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Johnson & Haefling Family Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$534k
Granted FY2020
16
Grants FY2020
16
Organizations funded FY2020
56%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$80,357
Organizations funded a year
7 to 16
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
4
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 56% of the organizations Johnson & Haefling Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $318k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20
Food & NutritionEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCivil RightsReligionOther
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
FY202016$534k56%
FY20187$172k43%
FY20177$135kn/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.

Food & Nutrition$225kEducation$177kCrime & Legal$103kHousing & Shelter$100kCivil Rights$88kReligion$46kHuman Services$40kHealth$25kOther$0

Top grantees

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

Show all 17 grantees
All grantees of Johnson & Haefling Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Rainier Scholars$90,00031%
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project$87,85720%
Northwest Harvest Emm$80,35710%
Emergency Food Network of Tacoma and Pierce County$75,00030%
West Seattle Food Bank$69,35711%
Operation Sack Lunch$58,47820%
Post-Prison Education Program$55,0002n/a
Degrees of Change$45,00022%
Washington Kids in Transition$40,00035%
Wellspring Family Services$27,00010%
Gay City Health Project$25,00011%
Equal Justice Initiative$22,85710%
Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc$22,85710%
Rainforest Trust$22,85710%
Goodwill Baptist Church$22,8571n/a
Hospice Without Borders$15,00016%
West Seattle Helpline$15,0001n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($67k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Johnson & Haefling Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRainier Scholars: $90,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNorthwest Immigrant Rights Project: $87,857 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNorthwest Harvest Emm: $80,357 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEmergency Food Network of Tacoma and Pierce County: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWest Seattle Food Bank: $69,357 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOperation Sack Lunch: $58,478 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDegrees of Change: $45,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetWashington Kids in Transition: $40,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetWellspring Family Services: $27,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGay City Health Project: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $22,857 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFreedom From Religion Foundation Inc: $22,857 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRainforest Trust: $22,857 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHospice Without Borders: $15,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Lucky Seven FoundationDE13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lucky Seven Foundation · Gates Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Johnson & Haefling Family Foundation

How much does Johnson & Haefling Family Foundation give?
Johnson & Haefling Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $534,477 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Johnson & Haefling Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (27%), Education (21%), Crime & Legal (12%).
Who are Johnson & Haefling Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Rainier Scholars ($90k), Northwest Immigrant Rights Project ($88k), Northwest Harvest Emm ($80k).
Does Johnson & Haefling Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Johnson & Haefling Family 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.
Which funders back the same organizations as Johnson & Haefling Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lucky Seven Foundation, Gates Foundation, Seattle Foundation.
Where is Johnson & Haefling Family Foundation based?
Johnson & Haefling Family 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 19 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.

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