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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.

$277k
Granted FY2024still arriving
61
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$198kEducation$197kHuman Services$133kHousing & Shelter$99kYouth Development$76kHealth$65kFood & Nutrition$64kPhilanthropy$53kOther$0
02FY2024 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k49 grants · $139k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $138k
$2,500
Median grant
11
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WHITE CENTER FOOD BANK$20,000
JOURNEYMEN INSTITUTE$15,000
VASHON HERITAGE MUSEUM$12,000
VASHON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES$11,000
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS$10,000
FOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT$10,000
FREEDOM PROJECT$10,000
SCC FOUNDATION$10,000
WSU FOUNDATION$10,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$10,000
VOICE OF VASHON$10,000
VASHON CENTER FOR THE ARTS$10,000
VIRGINIA V FOUNDATION$8,000
FARESTART$6,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT: $500 → 14%FREEDOM SERVICE DOG: $2k → 8%ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $1k → 9%ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $1k → 9%ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $1k → 9%WEST SIDE BABY: $2k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $21k → 9%RYTHER: $3k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $5k → 9%SUMMITT COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 9%YOUTH CARE: $5k → 9%FACING HOMELESSNESS: $2k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MI
NY
OR
CA
UT
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$771k · 47 repeat orgs$457k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
43

Total granted

$771k
$322k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+38%

Still filing today

55%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND
    4× · 2021–2024 · $71k · revenue +3%
  • VA
    VASHON ALLIED ARTS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $50k · revenue +44%
  • VH
    VASHON HOUSEHOLD
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF MUKAIgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +308% · 29% of their budget
  • VC
    VASHON COMMUNITY CARE
    one grant, 2021 · $44k
  • CB
    CAMP BURTON
    one grant, 2023 · $26k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
2
Washington Humane Society

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…

Animals
3
Washington Wild

Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.

Animals
4
Fsc I&P

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.…

Philanthropy
5
Friends of Seattle Waterfront

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.

Community Improvement
6
Marin Humane Society

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.

Animals
7
Puget Sound Restoration Fund

To restore habitat, water quality and native species in the puget sound

Environment
8
Washington Wildlife & Recreation Coalition

Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.

—
9
Cowiche Canyon Conservancy

Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.

—
10
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
11
Disability Rights Washington

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.

Human Services
12
Paws of Grays Harbor

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.…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

72 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/72
Grantees still filing
46/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WSU FOUNDATION: $53,600 · OtherWSU FOUNDATIONFRIENDS OF MUKAI: $50,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF MUKAIVASHON COMMUNITY CARE: $44,000 · OtherVASHON COMMUNITY CARESOUTH SEATTLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $35,000 · OtherVASHON SENIOR CENTER: $34,000 · OtherVIRGINIA 5 FOUNDATION: $34,000 · OtherFARESTART: $42,500 · OtherFARESTART+82 more: $497,750 · Other+82 moreVASHON ALLIED ARTS: $50,000 · Arts & CultureVASHON ALL…FOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT: $22,000 · Arts & CultureFOSS WATER…PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC SC…VOICE OF VASHON: $10,000 · Arts & CultureVOICE OF V…THE STEAMER VIRGINIA V FOUNDATION: $8,000 · Arts & CultureTHE STEAME…+2 more: $4,000 · Arts & CultureTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $71,000 · EducationTHE UNIVE…VASHON COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP FNDN: $20,000 · EducationVASHON CO…SOUTH SEATTLE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationVASHON HOUSEHOLD: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterHOMESTEAD COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterCAMP FIRE CENTRAL PUGET SOUND: $30,750 · Youth DevelopmentJOURNEYMEN INSTITUTE: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentTREEHOUSE: $13,000 · Youth DevelopmentMaris Place: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentVINE MAPLE PLACE: $26,000 · Human ServicesSUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUTHCARE: $5,000 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCES CABRINI CHARITABLE SERVICES: $3,000 · Human ServicesRYTHER: $3,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesFACING HOMELESSNESS: $2,000 · Human ServicesWESTSIDE BABY: $2,000 · Human Services+2 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesVASHON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $22,000 · HealthTHE GOODTIMES PROJECT: $10,000 · HealthNAMI Seattle: $5,000 · HealthWomen's Accessible Medical Services PS: $5,000 · Health+3 more: $2,500 · Health
Other$790,850Arts & Culture$114,000Education$101,000Housing & Shelter$66,000Youth Development$63,750Human Services$54,500Health$44,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $71,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF MUKAI: $50,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetVASHON ALLIED ARTS: $50,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetVASHON HOUSEHOLD: $50,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetFARESTART: $42,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP FIRE CENTRAL PUGET SOUND: $30,750 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetVINE MAPLE PLACE: $26,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWHITE CENTER EMERGENCY FOOD ASSOCIATION WHITE CENTER FOOD BANK: $23,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT: $22,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetVASHON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $22,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetVASHON COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP FNDN: $20,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetLITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJOURNEYMEN INSTITUTE: $15,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTREEHOUSE: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Cascades Institute: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHOMESTEAD COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVOICE OF VASHON: $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetTHE GOODTIMES PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFREEDOM PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Seattle Food Bank: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHIMPANZEE SANCTUARY NORTHWEST: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STEAMER VIRGINIA V FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTILTH ALLIANCE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFEEDING TEXAS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOL EARTH ACTION USA INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVASHON PARTNERS IN EDUCATION: $7,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetVASHON ISLAND PET PROTECTORS: $7,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVashonBePrepared: $5,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetSOUTH SEATTLE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI Seattle: $5,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYOUTHCARE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Accessible Medical Services PS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUESTRIAN EVENTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMaris Place: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetOLD DOG HAVEN: $4,375 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF MUKAI ↗
  • Who funds VASHON ALLIED ARTS ↗
  • Who funds VASHON HOUSEHOLD ↗
  • 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 VASHON COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP FNDN ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JOURNEYMEN INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds North Cascades Institute ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds SUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HOMESTEAD COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds VOICE OF VASHON ↗
  • Who funds THE GOODTIMES PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds West Seattle Food Bank ↗

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.

Seattle FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…Mightycause Charitabl…Credit Unions in the …United Way of King Co…The Norcliffe Foundat…Lucky Seven FoundationThe Royal Little Fami…Moccasin Lake Foundat…Medina FoundationGreater Tacoma Commun…Employees Community F…
Seattle FoundationWA57.7× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Beardsley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Beardsley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 125 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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