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The Brettler Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$386k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Housing & Shelter$3.9MFood & Nutrition$1.9MHuman Services$1.6MEducation$818kHealth$778kCrime & Legal$549kPhilanthropy$486kCivil Rights$375kOther$0
02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $355k
  • $50k–250k27 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AFRICAN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND DEVELOPMENT$385,833
TREEHOUSE$358,333
YOUTHCARE$343,334
PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP$150,000
FOOD LIFELINE$135,000
WELD SEATTLE$125,000
MERCY HOUSING$102,500
DOWNTOWN EMERGENCY SERVICES CENTER$100,000
KING COUNTY SEXUAL ASSAULT RESOURCE CENTER$65,000
EVERGREEN TREATMENT CENTER$53,500
VIRGINIA MASON FOUNDATION-BAILEY BOUSHAY HOUSE$50,000
BETHADAY COMMUNITY LEARNING SPACE$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON - EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM$50,000
ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICES (ACRS)$50,000
RAINIER SCHOLARS$50,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICES (ACRS): $50k → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICES (ACRS): $25k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $358k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $343k → 9%AKIN: $30k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $103k → 9%UNIVERSITY DISTRICT FOOD BANK: $50k → 9%UNIVERSITY DISTRICT FOOD BANK: $40k → 9%UNIVERSITY DISTRICT FOOD BANK: $15k → 9%UNIVERSITY DISTRICT FOOD BANK: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY DISTRICT FOOD BANK: $10k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $7k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $3k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $64k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $64k → 9%UNIVERSITY DISTRICT FOOD BANK: $1k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $63k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $63k → 9%FACING HOMELESSNESS: $1k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $50k → 9%UNIVERSITY DISTRICT FOOD BANK: $1k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $10k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $965 → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
RI
CA
NE
VA
NC
DC
HI
GA
FL

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.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$10M · 45 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
46

Total granted

$10M
$162k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+32%

Still filing today

73%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $967k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • PH
    PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +196%
  • FL
    FOOD LIFELINE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +89%
  • T
    TREEHOUSE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $964k · revenue +172%

Funded once

  • THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +44%
  • SF
    SCHOLARSHIP FUND FOR RAINIER SCHOLARS
    one grant, 2017 · $33k · revenue -12%
  • VM
    VIRGINIA MASON FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $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
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
2
Building Changes

Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…

Health
3
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
4
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
5
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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6
Community Credit Lab

To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.

Human Services
7
Seattle Jobs Initiative

Seattle jobs initiative (sji) creates opportunities for people to support themselves and their families through living-wage careers.

Employment
8
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
9
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
10
Disability Rights Washington

Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.

Human Services
11
Housing Connector

Housing connector partners with property owners and managers to lower barriers to housing and increase our region's affordable housing capacity.

Housing & Shelter
12
Seattle Architectural Foundation

The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childrens Home Society of Washington 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.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySupportive Housing Developm…Nyc Youth Education ProgramsPrivate Sports ClubsJewish Diaspora Support Org…International Development N…Performing Arts Organizatio…Food Access and Community S…Washington State Advocacy N…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr18%40%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr15%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr18%10%20–35yr13%70%35–55yr15%11%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/80
the rest of the field
12%
4,745/38,888

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.

04the grantee network

79 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. 79 of the 116 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/79
Grantees still filing
52/79
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES — $1,924,762 · Housing & ShelterPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND …AFRICAN COMMUNITY HOUSING & DEVELOPMENT — $395,833 · Housing & ShelterAFRICAN COMMUNITY HOUSING &…Solid Ground Washington — $355,908 · Housing & ShelterSolid Ground Washington+3 more — $112,300 · Housing & ShelterMERCY HOUSING — $475,735 · OtherMERCY HOUSINGSeattle Children's Foundation — $427,500 · OtherSeattle Children's FoundationKing County Sexual Assault Resource Center — $424,050 · OtherKing County Sexual Assault Resourc…CHILDHAVEN — $238,060 · OtherCHILDHAVENALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION — $350,000 · OtherALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY FO…WELD SEATTLE — $125,000 · Other+78 more — $1,413,114 · Other+78 moreFOOD LIFELINE — $1,514,654 · Food & NutritionFOOD LIFELINE+1 more — $40,000 · Food & NutritionYOUTHCARE — $814,632 · Human ServicesYOUTHCARETHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) — $272,500 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN…UNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE — $127,080 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY DI…ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE — $75,000 · Human ServicesASIAN COUNSEL…CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB — $50,000 · Human Services+3 more — $36,000 · Human ServicesTREEHOUSE — $963,929 · Youth DevelopmentTREEHOUSECHOOSE 180 — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentONE ROOF FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $500 · Youth DevelopmentCollege Success Foundation — $390,630 · EducationSEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EducationRAINIER SCHOLARS — $50,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI — $50,000 · EducationSCHOLARSHIP FUND FOR RAINIER SCHOLARS — $33,334 · Education+3 more — $11,300 · EducationUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY — $485,348 · Philanthropy+2 more — $510 · Philanthropy
Housing & Shelter$2,788,803Other$3,453,459Food & Nutrition$1,554,654Human Services$1,375,212Youth Development$1,064,429Education$635,264Philanthropy$485,858

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES — $1,924,762 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE — $1,514,654 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTREEHOUSE — $963,929 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetYOUTHCARE — $814,632 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY — $485,348 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation — $427,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKing County Sexual Assault Resource Center — $424,050 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITY HOUSING & DEVELOPMENT — $395,833 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCollege Success Foundation — $390,630 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSolid Ground Washington — $355,908 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION — $350,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) — $272,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDHAVEN — $238,060 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE — $127,080 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetWELD SEATTLE — $125,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE — $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBALLARD FOOD BANK — $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY — $73,463 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetROOTS YOUNG ADULT SHELTER — $62,050 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetRECOVERY CAFE — $52,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHOOSE 180 — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSail Sand Point — $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetYouth Eastside Services — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHIEF SEATTLE CLUB — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetONE ROOF FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOCOON HOUSE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBLACK FARMERS COLLECTIVE — $50,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetFood Empowerment Education Sustainability Team — $40,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP FUND FOR RAINIER SCHOLARS — $33,334 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetCHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHolocaust Center For Humanity — $28,300 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCULTURESEED INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetBELLWETHER HOUSING — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAASAI ASSOCIATION — $10,650 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetLOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE — $9,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC BALLROOM DANCE — $6,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $5,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE MUSIC PARTNERS — $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetIMAGINE HOUSING — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
  • Who funds FOOD LIFELINE ↗
  • Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds King County Sexual Assault Resource Center ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN COMMUNITY HOUSING & DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds College Success Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Solid Ground Washington ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) ↗
  • Who funds CHILDHAVEN ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds WELD SEATTLE ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds BALLARD FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds ROOTS YOUNG ADULT SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds RECOVERY CAFE ↗
  • Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
  • Who funds CHOOSE 180 ↗
  • Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI ↗
  • Who funds Sail Sand Point ↗
  • Who funds Youth Eastside Services ↗
  • Who funds CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB ↗
  • Who funds ONE ROOF FOUNDATION ↗

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 FoundationUnited Way of King Co…Puget Sound Energy Fo…The Norcliffe Foundat…Gates FoundationMedina FoundationCredit Unions in the …Mightycause Charitabl…Lucky Seven FoundationSchool's Out Washingt…Umpqua Bank Charitabl…Employees Community F…
Seattle FoundationWA52.2× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · United Way of King County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Gates Foundation · Medina Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · School's Out Washington · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company

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 Brettler 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
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: 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 116 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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