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JUNIOR LEAGUE OF TACOMA INC

JUNIOR LEAGUE OF TACOMA INC (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,236 to it, the largest being HE ANDERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,570). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2022
$34k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$4k
Net assets
$285k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Junior League of Tacoma Inc does

Mission

Voluntarism, education & leadership.

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Community impact: training for community, purchased back to school items for homeless youth, provided hygiene and back to school items to homeless youth.

    $4,619 spent
    12% of program spending
  2. Executive travel and lodging: travel expenses for organization leadership to attend conferences hosted by the association of junior leagues international.

    $2,349 spent
    6% of program spending
  3. Annual training event: expenses to host women in leadership training event/panel forum, which funds the organization's operating expenses and community programs.

    $2,819 spent
    7% of program spending
  4. Purchased and donated a van for our community partner, comprehensive life resources. An event was held to host speakers from our community partners and celebrate the league's 100th anniversary.management and general: overhead expenses (ie. Rent and utilities) that are necessary to support the league's activities and mission.

    $28,740 spent
    75% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $38,527.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($86k) Expenses 100 ($71k) Net assets 100 ($238k)2018 Revenue 135 ($116k) Expenses 103 ($73k) Net assets 118 ($280k)2019 Revenue 90 ($77k) Expenses 91 ($65k) Net assets 123 ($293k)2020 Revenue 90 ($77k) Expenses 78 ($56k) Net assets 132 ($313k)2021 Revenue 41 ($35k) Expenses 51 ($36k) Net assets 131 ($312k)2022 Revenue 40 ($34k) Expenses 86 ($61k) Net assets 120 ($285k)
201720182019202020212022
Revenue (40)Expenses (86)Net assets (120)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $238k to $280k (+18%).

$238k
$280k
$293k
$313k
$312k
$285k
201720182019202020212022
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of JUNIOR LEAGUE OF TACOMA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,230 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$14k
’17
$42k
’18
$12k
’19
$21k
’20
−$1k
’21
−$27k
’22
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $4k → $100.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 JUNIOR LEAGUE OF TACOMA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

JUNIOR LEAGUE OF TACOMA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

84%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 69% · 2022 100% · 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

JUNIOR LEAGUE OF TACOMA INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 2 states in all.

WA
OR

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’21
Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $566 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

JUNIOR LEAGUE OF TACOMA INC's revenue fell 60% between 2017 and 2022.

Operating margin−80% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−17% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,327 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2022

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05Profile & governance

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

WA

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Questions and answers

Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF TACOMA INC?
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF TACOMA INC (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,236 to it, the largest being HE ANDERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,570). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does JUNIOR LEAGUE OF TACOMA INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $4,236 in grants to JUNIOR LEAGUE OF TACOMA INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of JUNIOR LEAGUE OF TACOMA INC?
HE ANDERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,570 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JUNIOR LEAGUE OF TACOMA INC 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 3 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