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Fred & Gretel Biel Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$145k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Human Services$306kHousing & Shelter$209kEmployment$87kFood & Nutrition$80kHealth$54kYouth Development$40kArts & Culture$35kReligion$24kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $135k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC$10,000
LAHAI HEALTH$7,500
PIKE MARKET SENIOR CENTER$5,000
LITERACY SOURCE$5,000
VINE MAPLE PLACE$5,000
ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME$5,000
OPERATION WARM$5,000
MUSEUM OF GLASS$5,000
SECOND CHANCE OUTREACH$5,000
HOMAGE SENIOR SERVICES$5,000
EILEEN & CALLIE'S PLACE$5,000
YWCA OF SEATTLE-KINGSNOHOMISH COUNTIES$5,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF KING COUNTY$5,000
DRESS FOR SUCCESS SEATTLE$5,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES$5,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $269k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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.

area typical 7%YWCA OF SEATTLE-KINGSNOHOMISH: $8k → 9%SKAGIT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL: $5k → 11%PIKE MARKET SENIOR CENTER: $5k → 9%SKAGIT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL: $4k → 11%SECOND CHANCE OUTREACH: $5k → 11%YWCA OF SEATTLE-KINGSNOHOMISH: $5k → 9%SECOND CHANCE OUTREACH: $4k → 11%PIKE MARKET SENIOR CENTER: $5k → 9%HOMAGE SENIOR SERVICES: $5k → 9%SENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $5k → 9%PIKE MARKET SENIOR CENTER: $5k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 9%PIKE MARKET SENIOR CENTER: $5k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $8k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $5k → 9%WESTSIDE BABY: $5k → 9%PIKE MARKET SENIOR CENTER: $4k → 9%WESTSIDE BABY: $4k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 9%YWCA OF SEATTLE-KINGSNOHOMISH: $4k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $5k → 9%MILLIONAIR CLUB INC: $5k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $5k → 9%PARKVIEW SERVICES: $5k → 9%PARKVIEW SERVICES: $5k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 9%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $5k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $5k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $5k → 9%HOPELINK: $5k → 9%HOPELINK: $5k → 9%HOPELINK: $5k → 9%HOPELINK: $5k → 9%HOPELINK: $5k → 9%HOPELINK: $4k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $5k → 9%EILEEN & CALLIE'S PLACE: $5k → 9%ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME: $5k → 9%ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME: $5k → 9%BREAD OF LIFE MISSION: $5k → 9%ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME: $5k → 9%BREAD OF LIFE MISSION: $5k → 9%ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME: $5k → 9%BREAD OF LIFE MISSION: $5k → 9%ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME: $5k → 9%BREAD OF LIFE MISSION: $5k → 9%ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$801k · 42 repeat orgs$134k to everyone else

42 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
23

Total granted

$801k
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+23%

Still filing today

81%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementHealthYouth DevelopmentEmploymentOther

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

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +97%
  • JW
    JUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $36k · revenue +24%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +23%
  • VC
    VALLEY CITIES COUNSELING AND CONSULTATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +30%
  • Y
    YWCA
    one grant, 2022 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
House Our Neighbors

House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…

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2
Network Services

Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…

Human Services
3
Solid Ground Washington

At Solid Ground, we work passionately to end poverty and build a more equitable community. Our services support people experiencing poverty by helping them achieve stability and expand their skills to realize their dreams. And that's just…

Housing & Shelter
4
Transitions

Transitions works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane, Washington.

Human Services
5
Housing Connector

Housing connector partners with property owners and managers to lower barriers to housing and increase our region's affordable housing capacity.

Housing & Shelter
6
Lutheran Community Services Northwest

LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.

Human Services
7
Family Promise of Pierce County

To empower families experiencing housing insecurity through intervention, prevention,and stabilization services.

Housing & Shelter
8
St Francis House

St. Francis House provides food clothing and necessities at no cost to people with low income or experiencing homelessness in King County Washington. Single men women and families are welcome.

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9
Building Changes

Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…

Health
10
Downtown Emergency Service Center

DESC helps people with the complex needs of homelessness, substance use disorders, and serious mental illness achieve their highest potential for health and well-being through comprehensive services, treatment, and housing.

Health
11
Northwest Counseling Service Inc

Housing Counseling Services

Housing & Shelter
12
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center

KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Services of Snohomish County and the most unlike its peers is Second Chance Outreach Hope for Homies. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Health and Wellne…Youth Empowerment & Support…Supportive Housing and Serv…Community Support & AdvocacyFood Banks and Food Access
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr18%36%20–35yr12%27%35–55yr12%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr18%46%20–35yr12%21%35–55yr12%26%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/57
the rest of the field
13%
2,122/15,860

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.

