· Public charity
The Brighton Jones Richer Life Foundation
Our mission is to help brighton jones clients, colleagues, and our community live a richer life through more purposeful giving of their time, talent, and treasure.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $417,859 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $837,671 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $419,812 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $192k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $220k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNDAUNTED WOMEN | $170,000 |
| SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES | $50,000 |
| FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $25,000 |
| SEATTLE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL (SEATTLE FESTIVAL OF TREES) | $25,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA | $17,081 |
| FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER | $15,000 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $10,000 |
| LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING | $10,000 |
| EDEN REFORESTATION | $10,000 |
| RIVKIN CENTER | $10,000 |
| RAINIER SCHOLARS | $10,000 |
| RMI | $10,000 |
| WSU FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| VERTUELAB | $10,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $10,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $170k) 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.
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
Grants abroad, by region — $329k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS, CLINIC SUPPORT, TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS · GENERAL SUPPORT · MEDICAL PROGRAMS & EQUIPMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC PROGRAMS
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $246k 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
- TSTHE SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +45%
- RCRIVKIN CENTER FOR OVARIAN CANCER3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +14%
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +18%
Funded once
CHOOSE 180one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +8%- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEAN VOYAGEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $19k · revenue +115%
- JGJacob Green Charity Classicone grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue -66%
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To raise awareness about the potential to reduce environmental harm by shifting electricity use to particular times; to encourage the development and spread of common protocols for this practice.
We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
The Clean Energy Transition Institute (CETI) is an independent, nonpartisan research and analysis nonprofit whose mission is to accelerate an equitable clean energy transition in the Northwest.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
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.…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
Working with our world-class network of innovators, business and industry leaders, and policy experts, we accelerate the innovation of climate technologies at every stage - from discovery to development to deployment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Faith Crusades Ministries. 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.
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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
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 UNDAUNTED WOMEN ↗
- Who funds THE SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds EDEN PEOPLEPLANET ↗
- Who funds RIVKIN CENTER FOR OVARIAN CANCER ↗
- Who funds VertueLab ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (DBA PROJECT GRACE GUILD) ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds CHOOSE 180 ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEAN VOYAGE ↗
- Who funds Jacob Green Charity Classic ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATUREBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds FAITH CRUSADES MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds The Education Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds 350 Seattle ↗
- Who funds LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ALABAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds BELIEVE BEYOND ABILITY ↗
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 · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Impactassetsinc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Brighton Jones Richer Life 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.
- VertueLab — 12% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% 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.
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