· Private foundation
Beardsley Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k49 grants · $139k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $138k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WHITE CENTER FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| JOURNEYMEN INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| VASHON HERITAGE MUSEUM | $12,000 |
| VASHON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES | $11,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $10,000 |
| SCC FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WSU FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| VASHON CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $10,000 |
| FOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT | $10,000 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $10,000 |
| VOICE OF VASHON | $10,000 |
| FREEDOM PROJECT | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA V FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| FARESTART | $6,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
47 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND4× · 2021–2024 · $71k · revenue +3%
- VHVASHON HOUSEHOLD2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +109%
- VAVASHON ALLIED ARTS4× · 2021–2024 · $50k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF MUKAIgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +308% · 29% of their budget
- VCVASHON COMMUNITY CAREone grant, 2021 · $44k
- CBCAMP BURTONone grant, 2023 · $26k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
To bring people, communities, and resources together to ensure waterfront park thrives as a vibrant gathering space - uplifting locals, fostering connections and honoring seattle's natural beauty and stories.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
To restore habitat, water quality and native species in the puget sound
Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.
Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.
PAWS cares for lost, abandoned and abused animals and finds them new homes with responsible owners. PAWS also provides low cost spay and neuter services, a pet food pantry, and community education. During 2024 PAWS adopted out 577 pets.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Emerald City Pet Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
72 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 72 of the 125 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MUKAI ↗
- Who funds VASHON HOUSEHOLD ↗
- Who funds VASHON ALLIED ARTS ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE CENTRAL PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds VINE MAPLE PLACE ↗
- Who funds WHITE CENTER EMERGENCY FOOD ASSOCIATION WHITE CENTER FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT ↗
- Who funds VASHON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VASHON COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP FNDN ↗
- Who funds LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds JOURNEYMEN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOMESTEAD COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE GOODTIMES PROJECT ↗
- Who funds VOICE OF VASHON ↗
- Who funds North Cascades Institute ↗
- Who funds THE STEAMER VIRGINIA V FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · United Way of King County · The Norcliffe Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · The Royal Little Family Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Medina Foundation · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Beardsley Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.