Emergency Food Network of Tacoma and
Tacoma, WA · EIN 94-3131776. Reported 59 grants totalling $22.1M to 58 organizations across tax years 2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Emergency Food Network of Tacoma and, the IRS classifies it under food & nutrition rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE K300) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 58 distinct organizations, with 18% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $237,064. Half of what it reported fell between $50,725 and $429,434; the smallest was $5,706 and the largest $3,968,587. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
59 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $21.2M in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nourish Pierce County | Tacoma, WA | $3,968,587 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Making a Difference Foundation | Tacoma, WA | $2,910,673 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Leos Parish | Tacoma, WA | $1,275,472 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Samoan Family Support Services | Tacoma, WA | $936,826 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Goodroots Northwest | Bonney Lake, WA | $935,291 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bounty Food Bank | Tacoma, WA | $684,542 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Salvation Army | Honolulu, HI | $656,599 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tacoma Adventist Community Services | Tacoma, WA | $591,110 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Feeding Feasible Feasts | Edgewood, WA | $558,681 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| B a S H | Tacoma, WA | $523,031 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tacoma Rescue Mission | Tacoma, WA | $495,804 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gateway Group of Tacoma | Tacoma, WA | $471,524 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Key Peninsula Bischoff Food Bank | Vaughn, WA | $469,783 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Orting Food Bank Inc | Orting, WA | $454,363 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Eatonville Area Council | Eatonville, WA | $434,070 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fellowship Christian Community Church of California | Texarkana, AR | $429,434 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Parkway Community Services | Spanaway, WA | $426,173 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Care Ministries | Graham, WA | $412,993 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Food Backpacks 4 Kids | Gig Harbor, WA | $390,520 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Key Peninsula Community Services | Lakebay, WA | $390,213 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sumner Community Food Bank | Sumner, WA | $389,724 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Multicultural Child and Family Hope Center | Tacoma, WA | $360,823 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Life Center Church of Tacoma Washington | Tacoma, WA | $344,910 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gig Harbor Peninsula Fish | Gig Harbor, WA | $295,277 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Horizon Christian Center | Fife, WA | $289,765 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Coastal Harvest | Hoquiam, WA | $284,167 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Prison Scholar Fund | Seattle, WA | $267,098 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church | Tacoma, WA | $244,765 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Families Unlimited Network | University Pl, WA | $237,064 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| We Love Steilacoom Association | Puyallup, WA | $209,721 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kiwanis Club of Buckley Foundation | Buckley, WA | $190,072 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Spanaway Food Bank | Spanaway, WA | $183,602 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Andrews Church | Sumner, WA | $156,310 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| My Sisters Pantry | Tacoma, WA | $141,821 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lake City Community Church | Lakewood, WA | $127,731 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lend a Hand | Tacoma, WA | $109,302 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Jerusalem Church of God in Christ | Tacoma, WA | $105,155 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Martin of Tours Church | Fife, WA | $79,191 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Korean Womens Association | Lakewood, WA | $72,465 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tillicum American Lake Gardens Community Services | Lakewood, WA | $71,501 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Prince of Peace Lutheran Church | Lakewood, WA | $65,726 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Act - a Common Thread | Puyallup, WA | $54,993 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| YWCA Pierce County | Tacoma, WA | $53,158 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Thurston County Food Bank | Olympia, WA | $50,725 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Phoebe House Association | Tacoma, WA | $50,171 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brotherhood Rise Center | Tacoma, WA | $32,379 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Urban Harvest Exchange | Tacoma, WA | $30,653 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| All Saints Community Services | Puyallup, WA | $18,773 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Diocese of Olympia Inc | Seattle, WA | $18,465 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Downtown Action to Save Housing | Bellevue, WA | $17,783 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Incubator | Tacoma, WA | $17,333 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Empowerment Center | Tacoma, WA | $16,470 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Greater Gig Harbor Foundation | Gig Harbor, WA | $14,683 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Network Tacoma | Tacoma, WA | $14,148 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Catholic Community Services of Western Washington | Seattle, WA | $11,528 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lakewood Community Garden | Lakewood, WA | $9,763 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Victory Outreach Tacoma Church | University Pl, WA | $9,675 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Red Barn Association | Vaughn, WA | $5,706 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 38 of 58 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Where its money goes
95% of its giving went to organizations in Washington. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $237,064 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Washington.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Emergency Food Network of Tacoma and's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 49 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 10 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 3318 92ND St S, Tacoma, WA, 98499.
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