Skip to content
Johnson & Haefling Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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
4
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2020 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • $10k–50k13 grants · $322k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $213k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWEST HARVEST$80,357
WEST SEATTLE FOOD BANK$69,357
NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT$62,857
EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK$35,000
OPERATION SACK LUNCH$33,478
WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES$27,000
RAINIER SCHOLARS$25,000
ORGANIZATION FOR PROSITUTION SURVIVORS$25,000
GAY CITY HEALTH PROJECT$25,000
READING PARTNERS$25,000
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE$22,857
GOODWILL BAPTIST CHURCH$22,857
RAINFOREST TRUST$22,857
FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION$22,857
DEGREES OF CHANGE$20,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION: $20k → 9%WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION: $15k → 9%WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION: $5k → 9%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $27k → 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.
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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$493k · 8 repeat orgs$348k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +133% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2020, 1 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$493k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+133%
-10%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20
Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionInternationalArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
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

  • RS
    RAINIER SCHOLARS
    3× · 2017–2020 · $90k · revenue +359%
  • NI
    NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT
    2× · 2018–2020 · $88k · revenue +81%
  • EF
    EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY
    3× · 2017–2020 · $75k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • HW
    Hospice Without Borders
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -64%
  • WS
    West Seattle Helpline
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -10%
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
Feeding Washington

Create a strong and effective statewide infrastructure that efficiently leverages resources to expand capacity in Washington State's Feeding America network.

Food & Nutrition
2
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
3
Washington Food Coalition

To strengthen hunger relief providers in WA State.

—
4
Working Washington

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

—
5
Washington Innocence Project

Washington Innocence Project (WashIP) works to free innocent Washington State prisoners, improve our criminal legal system through education and advocacy, and support the wrongly convicted in Washington State as they rebuild their lives in…

Crime & Legal
6
Refugee & Immigrant Services Northwest

To promote and facilitate information sharing, policy planning, cooperation and communication among all organizations involved in assisting immigrants, refugees, their sponsors, and other residents.

—
7
Food Lifeline

Food lifeline's mission is to feed people experiencing hunger today while working to end hunger tomorrow.

Food & Nutrition
8
We Heart Seattle

We Heart Seattle is an action-based, boots-on-the-ground movement that organizes trash cleanups in our public spaces and offers resources to those in need. Through our direct civic engagement we lead the way to a more compassionate and…

Community Improvement
9
Invest in Washington Now Campaign

Advocate for tax policy in Washington State

—
10
Washington Progress Fund

Washington Progress Fund is building a permanent and powerful social change movement in Washington state supported by a network of committed donors. WPF envisions a Washington state where government serves the public interest and we all…

Philanthropy
11
Port Angeles Food Bank

Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.

Food & Nutrition
12
Washingtonians for Public Banking

Washingtonians for Public banking promotes education and civic engagement on public banking and banking reform within Washington state. The organization organizes, educates, and advocates for the establishment of public banking, and…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Harvest Emm; the most unlike its peers is Hospice Without Borders. 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

16 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. 16 of the 19 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT: $87,857 · OtherNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECTNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $80,357 · OtherNORTHWEST HARVEST EMMPOST-PRISON EDUCATION PROGRAM: $55,000 · OtherPOST-PRISON EDUCATION PROGRAMREADING PARTNERS: $42,000 · OtherREADING PARTNERSORGANIZATION FOR PROSITUTION SURVIVORS: $25,000 · OtherORGANIZATION FOR PROSITUTION SURVIVORSGOODWILL BAPTIST CHURCH: $22,857 · OtherGOODWILL BAPTIST CHURCHWest Seattle Helpline: $15,000 · OtherEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY: $75,000 · Food & NutritionEMERGENCY FOOD NETW…West Seattle Food Bank: $69,357 · Food & NutritionWest Seattle Food B…RAINIER SCHOLARS: $90,000 · EducationRAINIER SCHOLARSDEGREES OF CHANGE: $45,000 · EducationDEGREES OF CHANGEOPERATION SACK LUNCH: $58,478 · Human ServicesOPERATION SACK L…WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION: $40,000 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON KIDS …WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $27,000 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING FAMIL…RAINFOREST TRUST: $22,857 · InternationalHospice Without Borders: $15,000 · InternationalGAY CITY HEALTH PROJECT: $25,000 · Arts & CultureEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $22,857 · Civil RightsFREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION INC: $22,857 · Religion
Other$328,071Food & Nutrition$144,357Education$135,000Human Services$125,478International$37,857Arts & Culture$25,000Civil Rights$22,857Religion$22,857

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

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
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.

Lucky Seven FoundationGates FoundationSeattle FoundationNetwork for GoodAmerican Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Johnson & Haefling Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Johnson & Haefling Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Johnson & Haefling Family’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home