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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 FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
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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
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $300k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $135k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Minnesota Dance Theatre$75,000
Kupeke Ahupuaa$60,000
Friends of Cooper Island$35,000
Santa Barbara Middle School$30,000
CREATE$30,000
Hugo House$25,000
Documentaries Seattle$25,000
Molokai Land Trust$25,000
Molokai Arts Center$25,000
Bureau of Fearless Ideas$25,000
Skidmore College$20,000
Didi Hirsch$10,010
Seattle University$10,000
Honolulu Civil Beat$10,000
NW African American Museum$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 33% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Minnesota Dance Theatre: $75k → 11%Didi Hirsch: $10k → 14%Santa Barbara Middle School: $30k → 14%Kupeke Ahupuaa: $60k → 9%Skidmore College: $20k → 7%NYU Tisch School: $10k → 17%Co-Lab Dance Corp: $25k → 20%CREATE: $30k → 15%Hugo House: $25k → 9%Hopeworks: $15k → 9%Santa Barbara Middle School: $30k → 14%Molokai Land Trust: $25k → 9%Skidmore College: $20k → 7%NYU Tisch: $10k → 17%CREATE: $28k → 15%Santa Barbara Middle School: $25k → 14%Molokai Land Trust: $25k → 9%Skidmore College: $20k → 7%CREATE: $25k → 15%Santa Barbara Middle School: $25k → 14%Molokai Land Trust: $25k → 9%Honolulu Civil Beat: $11k → 9%Skidmore College: $20k → 7%CREATE: $25k → 15%Santa Barbara Middle School: $25k → 14%Moloka'i Land Trust: $20k → 9%Skidmore College: $20k → 7%CREATE: $25k → 15%Santa Barbara Middle School: $25k → 14%CREATE: $25k → 15%CREATE: $25k → 15%CREATE: $25k → 15%Molokai Arts Center: $25k → 9%Molokai Arts Center: $25k → 9%Molokai Arts Center: $25k → 9%Documentaries Seattle: $25k → 9%Arts Corps: $25k → 9%Arts Corp: $25k → 9%Arts Corp: $25k → 9%Arts Corp: $25k → 9%Treehouse: $25k → 9%Treehouse: $20k → 9%Northwest African American Museum: $15k → 9%Friends of Cooper Island: $35k → 9%Friends of Cooper Island: $35k → 9%Friends of Cooper Island: $35k → 9%Bureau of Fearless Ideas: $25k → 9%Bureau of Fearless Ideas: $25k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MN
IL
NY
OR
CA
HI
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 24 repeat orgs$286k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
14

Total granted

$1.5M
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+20%

Still filing today

79%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalHealthOther
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

  • CI
    CREATE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $208k · revenue +13%
  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA MIDDLE SCHOOL
    6× · 2019–2024 · $160k · revenue +78%
  • ML
    MOLOKAI LAND TRUST
    6× · 2018–2024 · $120k · revenue +270%

Funded once

  • CD
    CO-LAB DANCE CORP
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -9% · 87% of their budget
  • HS
    HOPEWORKS SOCIAL ENTERPRISES
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +25%
  • EW
    EXPLORER WEST AN INDEPENDENT MIDDLE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +20%
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
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
2
University Cooperative School

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.

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3
Mohala Pua School Dba Honolulu Waldorf School

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…

Education
4
Hawaii Public Television Foundation Dba Pbs Hawaii

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.

Arts & Culture
5
The Northwest School of the Arts Humanities and Environment

We offer an outstanding international college preparatory program for grades 6-12.

Education
6
Independent Colleges of Washington

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

Education
7
Museum of Northwest Art

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…

Arts & Culture
8
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
9
Pacific University

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.

Education
10
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
11
Mitchell Hamline School of Law

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…

Education
12
Center for Cultural & Technical Interchange Btwn East & West Inc

Promote security, stability, and prosperity in america's indo-pacific backyard through policy engagement, influential networks,high-level convenings, and extensive partnerships.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is School's Out Washington; 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.
04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 47 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/34
Grantees still filing
21/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CREATE INC: $207,900 · OtherCREATE INCBureau of Fearless Ideas: $180,000 · OtherBureau of Fearless IdeasMinnesota Dance Theatre: $75,000 · OtherMinnesota Dance TheatreSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $70,000 · OtherSEATTLE UNIVERSITYFriends of Cooper Island: $70,000 · OtherFriends of Cooper IslandKUPEKE AHUPUAA: $60,000 · OtherKUPEKE AHUPUAAIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · Other+16 more: $69,927 · Other+16 moreSANTA BARBARA MIDDLE SCHOOL: $160,000 · EducationSANTA BARBARA MIDDLE SCH…SKIDMORE COLLEGE: $110,000 · EducationSKIDMORE COLLEGEBERTSCHI SCHOOL: $80,000 · EducationBERTSCHI SCHOOLRAINIER SCHOLARS: $30,000 · EducationRAINIER SCHOLARS+2 more: $11,000 · EducationArts Corps: $100,000 · Arts & CultureArts CorpsMOLOKAI ARTS CENTER INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureMOLOKAI ARTS CENTER I…NORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $55,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST AFRICAN AME…RICHARD HUGO HOUSE: $25,000 · Arts & CultureRICHARD HUGO HOUSECO-LAB DANCE CORP: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCO-LAB DANCE CORPDOCUMENTARIES SEATTLE: $25,000 · Arts & CultureDOCUMENTARIES SEATTLEHonolulu Civil Beat Inc: $22,000 · Arts & CultureHonolulu Civil Beat I…+5 more: $15,000 · Arts & CultureMOLOKAI LAND TRUST: $120,000 · EnvironmentMOLOKAI LAN…ADVOCATES FOR THE WEST INC: $55,000 · EnvironmentADVOCATES F…TREEHOUSE: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentSCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF COOPER ISLAND: $45,000 · Science & TechHOPEWORKS SOCIAL ENTERPRISES: $15,000 · Employment
Other$762,827Education$391,000Arts & Culture$342,000Environment$175,000Youth Development$51,000Science & Tech$45,000Employment$15,000

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

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
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.

  • 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 RICHARD HUGO HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds CO-LAB DANCE CORP ↗
  • Who funds DOCUMENTARIES SEATTLE ↗
  • 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 MOANA'S HULA HALAU ↗

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 FoundationMedina FoundationThe Satterberg Founda…Inatai FoundationRaikes FoundationCasey Family ProgramsMcKinstry Charitable …The Norcliffe Foundat…ArtsfundGates FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ninneweb Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ninneweb Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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.

    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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