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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by GREATER GIG HARBOR FOUNDATION.

Totals

Total revenue
$1,863,421
Total expenses
$2,113,956
Contributions and grants received
$535,782
Grants paid
$114,307
Program service revenue
$1,014,300
Investment income
$24,702
Other revenue
$288,637
Total assets, end of year
$1,761,302
Total liabilities, end of year
$1,248,992
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$512,310
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$2,113,956
Management and general expenses
$0
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$2,113,956

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1a · Federated campaigns

    $0

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $8,311

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $177,981

  • 1d · Related organizations

    $0

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $18,181

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $331,309

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $0

  • 2f · All other program service revenue

    total $1,014,300 · related or exempt $1,014,300 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $24,702 · related or exempt $24,702 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $0 · personal property $0

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $0 · other assets $0

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $0

  • 11d · All other revenue

    total $288,637 · related or exempt $288,637 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $288,637

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $54,465 · program services $54,465

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $59,842 · program services $59,842

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $701,289 · program services $701,289 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $209,374 · program services $209,374 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $3,265 · program services $3,265 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $386,547 · program services $386,547 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $16,150 · program services $16,150 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $38,574 · program services $38,574 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $28,575 · program services $28,575 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $109,715 · program services $109,715 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 17 · Travel

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 20 · Interest

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $31,608 · program services $31,608 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24a · Other expenses: 241 Consulting Fees

    total $93,958 · program services $93,958 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24b · Other expenses: 242 Other Expenses

    total $75,269 · program services $75,269 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24c · Other expenses: 243 Events

    total $140,243 · program services $140,243 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24d · Other expenses: 244

    total $165,082 · program services $165,082 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $293,750 · end of year $42,190

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $66,276

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $1,751 · end of year $0

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $1,652,836

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $0

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $1,602,151 · end of year $1,652,836

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $102,489

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    beginning of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    beginning of year $0

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    beginning of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $0

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $21,338

  • 18 · Grants payable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 20 · Tax-exempt bond liabilities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 21 · Escrow or custodial account liability

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

    beginning of year $1,195,920 · end of year $1,117,767

  • 24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable

    beginning of year $142,150 · end of year $109,887

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $662,071 · end of year $512,310

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

GGHF is a strategic partner with our greater peninsula region communities. We bring people together and leverage research, skills, knowledge, partnerships, volunteers, grantmaking, and services to help address opportunity gaps. Together, we help deliver promising solutions for some of our community's most pressing challenges across five core areas - arts & culture, education, parks and environment, recreation, and social capital. We work collaboratively to build, bridge and enrich communities in Washington's greater Gig Harbor and Key Peninsula area through provision of services, programs and support to help meet diverse community needs. Since 2006, GGHF has invested more than $20-million into our community, benefitting 40+ organizations and agencies through diverse grants, 550+ area students through education scholarships, with over $2.5M directed to helping address local hunger, $5M+ for early childhood education, $3.3 million to area parks, and $2.5M+ to conservation initiatives.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE GREATER GIG HARBOR FOUNDATION WORKS TO HELP STRENGTHEN WASHINGTON STATE'S SOUTH PUGET SOUND COMMUNITIES OF THE GREATER GIG HARBOR AND KEY PENINSULAS THROUGH PROGRAMS, PROJECTS AND SERVICES, ENCOURAGING AND SUPPORTING EFFECTIVE CHARITABLE GIVING, AND BY PROVIDING LEADERSHIP ON CRITICAL ISSUES IN OUR COMMUNITY. OUR FIVE CORE AREAS INCLUDE: ARTS & CULTURE, EDUCATION, ENVIRONMENT, RECREATION AND SOCIAL CAPITAL.

