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Gienapp 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE | $2,000 |
| LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE SERVICE | $1,500 |
| RESIDENTS COUNCIL OF HORIZON HOUSE | $1,500 |
| FRIENDS OF S C P A | $1,200 |
| FOOD LIFELINE | $1,000 |
| CHILDRENS ALLIANCE | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| HOLDEN VILLAGE | $1,000 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO | $1,000 |
| RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| CHILDRENS CANCER THERAPY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE | $800 |
| NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER | $800 |
| LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION | $750 |
| ELIZABETH HOME | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
26 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 8 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- LCLutheran Community Services Northwest6× · 2017–2022 · $19k · revenue +91%
- CHCOMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE8× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +40%
- HHHORIZON HOUSE6× · 2019–2024 · $10k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- FAFLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD AFFILIATES INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue ×84
- CLCOLECTIVA LEGAL DEL PUEBLOgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +30%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
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.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
The northwest consumer law center zealously advocates, litigates, and promotes access to justice for low and moderate income clients, and through its education programs, empowers consumers with the knowledge and resources to protect their…
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
To preserve and enhance the quality of life at home, with dignity and care.
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.
To deliver legal and social services to people and families who want to put down roots in the u.s. and cultivate welcoming communities that uphold our collective freedoms.
Pangea's mission is to provide deportation defense services, advocate for policy change, and provide education and legal empowerment for our immigrant communities.
Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Immigrant Rights Project and the most unlike its peers is Seattle Indian Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
55 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. 55 of the 62 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 Lutheran Community Services Northwest ↗
- Who funds COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HORIZON HOUSE ↗
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- Who funds CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Residents Council of Horizon House ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE ↗
- Who funds Elizabeth Home ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Holden Village ↗
- Who funds PINE RIDGE GIRLS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FOSS HOME & VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds DAKOTA WICOHAN ↗
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- Who funds FRIENDS OF S C P A ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CHURCHES EMERGENCY FUND ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD AFFILIATES INC ↗
- Who funds COLECTIVA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds A GROWING CULTURE ↗
- Who funds FOOD LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY CAFE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds SVDP MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT 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: Seattle Foundation · United Way of King County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Food Lifeline · Lucky Seven Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Medina Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Northwest Harvest Emm
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 Gienapp Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge — 100% of income from government
- Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute — 44% of income from government
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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