· Private foundation
Bruno and Evelyne Betti Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
71% of Bruno and Evelyne Betti Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Central Montana Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $305k
- $250k+7 grants · $5.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL MONTANA FOUNDATION | $1,600,000 |
| CENTRAL MONTANA FOUNDATION | $1,410,000 |
| ST MARTINS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $605,000 |
| SOUTH PUGET SOUND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $605,000 |
| ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN MINISTRIES FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON | $500,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON | $400,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH PUDGET SOUND | $200,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON | $105,000 |
| CENTRAL MONTANA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| TENINO BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $13,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY | $10,000 |
| METHOW VALLEY RIDING UNLIMITED | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $139k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2021, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $523k 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
- SPSOUTH PUGET SOUND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $3.1M · revenue +79% · 53% of their budget
- SMSAINT MARTINS FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $2.8M
- SMST MARTINS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $755k
Funded once
- SJST JOHNS UNITED FKA ST JOHNS LUTHERAN MINISTRIES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $1.0M
- TCTHE COVEone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -24%
- LRLACEY ROTARY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +466%
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 Community Foundation of Snohomish County (the Foundation) is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization incorporated under the laws of the State of Washington. The Foundation serves as a community foundation, supporting a broad spectrum of…
Provide financial support to the Seattle Chamber Music Festival (dba Seattle Chamber Music Society).
Provide educational opportunities to local students
The CCC Foundation generates resources to support higher education within Clatsop County. The CCC Foundation seeks funding for scholarships, educational programs, buildings and equipment, cultural and performing arts, and other needs of…
United Way of Skagit County's mission is to build a positive and sustainable quality of life for all.
The corporation is organized exclusively for charitable purposes within the meaning of 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Specifically, the corporation is organized to raise and distribute funds for scholarships to support further…
The Foundation for the Seattle Colleges exists to advance fundraising efforts for the Seattle Community College District. We seek to attract financial resources which support students so they may be successful; maintain the quality and…
Our mission is to change lives by providing students with scholarships so they can pursue quality academic and vocational education. we do this through relationship building, fundraising and stewarding resources.
Strengthening the communities of whidbey island for both present and future generations.
To conserve, protect and restore ecologically significant lands within the Chehalis River Basin
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound and the most unlike its peers is Methow Music Festival Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 17 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 Community Foundation of South Puget Sound ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PUGET SOUND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NCW ↗
- Who funds METHOW VALLEY RIDING UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds Methow Music Festival Association ↗
- Who funds THE COVE ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LACEY ROTARY 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: Moccasin Lake Foundation · Community Foundation of Ncw · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Bruno and Evelyne Betti 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.
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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