How much did BELIEVE IN ME grant in FY2023?

BELIEVE IN ME reported 5 grants totaling $211,566 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

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· Public charity

BELIEVE IN ME

To help every kid develop the self-confidence they need to succeed by funding children's charities that provide disadvantaged kids with a safe place to call home, a family that loves them, a feeling of community, and opportunities to learn, build self-esteem and have fun.

$212k

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$14k

Largest

01What you fund

0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2023.

Youth Development$4.4MHuman Services$214kEducation$101kHealth$53kEnvironment$32kRecreation & Sports$26kCommunity Improvement$21kReligion$18kArts & Culture$18kOther$128k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

—

2019

education

2020

education

2021

studentseducationfinancial

2022

youthconditionscoachingyoungindustryresiliencyguide

2023

enrichmentbasicitemsexperiencesbelongingfoster

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k1 grant · $9k
$10k–50k4 grants · $44k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

FREE REIN THERAPEUTIC RIDING$13,500
FOSTER HEARTS$10,000
FAMILY AND COMMUNITY TOGETHER$10,000
MELODIC CARING PROJECT$10,000
EMBRACE WASHINGTON$8,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $214k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.7M · 10 repeat orgs$309k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +108% since the first grant, against +87% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.7M

$276k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+108%

+87%

Still filing today

100%

84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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

EW
EMBRACE WASHINGTON
4× · 2019–2023 · $111k · revenue +108%
CI
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS SPOKANE COUN
2× · 2021–2022 · $47k · revenue +106%
MC
MELODIC CARING PROJECT
2× · 2022–2023 · $40k · revenue +58%

Funded once

TJ
THE JONAH PROJECT
one grant, 2022 · $64k
SA
SPOKANE ANGEL ALLIANCE
one grant, 2022 · $21k · revenue +17%
FP
FAMILY PROMISE OF SPOKANEgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $18k · revenue +564%

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

04Your field

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.

Innovation Spokane Schools

To prepare a diverse range of students for a life of learning in post-secondary education, citizenship, and leadership.

Education

Spruce Street School

Spruce Street School is a nurturing educational community that instills in a broad range of children the social, emotional, and intellectual skills for lifelong participation in a diverse society. We offer kindergarten through fifth grade…

Education

Spokane Parks Foundation

Improve parks in the greater Spokane area through donations for activities & community projects.

—

Spokane Youth Sports Association

Promote & facilitate supervised sporting activities to youth through various programs organized by the organization.

Recreation & Sports

Skookum Kids

Skookum Kids exists to mobilize communities in support of kids and families impacted by foster care.

Human Services

Spokane International Academy

Education that focuses on high academic standards, developing strong character & global world view.

Education

Spokane Guilds' School & Neuromuscular

Provide pediatric therapy and support services, engage families, and remove financial barriers.

—

Recovery Cafe Skagit

Provide a safe, healing, and restorative community that empowers long-term transformation

Education

Spark Northwest

Spark Northwest accelerates the equitable transition to clean energy in the Pacific Northwest through on-the-ground project development and systemic advocacy to remove barriers to locally-generated clean energy.

Environment

Skagit Gleaners

Food recovery for low income families over 600 families served

—

Project Hope Spokane

Opportunities for youth, job training, and education.

Community Improvement

Cascades Academy of Central Oregon

Cascades Academy is an engaged, vibrant community that weaves challenging academics with experiential learning to inspire socially responsible individuals ready (SEE SCH O)

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Playworks Education Energized and the most unlike its peers is The Isaac Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/32

the rest of the field

11%

2,290/20,448

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.

05the grantee network

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/29

Grantees still filing

27/29

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Youth Development$4,402,661Human Services$213,930Education$101,000Other$184,953Health$52,500Environment$32,000Recreation & Sports$25,500

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.

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.

Innovia FoundationWA44.3× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Innovia Foundation · The Avista Foundation · School's Out Washington · United Way of Spokane County · Numerica Credit Union · Women Helping Women Fund · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · Multicare Health System · Seattle Foundation · Project Beauty Share · Providence Health & Services - · Credit Unions in the State of Washington

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 organisation BELIEVE IN ME 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MORNING STAR BOYS' RANCH.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue held over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 910664709 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MORNING STAR BOYS' RANCH, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 41% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Believe in Me?

Find your warmest path to Believe in Me through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BELIEVE IN ME

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Believe in Me?

More from the funding graph

BELIEVE IN ME

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Believe in Me?

More from the funding graph