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Briggs Family Foundation at a glance

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Briggs Family 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.

$55k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$145kEducation$54kHousing & Shelter$40kEmployment$37kHealth$34kCrime & Legal$25kArts & Culture$15kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHEAST YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES$15,000
SPACE BETWEEN$15,000
HER FUTURE COALITION INC$10,000
ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE$10,000
CHINATOWN INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT PRESERVATION AND$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TRANSFORMATION YOGA PROJECT: $2k → 6%YOGA GIVES BACK: $3k → 14%MARYS PLACE SEATTLE: $15k → 9%SPACE BETWEEN: $21k → 9%SPACE BETWEEN: $20k → 9%SPACE BETWEEN: $15k → 9%SPACE BETWEEN: $10k → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $10k → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $7k → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $7k → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $5k → 9%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $5k → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $5k → 9%FAMILY LAW CASA OF KING COUNTY: $10k → 9%FAMILY LAW CASA OF KING COUNTY: $8k → 9%FAMILY LAW CASA OF KING COUNTY: $5k → 9%FAMILY LAW CASA OF KING COUNTY: $3k → 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
NY
OR
NV
PA
CA
CO
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$355k · 13 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
11

Total granted

$355k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
0%

Still filing today

85%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsEmploymentOther
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

  • SB
    SPACE BETWEEN
    4× · 2021–2024 · $66k · revenue +96%
  • HF
    HER FUTURE COALITION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +79%
  • MP
    MARY'S PLACE SEATTLE
    4× · 2019–2022 · $38k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • EC
    EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +7%
  • MS
    MINDFUL SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue -92%
  • YG
    Yoga Gives Backgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +87%
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
Sea Change Yoga

Sea Change Yoga partners with other social service organizations and brings the therapeutic practices of trauma informed yoga and meditation to underserved populations including people in recovery the incarcerated homeless and veterans. We…

Human Services
2
The Art of Yoga Project

To bring mindfulness-based practices to system-involved and other marginalized youth for their healing and empowerment. we understand that youth require a predictable, safe, supportive environment to heal. we combine yoga, meditation, and…

Human Services
3
Yoga East Inc

Yoga education.

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4
Yoga Alliance

We advocate for yoga, in its wholeness, and for all human beings in theirs. Yoga Alliance is a nonprofit association of yoga professionals, practitioners, and advocates that believe if more people practice yoga the better the world will…

Community Improvement
5
Prison Yoga Project Inc

Prison Yoga Project seeks a cultural shift toward a healing-centered approach to addressing crime, addiction, and mental illness through yoga and embodied mindfulness

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6
Yoga Alliance Registry

We advocate for yoga, in its wholeness, and for all human beings in theirs. Yoga Alliance Foundation works to foster an expansive, accessible, and inclusive yoga community by leveraging yoga for social impact. Through activated collective…

Education
7
Yoga Buzz

To teach and train individuals on the benefits of yoga

Recreation & Sports
8
Satya Seacoast Area Teachers of Yoga in Action

To establish and maintain an organization to support yoga teachers who are inspired and committed to providing specialized yoga instruction in our underserved population.

Human Services
9
Yoga Collective of Yakima

To serve and support the community by providing free yoga, and other mind, body, and spirit classes that are inclusive and representative of our community.

Recreation & Sports
10
Mindfulness Northwest

Promote mindfulness thoughout the Pacific Northwest through classes, retreats, and teacher training. Improve accessibility through sliding scale fees and scholarship grants.

Human Services
11
House of Yoga
Human Services
12
Yoga Sangeeta

Yoga Sangeeta promotes performing arts education by providing yoga classes and concerts to the public.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yoga Foster Inc; the most unlike its peers is Yoga Haven. 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

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/22
Grantees still filing
13/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPACE BETWEEN: $66,000 · Human ServicesSPACE BETWEENHER FUTURE COALITION INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesHER FUTURE COALITION INCMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE: $38,000 · Human ServicesMARY'S PLACE SEATTLEASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $34,000 · Human ServicesASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICEFAMILY LAW CASA OF KING COUNTY: $25,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY LAW CASA OF KING COUNTY+3 more: $9,500 · Human ServicesYoga Behind Bars: $34,000 · EducationYoga Behind Bar…GIVE BACK YOGA FOUNDATION: $14,000 · EducationGIVE BACK YOGA …MINDFUL SCHOOLS: $4,000 · EducationMINDFUL SCHOOLSFARESTART: $37,000 · EmploymentFARESTARTSOUTHEAST YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $27,000 · HealthCOMEBACK YOGA: $2,000 · HealthYoga Haven: $1,000 · HealthCHINATOWN INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT PRESERVATION AND: $15,000 · OtherSEATTLE INSIGHT MEDITATION SOCIETY: $5,000 · OtherYOGA FOSTER INC: $2,000 · OtherStreet Yoga: $2,000 · OtherLIVING YOGA: $2,000 · OtherTILTH ALLIANCE: $10,000 · EnvironmentPCC FARMLAND TRUST: $10,000 · EnvironmentYOGA 4 CHANGE INC: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER: $2,000 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$212,500Education$52,000Employment$37,000Health$30,000Other$26,000Environment$20,000Recreation & Sports$2,000Housing & Shelter$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPACE BETWEEN: $66,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetHER FUTURE COALITION INC: $40,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE: $38,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFARESTART: $37,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYoga Behind Bars: $34,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $34,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEAST YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $27,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFAMILY LAW CASA OF KING COUNTY: $25,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetGIVE BACK YOGA FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTILTH ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPCC FARMLAND TRUST: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINDFUL SCHOOLS: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoga Gives Back: $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCOMEBACK YOGA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTRANSFORMATION YOGA PROJECT: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOGA FOSTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYOGA 4 CHANGE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetStreet Yoga: $2,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLIVING YOGA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoga Haven: $1,000 over 1y, 4.0% 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.

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 FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Mightycause Charitabl…The Satterberg Founda…ImpactassetsincCharities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…American Online Givin…Network for Good
Seattle FoundationWA15.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good

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 Briggs Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Briggs Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Briggs Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Briggs 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.

    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 24 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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