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The Bergquist Foundation Attn Eric Sachtjen
Its FY2025 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of The Bergquist Foundation Attn Eric Sachtjen’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $202k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery | $40,000 |
| Union Gospel Mission | $24,500 |
| Volunteers of America | $22,500 |
| Spokane Parks Foundation | $20,000 |
| Spokane Symphony Society | $15,000 |
| Maddie's Place | $15,000 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank | $12,500 |
| Northwest Museum of Arts Culture | $12,500 |
| Mid City Concerns Senior Center | $10,000 |
| Friends of KSPS TV | $10,000 |
| The Salvation Army | $10,000 |
| Anna Schindler Foundation | $10,000 |
| Side by Side | $5,000 |
| Family Promise of Spokane | $5,000 |
| Truth Ministries of Spokane | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
27 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- VBVANESSA BEHAN7× · 2017–2025 · $385k · revenue +81%
- SPSpokane Parks Foundation7× · 2017–2025 · $126k · revenue +55%
- SSSpokane Symphony Society7× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS SPOKANEone grant, 2017 · $5k
- GOGirls on the Runone grant, 2024 · $3k
- MMOBIUSone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
The mission of Visit Spokane is to help promote economic development for Spokane County through tourism and tourism promotion.
The mission of the Community Health Association of Spokane (CHAS Health) is to improve the overall health of the communities we serve by expanding access to quality health and wellness services.
To prepare a diverse range of students for a life of learning in post-secondary education, citizenship, and leadership.
Skookum Kids exists to mobilize communities in support of kids and families impacted by foster care.
SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.
To provide a chaplaincy for local police. to provide emotional and spiritual support for police officers and the community.
Founded in 2001, Spark Northwest accelerates the just transition to clean energy in the Pacific Northwest. Spark Northwest uses two primary strategies: (1) on-the-ground project consulting, focusing on communities with limited financial…
United Way of Skagit County's mission is to build a positive and sustainable quality of life for all.
The sophia way is a place of hope and change for women. we support them on their journey from homelessness to safe and stable living.
The mission of Spokane Public Radio is to provide high-quality, artistic, educational and informational radio programming, which enhances and enlivens the cultural life and civic discourse of its listening communities. Spokane Public Radio…
The Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce, dba Greater Spokane, Incorporated, primary mission is to lead transformative business and community initiatives to build a robust regional economy.
Scope coordinates community policing efforts and assists communities with the operation of community substations aimed at crime prevention.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Spokane and the most unlike its peers is Truth Ministries of Spokane. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 36 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 VANESSA BEHAN ↗
- Who funds Spokane Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds Spokane Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds MADDIE'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DAYBREAK YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KSPS ↗
- Who funds THE ANNA SCHINDLER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Transitions ↗
- Who funds Spokane Humane Society ↗
- Who funds Spokane Guilds' School & Neuromuscular Center ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Spokane County ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SPOKANE ↗
- Who funds SIDE BY SIDE ↗
- Who funds TRUTH MINISTRIES OF SPOKANE ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Spokane ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SPOKANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN OF SPOKANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Spokane Valley Hub ↗
- Who funds Cup of Cool Water ↗
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: The Avista Foundation · Innovia Foundation · Providence Health & Services - Washington · Women Helping Women Fund · Numerica Credit Union · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · United Way of Spokane County · Pierce Charitable Trust Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Multicare Health System · School's Out Washington · The Is & Emily Fetterman Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington 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 The Bergquist Foundation Attn Eric Sachtjen 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.
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