· Private foundation
The Berwick Degel Family Foundation
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $660k
- $250k+8 grants · $4.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ENDOWMENT FOR EQUAL JUSTICE | $1,000,000 |
| COLUMBIA LEGAL SERVICES | $1,000,000 |
| NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT | $600,000 |
| LEGAL FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON | $540,000 |
| ONE EQUAL HEART FOUNDATION | $320,000 |
| NORTHWEST HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES | $300,000 |
| JUSTLEAD WASHINGTON | $250,000 |
| UC IRVINE FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| VASHON MURRY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $200,000 |
| CASA LATINA | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| PEACE & JUSTICE ACTION LEAGUE OF SPOKANE | $75,000 |
| TREEHOUSE | $75,000 |
| LEGAL VOICE | $60,000 |
| SEATTLE SYMPHONY | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $560k) 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.
34 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k 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
- NINORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT9× · 2017–2025 · $4.9M · revenue +105%
- SUSEATTLE UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2022 · $2.6M · revenue +62%
- JWJustLead Washington8× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +169% · 60% of their budget
Funded once
- NRNATIONAL RADIO PROJECTone grant, 2017 · $25k
- SFScholar Fundgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +199%
- TATHIN AIR COMMUNITY RADIOone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +6%
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.
Sexual Violence Law Center (SVLC) is a nonprofit law firm that protects the safety, privacy, and civil rights of survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Washington through holistic and trauma-informed practices rooted in race and…
To protect and extend civil liberties and civil rights, and to take action to further those liberties and rights within the state of washington.
The Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a statewide organization whose mission is to protect, preserve and restore Washington's waters through education, advocacy, policy reform, and public interest litigation.
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…
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.
Gender Justice League's mission is to empower all people to eliminate discrimination and prejudice based on sex, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation in Washington State, and to ensure that trans and gender diverse…
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 support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.
The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.
Seeding justice builds collective power by transforming philanthropy and funding movements, in the pursuit of justice and liberation for all communities. our programs are based on trust, relationships, and partnership. they are founded on…
To protect and extend civil liberties and civil rights by supporting the aclu-wa foundation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Immigrant Rights Project and the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 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. 31 of the 42 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 NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LEGAL FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds JustLead Washington ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ENDOWMENT FOR EQUAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds One Equal Heart Foundation ↗
- Who funds MADRE INC ↗
- Who funds CASA LATINA ↗
- Who funds Northwest Health Law Advocates ↗
- Who funds CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB ↗
- Who funds International Media Project ↗
- Who funds LEGAL VOICE ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds PEACE & JUSTICE ACTION LEAGUE OF SPOKANE ↗
- Who funds A CONTEMPORARY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds VASHON MAURY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds American Civil Liberties Union of Washington Found ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds College Success Foundation ↗
- Who funds CAPACES LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds SPIRITUAL EXERCISES IN EVERYDAY LIFE OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds Scholar Fund ↗
- Who funds WILLAMETTE VALLEY LAW PROJECT DBA PCUN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THIN AIR COMMUNITY RADIO ↗
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: Seattle Foundation · Inatai Foundation · United Way of King County · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Legal Foundation of Washington · Raikes Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Winky Foundation Co Wilmington Trust Co · The Pride Foundation · Medina Foundation · Puget Sound Energy 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 Berwick Degel 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.
- Capaces Leadership Institute — 20% of income from government
- Willamette Valley Law Project Dba Pcun Foundation — 18% of income from government
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.