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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$459k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
RESIDENTS COUNCIL OF HORIZON HOUSE$1,500
LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE SERVICE$1,500
FRIENDS OF S C P A$1,200
FRIENDS OF ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL$1,000
FOOD LIFELINE$1,000
HOLDEN VILLAGE$1,000
CHILDRENS ALLIANCE$1,000
LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO$1,000
RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK$1,000
NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER$800
CHILDRENS CANCER THERAPY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE$800
LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION$750
ELIZABETH HOME$500
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, $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. Its 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%RESIDENTS COUNCIL OF HORIZON HOUSE: $2k → 9%HOLDEN VILLAGE: $1k → 9%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%HORIZON HOUSE: $1k → 9%HORIZON HOUSE: $1k → 9%RESIDENTS COUNCIL OF HORIZON HOUSE: $1k → 9%MIRACLE LEAGUE OF SAN DIEGO DAN ENGEL: $500 → 11%SEATTLE INDIAN CENTER: $500 → 9%ELIZABETH HOME: $1k → 9%ELIZABETH HOME: $1k → 9%CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $1k → 9%ELIZABETH HOME: $1k → 9%CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $1k → 9%UNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE: $1k → 9%CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $1k → 9%UNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE: $750 → 9%CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $1k → 9%ELIZABETH HOME: $600 → 9%CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $750 → 9%UNIVERSITY CHURCHES EMERGENCY FUND: $500 → 9%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $4k → 9%CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $500 → 9%ELIZABETH HOME: $500 → 9%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $3k → 9%CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $500 → 9%ELIZABETH HOME: $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: $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
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
MN
NY
OR
SD
CA
CO
MD
NC
DC
AL
TX
FL
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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
  • AG
    A GROWING CULTURE
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
  • CL
    COLECTIVA LEGAL DEL PUEBLOgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +30%
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.

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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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Immigrant Rights Project; 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.
04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 62 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
33/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetUNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDAKOTA WICOHAN: $1,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRVOTE: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON POWER FUTURE: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT: $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 budgetFLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD AFFILIATES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetA GROWING CULTURE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLECTIVA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRECOVERY CAFE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSVDP MANAGEMENT INC: $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 budgetMIRACLE LEAGUE OF SAN DIEGO: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CHILDHOOD CANCER ORGANIZAT: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPORTS FOR EXCEPTIONAL ATHLETES: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMESTEAD COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI Seattle: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCK THE VOTE: $300 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetAmerican Association of Zoo Keepers San Diego Chapter: $250 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Seattle FoundationUnited Way of King Co…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Sempra FoundationThe San Diego Foundat…Food LifelineLucky Seven FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Moccasin Lake Foundat…Medina FoundationThe Satterberg Founda…Northwest Harvest Emm
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge: 100% of income from government
  • Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute: 44% 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, 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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 62 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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