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The Bacon Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$604k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
23
Organizations funded FY2024
39%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$13,600
Largest grant, FY2025
$150,725
Organizations funded a year
11 to 23
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$1.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 39% of the organizations The Bacon Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $716k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterEducationHealthInternationalPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving19$604k42%
FY202423$1.2M39%
FY202317$474k12%
FY202218$344k28%
FY202114$299k43%
FY202011$305k36%
FY201920$260k35%
FY201819$338k47%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$1.4MPublic Safety & Disaster$791kEducation$591kHuman Services$326kPhilanthropy$223kHealth$106kInternational$29kRecreation & Sports$20kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
OR
PA
CA
NM
NC
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bellevue Fire Foundation$679,700174%
Rainier Athletes$393,329911%
Eastside Academy$294,75073%
Jubilee REACH$284,95091%
Bridge Receiving Center$283,50076%
Bellevue Schools Foundation$170,85674%
Purposity Foundation Inc$150,7251n/a
No More Under$136,000530%
Overlake Service League$114,54741%
Seattle Children's Hospital$104,75030%
Show all 40 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Bacon Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBellevue Fire Foundation: $679,700 over 1y, 74% of budgetRainier Athletes: $393,329 over 9y, 11% of budgetEastside Academy: $294,750 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetJubilee REACH: $284,950 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetBridge Receiving Center: $283,500 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetBellevue Schools Foundation: $170,856 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetNo More Under: $136,000 over 5y, 30% of budgetOverlake Service League: $114,547 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetSeattle Children's Hospital: $104,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of King County: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHope International: $25,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Detlef Schrempf Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetHopelink: $23,881 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBellevue Boys Lacrosse Club: $16,250 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetMedina Ptsa: $14,215 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetNorthwest Family Life Learning And Counseling Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBirthday Dreams: $9,315 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetThe Bff Foundation Inc: $8,117 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRuby Room: $7,850 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSolid Ground Washington: $4,621 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Sophia Way: $4,006 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlymouth Housing Group and Subsidiaries: $2,006 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of Washington: $1,075 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKindering Center: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCure Als: $500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetVital Voices Global Partnership Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Youth: $476 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLifeWire: $346 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Oregon Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAsian Counseling and Referral Service: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSwedish Medical Center Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKuow Puget Sound Public Radio: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWay Back Inn Foundation: $118 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 35.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE29× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Aven Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Bellevue Rotary Foundation · Medina Foundation · Glassybaby White Light Fund · United Way of King County · Byron & Alice Lockwood Foundation · 47th Avenue Foundation · Ellison Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to The Bacon Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Bacon Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Bacon Family Foundation

How much does The Bacon Family Foundation give?
The Bacon Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $603,618 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Bacon Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (40%), Public Safety & Disaster (23%), Education (17%).
Who are The Bacon Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bellevue Fire Foundation ($680k), Rainier Athletes ($393k), Eastside Academy ($295k).
Does The Bacon Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Bacon Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Bacon Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Puget Sound Energy Foundation, Seattle Foundation, Aven Foundation.
Where is The Bacon Family Foundation based?
The Bacon Family Foundation is based in WA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 72 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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