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Believe in Nice Foundation at a glance

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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.

$101k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
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, FY2023 to 2025.

Health$79kFood & Nutrition$35kAnimals$29kHuman Services$24kHousing & Shelter$23kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kCommunity Improvement$6kYouth Development$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $51k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEACE HEALTH SW MEDICAL FOUNDATION$50,000
OREGON DOG RESCUE$5,500
COMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAY$5,500
MY FATHER'S HOUSE$5,500
LIFELINE CONNECTIONS$5,500
CLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK$5,500
YWCA$5,500
MEALS ON WHEELS$5,500
Individual grant recipient$5,500
FRIENDS OF HOSPICE$5,500
COASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION$1,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAY: $6k → 13%COMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAY: $6k → 13%COMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAY: $6k → 13%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.

26%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$57k · 4 repeat orgs$163k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
15

Total granted

$57k
$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+3%

Still filing today

100%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterEmploymentOther
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

  • CH
    COMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $17k · revenue +62%
  • CC
    CLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK
    3× · 2023–2025 · $17k · revenue +47%
  • MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $11k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue -6%
  • KC
    KIWANIS CLUB OF SANDY OREGON
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +7%
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
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
Herding Dog Rescue of Central Oregon

Our mission is to help herding dogs who are abandoned, neglected and abused or simply in the wrong home into a loving appropriate home.

Animals
2
Columbia Gorge Humane Society

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…

Animals
3
Community Services Northwest

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,…

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4
Oregon Friends of Shelter Animals

Rescue, rehabilitate and rehome companion animals

Animals
5
Clark County Humane Society

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,…

Animals
6
Kitsap Humane Society

Providing positive life changing solutions to people and animals in need.

Animals
7
Outsiders Inn

Outsiders Inn (OI) provides peer-lead homeless services and operates multiple shelter programs with a recovery focused model in the Clark County, WA area.

Housing & Shelter
8
Humane Society of Northwest Louisiana Inc

Eliminate the suffering of animals

Animals
9
Humane Society of Jefferson County

Animal well being and shelter operation

Animals
10
Sos Lost Pet Rescue Nw Inc

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.…

Animals
11
Brightside Animal Center

Brightside animal center is a high-save shelter dedicated to providing sheltering, placement, and prevention services to reduce animal homelessness and unnecessary euthanasia.

Animals
12
Arc of Snohomish County

To serve individuals with developmental disabilities and their families

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clark County Food Bank; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 26 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
7/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PEACE HEALTH SW MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherPEACE HEALTH SW MEDICAL FOUNDATIONCLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK: $17,383 · OtherCLARK COUNTY FOOD BANKSALVATION ARMY: $6,333 · OtherCLARK COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $6,333 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS: $6,333 · OtherCOWLITZ COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $6,333 · OtherTHE ARC OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON: $5,550 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SW WASHINGTON: $5,550 · OtherMULTNOMAH COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICES: $5,550 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $5,550 · OtherYWCA: $5,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,500 · OtherCLARK COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE SEARCH AND RESCUE: $6,333 · OtherSTRIVE NORTHWEST: $5,550 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $5,000 · Other+2 more: $5,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAY: $17,383 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY H…FRIENDS OF HOSPICE: $5,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF …OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $6,333 · AnimalsOREGON DOG RESCUE: $5,500 · AnimalsMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC: $11,050 · Food & NutritionMY FATHERS HOUSE: $11,050 · Housing & ShelterLIFELINE CONNECTIONS: $5,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,333 · HealthKIWANIS CLUB OF SANDY OREGON: $6,333 · Community Improvement
Other$147,798Human Services$22,883Animals$11,833Food & Nutrition$11,050Housing & Shelter$11,050Health$8,833Community Improvement$6,333

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAY: $17,383 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK: $17,383 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC: $11,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMY FATHERS HOUSE: $11,050 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $6,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIWANIS CLUB OF SANDY OREGON: $6,333 over 1y, 12% of budgetCLARK COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE SEARCH AND RESCUE: $6,333 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetTHE ARC OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON: $5,550 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $5,550 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTRIVE NORTHWEST: $5,550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF HOSPICE: $5,500 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetLIFELINE CONNECTIONS: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON DOG RESCUE: $5,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,333 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Firstenburg Found…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Firstenburg FoundationWA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Firstenburg Foundation · 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 Believe in Nice Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Believe in Nice Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    5report 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, FY20–25
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Believe in Nice Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Believe in Nice 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 26 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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