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Reuben's Brews Foundation at a glance

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Reuben's Brews Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% 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
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$419
Median grant
3
States reached
$23k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUND FOUNDATIONS NW$4,631
Individual grant recipient$2,000
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,305
FOOD LIFELINE$848
BIKE WORKS$639
CITY FRUIT$625
PHINNEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION$500
WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES$500
NORTHWEST AVALANCHE CENTER$500
NORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS$475
SEATTLE LADIES CHOIR$475
WESTSIDE BABY$475
BEAVERS NORTHWEST$425
ALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOU$419
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CANCER PATHWAYS: $7k → 9%CANCER PATHWAYS: $4k → 9%CANCER PATHWAYS: $1k → 9%WESTSIDE BABY: $475 → 9%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $850 → 9%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 9%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $496 → 9%UNIVERSITY DISTRICT FOOD BANK: $229 → 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
NY
MA
OH
PA
VA
NC
DC
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.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26k · 11 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
30

Total granted

$26k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+19%

Still filing today

73%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CP
    Cancer Pathways
    2× · 2021–2023 · $12k · revenue +37%
  • WN
    WASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARK FUND
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1k · revenue +39%
  • FL
    FOOD LIFELINE
    2× · 2022–2024 · $1k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • BF
    BALLARD FC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • United States Association for UNHCR
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -59%
  • BALLARD FOOD BANKgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +114%
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
We Heart Seattle

We Heart Seattle is an action-based, boots-on-the-ground movement that organizes trash cleanups in our public spaces and offers resources to those in need. Through our direct civic engagement we lead the way to a more compassionate and…

Community Improvement
2
Washington Bikes

Washington Bikes works to ensure that all who ride a bicycle in Washington have safe comfortable and convenient places to ride. Organization advocates for bicyclists rights and shapes policies.

Recreation & Sports
3
Futurewise

Futurewise works throughout Washington state to encourage healthy, equitable and opportunity-rich communities, and to protect our most valuable farmlands, forests and water resources through wise land use policies and practices.

Environment
4
Re Sources

RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.

Environment
5
Washington Wildlife & Recreation Coalition

Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.

—
6
Spark Northwest

Founded in 2001, Spark Northwest accelerates the just transition to clean energy in the Pacific Northwest. Spark Northwest uses two primary strategies: (1) on-the-ground project consulting, focusing on communities with limited financial…

Environment
7
Stewardship Partners

Stewardship Partners helps private landowners restore and preserve the natural landscapes of WA State. We collaborate with diverse interest groups to build bridges and find solutions that achieve mutual goals of environmental protection,…

Environment
8
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
9
Nw Energy Coalition

The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…

—
10
Washingtonians for Public Banking

Washingtonians for Public banking promotes education and civic engagement on public banking and banking reform within Washington state. The organization organizes, educates, and advocates for the establishment of public banking, and…

Community Improvement
11
Center for Environmental Law & Policy

The Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a statewide organization whose mission is to protect, preserve and restore Washington's waters through education, advocacy, policy reform, and public interest litigation.

Environment
12
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Avalanche Center; the most unlike its peers is Center for Chronic Illness. 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 62 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
17/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BALLARD FC FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherBALLARD FC FOUNDATIONBALLARD FOOD BANK: $3,592 · OtherBALLARD FOOD BANKIndividual grant recipient: $3,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $3,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $3,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientZERO HUNGER ZERO WASTE: $3,000 · OtherLIVE WIRE RADIO: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherPUGET SOUND GOAT RESCUE: $2,000 · OtherGender Justice League: $1,950 · Other+38 more: $22,401 · Other+38 moreCancer Pathways: $12,125 · Human ServicesCancer PathwaysWELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $1,846 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING FAMILY …+2 more: $704 · Human ServicesUnited States Association for UNHCR: $6,661 · InternationalSound Foundations NW: $4,631 · Housing & ShelterPhinney Neighborhood Association: $2,438 · Community ImprovementFamilies of Color Seattle: $500 · Community ImprovementSEATTLE NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS: $360 · Community ImprovementCITY FRUIT: $1,597 · Food & NutritionFOOD LIFELINE: $1,131 · Food & NutritionBike Works Seattle: $1,186 · Recreation & SportsWASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARK FUND: $1,131 · Recreation & SportsRAT CITY ROLLER DERBY: $300 · Recreation & Sports
Other$57,443Human Services$14,675International$6,661Housing & Shelter$4,631Community Improvement$3,298Food & Nutrition$2,728Recreation & Sports$2,617

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 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
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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    20report 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, 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

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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.

    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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