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Ninneweb Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $300k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Minnesota Dance Theatre | $75,000 |
| Kupeke Ahupuaa | $60,000 |
| Friends of Cooper Island | $35,000 |
| CREATE | $30,000 |
| Santa Barbara Middle School | $30,000 |
| Molokai Arts Center | $25,000 |
| Documentaries Seattle | $25,000 |
| Molokai Land Trust | $25,000 |
| Hugo House | $25,000 |
| Bureau of Fearless Ideas | $25,000 |
| Skidmore College | $20,000 |
| Didi Hirsch | $10,010 |
| Seattle University | $10,000 |
| Bertschi School | $10,000 |
| Honolulu Civil Beat | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 33% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CICREATE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $208k · revenue +13%
- SBSANTA BARBARA MIDDLE SCHOOL6× · 2019–2024 · $160k · revenue +78%
- MLMOLOKAI LAND TRUST6× · 2018–2024 · $120k · revenue +270%
Funded once
- CDCO-LAB DANCE CORPone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -9% · 87% of their budget
- HSHOPEWORKS SOCIAL ENTERPRISESone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +25%
- NTNYU Tisch Schoolone grant, 2020 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
See schedule o.at honolulu waldorf school, we educate each child to find meaning, passion, and purpose in life and to contribute to the creation of a better world for all. through a curriculum based on the developmental stages of the human…
The mission of pbs hawai'i is to advance learning and discovery by sharing stories that profoundly touch lives. we bring the world to hawai'i and hawai'i to the world.
We offer an outstanding international college preparatory program for grades 6-12.
Independent colleges of washington is the leading advocate for not-for-profit, private campuses in washington state.
The museum of northwest art collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits art created in the pacific northwest, supports artists, and strives to integrate art into the lives of all people. the museum is free and open to the public seven…
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.
A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…
Promote security, stability, and prosperity in america's indo-pacific backyard through policy engagement, influential networks,high-level convenings, and extensive partnerships.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is School's Out Washington and the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 47 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 CREATE INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MOLOKAI LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Arts Corps ↗
- Who funds BERTSCHI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MOLOKAI ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR THE WEST INC ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF COOPER ISLAND ↗
- Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds DOCUMENTARIES SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds RICHARD HUGO HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CO-LAB DANCE CORP ↗
- Who funds Honolulu Civil Beat Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPEWORKS SOCIAL ENTERPRISES ↗
- Who funds LEGAL VOICE ↗
- Who funds DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE ↗
- Who funds EXPLORER WEST AN INDEPENDENT MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE'S FUND ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds KUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds MOLOKAI OHANA HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds MOLOKAI HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Medina Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Inatai Foundation · Raikes Foundation · Casey Family Programs · McKinstry Charitable Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Artsfund · Gates Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Ninneweb Foundation 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.
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.
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