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Biella Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
164
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$408k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$4.8MHuman Services$4.1MEducation$3.3MInternational$1.7MReligion$1.5MHealth$926kCrime & Legal$598kFood & Nutrition$596kOther$0
02FY2024 · 164 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k76 grants · $311k
  • $10k–50k58 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k29 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+1 grant · $408k
$10,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$59M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTH SEATTLE COLLEGE FOUNDATION$408,000
RECOVERY CAFE$60,000
YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE$60,000
ACRES OF DIAMONDS$60,000
SOLID GROUND$60,000
WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES$60,000
FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC$60,000
SOUND GENERATIONS$60,000
MARY'S PLACE$60,000
COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE$60,000
YWCA SEATTLE-KING-SNOHOMISH$60,000
HOPELINK$60,000
THE RESCUE MISSION$60,000
BRIDGE DISABILITIES MINISTRIES$60,000
THE SOPHIA WAY$60,000
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 (FY20–24, $4.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOMAGE SENIOR SERVICES: $60k → 9%HOMAGE SENIOR SERVICES: $60k → 9%SENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $50k → 9%HOMAGE SENIOR SERVICES: $30k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $30k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $30k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $100k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $60k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $60k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $60k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $30k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $30k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $30k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $30k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $30k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $30k → 9%HOPELINK: $60k → 9%HOPELINK: $60k → 9%HOPELINK: $30k → 9%HOPELINK: $30k → 9%HOPELINK: $30k → 9%HOPELINK: $30k → 9%HOPELINK: $30k → 9%HOPELINK: $30k → 9%NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $60k → 9%NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $60k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $60k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $60k → 9%NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $40k → 9%NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $30k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $30k → 9%NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $30k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $30k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $30k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $30k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $30k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $30k → 9%NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $30k → 9%NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $30k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $60k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $60k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $60k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $35k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $60k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $60k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $60k → 9%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $60k → 9%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $60k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
OR
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18M · 90 repeat orgs$384k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

90 repeat relationships: 72 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

90
17

Total granted

$18M
$216k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+5%

Still filing today

77%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterInternationalReligionOther
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

  • SS
    SOUTH SEATTLE COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +63% · 43% of their budget
  • VM
    VINE MAPLE PLACE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $526k · revenue +75%
  • TY
    THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871)
    5× · 2020–2024 · $490k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • IH
    IMAGINE HOUSINGgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +96%
  • PR
    PORTLAND RESCUE MISSION
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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
Lutheran Community Services Northwest

LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.

Human Services
2
Network Services

Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…

Human Services
3
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
4
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
5
Horizon House

Purposeful living in a diverse community. using the power of resident driven community to enhance wellbeing.

Human Services
6
Senior Life Resources Northwest

To preserve and enhance the quality of life at home, with dignity and care.

Human Services
7
Disability Rights Washington

Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.

Human Services
8
Cares of Washington

Support people with disabilities and low incomes to realize their purpose, potential and strength.

Employment
9
Catholic Charities of Spokane

Catholic charities affirms the dignity of every person, partnering with parishes and the greater community to serve and advocate for those who are vulnerable, bringing stability and hope to people throughout eastern washington.

Human Services
10
Western Healthconnect

Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.

Health
11
Housing Connector

Housing connector partners with property owners and managers to lower barriers to housing and increase our region's affordable housing capacity.

Housing & Shelter
12
Skagit Gleaners

Food recovery for low income families over 600 families served

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Womens Christian Association of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County; the most unlike its peers is Love in the Name of Christ of Mason County. 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

