Does Ken Birdwell Foundation (Dba Magic Cabinet) C/O Clark Nuber Ps accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Ken Birdwell Foundation (Dba Magic Cabinet) C/O Clark Nuber Ps?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Norcliffe Foundation, Seattle Foundation, United Way of King County.

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Washington · Private foundation

Ken Birdwell Foundation (Dba Magic Cabinet) C/O Clark Nuber Ps

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.

$14M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 280
Grants FY2024: 76
Organizations funded FY2023: 22%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $19,808
Largest grant, FY2024: $1,500,000
Organizations funded a year: 36 to 91; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 4
Total assets, FY2024: $147M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations Ken Birdwell Foundation (Dba Magic Cabinet) C/O Clark Nuber Ps funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	78	$14M	18%
FY2023	76	$12M	22%
FY2022	91	$8.4M	44%
FY2021	72	$5.7M	68%
FY2020	36	$3.2M	58%
FY2019	37	$1.2M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$7.4MYouth Development$7.3MPhilanthropy$3.8MCommunity Improvement$3.6MArts & Culture$3.4MFood & Nutrition$2.7MEducation$2.4MHealth$2.3MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Native Americans in Philanthropy	$1,500,000	1	11%
First Graduate	$1,209,304	6	22%
Rvc Seattle	$892,059	1	8%
Northwest African American Museum	$875,185	5	17%
The Latina Center	$870,334	5	20%
Southeast Seattle Education Coalition	$870,333	5	29%
Homeless Childrens Network	$869,368	6	4%
East Oakland Boxing Association	$866,384	6	37%
Planting Justice	$864,934	6	6%
Coalition On Homelessness	$863,335	5	36%

