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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.

$455k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
27
Grants FY2024
23
Organizations funded FY2023
30%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 24
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$5.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations Ninneweb Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalScience & TechOther
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 arriving27$455k33%
FY202323$272k30%
FY202224$306k50%
FY202111$183k9%
FY202014$225k21%
FY201915$236k67%
FY20184$50k25%
FY20174$55kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$717kArts & Culture$479kEnvironment$270kPublic Benefit$130kHuman Services$45kScience & Tech$45kAnimals$36kEmployment$15kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MN
IL
NY
OR
CA
HI

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Create Inc$207,900815%
Santa Barbara Middle School$160,00060%
Molokai Land Trust$120,00066%
Skidmore College$110,00060%
Arts Corps$100,00042%
Bertschi School$80,00080%
Molokai Arts Center Inc$75,000320%
Seattle University$70,00070%
Kupeke Ahupuaa$60,0001n/a
Northwest African American Museum$55,00051%
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All grantees of Ninneweb Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Create Inc$207,900815%
Santa Barbara Middle School$160,00060%
Molokai Land Trust$120,00066%
Skidmore College$110,00060%
Arts Corps$100,00042%
Bertschi School$80,00080%
Molokai Arts Center Inc$75,000320%
Seattle University$70,00070%
Kupeke Ahupuaa$60,0001n/a
Northwest African American Museum$55,00051%
Advocates for the West Inc$55,00061%
Treehouse$45,00020%
Friends of Cooper Island$45,000224%
Rainier Scholars$30,00030%
Richard Hugo House$25,00011%
Co-Lab Dance Corp$25,000187%
Documentaries Seattle$25,000115%
Honolulu Civil Beat Inc$22,00030%
Hopeworks Social Enterprises$15,0001n/a
Legal Voice$12,87530%
Didi Hirsch Psychiatric Service$10,01010%
Explorer West an Independent Middle School$10,00010%
The People's Fund$7,72520%
School's Out Washington$6,00020%
Pacific Public Media$5,00020%
Seattle Art Museum$5,00010%
Hawaii Public Radio$3,20030%
Kuow Puget Sound Public Radio$3,00030%
Molokai Ohana Health Care Inc$2,00010%
Moana's Hula Halau$1,00013%
Molokai History Project$1,0001n/a
Rainier Valley Food Bank$1,00010%
Molokai Humane Society$1,0001n/a
University of Illinois Foundation$1,00010%
New York Public Radio$1,00010%
Columbia Legal Services$51510%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($386k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Ninneweb Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCreate Inc: $207,900 over 8y, 15% of budgetSanta Barbara Middle School: $160,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMolokai Land Trust: $120,000 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetSkidmore College: $110,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetArts Corps: $100,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetBertschi School: $80,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMolokai Arts Center Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetSeattle University: $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwest African American Museum: $55,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetAdvocates for the West Inc: $55,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTreehouse: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Cooper Island: $45,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetRainier Scholars: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRichard Hugo House: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCo-Lab Dance Corp: $25,000 over 1y, 87% of budgetDocumentaries Seattle: $25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetHonolulu Civil Beat Inc: $22,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLegal Voice: $12,875 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDidi Hirsch Psychiatric Service: $10,010 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetExplorer West an Independent Middle School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe People's Fund: $7,725 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSchool's Out Washington: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Public Media: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Art Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHawaii Public Radio: $3,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKuow Puget Sound Public Radio: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMolokai Ohana Health Care Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMoana's Hula Halau: $1,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetRainier Valley Food Bank: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Public Radio: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColumbia Legal Services: $515 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 32.

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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.

Seattle FoundationWA22.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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How do I get to Ninneweb Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ninneweb Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Ninneweb Foundation

How much does Ninneweb Foundation give?
Ninneweb Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $455,037 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Ninneweb Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (40%), Arts & Culture (27%), Environment (15%).
Who are Ninneweb Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Create Inc ($208k), Santa Barbara Middle School ($160k), Molokai Land Trust ($120k).
Does Ninneweb Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ninneweb Foundation 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 Ninneweb Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Medina Foundation, The Satterberg Foundation Inc.
Where is Ninneweb Foundation based?
Ninneweb Foundation 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 47 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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