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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 FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Education$197kReligion$147kArts & Culture$86kPhilanthropy$40kYouth Development$11kCivil Rights$6kHealth$3kHuman Services$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $81k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$996k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM FOUNDATION$31,000
LUCAS JOHN FOUNDATION$30,000
WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY$10,000
EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000
ST THOMAS MOORE SCHOOL$8,335
MEDICAL LAKE DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS$5,000
SALISH SCHOOL OF SPOKANE$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EL SISTEMA USA: $6k → 11%SNAP: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MN
MI
CA
CO
AR
TN
NC

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$419k · 14 repeat orgs$111k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you 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
11

Total granted

$419k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+1%

Still filing today

50%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • BT
    BY THE WELL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $130k · revenue +44%
  • WU
    WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +15%
  • SV
    SILICON VALLEY GAY MENS CHORUS
    3× · 2020–2022 · $43k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • MA
    MORGRIDGE ACADEMY
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
  • ES
    EL SISTEMA USAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +259%
  • CY
    COLORADO YOUTH FOR A CHANGE
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -10%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Seattle University

Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.

2
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
3
Southwestern Law School

For more than a century, southwestern has educated lawyers ready to serve clients, the profession, and our society with excellence. we empower students to reach their potential. we cultivate inclusion and belonging. we promote equity and…

Education
4
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
5
Independent Colleges of Washington

Independent colleges of washington is the leading advocate for not-for-profit, private campuses in washington state.

Education
6
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
7
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
8
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities accredits institutions of higher education by applying evidence-informed standards and processes to support continuous improvements and promote equitable student achievement and success.

Education
9
Augustana University Association

Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.

Education
10
La Salle University

See schedule o for complete mission statement.la salle is a lasallian catholic university committed to the principle that all knowledge is practical and empowering, filled with the capacity to transform lives. anchored in the living…

Education
11
Wasc Senior College and University Commission

WSCUC strives to advance quality and success for all students across a range of higher education institutions and missions to foster inquiry, innovation, excellence, and sustainability through its dual responsibilities as an accreditor for…

Education
12
Silicon Valley International School

Silicon valley international school's focus on inquiry and bilingualism empowers young minds to embrace complexity, think critically from multiple perspectives, and demonstrate integrity and sensitivity across cultures.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is El Sistema Usa and the most unlike its peers is Silicon Valley Gay Mens Chorus. 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 one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $40,000 · OtherEASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient — $38,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLUCAS JOHN FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherLUCAS JOHN FOUNDATIONST THOMAS MOORE SCHOOL — $25,001 · OtherST THOMAS MOORE SCHOOLST JUDE — $12,000 · OtherST JUDEMEDICAL LAKE DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS — $10,000 · OtherMEDICAL LAKE HIGH SCHOOL — $10,000 · Other+9 more — $34,222 · Other+9 moreBY THE WELL FOUNDATION — $130,000 · ReligionBY THE WELL FOUNDATIONWHITWORTH UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · EducationWHITWORTH UNIVERSITYARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC — $31,000 · EducationARKANSAS STATE UNIVER…Eastern Washington University Foundation — $10,000 · EducationEastern Washington Un…Salish School of Spokane — $10,000 · EducationSalish School of Spok…SILICON VALLEY GAY MENS CHORUS — $42,500 · Arts & CultureSILICON VALLEY G…Smuin Ballet — $20,000 · Arts & CultureSmuin BalletFILM INDEPENDENT — $15,000 · Arts & CultureFILM INDEPENDENTZarlengo Foundation — $10,000 · PhilanthropyEL SISTEMA USA — $5,556 · Human ServicesSPOKANE NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION PARTNERS — $1,000 · Human ServicesCOLORADO YOUTH FOR A CHANGE — $5,556 · Youth Development
Other$199,723Religion$130,000Education$101,000Arts & Culture$77,500Philanthropy$10,000Human Services$6,556Youth Development$5,556

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds BY THE WELL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds SILICON VALLEY GAY MENS CHORUS
  • Who funds ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Smuin Ballet
  • Who funds FILM INDEPENDENT
  • Who funds Zarlengo Foundation
  • Who funds Eastern Washington University Foundation
  • Who funds Salish School of Spokane
  • Who funds EL SISTEMA USA
  • Who funds COLORADO YOUTH FOR A CHANGE
  • Who funds ST LOUIS CENTER
  • Who funds SPOKANE NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION PARTNERS

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Niblock Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%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
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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