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Bacon 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $153k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $300k
- $250k+1 grant · $680k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BELLEVUE FIRE FOUNDATION | $679,700 |
| EASTSIDE ACADEMY | $75,000 |
| BRIDGE RECEIVING CENTER | $70,000 |
| BELLEVUE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $54,289 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $50,556 |
| RAINIER ATHLETES | $50,000 |
| BELLEVUE LIFESPRING | $42,500 |
| JUBILEE REACH | $29,525 |
| HOPE INTERNATIONAL | $25,100 |
| NO MORE UNDER | $25,000 |
| HIGHLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SACRED HEART SCHOOL | $5,500 |
| NOURISHING NETWORKS - FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $268k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 9 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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $716k 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
- RARAINIER ATHLETES8× · 2017–2024 · $313k · revenue +393%
- EAEASTSIDE ACADEMY6× · 2019–2024 · $245k · revenue +8%
- BRBRIDGE RECEIVING CENTER6× · 2018–2024 · $234k · revenue +453%
Funded once
- TDTHE DETLEF SCHREMPF FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -98%
- NFNorthwest Family Life Learning And Counseling Centerone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -53%
- BDBirthday Dreamsone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue -11%
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.
BELONG Partners is an education equity nonprofit that believes in a future where everyone has the opportunity to thrive because they know they matter and belong. We partner with schools and organizations to build equitable communities…
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…
YWCA Bellingham is part of a national network of programs with the shared mission of eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, and freedom for all.
SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.
House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska supports families with seriously ill children by providing a caring home-away-from-home at the SEattle Ronald McDonald House and operating a house and a van service in…
Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…
We Heart Seattle is an action-based, boots-on-the-ground movement that organizes trash cleanups in our public spaces and offers resources to those in need. Through our direct civic engagement we lead the way to a more compassionate and…
Transitions works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane, Washington.
Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound and the most unlike its peers is Cure Als. 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 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 64 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 BELLEVUE FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAINIER ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE RECEIVING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Jubilee REACH ↗
- Who funds BELLEVUE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NO MORE UNDER ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds OVERLAKE SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE DETLEF SCHREMPF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPELINK ↗
- Who funds MEDINA PTSA ↗
- Who funds BELLEVUE BOYS LACROSSE CLUB ↗
- Who funds Northwest Family Life Learning And Counseling Center ↗
- Who funds Birthday Dreams ↗
- Who funds THE BFF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RUBY ROOM ↗
- Who funds THE SOPHIA WAY ↗
- Who funds Solid Ground Washington ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
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: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Aven Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Bellevue Rotary Foundation · Medina Foundation · Glassybaby White Light Fund · United Way of King County · Byron & Alice Lockwood Foundation · 47th Avenue Foundation · Ellison Foundation · Moccasin Lake 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 Bacon 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.
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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