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Niblock Charitable Trust

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.

$99k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$31,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 13
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$996k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Niblock Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$99k43%
FY202312$105k67%
FY202211$105k18%
FY202110$115k20%
FY202013$106kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$197kReligion$147kArts & Culture$86kPhilanthropy$40kYouth Development$11kCivil Rights$6kHealth$3kHuman Services$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
MI
CA
CO
AR
TN
NC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Niblock Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
By the Well Foundation$130,00045%
Whitworth University$50,00050%
Silicon Valley Gay Mens Chorus$42,500315%
Arkansas State University System Foundation Inc$31,00010%
Smuin Ballet$20,00020%
Film Independent$15,00030%
Zarlengo Foundation$10,00022%
Eastern Washington University Foundation$10,00010%
Salish School of Spokane$10,00020%
El Sistema USA$5,55612%
Colorado Youth for a Change$5,55610%
St Louis Center$2,5001n/a
Spokane Neighborhood Action Partners$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($197k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Niblock Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBy the Well Foundation: $130,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetWhitworth University: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSilicon Valley Gay Mens Chorus: $42,500 over 3y, 15% of budgetArkansas State University System Foundation Inc: $31,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSmuin Ballet: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFilm Independent: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetZarlengo Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetEastern Washington University Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSalish School of Spokane: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEl Sistema USA: $5,556 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetColorado Youth for a Change: $5,556 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpokane Neighborhood Action Partners: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 12.

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 Avista FoundationWA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Avista Foundation · Innovia Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

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About Niblock Charitable Trust

How much does Niblock Charitable Trust give?
Niblock Charitable Trust reported 7 grants totaling $99,335 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Niblock Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (37%), Religion (28%), Arts & Culture (16%).
Who are Niblock Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: By the Well Foundation ($130k), Whitworth University ($50k), Silicon Valley Gay Mens Chorus ($43k).
Does Niblock Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Niblock Charitable Trust 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 Niblock Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Avista Foundation, Innovia Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation America.
Where is Niblock Charitable Trust based?
Niblock Charitable Trust is based in WA.

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 28 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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