· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Northwest Museum of Arts Culture | $12,500 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank | $12,500 |
| Anna Schindler Foundation | $10,000 |
| Mid City Concerns Senior Center | $10,000 |
| The Salvation Army | $10,000 |
| Friends of KSPS TV | $10,000 |
| Providence Health Care Foundation | $5,000 |
| Side by Side | $5,000 |
| Family Promise of Spokane | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
Spokane Valley Hubgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +399%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 36 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SPOKANE ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Spokane County ↗
- Who funds SIDE BY SIDE ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Spokane ↗
- Who funds TRUTH MINISTRIES OF SPOKANE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SPOKANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN OF SPOKANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Feast Collective ↗
- Who funds Cup of Cool Water ↗
- Who funds Spokane Valley Hub ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bergquist Foundation Attn Eric Sachtjen funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bergquist Foundation Attn Eric Sachtjen. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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