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Ignatius Ohno 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $390k
- $250k+1 grant · $499k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jesuits Northwest Province | $499,000 |
| Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest | $45,000 |
| Spiritual Exercises in Everyday Lif | $25,000 |
| Intercommunity Peace Justice Center | $20,000 |
| Maryknoll Fathers Brothers | $20,000 |
| Matthew 25 Ministries | $20,000 |
| Cristo Rey Jesuit Seattle | $20,000 |
| Mary's Place Seattle | $20,000 |
| World Central Kitchen | $20,000 |
| Maryknoll Sisters | $20,000 |
| Maryknoll Missionaries | $20,000 |
| Massachusetts Eye Ear Curing Kids F | $20,000 |
| Orion - Youthcare | $20,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders | $20,000 |
| Operation Nightwatch | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $217k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 21% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 82% of Ignatius Ohno Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 56% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 6% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
45 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k 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
- JVJESUIT VOLUNTEER CORPS NORTHWEST8× · 2017–2024 · $99k · revenue +5%
- IPINTERCOMMUNITY PEACE AND JUSTICE CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $89k · revenue +64%
- PJPHILIPPINE JESUIT FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- JUJesuits USA UCA Nicaragua Emergencyone grant, 2023 · $10k
- SUSEATTLE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +49%
MAUI FOOD BANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +138%
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.
The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Compelled by a deep passion for justice and mercy, World Renew joins communities around the world to renew hope, reconcile lives, and restore creation with programs focused on disaster response, community health, economic opportunity, food…
Church world service, inc. is a private, voluntary faith-based organization with 37 member communions that transformscommunities around the globe through just and sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement and disaster.
To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.
To raise donations to (i) provide a daily meal in a place of education for children in the world's poorest communities; (ii) occasionally provide relief for those suffering, in any part of the world, as a result of humanitarian crises…
Partnering with Indigenous Leaders to Spread the Gospel, Serve Others, and Build Community
International needs has the vision to transform lives and change communities by helping christian nationals serve both god and neighbor within their own countries.
Zoe Empowers is a global network of local organizations throughout Africa and India providing a replicable and scalable framework whereby youth led or resourced families are provided the training, resources, and community support to become…
Living Water International ("Living Water") exists to demonstrate the love of God by helping communities in 17 developing countries acquire desperately needed clean water and to experience "living water" - the gospel of Jesus Christ.
From the amazon jungle to eastern europe, our work is locally implemented through our indigenous staff on the ground. in moldova, we prioritize caring for vulnerable children and teens who are at risk of human trafficking. in the amazon,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc and the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 59 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 OPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC ↗
- Who funds JESUIT VOLUNTEER CORPS NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds INTERCOMMUNITY PEACE AND JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PHILIPPINE JESUIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOME OF HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds JUST PROJECTS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MARY'S PLACE SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB ↗
- Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MARKET PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds International Christian Mission Services ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES OF ROOTED BRILLIANCE ↗
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: M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Seattle Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Ignatius Ohno 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.
- Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest — 38% 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.