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Betcher 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AGC Education Foundation | $6,000 |
| Holy Names Academy | $2,000 |
| Seattle 2030 District | $2,000 |
| Lakeside School | $2,000 |
| Polson Museum | $2,000 |
| University of Washington Foundation | $2,000 |
| GIG Harbor Tides Scholarship Found | $1,500 |
| Senior Center North Beach | $1,500 |
| Chapel By the Sea | $1,350 |
| Zion City Foundation | $1,100 |
| South Sound Care Foundation | $1,000 |
| Women In Motorsports North America | $1,000 |
| Museum of the Northbeach | $1,000 |
| Canoe Island French Camp | $800 |
| CASA of Tarrant County | $750 |
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 (FY19–19, $600) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Betcher Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 2% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- AOAGC OF WASHINGTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2025 · $40k · revenue +28%
- CICanoe Island French Camp6× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +265%
- GHGIG HARBOR TIDES SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $9k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- SCSEATTLE CHILDREN'Sone grant, 2020 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
- WNWE NEED DIVERSE BOOKSone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -42%
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.
The seattle public library foundation inspires the community's philanthropic support, advocacy for, and pride in the library.
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Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Seattle international foundation (sif) champions equity and rule of law in central america through good governance and a robust civil society. sif works with other donors to the region to increase philanthropy and to promote collaboration,…
Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Seattle foundation's mission is to ignite powerful and rewarding philanthropy to make greater seattle a stronger, more vibrant community for all.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation 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 33 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) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 11% 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.
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 65 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 AGC OF WASHINGTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Canoe Island French Camp ↗
- Who funds GIG HARBOR TIDES SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SOUND CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKESIDE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE 2030 DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds NORTH SOUND POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA OF TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GENEALOGICAL FORUM OF OREGON INC ↗
- Who funds EMERALD CITY PET RESCUE ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN MOTORSPORTS NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds George Pocock Rowing Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLIE LANDERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM ↗
- Who funds COMMERCE-CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PRISON PET PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM ↗
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 · The Norcliffe Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good
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 Betcher Family 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.
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% 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.
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