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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.

$19k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Housing & Shelter$42kHuman Services$41kEducation$23kHealth$6kCrime & Legal$6kFood & Nutrition$5kPublic Benefit$3kEnvironment$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$459k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 10%DAKOTA WICOHAN: $750 → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $1k → 11%HORIZON HOUSE: $3k → 9%HOLDEN VILLAGE: $1k → 9%DAKOTA WICOHAN: $500 → 11%RESIDENTS COUNCIL OF HORIZON HOUSE: $2k → 9%HOLDEN VILLAGE: $1k → 9%DAKOTA WICOHAN: $500 → 11%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $700 → 17%HORIZON HOUSE: $2k → 9%HOLDEN VILLAGE: $1k → 9%RESIDENTS COUNCIL OF HORIZON HOUSE: $2k → 9%HOLDEN VILLAGE: $800 → 9%HORIZON HOUSE: $2k → 9%HOLDEN VILLAGE: $500 → 9%HORIZON HOUSE: $2k → 9%HOLDEN VILLAGE: $500 → 9%RESIDENTS COUNCIL OF HORIZON HOUSE: $2k → 9%RESIDENTS COUNCIL OF HORIZON HOUSE: $1k → 9%HORIZON HOUSE: $1k → 9%HORIZON HOUSE: $1k → 9%MIRACLE LEAGUE OF SAN DIEGO DAN ENGEL: $500 → 11%SEATTLE INDIAN CENTER: $500 → 9%ELIZABETH HOME: $1k → 9%UNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE: $1k → 9%CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $1k → 9%ELIZABETH HOME: $1k → 9%CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $1k → 9%ELIZABETH HOME: $1k → 9%CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $1k → 9%UNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE: $750 → 9%CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $1k → 9%ELIZABETH HOME: $600 → 9%CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $750 → 9%ELIZABETH HOME: $500 → 9%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $4k → 9%UNIVERSITY CHURCHES EMERGENCY FUND: $500 → 9%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $3k → 9%CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $500 → 9%ELIZABETH HOME: $500 → 9%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $3k → 9%UNIVERSITY CHURCHES EMERGENCY FUND: $500 → 9%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $3k → 9%CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $500 → 9%ELIZABETH HOME: $500 → 9%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $3k → 9%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $2k → 9%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$116k · 26 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
26

Total granted

$116k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+24%

Still filing today

96%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 ServicesCivil RightsHousing & ShelterEducationHealthEnvironmentOther

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

  • LC
    Lutheran Community Services Northwest
    6× · 2017–2022 · $19k · revenue +91%
  • CH
    COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +40%
  • HH
    HORIZON HOUSE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $10k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • FA
    FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD AFFILIATES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue ×84
  • CL
    COLECTIVA LEGAL DEL PUEBLOgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +30%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Colorado Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal
3
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

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,…

Employment
4
Northwest Consumer Law Center

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…

Crime & Legal
5
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
6
Senior Life Resources Northwest

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

Human Services
7
Fsc I&P

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.…

Philanthropy
8
Jewish Coalition for Immigrant Justice Northwest

The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.

Human Services
9
Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services

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.

Civil Rights
10
Pangea Legal Services

Pangea's mission is to provide deportation defense services, advocate for policy change, and provide education and legal empowerment for our immigrant communities.

Crime & Legal
11
Rogue Climate

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 &…

Education
12
Council for Court Excellence

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …United Way AffiliatesYouth Sports ProgramsJewish Community Organizati…Animal Rescue and ShelterImmigrant Worker SupportFood Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsSchool Parent OrganizationsSenior Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr18%39%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr15%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr18%25%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr15%43%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/56
the rest of the field
12%
4,745/38,912

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
33/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Lutheran Community Services Northwest — $18,800 · Human ServicesLutheran Community Services NorthwestHORIZON HOUSE — $10,301 · Human ServicesHORIZON HOUSECHILDREN'S ALLIANCE — $6,750 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S ALLIANCEResidents Council of Horizon House — $6,500 · Human ServicesResidents Council of Horizon HouseElizabeth Home — $5,700 · Human ServicesElizabeth HomeHolden Village — $5,050 · Human ServicesHolden Village+10 more — $8,100 · Human Services+10 moreLUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE — $6,400 · OtherLUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REF…FRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOL PTSA SEATTLE COUNCIL 6N 15 465 — $4,250 · OtherFRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOL PTSA …Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute — $2,700 · OtherChildrens Cancer Therapy D…Individual grant recipient — $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientInternational Rescue Committee INC — $1,250 · OtherST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC — $1,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF S C P A — $1,200 · Other+22 more — $14,000 · Other+22 moreFriends of Alice Birney Elementary School — $9,000 · EducationFriends of Ali…FRIENDS OF ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL — $5,500 · EducationFRIENDS OF ROO…PINE RIDGE GIRLS SCHOOL INC — $4,000 · EducationPINE RIDGE GIR…COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE — $12,750 · Housing & ShelterCOMPASS HOUSI…FOSS HOME & VILLAGE — $2,700 · Housing & ShelterFOSS HOME & V…SVDP MANAGEMENT INC — $750 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $500 · Housing & ShelterFAIRVOTE — $1,500 · Civil RightsCOMMON POWER FUTURE — $1,500 · Civil RightsCOLECTIVA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO — $1,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER — $800 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $650 · Civil RightsROCK THE VOTE — $300 · Civil RightsCOALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT — $1,500 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $1,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE — $100 · EnvironmentEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $1,750 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$61,201Other$33,300Education$18,500Housing & Shelter$16,700Civil Rights$5,750Environment$2,600Crime & Legal$1,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLutheran Community Services Northwest — $18,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE — $12,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZON HOUSE — $10,301 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Alice Birney Elementary School — $9,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S ALLIANCE — $6,750 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetResidents Council of Horizon House — $6,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE — $6,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetElizabeth Home — $5,700 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL — $5,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetHolden Village — $5,050 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPINE RIDGE GIRLS SCHOOL INC — $4,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFOSS HOME & VILLAGE — $2,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute — $2,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE — $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDAKOTA WICOHAN — $1,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRVOTE — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON POWER FUTURE — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF S C P A — $1,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY CHURCHES EMERGENCY FUND — $1,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD AFFILIATES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCOLECTIVA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA GROWING CULTURE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRECOVERY CAFE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER — $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSVDP MANAGEMENT INC — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPawsitive Teams Inc — $600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOMESTEAD COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIRACLE LEAGUE OF SAN DIEGO — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CHILDHOOD CANCER ORGANIZAT — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI Seattle — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPORTS FOR EXCEPTIONAL ATHLETES — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROCK THE VOTE — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Association of Zoo Keepers San Diego Chapter — $250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN COUNSELING SERVICE DBA SAMARITAN CENTER OF PUGET SOUND — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Seattle FoundationWA22.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 100%
  • Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge100% of income from government
  • Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute44% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Gienapp Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gienapp 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 62 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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