  • The Greater Gig Harbor Foundation serves a community of 70,000+. As a community foundation, GGHF partners to provide services, a safe place for keeping funds in perpetuity to meet diverse community needs, and acts as fiscal sponsor to several donor-directed, project and scholarship funds, area groups, projects, and programs, which engage in activities consistent with the Foundation's mission. In 2023, across all of the Foundation's programs, staff logged more than more than 52,000 program hours, and more than 650 community volunteers committed 35,400 volunteer hours. We raised more than $250,000 in diverse funds to support local nonprofit organizations, community projects, and programs and to provide grants, scholarships, assistance, and services to support our community. All programs returned to full operations following disruptions caused during the COVID-19 pandemic, including our Curious by Nature Early Learning Center, Gig Harbor Senior Center, and GGHF EnviroCorps. Similarly, events that provide critical funds across five core areas, such as Cider Swig, Shamrock'n the Harbor, INDULGE, Students of Distinction, Gig Harbor Basket Brigade, The Community Table, #Community Harvest, and The Green Gig, all returned. Supporting services were also provided to Pierce County, Washington State Parks system, the City of Gig Harbor, and local Park Districts through the GGHF EnviroCorps program (in its 19th year), which is dedicated to developing and fulfilling opportunities for community volunteers to engage in efforts to help maintain parks, trails, roads, and other public lands - keeping them safe, clean and litter free. EnviroCoprs additionally supported the community by monitoring and removing waste and hazardous materials from homeless encampments. In 2023, EnviroCorps gave over 12,500 volunteer hours, collected over 200 bags of litter and 95 bags of recyclables, provided 125 hours of Litter Patrol, and provided 130 hours of direct service to community agencies. This work helped maintain 22 road sections within Gig Harbor's city limits and unincorporated areas of our Gig Harbor and Key peninsulas. Additionally, EnviroCorps assisted in several remote area clean-ups in the community where people had dumped old machinery, washing machines, garbage, tires, and more for years. The Foundation also continued its work to evolve plans for a community center/campus that will provide a permanent home for the senior center, as well as an event space and environmental learning center to meet our community's diverse and growing demands.

    Expenses $859,684 · Revenue $350,992

  • The Greater Gig Harbor Foundation's largest program is GGHF Curious by Nature School (CBNS), our community's only nature-based early learning center. Our unique program, based on the Reggio Emilia approach and grounded in nature-based learning principles, aids in developing critical thinking skills to support a lifetime of success in math, science, language, and the arts. Since 2012, GGHF has supported early childhood education for more than 4,000 children ages 2 to 6 and has provided more than $60,000 in tuition assistance grants to area families in need to help close the access gap to early childhood education. In 2023, we served over 400 children ages 2 to 10 through environment-focused camps and educational programs; awarded $7,500 in financial assistance grants to families through the Steward Scholarship Fund, expanded our outdoor immersion program to meet growth and demand, supported various community events with free hands-on educational activities, and granted over $5,000 in support of professional development programs to address early learning priorities in math, literacy, social and emotional learning, and environmental stewardship. Additionally, CBNS embarked upon the year-long mission to become one of Washington state's first fully licensed outdoor nature-based programs through DCYF. CBNS also connected 300+ children and families to community, nature, and environmental stewardship in 2023 through its Jr. Explorers Program. CBNS received external support for CBNS in 2023 through several grants and its annual fundraiser "The Green Gig". The school was additionally supported by more than 3,000 volunteer hours from parents, grandparents, interns, scientists, teachers, and others. CBNS 2023 summer school/camp program supported approximately 300 children ages 3 to 10.

    Expenses $963,415 · Revenue $1,018,664

  • GGHF's second-largest program is the Gig Harbor Senior Center (GHSC), the only community-based, self-funded Center for active seniors in the greater Gig Harbor area. Organized in May 2019, the GHSC was forced to close its physical doors on March 13, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since reopening full-time operations in September 2020, GHSC has grown in the number of active members, programs, and active engagement across the community. In 2023, GHSC was honored to receive a professional services contract award from Pierce County Human Services for providing senior programming and services specifically designed to meet the needs of those 60+. The GHSC has a 6 member Advisory Board that helps to guide programs, services, and the future. As a nonprofit organization, GHSC's programs and services are supported through a complex income stream that includes membership and program fees, private grants, sponsorships from area businesses, private donations, and significant financial and staff resources provided by GGHF. About 70% of the GHSC's annual operating budget is supported through private donations, two major fundraising events (INDULGE... a Sip & Savor Experience and Shamrock'n the Harbor 5k/12k walk/run) and related sponsorships, with membership fees ($50 annually pp) covering 9% of the budget, and about 17% of the Center's budget supported by GGHF's general fund and in-kind contributions of time, services and goods.

