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Garneau Nicon 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.

$462k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.2MHuman Services$814kArts & Culture$596kHealth$514kHousing & Shelter$487kYouth Development$340kRecreation & Sports$204kFood & Nutrition$169kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $432k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RECLAIM$30,000
THE MORE WE LOVE$30,000
SOUTH KITSAP HELPLINE$25,000
BRIDGE RECEIVING CENTER$25,000
SUMNER COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$25,000
SNOQUALMIE FOOD BANK$24,000
ENCOMPASS$23,145
MT SI SENIOR CENTER$20,000
COMMUNITY ROOTS HOUSING FDN$15,000
STREET YOUTH MINISTRIES$15,000
PUYALLUP VALLET ST FRANCIS HOUSE$15,000
ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME$15,000
ELDERWISE$15,000
COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE$15,000
SPIN CAFE$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $474k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SOUTH KITSAP HELPLINE: $25k → 10%SIBLING STRONG: $10k → 10%PUYALLUP VALLET ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $15k → 9%BEYOND SURVIVAL: $5k → 18%STEPS: $10k → 7%PUYALLUP VALLEY ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $10k → 9%BAINBRIDGE YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 10%BAINBRIDGE ISLAND SENIOR COMMUNITY: $5k → 10%MONROE GOSPEL WOMENS MISSION: $15k → 9%STANWOOD COMMUNITY & SENIOR CENTER: $5k → 9%STEP BY STEP: $8k → 9%Puyallup Valley St Francis House: $10k → 9%Byrd Barr Place: $10k → 9%WESTSIDE BABY: $10k → 9%BYRD BARR PLACE: $5k → 9%Safe Crossings Foundation: $10k → 9%NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $10k → 9%SOUTHWEST YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 9%BIRTHDAY DREAMS: $5k → 9%SOUTHWEST YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES (SWYFS): $5k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $5k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $15k → 9%BIRTHDAY DREAMS: $3k → 9%The Sophia Way: $10k → 9%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 9%EASTSIDE FRIENDS OF SENIORS: $10k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $20k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $15k → 9%SAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%GREATER MAPLE VALLEY COMMUNITY: $10k → 9%CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $20k → 9%Greater Maple Valley Community Ctr: $10k → 9%REFUGEE WOMENS ALLIANCE: $20k → 9%THE MORE WE LOVE: $30k → 9%BRIDGE RECEIVING CENTER: $25k → 9%FILIPINO COMMUNITY OF SEATTLE: $15k → 9%EASTSIDE BABY CORNER: $25k → 9%ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME: $15k → 9%ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME: $3k → 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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 59 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

59 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
211

Total granted

$2.0M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+17%

Still filing today

80%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $319k 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 ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
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

  • EN
    ENCOMPASS NORTHWEST
    6× · 2018–2025 · $97k · revenue +47%
  • EY
    Empower Youth Network
    3× · 2018–2024 · $81k · revenue +214%
  • SV
    SNOQUALMIE VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES
    2× · 2017–2020 · $69k · revenue +667%

Funded once

  • VM
    VASHON MAURY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • GE
    GREENLAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -30%
  • TT
    The Trail Youthgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $45k · revenue +304% · 28% of their budget
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
Bike Works Seattle

Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.

Recreation & Sports
2
Artist Trust

Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.

Arts & Culture
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
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
5
Seattle Architectural Foundation

The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…

Arts & Culture
6
Washington Bikes

Washington Bikes works to ensure that all who ride a bicycle in Washington have safe comfortable and convenient places to ride. Organization advocates for bicyclists rights and shapes policies.

Recreation & Sports
7
Northwest Film Forum

Northwest Film Forum incites public dialogue and creative action through collective cinematic experiences. A nonprofit film and arts center located in Seattle, Northwest Film Forum presents hundreds of films, festivals, community events,…

Arts & Culture
8
Re Sources

RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.

Environment
9
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center

KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…

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10
Puget Sound Community School

Founded in 1994, PSCS is a small, independent middle and high school located in the Chinatown/International District of downtown Seattle. PSCS is committed to co-creating a brave space for community-centered education, critical curriculum,…

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11
Futurewise

Futurewise works throughout Washington state to encourage healthy, equitable and opportunity-rich communities, and to protect our most valuable farmlands, forests and water resources through wise land use policies and practices.

Environment
12
Friends of the Seattle Public Library

The Friends of the Seattle Public Library's mission is to elevate the Library and inspire the love of reading in our communities.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childrens Home Society of Washington; the most unlike its peers is Raven Rock Ranch. 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

