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Groth Scholarship Fnd 30329100

Tacoma, WA · EIN 20-7271091. Reported 47 grants totalling $358,993 to 34 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$358,993granted, 2021-2024
34organizations funded
46%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,008,537assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Groth Scholarship Fnd 30329100 did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $12,500; the smallest was $500 and the largest $31,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
1 grant
$1,000 - $5,000
22 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
7 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
16 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
University of WashingtonTacoma, WA$46,000332023
Olympic CollegeBremerton, WA$45,541332023
Washington State UniversityPullman, WA$28,500332024
Western Washington UniversityBellingham, WA$22,452222022
Pacific Lutheran University Hauge Admin Building Rm 130Tacoma, WA$22,000222023
University of Washington Student Financial Aid & ScholarshipTacoma, WA$18,500112024
Pacific Lutheran University Hauge Admin Building Rm 102Tacoma, WA$17,000112024
Central Washington University Financial Aid OfficeEllensburg, WA$15,000112021
Eastern Washington University Financial Aid & Scholarship OfficeCheney, WA$13,500112024
Eastern Washington UniversityCheney, WA$13,000112022
Pacific Lutheran UniversityTacoma, WA$12,500112021
Western Washington University Student Business OfficeBellingham, WA$12,500112023
Central Washington UniversityEllensburg, WA$12,000112022
Olympic College HSS105Bremerton, WA$11,500112024
Western Washington University Financial Aid DepartmentBellingham, WA$9,500112024
Evergreen State CollegeOlympia, WA$6,500332023
Seattle UniversitySeattle, WA$5,500222024
Seattle UnviersitySeattle, WA$5,000112022
Green River CollegeAuburn, WA$4,500222023
Seattle Pacific UniversitySeattle, WA$4,500222023
Seattle Pacific University Student Financial ServicesSeattle, WA$4,500112024
Saint Martins UniversityLacey, WA$4,500112021
Central Washington University Office of Financial AidEllensburg, WA$3,500112024
University of Puget Sound Student Financial ServicesTacoma, WA$3,500112024
Gonzaga UniversitySpokane, WA$3,000112022
Tacoma Community College Financial ServicesTacoma, WA$3,000112024
Whitworth UniversitySpokane, WA$2,500112023
Bellingham Technical CollegeBellngham, WA$2,000112021
Bellevue CollegeBellevue, WA$1,500112023
Highline CollegeDes Moines, WA$1,500112022
Tacoma Community CollegeTacoma, WA$1,500112023
Pierce College - PuyallupPuyallup, WA$1,000112023
Walla Walla University Student Financial ServicesCollege Place, WA$1,000112024
Whitman CollegeWalla Walla, WA$500112023

9 of 34 (26%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 46%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 18 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
16 grants
Employment
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20219$99,880$10,000
202213$94,952$6,500
202313$67,661$1,500
202412$96,500$5,750

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Tacoma, WA
$86K
Seattle, WA
$58K
Bremerton, WA
$57K
Bellingham, WA
$44K
Ellensburg, WA
$30K
Pullman, WA
$28K
Cheney, WA
$26K
Olympia, WA
$6K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Washington.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Groth Scholarship Fnd 30329100's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Columbia Trust Co 1301 a Street, Tacoma, WA, 98402. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 20-7271091 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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