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Nourish Pierce County

Nourish Pierce County (Washington) receives grants from 89 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,811,649 to it, the largest being GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,169,569). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5.9M
Funders on record
89
Grants received
$8.8M
Net assets
$8.1M
51/89 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Nourish Pierce County does

Mission

To provide food to individuals in need with compassion, dignity and respect. No one needing assistance is turned away.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Incorporated in 1982, Nourish Pierce County is the oldest and largest network of food banks in Pierce County. Nourish currently operates in Edgewood, Graham/South Hill,Lakewood, Southeast Tacoma, West Tacoma, and Northwest Tacoma. Nourishs Mobile Food Banks visit 16 unique locations each week including Gig Harbor, Key Peninsula, Roy,Spanaway, the Lakewood neighborhood of Tillicum, and all of the area technical and community colleges.In January to June 2025, Nourish served over 33,000 unduplicated people through 221,003 visits and distributed 2.1 million pounds of food for a total of 1.9 million nourishing meals.

    $5,734,229 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Nourish impacts the community by helping to provide the most basic needbalanced, nutritious food for all in need. Nourish serves the underemployed, unemployed, children, seniors, active-duty military, veterans, individuals experiencing homelessness, individuals with disabilities, and many hard-working families who are often just a paycheck away from losing everything.

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,734,229.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($11M) Expenses 100 ($11M) Net assets 100 ($2.4M)2019 Revenue 99 ($11M) Expenses 99 ($11M) Net assets 92 ($2.3M)2020 Revenue 156 ($17M) Expenses 124 ($14M) Net assets 225 ($5.5M)2021 Revenue 120 ($13M) Expenses 105 ($12M) Net assets 282 ($6.9M)2022 Revenue 111 ($12M) Expenses 110 ($12M) Net assets 260 ($6.4M)2023 Revenue 120 ($13M) Expenses 112 ($13M) Net assets 293 ($7.2M)2024 Revenue 127 ($14M) Expenses 114 ($13M) Net assets 342 ($8.4M)2025 Revenue 53 ($5.9M) Expenses 57 ($6.4M) Net assets 330 ($8.1M)
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Revenue (53)Expenses (57)Net assets (330)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $2.4M to $5.6M (+133%).

$2.7M
$2.4M
$5.6M
$6.9M
$7.0M
$10M
$10M
$9.8M
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 9% · 2021 6% · 2022 4% · 2023 21% · 2024 7% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$255k
’18
−$259k
’19
$3.3M
’20
$1.4M
’21
−$169k
’22
$591k
’23
$1.1M
’24
−$517k
’25
1.7
months of
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

Sue Potter

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+2+0+3+2+1+1+0
No longer listed·2042400
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $180k → $1.3M.

17 of 89 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 Nourish Pierce County’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 89 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

Nourish Pierce County has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

49% 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 Nourish Pierce County.

25%
largest funder
44%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 21% · 2019 24% · 2020 14% · 2021 12% · 2022 20% · 2023 40% — growing more concentrated.

“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

45% of Nourish Pierce County's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

71% of Nourish Pierce County's grant income comes from Washington funders.

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

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Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Nourish Pierce County

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 7%Fundraising 3%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Nourish Pierce County?
Nourish Pierce County (Washington) receives grants from 89 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,811,649 to it, the largest being GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,169,569). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Nourish Pierce County have?
IRS filings report 89 organizations giving $8,811,649 in grants to Nourish Pierce County, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Nourish Pierce County?
GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,169,569 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Nourish Pierce County 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 89 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing