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· Private foundation
THE BRENEMAN JAECH FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$63k
Granted FY2025
3
Grants
1
Communities
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
0161% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Arts & Culture$294kYouth Development$160kHealth$70kEducation$45kOther$365k
02FY2025 · 3 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$61k
Total assets
Largest grants
- THE GARAGE A TEEN CAFE$30,000
- TOWN HALL ASSOCIATION$25,000
- HUMANITIES WASHINGTON$7,500
02The need
03
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 7%. 97% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$879k · 12 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
12
3
Total granted
$879k
$55k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+36%
+27%
Still filing today
67%
67%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthOther
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
- TGTHE GARAGE A TEEN CAFE5× · 2021–2025 · $160k · revenue +45%
- FOFRIENDS OF YOUTH2× · 2019–2020 · $70k · revenue +10%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $45k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- NFNORTHWEST FILM FORUMgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +27%
- CWCLARION WESTone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -56%
- SVST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCILone grant, 2019 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Wonderworks
Wonderworks provides pre-college summer learning experiences in the arts and humanities.
Education
2
The Urbanist
Seattle-based online publication seeking to examine and influence urban policies.
Community Improvement
3
Arts West
ArtsWest produces artistic events that provoke conversation, incite the imagination, and use live theater as a powerful agent of change.
Arts & Culture
4
Writing By Writers
To create a rigorous, compassionate and inclusive environment to learn the art of reading and writing from accomplished authors.
Education
5
Washington Filmworks
To build and enhance the competitiveness of Washington State's film and associated creative industry.
Community Improvement
6
Seattle Architectural Foundation
The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design and history of Seattle. We provide entertaining workshops, dynamic tours, educational seminars and enthusiastic community advocacy. Through our programs and…
Arts & Culture
7
Artist Trust
Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.
Arts & Culture
8
Seattle Athenaeum
To Promote and Deepen Public Appreciation of the Literary Arts Through Preservation of Book Collections, Book Sharing Through Library Services, Book Related Cultural Programming and Workspace for Writers and Others.
Education
9
The Writers Room
Writers Room provides emerging and established writers, working in any and all literary genres, with affordable and tranquil workspace in NYC.
Arts & Culture
10
New Literary Project
The New Literary Project inspires and equips writers across generations to write their hearts out.
Arts & Culture
11
Friends of Seattle Waterfront
To support, through outreach, fundraising and stewardship, the City's Waterfront Seattle project: Creation of a park along the central shoreline to benefit the public
Community Improvement
12
Writers in the Schools
Writers in the Schools empowers students to achieve long-term academic success.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humanities Washington and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Youth. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$365,100Arts & Culture$293,500Youth Development$160,000Health$70,000Education$45,000
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 THE GARAGE A TEEN CAFE ↗
- Who funds RICHARD HUGO HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YOUTH ↗
- Who funds TOWN HALL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEDGEBROOK ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST FILM FORUM ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ARTS & LECTURES ↗
- Who funds CLARION WEST ↗
- Who funds HUMANITIES WASHINGTON ↗
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.
Seattle FoundationWA19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Artsfund · Medina Foundation · Real Progress Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving 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 organisation THE BRENEMAN JAECH 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE GARAGE A TEEN CAFE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 842529618 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on THE GARAGE A TEEN CAFE, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to The Breneman Jaech Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Breneman Jaech Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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