Washington · Nonprofit
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
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
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 spent100% of program spendingNourish 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.
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.
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%).
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: 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Nourish Pierce County: 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 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