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Nehemiah Ventures

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.

$120k
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$142kYouth Development$129kHuman Services$52kEnvironment$43kInternational$43kEducation$32kAnimals$26kFood & Nutrition$26kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k41 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY CHURCH$25,000
BRYANT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER DBA TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$10,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$10,000
HARVEST AGAINST HUNGER$5,000
IN THE FIELD MINISTRIES$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
EILEEN & CALLIE'S PLACE$4,000
RAVEN ROCK RANCH$4,000
BRIGID BARKLEY CO MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE$2,500
MARY'S PLACE$2,500
NORTHWEST HARVEST$2,500
HAYDEN POLOMANA CO UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT$2,500
LIFEWIRE$2,500
THE STORE HOUSE$2,500
UNION GOSPEL MISSION$2,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHRISTIAN CHEFS INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 13%NORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES: $1k → 9%THE COFFEE OASIS: $1k → 10%NORTHWEST BATTLE BUDDIES: $500 → 9%CHILDREN OF THE NATION: $1k → 10%FOOD BACKPACKS 4 KIDS: $1k → 9%UPLIFT NORTHWEST: $5k → 9%UPLIFT NORTHWEST: $2k → 9%UPLIFT NORTHWEST: $2k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $5k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $5k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $5k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $4k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $3k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $3k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $2k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $2k → 9%LIFEWIRE: $2k → 9%BIRTHDAY DREAMS: $1k → 9%BIRTHDAY DREAMS: $117 → 9%SATURATE: $15k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $1k → 9%SOUTH KING COUNTY FOOD COALITION: $1k → 9%EILEEN & CALLIE'S PLACE: $4k → 9%AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $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

AK
VT
WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$351k · 57 repeat orgs$285k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
43

Total granted

$351k
$184k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+18%

Still filing today

75%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k 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 ServicesEnvironmentHealthEducationInternationalAnimalsOther
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

  • L
    LifeWire
    9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +30%
  • WC
    WASHINGTON COALITION FOR OPEN GOVERNMENT
    3× · 2017–2021 · $15k · revenue +277%
  • SI
    STARFISH INTERNATIONAL
    2× · 2021–2023 · $13k · revenue +245%

Funded once

  • NN
    NATIONAL NETWORK OF YOUTH MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2021 · $46k
  • S
    SATURATE
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -21%
  • YT
    Youth Transition Network Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +58%
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
Spark Northwest

Founded in 2001, Spark Northwest accelerates the just transition to clean energy in the Pacific Northwest. Spark Northwest uses two primary strategies: (1) on-the-ground project consulting, focusing on communities with limited financial…

Environment
3
Discover Your Northwest

Discover Your Northwest promotes the discovery of northwest public lands, enriches the experience of visitors and builds community stewardship of these special places today and for generations to come.

Recreation & Sports
4
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
5
Feeding Washington

Create a strong and effective statewide infrastructure that efficiently leverages resources to expand capacity in Washington State's Feeding America network.

Food & Nutrition
6
Seattle Economic Development Fund Business Impact Nw

To provide economic development financing to serve the needs of small businesses in the state of washington that would not qualify for private financing under conventional financing criteria.

Community Improvement
7
Friends of Seattle Waterfront

To bring people, communities, and resources together to ensure waterfront park thrives as a vibrant gathering space - uplifting locals, fostering connections and honoring seattle's natural beauty and stories.

Community Improvement
8
Washington Wildlife & Recreation Coalition

Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.

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9
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
10
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
11
Re Sources

RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.