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All grantees of Ken Birdwell Foundation (Dba Magic Cabinet) C/O Clark Nuber Ps by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Native Americans in Philanthropy	$1,500,000	1	11%
First Graduate	$1,209,304	6	22%
Rvc Seattle	$892,059	1	8%
Northwest African American Museum	$875,185	5	17%
The Latina Center	$870,334	5	20%
Southeast Seattle Education Coalition	$870,333	5	29%
Homeless Childrens Network	$869,368	6	4%
East Oakland Boxing Association	$866,384	6	37%
Planting Justice	$864,934	6	6%
Coalition On Homelessness	$863,335	5	36%
Open Door Legal	$862,883	6	5%
East African Community Services	$860,833	5	6%
Community Passageways	$860,832	5	3%
Old Skool Cafe	$860,349	6	9%
Food Runners	$860,333	6	18%
Pogo Park	$860,333	5	10%
Zeno	$839,152	6	18%
Casa Latina	$816,685	6	8%
La Cocina	$776,041	6	3%
Motivating Inspiring Supporting and Serving Sexually Exploited Youth	$684,190	6	11%
Ventures	$669,680	5	6%
Congolese Integration Network	$669,195	4	11%
Intercultural Children and Family Services	$669,167	4	22%
Street Level Health Project	$668,652	4	13%
Got Green	$668,492	5	47%
EastSide Arts Alliance	$667,763	4	17%
Para Los Ninos de Highline	$660,886	4	17%
Arts Corps	$649,280	4	15%
Village Community Resource Center	$634,067	4	46%
Somali Health Board	$631,833	4	11%
Mindful Life Project	$617,202	4	7%
Eden Youth & Family Center	$607,856	4	10%
Mei Fong and Associates Aws	$604,187	6	6%
Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation	$600,000	5	1%
Opportunity Junction Inc	$598,310	4	10%
Family Resource Navigators	$592,285	4	20%
Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants	$545,852	3	7%
United Territories of Pacific Islanders Washington-Utopia Wa	$513,015	4	7%
Safefutures Youth Center	$502,524	4	24%
Urban Tilth	$502,255	4	2%
Partner in Employment	$502,063	4	8%
White Center Community Development Association	$501,501	4	9%
Food Empowerment Education Sustainability Team	$495,621	4	19%
Afghan Health Initiative	$475,650	4	11%
North Bay Housing Coalition	$470,207	3	19%
Sembrando Sentido Inc	$448,333	1	82%
YES Nature to Neighborhoods	$435,393	4	4%
Uptown Tenderloin Inc	$393,258	4	42%
South Sound Outreach Services	$390,564	3	14%
Choose 180	$374,082	4	4%
Center for Human Development	$340,587	4	5%
Rainbow Center	$335,367	3	33%
Sustainable Solano Inc	$332,006	3	15%
A Place-2-Live Inc	$324,394	3	46%
Tacid	$316,724	3	21%
Neighborhood Clinic	$266,746	3	23%
Korean Community Center of the East Bay	$246,360	3	9%
Ukrainian Community Center of Washington	$236,660	1	11%
Solano Advocates for Victims of Violence	$214,934	2	18%
Friends of the Children Tacoma	$141,848	2	14%
Pave	$136,000	3	4%
Rio Vista Care Inc	$133,642	3	14%
Msk Solutions	$101,000	2	4%
Solidaire Network Inc	$75,000	1	1%
Center for Excellence in Nonprofits	$72,960	1	4%
Allied Media Projects Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Korean Community Center	$30,390	1	11%
350 Seattle	$25,000	1	1%
Coyote Central	$1,300	2	0%
Neighborhood Funders Group	$1,286	1	0%
Southeast Youth & Family Services	$1,000	1	0%
Fresh Approach	$1,000	1	0%
Echo Inc	$1,000	1	3%
Homestead Community Land Trust	$1,000	1	0%
Mother Africa	$1,000	1	0%
Hilltop Artists in Residence	$1,000	1	0%
Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Native American Health Center Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Hack the Hood Inc	$1,000	1	n/a
Magnolia Womens Recovery Programs Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Peace Community Center	$1,000	1	0%
Destiny Arts Center	$1,000	1	0%
Leap Arts in Education Fka Leap Imagination in Learning	$1,000	1	0%
18 Reasons	$1,000	1	0%
Literacy for Environmental Justice	$1,000	1	0%
Real Options for City Kids	$1,000	1	0%
Connections for Life	$1,000	1	0%
Bayview Opera House	$1,000	1	0%
Cross Cultural Health Care Program	$1,000	1	0%
East Bay Family Defenders	$1,000	1	0%
Cycles of Change	$1,000	1	0%
Friends of SCRAP Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Asia Pacific Cultural Center	$1,000	1	0%
A Safe Place	$1,000	1	0%
Fusion-Friends United to Shelter	$1,000	1	0%
New Conservatory Theatre Center	$1,000	1	n/a
Operation Nightwatch Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Bayview-Hunters Point Center for Arts and Technology DBA BAYCAT	$1,000	1	0%
Food is Free Solano	$1,000	1	n/a
Parent Trust for Washington Children	$1,000	1	0%
AIDS Legal Referral Panel of the San Francisco Bay Area	$1,000	1	0%
Tacoma Urban League	$1,000	1	0%
4th Second	$1,000	1	0%
The Black Organizing Project Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Seattle JazzED	$1,000	1	0%
Young Women Empowered	$1,000	1	0%
Powerful Voices	$1,000	1	0%
American Indian Child Resource Center	$1,000	1	0%
Global to Local Health Initiative	$1,000	1	0%
Organization for Prostitution Survivors	$1,000	1	0%
Performing Arts Workshop Inc	$1,000	1	n/a
Community Network Council	$1,000	1	0%
Green Plate Special	$1,000	1	0%
Adaptive Learning Center	$1,000	1	0%
Living Well Kent Collaborative	$1,000	1	0%
The Vacaville Storehouse	$1,000	1	0%
R Merle Palmer Minority Scholarship	$1,000	1	0%
Kandelia	$1,000	1	0%
Reach Ministries	$1,000	1	0%
Richmond Art Center	$1,000	1	0%
One World Now	$1,000	1	0%
Monument Impact	$1,000	1	0%
Lavender Rights Project	$1,000	1	0%
Refugee & Immigrant Transitions	$1,000	1	n/a
Schools Mentoring and Resources Team Inc (Smart)	$1,000	1	0%
Technology Access Foundation	$909	1	0%
Brainup Inc	$850	1	0%
California Youth Connection	$550	1	0%
Seeds	$500	1	0%
African Queens	$500	1	n/a
U4i	$500	1	0%
Sead Project	$460	1	0%
Saint Frances Cabrini Charitable Services	$200	1	0%
Association of Black Foundation Executives Inc	$200	1	0%
Gay City Health Project	$155	1	0%
Chicana Foundation of Northern Ca Dba Chicana Latina Foundation	$103	1	0%
Na'ah Illahee Fund	$100	1	0%
Mission Africa	$100	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.5M), not named here.

Ken Birdwell Foundation (Dba Magic Cabinet) C/O Clark Nuber Ps supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 132 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 132.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

The Norcliffe FoundationWA65.6× affinity36 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · United Way of King County · Medina Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · School's Out Washington · East Bay Community Foundation · Inatai Foundation · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Credit Unions in the State of Washington

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.

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About Ken Birdwell Foundation (Dba Magic Cabinet) C/O Clark Nuber Ps

How much does Ken Birdwell Foundation (Dba Magic Cabinet) C/O Clark Nuber Ps give?: Ken Birdwell Foundation (Dba Magic Cabinet) C/O Clark Nuber Ps reported 280 grants totaling $13,925,488 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 91 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Ken Birdwell Foundation (Dba Magic Cabinet) C/O Clark Nuber Ps fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (17%), Youth Development (16%), Philanthropy (9%).
Who are Ken Birdwell Foundation (Dba Magic Cabinet) C/O Clark Nuber Ps's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Native Americans in Philanthropy ($1.5M), First Graduate ($1.2M), Rvc Seattle ($892k).
Does Ken Birdwell Foundation (Dba Magic Cabinet) C/O Clark Nuber Ps fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ken Birdwell Foundation (Dba Magic Cabinet) C/O Clark Nuber Ps accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ken Birdwell Foundation (Dba Magic Cabinet) C/O Clark Nuber Ps?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Norcliffe Foundation, Seattle Foundation, United Way of King County.
Where is Ken Birdwell Foundation (Dba Magic Cabinet) C/O Clark Nuber Ps based?: Ken Birdwell Foundation (Dba Magic Cabinet) C/O Clark Nuber Ps is based in WA.