Funding search · EIN 943099309 · Gig Harbor, WA

The Babare Foundation

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

61
grants reported
$877,000
total given
2022–2025
filing years
$10,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20222025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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Funding pattern

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4 grants matching “purposeto · $55,000

  • $20,000

    Communities in Schools · Vaughn, WA · 2025

    To further exempt purposeto further exempt purpose

  • $15,000

    Communities in Schools · Vaughn, WA · 2024

    To further exempt purposeto further exempt purpose

  • $10,000

    Communities in Schools · Vaughn, WA · 2023

    To further exempt purposeto further exempt purpose

  • $10,000

    Communities in Schools · Vaughn, WA · 2022

    To further exempt purposeto further exempt purpose

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

  • Mbchc Tree House4 grants · $115,000
  • Local Church4 grants · $95,000
  • Agnus Dei Lutheran Church4 grants · $95,000
  • Diabetes Association of Pierce County4 grants · $65,000
  • Violet Sees4 grants · $60,000
  • Emegency Food Network4 grants · $55,000
  • Communities in Schools4 grants · $55,000
  • Harbor Wildwatch4 grants · $45,000
  • Nw Watershed Institute4 grants · $45,000
  • Harbor History Museum4 grants · $45,000

Giving over time

$165,000
2022
$200,000
2023
$222,000
2024
$290,000
2025

Grant history

All 61 reported grants, largest first.