182 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. 182 of the 295 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
52
Early backer (in before they grew)
178/182
Grantees still filing
120/182
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ENCOMPASS NORTHWEST: $96,610 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $95,000 · Other+118 more: $2,599,250 · Other+118 morePuyallup Valley St Francis House: $35,000 · Human ServicesPuyallup Val…VINE MAPLE PLACE: $35,000 · Human ServicesVINE MAPLE P…OPERATION SACK LUNCH: $30,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION SA…The More We Love: $30,000 · Human ServicesThe More We …KIDVANTAGE: $25,000 · Human ServicesSAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE SOPHIA WAY: $25,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH KITSAP HELPLINE: $25,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGE RECEIVING CENTER: $25,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $20,000 · Human ServicesRefugee Womens Alliance: $20,000 · Human ServicesSouthwest Youth And Family Services: $20,000 · Human ServicesGREATER MAPLE VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $20,000 · Human ServicesMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE: $20,000 · Human ServicesElizabeth Home: $18,000 · Human Services+12 more: $152,000 · Human Services+12 moreEmpower Youth Network: $81,000 · HealthEmpower Yo…CRISIS CONNECTIONS: $45,000 · HealthCRISIS CON…DIABETES ASSOC OF PIERCE COUNTY: $44,000 · HealthDIABETES A…EVERGREEN TREATMENT SERVICES: $40,000 · HealthEVERGREEN …OLIVE CREST: $40,000 · HealthOLIVE CRES…Downtown Emergency Service Center: $40,000 · HealthDowntown E…TACOMA PIERCE COUNTY BLOOD BANK INC: $25,000 · HealthTACOMA PIE…WA THERAPY FUND FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES: $15,000 · HealthHIGHLINE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthLAHAI HEALTH: $15,000 · Health+3 more: $32,500 · Health+3 moreRECLAIM: $50,000 · EducationRECLAIMSEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOL: $45,000 · EducationSEATTLE N…NORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS: $40,000 · EducationNORTHWEST…Northwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children: $40,000 · EducationNorthwest…ONE WORLD NOW: $40,000 · EducationONE WORLD…KIMSEATTLE: $32,000 · EducationKIMSEATTL…EDMONDS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationEDMONDS C…ARLINGTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationEXPLORER WEST AN INDEPENDENT MIDDLE SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationKing County Library System Foundation: $15,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationSEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationListen and Talk: $15,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationSeattle JazzED: $35,000 · Arts & CultureTEENTIX: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSTUDIO EAST TRAINING FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $20,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE THEATRE GROUP: $20,000 · Arts & CultureA CONTEMPORARY THEATRE INC: $15,000 · Arts & CulturePATH WITH ART: $15,000 · Arts & CultureFOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT: $15,000 · Arts & CultureIMAGINE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $12,000 · Arts & CultureAUBURN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC WORKS NORTHWEST: $10,000 · Arts & CultureVASHON ALLIED ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNorthwest Girl Choir: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSeattle Police Foundation: $69,000 · Crime & LegalAtlantic Street Center: $42,000 · Crime & LegalSAFE STREETS CAMPAIGN: $25,000 · Crime & LegalREAL ESCAPE FROM THE SEX TRADE: $15,000 · Crime & LegalSTREET YOUTH MINITRIES: $15,000 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN AND YOUTH JUSTICE CENTER: $10,000 · Crime & LegalThe Trail Youth: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentKIDS IN CONCERT INC: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentWONDERLAND CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentMaris Place: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP KOREY: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,790,860Human Services$525,000Health$412,500Education$372,000Arts & Culture$227,000Crime & Legal$176,000Youth Development$135,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetENCOMPASS NORTHWEST: $96,610 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetEmpower Youth Network: $81,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetSNOQUALMIE VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $69,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetSeattle Police Foundation: $69,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetBridge Ministries Bridge Disability Ministries: $57,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetVASHON MAURY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGREENLAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetRECLAIM: $50,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetThe Trail Youth: $45,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetCRISIS CONNECTIONS: $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOL: $45,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetDIABETES ASSOC OF PIERCE COUNTY: $44,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetAtlantic Street Center: $42,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEVERGREEN TREATMENT SERVICES: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS: $40,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetOLIVE CREST: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children: $40,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetONE WORLD NOW: $40,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER: $40,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetDowntown Emergency Service Center: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPUGET SOUNDKEEPER ALLIANCE: $40,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetKINDERING CENTER: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPuyallup Valley St Francis House: $35,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBACKPACK BRIGADE: $35,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetVINE MAPLE PLACE: $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMt Si Senior Center: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSeattle JazzED: $35,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetKIMSEATTLE: $32,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetTEENTIX: $30,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetKIDS IN CONCERT INC: $30,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetDiscover Your Northwest: $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOPERATION SACK LUNCH: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOINT DEFIANCE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSTILLY-SNOHOMISH FISHERIES ENHANCEMENT TASK FORCE DBA SOUND SALMON SOLUTIONS: $27,700 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetEDMONDS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetKIDVANTAGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCHONG WA EDUCATION SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE SOPHIA WAY: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSNOQUALMIE VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetSAFE STREETS CAMPAIGN: $25,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTACOMA PIERCE COUNTY BLOOD BANK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWONDERLAND CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTH KITSAP HELPLINE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSumner Community Food Bank: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWALLINGFORD COMMUNITY SENIOR CENTER: $25,000 over 3y, 1.0% 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 Norcliffe Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Moccasin Lake Foundat…Seattle FoundationLucky Seven FoundationUnited Way of King Co…Liberty Mutual Founda…Medina FoundationCharis FundDv & Ida McEachern Ch…Fales Foundation TrustArtsfund
The Norcliffe FoundationWA172.6× affinity107 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · United Way of King County · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Medina Foundation · Charis Fund · Dv & Ida McEachern Charitable Tr · Fales Foundation Trust · Artsfund

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 Garneau Nicon Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Garneau Nicon Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    92report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
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    How do I get to Garneau Nicon Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Garneau Nicon 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 295 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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