Bayley Family Foundation

Bayley Family Foundation is a closed, invitation-only Seattle family foundation, and grant seekers should approach it accordingly. Internal records mark it `preselected_only: true` with `application_instructions: none`, and every third-party aggregator we checked (Instrumentl, CauseIQ, Grantable, GuideStar) independently confirms the same picture: no published guidelines, no LOI process, no open RFP, and '0 live grant opportunities.' The foundation is run entirely by Bayley family members — David Bayley (President), Jacquelin R.G. Bayley and Neville Phillip Bjorn Bayley (Vice Presidents), Daniella Bayley (Treasurer), Michelle Bayley (Director), and Daniel Asher (Secretary) — with zero paid staff and zero officer compensation reported in any filing year. There is no program officer to pitch and no portal to submit through. For organizations without an existing relationship to the family, the realistic path in is not a cold proposal but a warm introduction: board overlap, a shared advisor, or a connection through Pmnw LLC, the Seattle firm (24 Roy St 454) that administers the foundation's mail and filings. The foundation's own grant schedule (per its 990-PF attachment, aggregated in public data as 'See Attachment A') records just five total disbursements historically, averaging $306,336 each and totaling $1,531,680 — all to Washington State recipients. That pattern — a handful of large, recurring gifts rather than a diversified grants program — strongly suggests Bayley funds a small, stable roster of organizations the family already knows, likely re-upping the same relationships year over year rather than adding new grantees through competition. First-time applicants should not expect this foundation to behave like an institutional funder with published priorities and a review calendar; it behaves more like a family giving vehicle. Organizations already serving Washington State in education, human services, health, or Jewish community life (NTEE T20 Philanthropy & Grantmaking is its formal classification, but web-aggregated focus tags also cite children/youth, education, health and Judaism) are the closest thematic fit, but thematic fit alone will not open a door here — a personal connection will.

Total giving has run in a narrow band for over a decade: $337,086 (FY2020), $355,578 (FY2021), $381,619 (FY2022), $399,212 (FY2023) per the underlying financial history, with third-party aggregators reporting $338,000 for FY2024 — essentially flat, cyclical growth tied to investment performance rather than a deliberate scale-up. Total assets sit at $4,015,498 (FY2024), up modestly from $3,878,046 (FY2023) and within the $3.6M–$4.7M range the foundation has occupied since at least 2011. Grants paid (the IRS excise-tax-basis figure) consistently trails total giving by roughly $15,000–$65,000/year — e.g., $335,180 paid vs. $399,212 total giving in FY2023 — reflecting administrative costs layered on top of charitable distributions. Both Instrumentl and CauseIQ independently describe the most recent filing year as the foundation having 'made one grant,' at $338,000 — a single large disbursement rather than a spread portfolio. Looking at the full historical grant schedule captured in our data (aggregated under a single 'See Attachment A' line across five recorded grants), the total is $1,531,680 at an average of $306,336 per grant, with 100% of recipients based in Washington State. That combination — very few grants, each six figures, geographically concentrated — points to a foundation that makes concentrated, high-dollar commitments to a small, stable set of organizations rather than distributing many small grants. We could not obtain a verified breakdown of giving by program area: individual recipient names and per-grant purposes are redacted behind the 'Attachment A' placeholder in the public 990-PF data, so claims about an 'Education vs. Human Services vs. Health' split should be treated as directional NTEE/web-tag classification, not a confirmed dollar allocation. Prospective grantees should size any ask in the low-to-mid six figures if they secure access, since nothing in the public record suggests this funder makes grants below roughly $250,000–$338,000 in a given cycle.

These five peers were matched purely on asset size (all within about $2,000 of Bayley's $4.02M) and shared NTEE classification, and none of them maintain a public website — a strong structural signal that this entire asset tier of family foundations operates the same way Bayley does: no staff, no public grant guidelines, and giving concentrated among relationships the family already has. Bayley is distinguishable from this peer set mainly by being the one for which we could independently confirm 100% Washington State geographic concentration and a specific (if thin) grant-schedule history; the peers' actual giving levels, focus areas beyond the shared NTEE code, and application posture remain undocumented in public sources, so grant seekers should assume they are equally closed rather than equally open.

There is no evidence of recent news coverage, leadership changes, or new program announcements for Bayley Family Foundation — a search across general news, philanthropy trade coverage, and nonprofit databases returned no dedicated articles about the organization. The most concrete recent activity is procedural: its Form 990-PF for fiscal year 2024 was filed with the IRS on September 27, 2025, reporting $4,015,498 in total assets, $560,499 in revenue (of which $458,642 came from net gains on asset sales rather than new contributions — the foundation received $0 in outside contributions), $403,414 in total expenses, and $354,421 in charitable disbursements (87.9% of expenses), consistent with third-party reports of a single $338,000 grant for the year. Board composition appears stable across the filings we reviewed: David Bayley (President), Jacquelin R.G. Bayley and Neville Phillip Bjorn Bayley (Vice Presidents), Daniella Bayley (Treasurer), Michelle Bayley (Director), and Daniel Asher (Secretary), all uncompensated. One important due-diligence flag for grant seekers: the website on file for this foundation, bayley.com, is not affiliated with it — it belongs to an unrelated commercial excavation and heavy-equipment contractor operating in Arizona and Nevada. Any outreach should go through the foundation's registered mailing address (c/o Pmnw LLC, 24 Roy St 454, Seattle, WA 98109) or be verified independently before using any email address associated with the bayley.com domain.

The single most important fact for any prospective applicant: Bayley Family Foundation does not accept unsolicited applications. It is flagged `preselected_only` in filing-derived data, has no published guidelines, no LOI form, no online portal, and appears on Instrumentl and CauseIQ with '0 live grant opportunities.' A generic cold proposal — mailed, emailed, or submitted through a third-party grants database — has effectively no realistic path to review, because there is no staff or program officer positioned to receive or triage one. The only credible way in is relationship-based: identify whether anyone on your board, staff, or major-donor circle has a personal or professional connection to David, Jacquelin, Neville, Daniella, or Michelle Bayley, or to Daniel Asher, or to Pmnw LLC, the Seattle firm that appears to administer the foundation's filings and correspondence. If you can trace a warm introduction, lead with specificity about how your organization already operates in Washington State — 100% of the foundation's documented giving stays in-state, so an out-of-state ask is a mismatch regardless of program fit. Align your framing to the foundation's classification tags — education, human services, health, and Jewish community programming — but don't lean on broad mission language; the foundation's pattern (one or a few large, recurring gifts rather than a diversified portfolio) suggests it renews relationships with organizations it already trusts more than it evaluates new ones on proposal quality. If you do get a conversation, be prepared to talk in six-figure terms: the one grant recorded for FY2024 was $338,000, and the historical average across its recorded grant schedule is $306,336 — this is not a funder that makes small exploratory grants. A common mistake to avoid: treating the bayley.com website or a contact@bayley.com email as authoritative — that domain currently resolves to an unrelated excavation contractor, so verify any contact information independently (e.g., against the IRS Form 990-PF signature page or Washington Secretary of State corporate filings for Pmnw LLC) before sending anything. Finally, do not expect a response timeline or review cycle — with no staff and no public process, timing is entirely at the family's discretion.