Washington · Private foundation
Bernier McCaw 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.
- $4.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $666,666
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 27
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations Bernier McCaw Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 24 | $4.3M | 58% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $4.5M | 47% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $3.5M | 63% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $1.2M | 42% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $2.2M | 47% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $3.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Byrd Barr Place | $1,924,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Independent Sector | $1,500,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Tubman Center for Health & Freedom | $1,083,332 | 2 | 8% |
| Young Womens Christian Association of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County | $1,025,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | $985,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Northwest Film Forum | $812,750 | 3 | 43% |
| Davidson College | $780,000 | 6 | 0% |
| YWCA USA Inc | $600,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Southwest Indigenous Women's Coaltion | $600,000 | 1 | 90% |
| Seattle Girls' School | $550,000 | 3 | 4% |
Show all 64 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bernier McCaw Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 57 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · United Way of King County · Inatai Foundation · Raikes Foundation · Gates Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Philanthropy Northwest · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Stolte Family Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington
How this is measured
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About Bernier McCaw Foundation
- How much does Bernier McCaw Foundation give?
- Bernier McCaw Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $4,498,499 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Bernier McCaw Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Community Improvement (15%), Education (12%).
- Who are Bernier McCaw Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Byrd Barr Place ($1.9M), Independent Sector ($1.5M), Tubman Center for Health & Freedom ($1.1M).
- Does Bernier McCaw Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bernier McCaw 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 Bernier McCaw Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, The Satterberg Foundation Inc, United Way of King County.
- Where is Bernier McCaw Foundation based?
- Bernier McCaw Foundation is based in WA.
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