    Expenses $111,559 · Revenue $174,802

  • Gig Harbor Basket Brigade - established in 1993 the Basket Brigade has provided more than 20,000 Thanksgiving meals (and more) to area families over the years. Each year, the Basket Brigade engages hundreds of volunteers. In 2022, while at the end of the pandemic, we were able to deliver more than 700 Thanksgiving Baskets to local families. More than 450 volunteers came to assist in the two-day operation, assembling baskets and delivering them.

    Expenses $23,707 · Revenue $16,899

  • The Minerva Scholarship Fund continues to grant scholarships to women in the Peninsula area.

    Expenses $90,841 · Grants $56,549 · Revenue $39,657

  • Students of Distinction is a community recognition program that awards post-secondary scholarships. In 2022, the program returned to its pre COVID-19 in-person awards dinner platform to recognize and celebrate the nominated graduating seniors for their remarkable achievements before a crowd of 200+ teachers, sponsors, family, and the community. This year, 36 Peninsula School District high school seniors were honored for superior effort in seven categories: Academics, Athletics, Business & Entrepreneurship, Community Service, Music, Art & Drama, Overcoming Adversity, and Science & Technology. Scholarships awarded were $12,000. Nearly $245,000 in post secondary scholarships have been awarded since 2003 and over 580 students have been recognized.

    Expenses $10,511 · Revenue $27,922

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $13,009 · Revenue $19,185

  • Heron's Key Scholarship Fund. Started in 2018, the Heron's Key Scholarship Fund (HKSF) works to provide resources to Gig Harbor's youth in support of education programs within the Peninsula School District, including scholarship assistance to individual students and project support for staff enrichment. Since 2018, the fund has provided more than $40,000 in post secondary scholarships.

    Expenses $16,230 · Revenue $20,475

  • GHKP Conservation Fund. In 2022, three families joined to from the GHKP Conservation Fund. The intent of the fund is to help protect our greater peninsula's most critical lands and waters to offer greater access to nature, strengthen our community and support climate resiliency. In 2023, the fund issued a grant of $25,000 to the Friends of Harbor Hill Environmental Sanctuary for its work to provide a future foe environmental education and help restore previously disturbed ground in the 15 acre area of the stormwater detention ponds that serve the Harbor Hill community, including Heron's Key Retirement Community, Bracera apartments, and the single family residential neighborhoods.

    Expenses $25,000 · Grants $25,000

As filed on the 2023 return. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Listed in Part VII

  • Ariel Gustanski

    Chief Operating Officer

    Total calculated
    $80,565
    From this org
    $80,565
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Toni Gillespie

    Office Administrator

    Total calculated
    $49,917
    From this org
    $49,917
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Odette Alina

    Director, Curious By Nature School

    Total calculated
    $48,500
    From this org
    $48,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

  • Dena Randazzo

    Accountant

    Total calculated
    $25,779
    From this org
    $25,779
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Joyce Shultz

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $19,312
    From this org
    $19,312
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Rob Rigoni

    Secretary and EnviroCorps Manager

    Total calculated
    $12,055
    From this org
    $12,055
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • David Olson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Marlene Druker

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Gina Cabiddu

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10 + 10 related

  • David Cathers

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Barb Turecky

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Jud Morris

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Julie Ann Gustanski

    Board Member/CEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Rick Gillespie

    Board Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

  • Friends of Harbor Hill Environmental Sanctuary

    $25,000

    In November, the Friends of Harbor Hill Environmental Sanctuary received a $25,000 grant from the Greater Gig Harbor Foundation's GKKP Conservation Fund to support the Sanctuary project's environmental education and stewardship efforts.

Taxable family on this return

Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.

Disregarded entities

Part I: entities that legally are the filer and file no return of their own.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
15 November 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.0
Source object
202433209349320468

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