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Woodworth Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k38 grants · $590k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $995k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION | $185,000 |
| MARY BRIDGE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSOTY FOUNDATION | $135,000 |
| THE RESCUE MISSION | $125,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND | $100,000 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER | $100,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $100,000 |
| GREENTRIKE | $45,000 |
| BELLARMINE PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $25,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS | $25,000 |
| COMPREHENSIVE LIFE RESOURCES | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY | $20,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF PUGET SOUND | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
97 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $436k 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
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES5× · 2019–2023 · $500k · revenue +28%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $455k · revenue +46%
- TRTHE RESCUE MISSION7× · 2017–2024 · $225k · revenue +159%
Funded once
- PFPARTNERS FOR PARKSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +174%
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TACOMAgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +99%
MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONALone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +16%
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.
To grow a lasting culture of generosity and well-being in the South Puget Sound through connection, leadership, and investment.
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.
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…
Strengthening the community by providing accessible and affordable health care.
The mission of communities in schools of puyallup (cisp) is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
The Community Foundation of Snohomish County (the Foundation) is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization incorporated under the laws of the State of Washington. The Foundation serves as a community foundation, supporting a broad spectrum of…
Futurewise works throughout Washington state to encourage healthy, equitable and opportunity-rich communities, and to protect our most valuable farmlands, forests and water resources through wise land use policies and practices.
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.
Creating access, excellence and success for the peninsula college community by providing funds for students and programs.
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
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Tacoma Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Building Youth Through Music. 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 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% 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.
124 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. 124 of the 147 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 MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MULTICULTURAL CHILD AND FAMILY HOPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds Tacoma Community House ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREENTRIKE ↗
- Who funds Pacific Lutheran University ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds GIG HARBOR PENINSULA FISH ↗
- Who funds R MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds DEGREES OF CHANGE ↗
- Who funds POINT DEFIANCE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PUYALLUP FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PIERCE COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SOUND OUTREACH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Pierce County Project Access ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CLINIC ↗
- Who funds TACID ↗
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: Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · The Bamford Foundation · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · The Norcliffe Foundation · Multicare Health System · Heidner Marco J Char Trust · Korum for Kids Foundation · Forest Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Sequoia 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 Woodworth Family Foundation 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
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% 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.
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