98 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. 98 of the 125 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
95/98
Grantees still filing
63/98
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VINE MAPLE PLACE: $525,500 · Human ServicesVINE MAPLE PLACETHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871): $490,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN A…VISION HOUSE: $438,000 · Human ServicesVISION HOUSENEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $425,500 · Human ServicesNEW HORIZONS MINISTRIESTHE SOPHIA WAY: $383,500 · Human ServicesTHE SOPHIA WAYSOUND GENERATIONS: $381,900 · Human ServicesSOUND GENERATIONSOPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC: $366,500 · Human ServicesOPERATION NIGHTWATCH INCHOPELINK: $359,000 · Human ServicesHOPELINKWELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $350,500 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICESSENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $242,000 · Human Services+12 more: $637,500 · Human Services+12 moreSALVATION ARMY: $738,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYKINDERING CENTER: $450,500 · OtherKINDERING CENTERSEATTLES UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $393,000 · OtherSEATTLES UNION GOSPEL MISSIONBRIDGE DISABILITIES MINISTRIES: $358,000 · OtherBRIDGE DISABILITIES MINISTRIESMaris Place: $393,000 · OtherMaris PlaceTREEHOUSE: $388,000 · OtherTREEHOUSEPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES: $372,000 · OtherPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIESTEAM RUBICON INC: $300,000 · Other+55 more: $2,992,950 · Other+55 moreSOUTH SEATTLE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,040,000 · EducationSOUTH SEATTLE COL…FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI: $215,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR WE…Eastern Washington University Foundation: $210,000 · EducationEastern Washingto…UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $151,000 · EducationWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $126,000 · EducationYEAR UP INC: $120,000 · Education+3 more: $58,000 · EducationPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES: $444,000 · Housing & ShelterPLYMOUTH H…THE RESCUE MISSION: $355,500 · Housing & ShelterTHE RESCUE…Solid Ground Washington: $346,500 · Housing & ShelterSolid Grou…COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE: $326,500 · Housing & ShelterCOMPASS HO…ANACORTES FAMILY CENTER: $202,000 · Housing & ShelterANACORTES …+2 more: $12,512 · Housing & ShelterFOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $388,000 · InternationalCONVOY OF HOPE: $285,000 · InternationalTHINKSMALL: $136,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $120,000 · InternationalHope in Haiti: $111,500 · International+3 more: $30,000 · InternationalAcres of Diamonds: $433,000 · HealthRECOVERY CAFE: $355,500 · HealthBUILDING CHANGES: $115,000 · Health+8 more: $117,500 · HealthSAT-7 NORTH AMERICA: $300,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $287,000 · ReligionCRISTA Ministries: $279,000 · ReligionLove in the Name of Christ of Mason County: $54,000 · ReligionOpen Doors With Brother Andrew Inc: $45,000 · Religion
Human Services$4,599,900Other$6,385,450Education$2,920,000Housing & Shelter$1,687,012International$1,070,500Health$1,021,000Religion$965,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTH SEATTLE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,040,000 over 5y, 43% of budgetVINE MAPLE PLACE: $525,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871): $490,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKINDERING CENTER: $450,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES: $444,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetVISION HOUSE: $438,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetAcres of Diamonds: $433,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetNEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $425,500 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetMaris Place: $393,000 over 5y, 60% of budgetFOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $388,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTREEHOUSE: $388,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SOPHIA WAY: $383,500 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetSOUND GENERATIONS: $381,900 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES: $372,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC: $366,500 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetHOPELINK: $359,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRECOVERY CAFE: $355,500 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION: $355,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetWELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $350,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSolid Ground Washington: $346,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE: $326,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $300,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSAT-7 NORTH AMERICA: $300,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $287,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE: $285,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCRISTA Ministries: $279,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $242,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI: $215,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetEastern Washington University Foundation: $210,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetANACORTES FAMILY CENTER: $202,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetHEARTBEAT SERVING WOUNDED WARRIORS: $161,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $152,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $151,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $150,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetREAL ESCAPE FROM THE SEX TRADE: $138,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHINKSMALL: $136,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetST FRANCIS HOUSE: $133,000 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $126,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $126,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $120,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $120,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $120,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING CHANGES: $115,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHope in Haiti: $111,500 over 5y, 40% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLifeWire: $87,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLiberty Road Foundation: $82,500 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetNext Step Pregnancy Services: $79,500 over 5y, 4.4% 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.

  • Who funds SOUTH SEATTLE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VINE MAPLE PLACE ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) ↗
  • Who funds KINDERING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
  • Who funds VISION HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Acres of Diamonds ↗
  • Who funds NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds Maris Place ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC ↗
  • Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds THE SOPHIA WAY ↗
  • Who funds SOUND GENERATIONS ↗
  • Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPELINK ↗
  • Who funds RECOVERY CAFE ↗
  • Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Solid Ground Washington ↗
  • Who funds COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
  • Who funds SAT-7 NORTH AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds CRISTA Ministries ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI ↗
  • Who funds Eastern Washington University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ANACORTES FAMILY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HEARTBEAT SERVING WOUNDED WARRIORS ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE-KING COUNTY-SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds REAL ESCAPE FROM THE SEX TRADE ↗

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.

Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE65.1× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · United Way of King County · Medina Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Fales Foundation Trust · Windermere Foundation · Washington Federal 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 Biella Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Biella Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Medical Teams International: 14% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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

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How do I get to Biella Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Biella 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 125 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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