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Don J and Ellen H Easterbrook 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.

$50k
Granted FY2020
2
Grants FY2020
1
Organizations funded FY2020
0%
First-time grantees FY2020
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90% of Don J and Ellen H Easterbrook Foundation’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Whatcom Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’17
1
’18
1
’19
1
’20

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2020
$45,300
Largest grant, FY2020
$45,300
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
2
Total assets, FY2020
$1.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 0% of the organizations Don J and Ellen H Easterbrook Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20201$5k0%
FY20191$20k100%
FY20182$25k0%
FY20172$20kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Philanthropy$367kEducation$70k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mount Baker Scholarship Foundation$20,00012%
Cal Poly Humboldt Sponsored Programs Foundation$15,26330%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($35k), not named here.

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Find your warmest path to Don J and Ellen H Easterbrook 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.

About Don J and Ellen H Easterbrook Foundation

How much does Don J and Ellen H Easterbrook Foundation give?
Don J and Ellen H Easterbrook Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $50,300 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Don J and Ellen H Easterbrook Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Philanthropy (84%), Education (16%).
Who are Don J and Ellen H Easterbrook Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Mount Baker Scholarship Foundation ($20k), Cal Poly Humboldt Sponsored Programs Foundation ($15k).
Does Don J and Ellen H Easterbrook Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Don J and Ellen H Easterbrook 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.
Where is Don J and Ellen H Easterbrook Foundation based?
Don J and Ellen H Easterbrook Foundation is based in WA.

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 5 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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