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Juniper 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
84
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$928kHealth$494kEnvironment$393kHousing & Shelter$264kArts & Culture$253kRecreation & Sports$123kInternational$51kAnimals$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k37 grants · $152k
  • $10k–50k42 grants · $808k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $298k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE KEY TO CHANGE$75,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$62,750
VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER$60,000
STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER$50,000
WOODLAND PARK ZOO$50,000
ST HERMAN OF ALASKA ORTHODOX CHURCH$45,000
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE$35,000
Individual grant recipient$35,000
MERCER FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$30,000
THE WORLD WAR II FOUNDATION$30,000
MOUNT DESERT LAND & GARDEN PRESERVE$25,000
DUWAMISH RIVER COMMUNITY COALITION$25,000
SEATTLE AQUARIUM$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
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, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION: $3k → 10%WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $3k → 10%STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $50k → 9%WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $2k → 10%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 9%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 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

ME
WA
NY
MA
WY
CT
RI
CA
DE
DC
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.
$4.0M · 53 repeat orgs$790k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
29

Total granted

$4.0M
$329k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
0%

Still filing today

75%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $461k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsInternationalHealthOther
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

  • LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER
    7× · 2017–2025 · $559k · revenue +90%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2025 · $488k · revenue +28%
  • TS
    THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $333k · revenue +180%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -2%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE MEN'S CREW
    one grant, 2024 · $45k
  • CR
    CRISTO REY JESUIT SEATTLE
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
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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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
2
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
3
The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust

The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust leads and inspires action to conserve and enhance the landscape of the Mountains to Sound Greenway, ensuring a long-term balance between people and nature.

Environment
4
Whatcom Land Trust

The mission of the Whatcom Land Trust is to preserve and protect wildlife habitat, scenic, agricultural and open space lands in Whatcom County for future generations by securing interests in land and promoting land stewardship.

Environment
5
Puget Sound Restoration Fund

To restore habitat, water quality and native species in the puget sound

Environment
6
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
7
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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8
Sustainable Path Foundation

Sustainable Path Foundation promotes sustainability and health in the Puget Sound region through collaborative approaches informed by scientific understanding and systems thinking.

Social Science
9
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
10
Stewardship Partners

Stewardship Partners helps private landowners restore and preserve the natural landscapes of WA State. We collaborate with diverse interest groups to build bridges and find solutions that achieve mutual goals of environmental protection,…

Environment
11
Washington Wild

Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.

Animals
12
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Maritime Center; the most unlike its peers is Path. 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

68 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. 68 of the 102 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/68
Grantees still filing
40/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Green Lake Community Boathouse: $373,598 · OtherGreen Lake Community BoathouseSEATTLE UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT: $155,207 · OtherSEATTLE UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENTIndividual grant recipient: $145,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientClassic King FM 981: $130,363 · OtherClassic King FM 981THE BLOEDEL RESERVE: $70,000 · Other+59 more: $1,043,255 · Other+59 moreUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $487,993 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON…THE SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $275,059 · EducationTHE SEATTLE ACADEMY OF A…SEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOL: $135,000 · EducationSEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOLCristo Rey Jesuit Seattle High School: $65,000 · EducationCristo Rey Jesuit Seattl…+5 more: $53,000 · EducationLITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $558,548 · Recreation & SportsLITTLE BIT THE…+4 more: $55,000 · Recreation & Sports+4 moreTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $332,925 · AnimalsTHE SEATTL…WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $100,000 · AnimalsWOODLAND P…+1 more: $11,000 · AnimalsWORLD WAR II FOUNDATION: $180,000 · Arts & CultureKEY TO CHANGE: $75,000 · Arts & CultureKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO: $30,000 · Arts & CultureCLASSICAL 981: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA: $15,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST MARITIME CENTER: $15,000 · Arts & CultureARBORETUM FOUNDATION: $59,000 · EnvironmentFORTERRA NW: $35,000 · EnvironmentFriends of Acadia: $27,000 · EnvironmentDuwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG: $25,000 · EnvironmentEvergreen Mountain Bike Alliance: $20,000 · EnvironmentCOLORADO OPEN LANDS: $15,000 · EnvironmentBAINBRIDGE ISLAND LAND TRUST: $12,500 · EnvironmentMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $12,500 · EnvironmentNATUREBRIDGE: $10,000 · EnvironmentPCC FARMLAND TRUST: $7,500 · EnvironmentMERCER FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $105,000 · HealthVIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER: $60,000 · HealthWillowind Therapeutic Riding Center Inc: $13,000 · HealthMOUNT DESERT NURSING ASSOC: $6,500 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · Health
Other$1,917,423Education$1,016,052Recreation & Sports$613,548Animals$443,925Arts & Culture$340,000Environment$223,500Health$185,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $558,548 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $487,993 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $332,925 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $275,059 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD WAR II FOUNDATION: $180,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetSEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOL: $135,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetMERCER FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $105,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKEY TO CHANGE: $75,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetTHE BLOEDEL RESERVE: $70,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCristo Rey Jesuit Seattle High School: $65,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWashington Wildlife & Recreation Coalition: $60,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetVIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARBORETUM FOUNDATION: $59,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT: $50,219 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHARVEST AGAINST HUNGER: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSEATTLE ROTARY SERVICE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetFORTERRA NW: $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPORT TOWNSEND BALLET: $30,500 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST THINGS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMalaria Partners International: $30,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetPROVIDENCE MOUNT ST VINCENT FOUNDATION: $27,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of Acadia: $27,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCLASSICAL 981: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMount Desert Land and Garden Preserve: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST HARBOR LIBRARY: $22,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WYCKOFF HOUSE & ASSOCIATION INC: $16,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetFOOD FOREST COLLECTIVE: $15,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetCASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO OPEN LANDS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST MARITIME CENTER: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWillowind Therapeutic Riding Center Inc: $13,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBAINBRIDGE ISLAND LAND TRUST: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPilgrim Africa: $12,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of the Pacific: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUST: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATUREBRIDGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Fire Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Seattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Moccasin Lake Foundat…Raven Trust FundGates FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…Puget Sound Energy Fo…M J Murdock Charitabl…Tew FoundationThe Hugh and Jane Fer…Bainbridge Community …The Satterberg Founda…
Seattle FoundationWA35.9× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Raven Trust Fund · Gates Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Tew Foundation · The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation · Bainbridge Community Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Juniper Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Juniper 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 102 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home