04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 72 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
38/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DALE TURNER YMCA OF GREATER — $65,000 · OtherDALE TURNER YMCA OF GREATERAMARA PARENTING & ADOPTION SERVICES — $35,000 · OtherAMARA PARENTING & ADOPTION SERVICESTHE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC — $29,000 · OtherTHE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INCASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF THE EASTSIDE — $24,000 · OtherASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF THE EASTSIDENorth Helpline — $19,000 · OtherNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM — $15,000 · OtherSEATTLES UNION GOSPEL MISSION — $14,000 · OtherMaris Place — $30,000 · OtherMaris PlaceHIAS INC — $15,000 · Other+24 more — $147,000 · Other+24 moreJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $37,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICEElizabeth Home — $30,000 · Human ServicesElizabeth HomeHOPELINK — $29,000 · Human ServicesHOPELINKPIKE MARKET SENIOR CENTER — $24,000 · Human ServicesPIKE MARKET SENIOR CENTERBREAD OF LIFE MISSION — $24,000 · Human ServicesBREAD OF LIFE MISSIONOperation Warm Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesOperation Warm IncYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $17,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION …VINE MAPLE PLACE — $15,000 · Human ServicesWESTSIDE BABY — $14,000 · Human ServicesSecond Chance Outreach Hope for Homies — $11,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 · Human ServicesPARKVIEW SERVICES — $10,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $10,000 · Human Services+9 more — $39,500 · Human Services+9 moreJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER — $35,500 · Housing & ShelterJUBILEE WO…HOUSING HOPE — $17,500 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING HO…Skagit Valley Hospitality House Association — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterSkagit Val…PLYMOUTH HEALING COMMUNITIES — $7,500 · Housing & ShelterPLYMOUTH H…Humble Design Inc — $7,500 · Housing & ShelterHumble Des…PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterPLYMOUTH H…LAHAI HEALTH — $21,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY — $20,000 · HealthVALLEY CITIES COUNSELING AND CONSULTATION — $5,000 · HealthHIGHLINE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $2,500 · HealthFARESTART — $25,000 · EmploymentDress for Success Seattle — $17,500 · EmploymentSEASHARE — $20,000 · Community ImprovementORION INDUSTRIES — $10,000 · Community ImprovementCIS OF GREATER KING COUNTY DBA COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS — $7,500 · Community ImprovementPhinney Neighborhood Association — $2,500 · Community ImprovementBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY — $35,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$393,000Human Services$291,500Housing & Shelter$83,000Health$49,000Employment$42,500Community Improvement$40,000Recreation & Sports$35,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $37,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER — $35,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY — $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMaris Place — $30,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetElizabeth Home — $30,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC — $29,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOPELINK — $29,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFARESTART — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF THE EASTSIDE — $24,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetPIKE MARKET SENIOR CENTER — $24,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBREAD OF LIFE MISSION — $24,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLAHAI HEALTH — $21,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOperation Warm Inc — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSEASHARE — $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNorth Helpline — $19,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDress for Success Seattle — $17,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHOUSING HOPE — $17,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVINE MAPLE PLACE — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHIAS INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTSIDE BABY — $14,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetQUEEN ANNE HELPLINE — $12,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSecond Chance Outreach Hope for Homies — $11,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKVIEW SERVICES — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSkagit Valley Hospitality House Association — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORION INDUSTRIES — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY SOURCE A COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER — $9,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSKAGIT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES — $9,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPLYMOUTH HEALING COMMUNITIES — $7,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHumble Design Inc — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCIS OF GREATER KING COUNTY DBA COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS — $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVALLEY CITIES COUNSELING AND CONSULTATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREEHOUSE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SEATTLE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBANCHERO DISABILITY PARTNERS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Glass — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUPLIFT NORTHWEST — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEileen & Callies Place — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCommunity Resources Foundation — $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

The Norcliffe Foundat…Seattle FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…Liberty Mutual Founda…Fales Foundation TrustWilkins Charitable Fo…Medina FoundationKawabe Memorial FundWashington Federal Fo…Employees Community F…Moccasin Lake Foundat…Lucky Seven Foundation
The Norcliffe FoundationWA54.2× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Fales Foundation Trust · Wilkins Charitable Foundation · Medina Foundation · Kawabe Memorial Fund · Washington Federal Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Lucky Seven 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 Fred & Gretel Biel Charitable Trust 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 72 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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