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Reuben's Brews Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
30
Grants FY2024
22
Organizations funded FY2023
73%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$419
Largest grant, FY2024
$4,631
Organizations funded a year
2 to 23
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$23k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 73% of the organizations Reuben's Brews Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Community ImprovementFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsAnimalsYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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 arriving30$20k70%
FY202322$18k73%
FY202223$46k100%
FY20212$8kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$17kRecreation & Sports$13kFood & Nutrition$11kInternational$7kHousing & Shelter$6kEducation$4kCivil Rights$4kArts & Culture$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OH
PA
VA
NC
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cancer Pathways$12,12521%
United States Association for UNHCR$6,66110%
Sound Foundations NW$4,63111%
Ballard Food Bank$3,59210%
Phinney Neighborhood Association$2,43830%
Gender Justice League$1,95011%
Wellspring Family Services$1,84630%
The Big Table$1,80810%
City Fruit$1,59730%
Washington State University$1,5001n/a
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All grantees of Reuben's Brews Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cancer Pathways$12,12521%
United States Association for UNHCR$6,66110%
Sound Foundations NW$4,63111%
Ballard Food Bank$3,59210%
Phinney Neighborhood Association$2,43830%
Gender Justice League$1,95011%
Wellspring Family Services$1,84630%
The Big Table$1,80810%
City Fruit$1,59730%
Washington State University$1,5001n/a
Edge Outdoors$1,27911%
Bike Works Seattle$1,18620%
Washington's National Park Fund$1,13130%
Food Lifeline$1,13120%
Seattle Ladies Choir$94621%
Mercer Island Eastside Orphans & Waifs$85010%
Pflag Seattle$7782n/a
The Service Board$67510%
Families of Color Seattle$5001n/a
Northwest Avalanche Center$50010%
Northwest Education Access$47510%
Westside Baby$47510%
EarthGen Fka WA Green Schools$43810%
Center for Chronic Illness$43310%
Beavers Northwest$42510%
Girl Scouts of Western Washington$40310%
Ignite Worldwide$36010%
Seattle Neighborhood Greenways$36010%
Puget Soundkeeper Alliance$34510%
Puget Sound Association for the Deaf$34111%
Community Book Project$3051n/a
Rat City Roller Derby$30010%
Sightline Institute$25010%
University District Service League$22910%
Sustainable Ballard$20010%
Humanities Washington$20010%
Washington Wild$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($39k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Reuben's Brews Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCancer Pathways: $12,125 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $6,661 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSound Foundations NW: $4,631 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBallard Food Bank: $3,592 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhinney Neighborhood Association: $2,438 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGender Justice League: $1,950 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWellspring Family Services: $1,846 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Big Table: $1,808 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCity Fruit: $1,597 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEdge Outdoors: $1,279 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBike Works Seattle: $1,186 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWashington's National Park Fund: $1,131 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFood Lifeline: $1,131 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Ladies Choir: $946 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMercer Island Eastside Orphans & Waifs: $850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Service Board: $675 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwest Avalanche Center: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwest Education Access: $475 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWestside Baby: $475 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEarthGen Fka WA Green Schools: $438 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Chronic Illness: $433 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBeavers Northwest: $425 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGirl Scouts of Western Washington: $403 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIgnite Worldwide: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Neighborhood Greenways: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPuget Soundkeeper Alliance: $345 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPuget Sound Association for the Deaf: $341 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRat City Roller Derby: $300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSightline Institute: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity District Service League: $229 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSustainable Ballard: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHumanities Washington: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWashington Wild: $100 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 33.

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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 FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Lucky Seven FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Moccasin Lake Foundat…Medina FoundationThe Satterberg Founda…McKinstry Charitable …Dv & Ida McEachern Ch…The Bullitt FoundationRaikes Foundation
Seattle FoundationWA42.3× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Medina Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · McKinstry Charitable Foundation · Dv & Ida McEachern Charitable Tr · The Bullitt Foundation · Raikes 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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How do I get to Reuben's Brews Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Reuben's Brews 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 Reuben's Brews Foundation

How much does Reuben's Brews Foundation give?
Reuben's Brews Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $19,586 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 23 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Reuben's Brews Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (19%), Recreation & Sports (14%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
Who are Reuben's Brews Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Cancer Pathways ($12k), United States Association for UNHCR ($7k), Sound Foundations NW ($5k).
Does Reuben's Brews Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 73% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Reuben's Brews Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Reuben's Brews Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation.
Where is Reuben's Brews Foundation based?
Reuben's Brews 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 62 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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