through intervention, prevention,and stabilization services.
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
Improving the quality of life for the people in the Olympic Peninsula Community by providing increased access to health and wellness services for the underserved
House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…
RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.
Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.
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…
Tacoma Art Museum transforms our communities by sharing art that inspires broader perspectives and cultivates a compassionate future
Housing connector partners with property owners and managers to lower barriers to housing and increase our region's affordable housing capacity.
Tenino Community Service Center/Tenino Food Bank Plus is a deep-rooted community-based service center dedicated to feeding those within the Tenino school district (Tenino and Bucoda) that may be disadvantaged. In addition, it is our…
Provide and promote constructive and collaborative approaches to conflict resolution through mediation, training, facilitation, supervised visits and community education.
The mission of the Northwest Fair Housing Alliance is to eliminate housing discrimination and to ensure equal housing opportunity for the people of Washington State through education, counseling and advocacy.
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 ForeverGreen Trails. 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 32 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 90 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 THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds MOUNT CARMEL GUILD BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Nourish Pierce County ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds GREENTRIKE ↗
- Who funds YWCA PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TACOMA ARTS LIVE ↗
- Who funds Puyallup Valley St Francis House ↗
- Who funds LINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds AHAT Homecare ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds Rebuilding Together South Sound ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CLINIC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST SINFONIETTA INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LAKEWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds TACOMA YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NW FURNITURE BANK ↗
- Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
- Who funds R MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED MINISTRIES OF TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Goodwill of the Olympics and Rainier Region ↗
- Who funds POINT DEFIANCE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE NETWORK DBA NETWORK LOBBY FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds DEGREES OF CHANGE ↗
- Who funds HopeSparks ↗
- Who funds TACOMA COMMUNITY BOAT BUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds WRITE253 ↗
- Who funds Museum of Glass ↗
- Who funds NEW PHOEBE HOUSE ↗
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: Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · The Bamford Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Heidner Marco J Char Trust · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine · Woodworth Family Foundation · Forest Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Sequoia Foundation · June & Julian Foss 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 Wm Kilworth Fdn Tw 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.
- Medical Teams International — 14% 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.