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Nepeni Foundation-Ag(1706 at a glance

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Nepeni Foundation-Ag(1706

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.

$543k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$531k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Philanthropy$531kArts & Culture$34kEducation$19kReligion$11kHuman Services$7kInternational$5kCrime & Legal$3k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $12k
  • $250k+1 grant · $531k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHWAB CHARITABLE NEPENI FUND$530,808
WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL$3,000
BRYAN MAWR COLLEGE$3,000
HARVARD SCHOOL OF EDUCATION$2,000
BEAUVOIR THE NATIONAL CATHEDRAL$2,000
THE FISHING SCHOOL INC$1,000
INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES$1,000
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 (FY21–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE FISHING SCHOOL INC: $1k → 14%THE FISHING SCHOOL INC: $1k → 14%THE FISHING SCHOOL INC: $1k → 14%THE FISHING SCHOOL INC: $1k → 14%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.
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.

11%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$69k · 14 repeat orgs$541k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -1% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
2

Total granted

$69k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
-5%

Still filing today

79%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $537k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • WN
    WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA
    3× · 2021–2023 · $6k · revenue ×25
  • TW
    THE WASHINGTON BALLET
    3× · 2021–2023 · $6k · revenue +70%
  • GW
    GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $6k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • HG
    HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -5%
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.

1
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
2
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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3
Washington Performing Arts Society

Washington performing arts champions the arts as a unifying force. through collaborations with artists, educators, community leaders, and institutional partners, we bring wide-ranging artistic programs to stages, schools, and neighborhoods…

Arts & Culture
4
Washington Leadership Academy Public Charter School

Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.

Education
5
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
6
Capitol Hill Day School

Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…

Education
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
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
9
Washington Appellate Project

The washington appellate project contracts with the state of washington and the federal government to provide legal representation to indigent persons on appeal.

Crime & Legal
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
11
Washington Society of Certified Public a

We are a community of cpas and financial professionals cultivating authentic relationships, unique learning experiences, and purposeful advocacy for our future.

—
12
Washington International School

Our mission is to be an exemplary learning community - enriched by differences, informed through inquiry, global in reach.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc; the most unlike its peers is Choral Arts Society of Washington. 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

13 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. 13 of the 19 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHWAB CHARITABLE NEPENI FUND: $530,808 · OtherSCHWAB CHARITABLE NEPENI FUND+8 more: $34,000 · Other+8 moreCHORAL ARTS SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $6,000 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA: $6,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WASHINGTON BALLET: $6,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureWHITE HOUSE ENDOWMENT AND ACQUISITION TRUST: $4,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SEED FOUNDATION: $4,500 · EducationBRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $3,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES: $3,000 · InternationalAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $2,000 · InternationalThe Fishing School Inc: $4,000 · Human Services
Other$564,808Arts & Culture$28,000Education$7,500International$5,000Human Services$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHORAL ARTS SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA: $6,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON BALLET: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEED FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fishing School Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWHITE HOUSE ENDOWMENT AND ACQUISITION TRUST: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LAB SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY PLACE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $2,000 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.

Greater Washington Co…Walter a Bloedorn Fou…United Way of the Nat…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Walter a Bloedorn Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Nepeni Foundation-Ag(1706 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nepeni Foundation-Ag(1706. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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