Washington · Nonprofit
FAMILIES UNLIMITED NETWORK
FAMILIES UNLIMITED NETWORK (Washington) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $198,832 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($55,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $199k
- Net assets
- $810k
What Families Unlimited Network does
Mission
Families Unlimited Network provides access to food and resources that support community well-being and self-sustainability.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide food for families, children, seniors and individuals in pierce county, facing food insecurity in pierce county washington. Families Unlimited Network serves 32,841 individuals, 9,736 families. Distributed 525,466 pounds of food to clients.
$1,046,726 spentof which $896,618 as grants93% of program spendingKid pack and summer lunch program - Families Unlimited Network serves students in lakewood, university place and tacoma who receive free and reduces lunches with meals over the weekend who would otherwise experience food insecurity. Summer lunches are delivered to children and their families during the summer months. Kid packs served 7,249 children with 43,494 meals. Summer lunches provided 11,475 lunches.
$58,018 spentof which $1,007 as grants5% of program spendingHousing & emergency assistance programs - provide ongoing support and guidance for families facing barriers to self-sustainability. Families unlimited offers financial coaching and budgeting assistance to families in university place and pierce county. Rent, utilities and miscellaneous financial assistance is provided. Essential focus on keeping individuals and families in their homes and out of the endless spiral of homelessness. Serving 63 families and 46 individuals. Miscellaneous emergency assistance to 121 individuals, seniors, and families in our community experiencing unforeseen life challenges that, if left unresolved, lead to food insecurity and homelessness. This includes, but is not limited to medical bills, prescriptions, auto repairs, school expenses, etc.
$24,825 spentof which $24,825 as grants2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,129,569.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $208k to $417k (+100%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2021 18% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
102% of FAMILIES UNLIMITED NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
James Lineweaver
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $120 → $25k.
6 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of FAMILIES UNLIMITED NETWORK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 19 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
FAMILIES UNLIMITED NETWORK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
70% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FAMILIES UNLIMITED NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 52% · 2020 50% · 2021 37% · 2022 71% · 2023 60% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
20% of FAMILIES UNLIMITED NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
52% of FAMILIES UNLIMITED NETWORK's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $96k that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $103k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
FAMILIES UNLIMITED NETWORK holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FAMILIES UNLIMITED NETWORK
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAMILIES UNLIMITED NETWORK: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FAMILIES UNLIMITED NETWORK?
- FAMILIES UNLIMITED NETWORK (Washington) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $198,832 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($55,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FAMILIES UNLIMITED NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $198,832 in grants to FAMILIES UNLIMITED NETWORK, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILIES UNLIMITED NETWORK?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILIES UNLIMITED NETWORK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing