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Believe in Nice 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $51k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEACE HEALTH SW MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| LIFELINE CONNECTIONS | $5,500 |
| CLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK | $5,500 |
| OREGON DOG RESCUE | $5,500 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $5,500 |
| COMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAY | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| YWCA | $5,500 |
| MY FATHER'S HOUSE | $5,500 |
| FRIENDS OF HOSPICE | $5,500 |
| COASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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 +47% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 7 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, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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
- CCCLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK3× · 2023–2025 · $17k · revenue +47%
- CHCOMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAY3× · 2023–2025 · $17k · revenue +62%
MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC2× · 2023–2025 · $11k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- CCCLARK COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE SEARCH AND RESCUEone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue 0%
- KCKIWANIS CLUB OF SANDY OREGONone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue 0%
- CCCLARK COUNTY FAMILY YMCAone grant, 2024 · $6k
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.
Our mission is to help herding dogs who are abandoned, neglected and abused or simply in the wrong home into a loving appropriate home.
Columbia Gorge Humane Society is committed to promoting healthy, safe and lifelong relationships between people and their pets through sustainable programs of education, adoption and spay/neutering. We will endeavor to fight for the abused…
Csnw's mission is to provide high quality, integrated mental health, addictions and housing services, focusing on individual strengths and recovery. our vision is a healthy community. we lead the way by assuring access to mental health,…
Rescue, rehabilitate and rehome companion animals
Clark county humane society (cchs) is dedicated to promoting a more humane world through: operating a no-kill shelter, adopting out homeless cats & dogs, low cost spay/neuter services, humane education, reducing pet overpopulation,…
Providing positive life changing solutions to people and animals in need.
Outsiders Inn (OI) provides peer-lead homeless services and operates multiple shelter programs with a recovery focused model in the Clark County, WA area.
Eliminate the suffering of animals
Animal well being and shelter operation
Decrease over population of feral cats by trapping and doing spay or neuter. Provide veterinarian care to kittens. Take owner relinquishments of pets they can no longer care for. Taking in abandoned animals and providing veterinary care.…
Brightside animal center is a high-save shelter dedicated to providing sheltering, placement, and prevention services to reduce animal homelessness and unnecessary euthanasia.
To serve individuals with developmental disabilities and their families
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clark County Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Clark County Sheriffs Office Search and Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 26 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 CLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAY ↗
- Who funds MY FATHERS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds CLARK COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE SEARCH AND RESCUE ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS CLUB OF SANDY OREGON ↗
- Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF COWLITZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds STRIVE NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds OREGON DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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: The Firstenburg Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Believe in Nice 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, a single department, or state — 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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