Environment
12
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Harvest Emm; the most unlike its peers is Raven Rock Ranch. 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

92 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. 92 of the 133 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/92
Grantees still filing
59/92
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL NETWORK OF YOUTH MINISTRIES: $46,000 · OtherNATIONAL NETWORK OF YOUTH MINISTRIESMissionNext Inc: $30,000 · OtherMissionNext IncHIGHLANDS COMMUNITY CHURCH: $25,000 · OtherHIGHLANDS COMMUNITY CHURCHHOPE CHRISTIAN CHURCH CAMPUS MINISTRY: $18,900 · OtherHOPE CHRISTIAN CHURCH INC: $15,000 · Other+84 more: $271,365 · Other+84 moreLifeWire: $28,500 · Human ServicesLifeWireSATURATE: $15,000 · Human ServicesSATURATEUPLIFT NORTHWEST: $9,000 · Human ServicesUPLIFT NORTH…Eileen & Callies Place: $4,000 · Human ServicesEileen & Cal…+11 more: $12,117 · Human Services+11 moreSeattle Area Youth for Christ: $49,500 · Youth DevelopmentSeattle Are…FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP …Maris Place: $2,500 · Youth Development+2 more: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentPCC FARMLAND TRUST: $7,500 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $5,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $5,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE: $3,500 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $3,000 · EnvironmentFORTERRA NW: $2,500 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $2,500 · Environment+3 more: $900 · EnvironmentSTARFISH INTERNATIONAL: $12,500 · EducationGIG HARBOR TIDES SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationSTEPPING STONES TO LEARNING: $3,000 · EducationLIFE ENRICHMENT OPTIONS: $2,000 · EducationPacific Foundation for Blind Children: $1,000 · EducationAMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $100 · EducationAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $5,000 · InternationalWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $4,500 · InternationalSTUDENTS INTERNATIONAL: $2,000 · InternationalBUILDON INC: $1,000 · InternationalWASHINGTON COALITION FOR OPEN GOVERNMENT: $15,000 · Civil Rights
Other$406,265Human Services$68,617Youth Development$64,500Environment$29,900Education$29,600International$22,500Civil Rights$15,000

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 budgetSeattle Area Youth for Christ: $49,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetMissionNext Inc: $30,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetLifeWire: $28,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON COALITION FOR OPEN GOVERNMENT: $15,000 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetSATURATE: $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetIn The Field Ministries: $12,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetYouth Transition Network Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPLIFT NORTHWEST: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPCC FARMLAND TRUST: $7,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetQUEEN ANNE HELPLINE: $6,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetOPAL HOUSE: $5,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHARVEST AGAINST HUNGER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Impact: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER SEATTLE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFARESTART: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRAVEN ROCK RANCH: $4,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNational Network of Youth Ministries: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEileen & Callies Place: $4,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $3,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJONI AND FRIENDS: $3,345 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPPING STONES TO LEARNING: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFORTERRA NW: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMaris Place: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Storehouse Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENCOMPASS NORTHWEST: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE THEATRE GROUP: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE ENRICHMENT OPTIONS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPets for Vets Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEmpower Youth Network: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN CHEFS INTERNATIONAL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMt Si Senior Center: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSnoqualmie Valley Youth Activities and Community Center Association: $2,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetALL KIDS PLAY: $2,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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.

  • Who funds Seattle Area Youth for Christ ↗
  • Who funds MissionNext Inc ↗
  • Who funds LifeWire ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON COALITION FOR OPEN GOVERNMENT ↗
  • Who funds SATURATE ↗
  • Who funds STARFISH INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds In The Field Ministries ↗
  • Who funds Youth Transition Network Inc ↗
  • Who funds GIG HARBOR TIDES SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
  • Who funds UPLIFT NORTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds PCC FARMLAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
  • Who funds QUEEN ANNE HELPLINE ↗
  • Who funds OPAL HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds HARVEST AGAINST HUNGER ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds Urban Impact ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗

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.

Puget Sound Energy Fo…Seattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Garneau Nicon Family …M J Murdock Charitabl…United Way of King Co…Credit Unions in the …Washington Federal Fo…Greater Tacoma Commun…The Russell Family Fo…Moccasin Lake Foundat…Lamb Weston Charitabl…
Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE41.6× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Garneau Nicon Family Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · United Way of King County · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Washington Federal Foundation · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · The Russell Family Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation

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 Nehemiah Ventures funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nehemiah Ventures. 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 →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.

    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 133 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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