Washington · 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.
- $5.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations The Berwick Degel Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $5.0M | 9% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $5.0M | 8% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $2.1M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $2.0M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $1.9M | 7% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $3.2M | 11% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $2.6M | 11% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $1.9M | 8% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northwest Immigrant Rights Project | $4,900,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Seattle University | $2,635,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Legal Foundation of Washington | $2,609,999 | 6 | 2% |
| JustLead Washington | $2,130,000 | 8 | 60% |
| Columbia Legal Services | $2,000,000 | 2 | 87% |
| Endowment for Equal Justice | $1,795,000 | 8 | 19% |
| University of California Irvine Foundation | $1,750,000 | 2 | 1% |
| One Equal Heart Foundation | $996,000 | 9 | 63% |
| Madre Inc | $720,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Casa Latina | $702,500 | 9 | 4% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($904k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Berwick Degel Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
Compare The Berwick Degel Family Foundation with peer funders
About The Berwick Degel Family Foundation
- How much does The Berwick Degel Family Foundation give?
- The Berwick Degel Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $5,045,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Berwick Degel Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (27%), Civil Rights (22%), Education (18%).
- Who are The Berwick Degel Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Northwest Immigrant Rights Project ($4.9M), Seattle University ($2.6M), Legal Foundation of Washington ($2.6M).
- Does The Berwick Degel Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Berwick Degel Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Berwick Degel Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Inatai Foundation, United Way of King County.
- Where is The Berwick Degel Family Foundation based?
- The Berwick Degel Family Foundation is based in WA.
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