  • $30,000

    Mbchc Tree House · Tacoma, WA · 2025

    To further exempt purpose

  • $30,000

    Mbchc Tree House · Tacoma, WA · 2024

    To further exempt purpose

  • $30,000

    Mbchc Tree House · Tacoma, WA · 2023

    To further exempt purpose

  • $25,000

    Agnus Dei Lutheran Church · Gig Harbor, WA · 2025

    To further exempt purpose

  • $25,000

    Diabetes Association of Pierce County · Tacoma, WA · 2025

    To further exempt purpose

  • $25,000

    Local Church · Gig Harbor, WA · 2025

    To further exempt purpose

  • $25,000

    Violet Sees · Seattle, WA · 2025

    To further exempt purpose

  • $25,000

    Agnus Dei Lutheran Church · Gig Harbor, WA · 2024

    To further exempt purpose

  • $25,000

    Local Church · Gig Harbor, WA · 2024

    To further exempt purpose

  • $25,000

    Agnus Dei Lutheran Church · Gig Harbor, WA · 2023

    To further exempt purpose

  • $25,000

    Local Church · Gig Harbor, WA · 2023

    To further exempt purpose

  • $25,000

    Mbchc Tree House · Tacoma, WA · 2022

    To further exempt purpose

  • $20,000

    Communities in Schools · Vaughn, WA · 2025

    To further exempt purposeto further exempt purpose

  • $20,000

    Emegency Food Network · Tacoma, WA · 2025

    To further exempt purpose

  • $20,000

    Pediatric Interim Care Center · Kent, WA · 2025

    To further exempt purpose

  • $20,000

    Agnus Dei Lutheran Church · Gig Harbor, WA · 2022

    To further exempt purpose

  • $20,000

    Local Church · Gig Harbor, WA · 2022

    To further exempt purpose

  • $15,000

    Gh Tides Scholarship Fund - Rpc Memorial Fund · Gig Harbor, WA · 2025

    To further exempt purpose

  • $15,000

    Harbor History Museum · Gig Harbor, WA · 2025

    To further exempt purpose

  • $15,000

    Harbor Wildwatch · Gig Harbor, WA · 2025

    To further exempt purpose

  • $15,000

    Nw Watershed Institute · Port Townsend, WA · 2025

    To further exempt purpose

  • $15,000

    Communities in Schools · Vaughn, WA · 2024

    To further exempt purposeto further exempt purpose

  • $15,000

    Diabetes Association of Pierce County · Tacoma, WA · 2024

    To further exempt purpose

  • $15,000

    Pediatric Interim Care Center · Kent, WA · 2024

    To further exempt purpose

  • $15,000

    Violet Sees · Seattle, WA · 2024

    To further exempt purpose

  • $15,000

    Diabetes Association of Pierce County · Tacoma, WA · 2023

    To further exempt purpose

  • $15,000

    Emegency Food Network · Tacoma, WA · 2022

    To further exempt purpose

  • $12,000

    Gh Tides Scholarship Fund - Rpc Memorial Fund · Gig Harbor, WA · 2024

    To further exempt purpose

  • $10,000

    Ducks Unlimited · Memphis, TN · 2025

    To further exempt purpose

  • $10,000

    Narrows Baseball Club · Gig Harbor, WA · 2025

    To further exempt purpose

  • $10,000

    Pheasants Forever · St Paul, MN · 2025

    To further exempt purpose

  • $10,000

    The Sandman Foundation · Olympia, WA · 2025

    To further exempt purpose

  • $10,000

    Emegency Food Network · Tacoma, WA · 2024

    To further exempt purpose

  • $10,000

    Harbor History Museum · Gig Harbor, WA · 2024

    To further exempt purpose

  • $10,000

    Harbor Wildwatch · Gig Harbor, WA · 2024

    To further exempt purpose

  • $10,000

    Humane Society for Tacoma and Pierce County · Tacoma, WA · 2024

    To further exempt purpose

  • $10,000

    Narrows Baseball Club · Gig Harbor, WA · 2024

    To further exempt purpose

  • $10,000

    Nw Watershed Institute · Port Townsend, WA · 2024

    To further exempt purpose

  • $10,000

    The Sandman Foundation · Olympia, WA · 2024

    To further exempt purpose

  • $10,000

    Amara · Tacoma, WA · 2023

    To further exempt purpose

  • $10,000

    Communities in Schools · Vaughn, WA · 2023

    To further exempt purposeto further exempt purpose

  • $10,000

    Emegency Food Network · Tacoma, WA · 2023

    To further exempt purpose

  • $10,000

    Gh Tides Scholarship Fund - Rpc Memorial Fund · Gig Harbor, WA · 2023

    To further exempt purpose

  • $10,000

    Harbor History Museum · Gig Harbor, WA · 2023

    To further exempt purpose

  • $10,000

    Harbor Wildwatch · Gig Harbor, WA · 2023

    To further exempt purpose

  • $10,000

    Narrows Baseball Club · Gig Harbor, WA · 2023

    To further exempt purpose

  • $10,000

    Nw Watershed Institute · Port Townsend, WA · 2023

    To further exempt purpose

  • $10,000

    The Sand Man Foundation · Olympia, WA · 2023

    To further exempt purpose

  • $10,000

    Violet Sees · Seattle, WA · 2023

    To further exempt purpose

  • $10,000

    Communities in Schools · Vaughn, WA · 2022

    To further exempt purposeto further exempt purpose

  • $10,000

    Diabetes Association of Pierce County · Tacoma, WA · 2022

    To further exempt purpose

  • $10,000

    Harbor History Museum · Gig Harbor, WA · 2022

    To further exempt purpose

  • $10,000

    Harbor Wildwatch · Gig Harbor, WA · 2022

    To further exempt purpose

  • $10,000

    Nw Watershed Institute · Port Townsend, WA · 2022

    To further exempt purpose

  • $10,000

    Violet Sees · Seattle, WA · 2022

    To further exempt purpose

  • $5,000

    Pediatric Interim Care Center · Kent, WA · 2023

    To further exempt purpose

  • $5,000

    Amara · Tacoma, WA · 2022

    To further exempt purpose

  • $5,000

    Gh Tides Scholarship Fund - Rpc Memorial Fund · Gig Harbor, WA · 2022

    To further exempt purpose

  • $5,000

    Pediatric Interim Care Center · Kent, WA · 2022

    To further exempt purpose

  • $5,000

    Salvation Army · Tacoma, WA · 2022

    To further exempt purpose

  • $5,000

    Shockwave Baseball Club · Gig Harbor, WA · 2022

    To further exempt purpose

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.