· Private foundation
The Loyal Bigelow and Jedediah Dewey 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of The Loyal Bigelow and Jedediah Dewey Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BENEFITS LAW CENTER | $5,000 |
| THE JOYCE L SOBEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER | $5,000 |
| SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST | $5,000 |
| SAWHORSE | $5,000 |
| NEW VENTURE FUND | $5,000 |
| RESOURCES | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS | $5,000 |
| THE CHURCH COUNCIL OF GREAT SEATTTLE | $5,000 |
| NRDC | $5,000 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $2,500 |
| SAARC | $2,500 |
| YOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED | $2,500 |
| WOLF HOLLOW WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER | $1,250 |
| COAST SALISH YOUTH ASSOCIATION | $1,250 |
| SAN JUAN COMMUNITY HOME TRUST | $1,250 |
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 (FY23–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- SSTAND6× · 2019–2024 · $30k · revenue +85%
- RSRE SOURCES5× · 2020–2025 · $23k · revenue +33%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS4× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- HFHackers for Reality Teamone grant, 2023 · $5k
- FAFront and Centeredone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +23%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $5k
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 mission of the Whatcom Land Trust is to preserve and protect wildlife habitat, scenic, agricultural and open space lands in Whatcom County for future generations by securing interests in land and promoting land stewardship.
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.…
The Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a statewide organization whose mission is to protect, preserve and restore Washington's waters through education, advocacy, policy reform, and public interest litigation.
SEACC's mission is to protect the special places of the world's largest temperate rainforest, promote conservation, and advocate for sustainability in human use of natural resources. Inspired by the land, wildlife, cultures, and…
To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.
The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…
Nedc's mission is to work toward a future in which the pacific northwest leads the nation in developing, implementing & enforcing strong laws and regulations that protect the environment & human health, and where our governments &…
The San Juan Citizens Alliance advocates for clean air, pure water, and healthy lands - the foundations of resilient communities, ecosystems and economies in the San Juan Basin.
To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.
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…
To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…
To mobilize people in local communities around the world to protect marine wildlife and the oceans and inland watersheds that sustain them.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stand and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 36 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 EARTH MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Paso Pacifico ↗
- Who funds STAND ↗
- Who funds RE SOURCES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS ↗
- Who funds TOXIC-FREE FUTURE F/K/A WASHINGTON TOXICS COALITION ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ORCA NETWORK ↗
- Who funds WILD WHATCOM ↗
- Who funds THE LAMBI FUND OF HAITI ↗
- Who funds JOYCE L SOBEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds Front and Centered ↗
- Who funds BENEFITS LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds SPRING STREET INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN COMMUNITY HOME TRUST ↗
- Who funds WOLF HOLLOW WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTRE ↗
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 · The GreerSolien Fund · San Juan Island Community Foundation · The Northwest Fund for the Environment · The Bullitt Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Washington Conservation Action Education Fund · Kaleidoscope Foundation · The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment · Impactassetsinc · Grousemont Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc
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 Loyal Bigelow and Jedediah Dewey 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.
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% 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.