Intermediary Funding Partnerships

As a community foundation, GTCF can act as an intermediary partner to government agencies. Because of its community foundation structure, GTCF can deliver funding with lower barriers than government reimbursement-only contracts. This can make funding more accessible to the communities identified by government agencies. GTCF’s more flexible funding capacity also ensures Pierce County organizations and community can access government funding.

GTCF holds a strategic framework goal of catalyzing community identification and removal of system barriers rooted in racism around four building blocks of generational wealth: housing, thriving youth and children, access to capital, and civic voice and power. This goal guides the kinds of intermediary partnerships GTCF seeks out and engages.

Washington Department of Commerce Intermediary Partnership

In July 2024, Greater Tacoma Community Foundation (GTCF) contracted with the Washington State Department of Commerce to support delivery of nearly $1.8million in Community Reinvestment Project funds to Pierce County communities through a Local Advisory Team (LAT).  The Department of Commerce’s Community Reinvestment Project (CRP) is a community-designed plan to uplift Black, Latine, and Indigenous communities disproportionately harmed by the historical design/enforcement of criminal laws and penalties for drug possession (otherwise known as the war on drugs). 

Community Reinvestment Project: Local Advisory Team

Wallace Foundation Partnerships for Social and Emotional Learning Initiative

GTCF served as a funding intermediary and Out-of-School Time Intermediary (OSTI) for the Wallace Foundation-funded Tacoma Whole Child Partnership, a part of the nationwide Partnerships for Social and Emotional Learning Initiative (PSELI). 

This community-wide partnership between Wallace Foundation, GTCF, Tacoma Public Schools, and numerous local Expanded Learning providers aimed to ensure every child is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged in and out of school. More than $8M in funding was delivered to the community through the partnership. 

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Washington State Office of Financial Management – 2020 Census

GTCF contracted with Washington State Office of Financial Management to support 2020 Census outreach in hard-to-count communities.  

GTCF delivered $1.9M to more than 40 recipients in Pierce, Kitsap, and Mason Counties, Recipients included tribes, local government, organizations, associations, coalitions, and collaborative networks with trusted relationships in hard-to-count communities.  

2020 Census Community Grant Recipients