· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- $10k–50k13 grants · $322k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $213k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| ORGANIZATION FOR PROSITUTION SURVIVORS | $25,000 |
| GAY CITY HEALTH PROJECT | $25,000 |
| RAINIER SCHOLARS | $25,000 |
| READING PARTNERS | $25,000 |
| GOODWILL BAPTIST CHURCH | $22,857 |
| RAINFOREST TRUST | $22,857 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $22,857 |
| FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION | $22,857 |
| DEGREES OF CHANGE | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $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 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +133% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $318k 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
- RSRAINIER SCHOLARS3× · 2017–2020 · $90k · revenue +359%
- NINORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT2× · 2018–2020 · $88k · revenue +81%
- EFEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY3× · 2017–2020 · $75k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- HWHospice Without Bordersone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -64%
- WSWest Seattle Helplineone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -10%
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.
Create a strong and effective statewide infrastructure that efficiently leverages resources to expand capacity in Washington State's Feeding America network.
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…
To strengthen hunger relief providers in WA State.
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…
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…
To promote and facilitate information sharing, policy planning, cooperation and communication among all organizations involved in assisting immigrants, refugees, their sponsors, and other residents.
Food lifeline's mission is to feed people experiencing hunger today while working to end hunger tomorrow.
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…
Advocate for tax policy in Washington State
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…
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Harvest Emm and 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.
16 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. 16 of the 19 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 RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds West Seattle Food Bank ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SACK LUNCH ↗
- Who funds POST-PRISON EDUCATION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds DEGREES OF CHANGE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GAY CITY HEALTH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
- Who funds Hospice Without Borders ↗
- Who funds West Seattle Helpline ↗
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: 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
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 Johnson & Haefling Family 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.