Calvary Cemetery

Calvary Cemetery Association (EIN 91-0163190, Tacoma, WA) is not a grantmaking foundation, and grant seekers should not approach it as a funding prospect. The organization's own IRS data flags it as `is_grantmaker: false`, its NTEE classification is Y50 (Cemeteries & Burial Services) under the broader "Membership" major group, and every public financial source checked — Cause IQ, Instrumentl's 990 report, and ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer — shows $0 in grants given and $0 in grants received across available filing years. This is a 501(c)(3) operating nonprofit founded in 1905 that runs the only Catholic cemetery in Tacoma, financed by interment fees, endowment care revenue, and investment income, not a philanthropic entity that reviews outside proposals.

A data-quality note worth flagging: the website on file (calvarycemetery.org) actually belongs to an unrelated Catholic cemetery in Tulsa, Oklahoma, operated by the Diocese of Tulsa — not the Tacoma organization. The real Tacoma entity's site is calvarytacoma.com, and its listed phone number is (253) 472-8875. Any grant seeker who reached this profile via a funder-matching tool should treat the match as a false positive and redirect research elsewhere.

For context, if Calvary Cemetery itself were the applicant rather than the funder, the most relevant program uncovered in this research is Washington State's Historic Cemetery Grant Program, administered by the Department of Archaeology & Historic Preservation (DAHP) — open to any Washington cemetery with five or more burials, at least one over 50 years old, capped at $50,000 per award for the 2025-27 biennium. That program's applicant pool (cemetery associations, historical societies, municipalities) is the audience that would actually benefit from application guidance connected to the "Calvary Cemetery" name — not organizations seeking a grant from Calvary Cemetery. With no grantee history, no board/program officer data, no application portal, and no giving pattern of any kind, there is no viable engagement strategy to recommend for approaching this entity as a funder.

There are no funding patterns to report because Calvary Cemetery Association has no grantmaking history. Every available financial source — the organization's own record (`is_grantmaker: false`, no `financials` or `past_grantees` populated), Cause IQ's Form 990 summary, and Instrumentl's 990 report — independently confirms $0 in grants paid out and $0 in grants received in the most recent filing years reviewed.

What the filings do show is a mid-size operating nonprofit's balance sheet: total assets of $4,016,165, annual income of $1,200,752, and revenue of $1,046,697 in the most recent year on record. Cause IQ's breakdown of that revenue shows $829,830 from program services (interment, entombment, and cremation-niche fees), $134,363 from investment income, $79,845 from asset sales, and $2,659 in miscellaneous income — a mix consistent with cemetery operations, not philanthropy. Year-over-year, total revenue fell 18.3%, driven by a 71.2% drop in investment income, while program-service (burial-fee) revenue held roughly flat. Expenses in the prior year were $984,377, and the organization reports 12 employees.

None of this activity translates into a grants budget, a program-area breakdown, a median award size, or a geographic giving footprint, because the entity does not make grants. Grant seekers looking for median award size, funding range, or year-over-year giving trend data — the kind of analysis this section is built to surface — will find none exists for this record, and should not infer a giving capacity from the $4M asset base; that balance funds perpetual/endowment cemetery care obligations, not discretionary grantmaking.

The five peer organizations returned in the same "Membership" NTEE category are themselves small entities with no confirmed public grantmaking record in the data available for this report; none show a `grants_page_url`, application process, or grantee list on file. The comparison below uses only the data points available (assets) rather than fabricated giving figures.

Calvary Cemetery sits mid-pack on assets among this peer set but is the only one of the six with a confirmed IRS-reported $0 grants-given figure and an explicit `is_grantmaker: false` flag — the others are simply undocumented in the available dataset, not confirmed non-grantmakers. Practically, this entire peer cluster appears to be a database category grouping ("Membership" NTEE) rather than a set of comparable active grant funders, so grant seekers should not treat any of these six as a funding prospect without independently verifying a live grants program first.

No grantmaking-related news exists for Calvary Cemetery Association because it has never operated a grants program. The most recent activity found in this research is routine cemetery operations: the organization's website (calvarytacoma.com) shows ongoing memorial and obituary listings, including entries as recent as May 2026, and standard interment, mausoleum, and cremation-niche services.

On the financial side, the most recent comparable-year filing data (via Cause IQ) shows total revenue falling 18.3% year-over-year, from roughly $1.28M to $1,046,697, almost entirely due to a 71.2% decline in investment income; program-service revenue from burial and endowment-care fees stayed roughly stable. The organization's IRS ruling date on file is June 2023 and its last verification/update in this database was June 20, 2026, with no leadership changes, program launches, or public announcements surfaced in web search.

The one piece of genuinely relevant "activity" for anyone who found this profile while grant-hunting is external to the organization: Washington State's DAHP Historic Cemetery Grant Program moved through its 2025-27 biennium cycle in the same window — the application period closed, awardees were to be notified in February 2026, and contracts drafted in March 2026, with a per-award cap of $50,000. That is a state program cemeteries can apply to, not something Calvary Cemetery itself announced or funded. Grant seekers tracking this space should watch DAHP's next biennial cycle rather than this organization's own communications.

There is no application process to advise on, because Calvary Cemetery Association does not accept or review grant proposals from outside organizations — its own record shows `application_instructions: "__no_filing__"`, no `application_form_url`, no `grants_page_url`, and no `application_deadline`. Any grant seeker arriving at this profile through a funder-matching search should treat it as a non-match and redirect effort rather than attempt outreach, a phone call, or an LOI — cemetery staff have no mechanism to receive or evaluate one.

Three concrete redirects are worth taking instead of applying here. First, if the underlying interest is faith-based or Catholic-affiliated funding in the Puget Sound region, look at the Archdiocese of Seattle and its affiliated Catholic Community Services / Catholic Charities entities, which do run grant and assistance programs, rather than individual parish cemeteries. Second, if the interest is specifically cemetery preservation, restoration, or historic-burial-ground funding, Washington State's DAHP Historic Cemetery Grant Program (preservewa.org) is the actual funder in this space — capped at $50,000 per award for 2025-27, open to any Washington cemetery with five or more burials including one over 50 years old — and Calvary Cemetery itself would be an eligible applicant, not a source of funds. Third, verify any "Calvary Cemetery" contact information independently before reaching out: the website field in this record (calvarycemetery.org) resolves to a different, unrelated Catholic cemetery in Tulsa, OK, so an email to info@calvarycemetery.org as listed will not reach the Tacoma organization at all — use calvarytacoma.com and (253) 472-8875 for the correct entity.

The most useful action for a grant seeker who reaches this profile is simply to rule it out quickly and move to a genuine funder in the same geography or cause area, rather than spend cycles drafting a proposal that has no channel to be received.