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Agnew Family 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.

$120k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$271kYouth Development$231kArts & Culture$157kEnvironment$63kEmployment$57kHealth$41kEducation$40kInternational$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$40,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FILM INDEPENDENT$40,000
GIVING THE BASICS$40,000
JUST LIKE YOU FILMS$40,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–19, $46k) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $21k → 9%STOLEN YOUTH: $25k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$633k · 8 repeat orgs$279k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +100% since the first grant, against -20% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
10

Total granted

$633k
$239k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+100%
-20%

Still filing today

63%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GT
    GIVING THE BASICS INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $161k · revenue +100%
  • A VILLAGE FOR ONE
    5× · 2017–2023 · $127k · revenue +106%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SW WASHINGTON
    2× · 2020–2021 · $52k · revenue +153%

Funded once

  • W
    WELD
    one grant, 2024 · $57k
  • BG
    BE GREAT TOGETHER
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue -59%
  • EC
    ENCOMPASS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $38k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Yes Every Kid Inc

yes. every kid. is a leading advocacy team with a families-first approach to transform America's education policy landscape.

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2
Southside Youth Outreach Inc

Our mission is to build strong young lives so our community will thrive.

Youth Development
3
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

—
4
Outside the Frame

Outside the frame trains homeless and marginalized youth to be the directors of their own films and lives.

Arts & Culture
5
Out Teach

Out teach's mission is to inspire and prepare today's elementary students to explore the wonders of science and become tomorrow's innovators. out teach works to ensure that all studentsregardless of race, zip code, or access to…

Education
6
Girl Effect Inc

Girl effect works for a future in which every girl is in control of her body, her health, her learning and her livelihood. we work across africa and asia with adolescent girls and young women using the power of media and technology to…

Youth Development
7
Young Womens Christian Association

The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism and empowering women.

Human Services
8
Exalt Youth

Exalt youth serves youth involved in the criminal justice system, moving them away from incarceration towards re-engagement with education and meaningful job opportunities. our students come from some of the most economically depressed…

Youth Development
9
Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education
10
Southwest Youth and Family Services

SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.

Human Services
11
Partners in School Innovation

To transform teaching and learning in the lowest-performing public schools so that every student, regardless of background, thrives.

Philanthropy
12
School's Out Washington

School's out washington (sowa) drives positive systemic change so that all washington's children and youth, particularly those furthest from justice, have access to a robust ecosystem of high-quality expanded learning programs.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Breakthrough Inc; the most unlike its peers is Aim Youth Mental Health. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GIVING THE BASICS INC: $160,750 · OtherGIVING THE BASICS INCJUST LIKE YOU FILMS: $107,000 · OtherJUST LIKE YOU FILMSWELD: $57,000 · OtherWELDECOCENTER INC DBA THE ECOLOGY CENTER: $47,283 · OtherECOCENTER INC DBA THE ECOLOGY CENTERFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $40,750 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE CHILDRENENCOMPASS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $38,467 · OtherENCOMPASS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER+3 more: $26,560 · Other+3 moreA VILLAGE FOR ONE: $126,750 · Youth DevelopmentA VILLAGE FOR ONEFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SW WASHINGTON: $52,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDRE…Everstrong Prevention: $72,000 · Human ServicesEverstrong …WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $21,000 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING …BE GREAT TOGETHER: $40,000 · EducationOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $30,000 · EducationFILM INDEPENDENT: $40,000 · Arts & CultureOLD TOWN ARTISAN STUDIO INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureAIM Youth Mental Health: $26,000 · HealthECOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS AND OUTDOORS: $16,000 · Environment
Other$477,810Youth Development$178,750Human Services$93,000Education$70,000Arts & Culture$50,000Health$26,000Environment$16,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGIVING THE BASICS INC: $160,750 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetA VILLAGE FOR ONE: $126,750 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetEverstrong Prevention: $72,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SW WASHINGTON: $52,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBE GREAT TOGETHER: $40,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAIM Youth Mental Health: $26,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetWELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $21,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCK N ROLL CAMP FOR GIRLS: $11,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetOLD TOWN ARTISAN STUDIO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Oregon Community …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Oregon Community FoundationOR12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Agnew Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Agnew Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 33%
  • A Village for One: 33% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Agnew Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Agnew Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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