Washington · Nonprofit
Food is Free Washington Food is Free Tacoma
Food is Free Washington Food is Free Tacoma (Washington) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,408 to it, the largest being AARP ($21,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Emergency Food Network of Tacoma and Pierce Countylocalportfolio match
- Feeding Americashared funders
- Coastal Harvestportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $0 → $47.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Food is Free Washington Food is Free Tacoma’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 9 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
Food is Free Washington Food is Free Tacoma leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 Food is Free Washington Food is Free Tacoma.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 69% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
Food is Free Washington Food is Free Tacoma draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $91 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Emergency Food Network of Tacoma and Pierce Countylocalportfolio matchWA · funds 54 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Feeding Americashared fundersIL · backs 93 organizations that share your funders
- Coastal Harvestportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sumner Community Food Bankportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- CoreGiving Coshared fundersIL · backs 43 organizations that share your funders
- EastWest Food Rescueportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Action Council of Lewis Mason & Thurston Countiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harvest Against Hungerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South King County Food Coalition Skcfcportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northwest Harvest Emmportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Second Harvest Inland Northwestportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food Lifelineportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Food is Free Washington Food is Free Tacoma
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Food is Free Washington Food is Free Tacoma: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Food is Free Washington Food is Free Tacoma?
- Food is Free Washington Food is Free Tacoma (Washington) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,408 to it, the largest being AARP ($21,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Food is Free Washington Food is Free Tacoma have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $44,408 in grants to Food is Free Washington Food is Free Tacoma, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Food is Free Washington Food is Free Tacoma?
- AARP is the largest funder on record, with $21,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Food is Free Washington Food is Free Tacoma 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing