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Scan Design Foundation by Inger & Jens Bruun

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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$519k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$5.3MArts & Culture$2.6MEnvironment$865kPhilanthropy$783kHealth$310kHuman Services$229kPublic Benefit$189kCommunity Improvement$124kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $196k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $511k
  • $250k+1 grant · $519k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$518,983
CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE$110,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$100,000
Individual grant recipient$79,552
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION$62,615
MUSEUM OF DANISH AMERICA$59,000
NORDIC NORTHWEST$50,000
NATIONAL NORDIC MUSEUM$50,000
CITY OF TACOMA$45,000
AMERICAN SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION$25,000
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$25,000
REBILD NATIONAL PARK SOCIETY$25,000
NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR DANISH AMERICA$25,000
NORTHWEST DANISH ASSOCIATION$21,000
NEW IMPACT$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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ATWORK: $20k → 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
MT
IL
WI
NY
OR
IA
CT
CA
DC
HI
TX
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.7M · 34 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
33

Total granted

$8.7M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+29%

Still filing today

62%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $202k 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 & CultureEnvironmentEducationInternationalRecreation & SportsYouth 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +46%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $938k · revenue +39%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE
    4× · 2019–2024 · $360k · revenue +136%

Funded once

  • UC
    UW COLLEGE OF BUILT ENVIRONMENT
    one grant, 2022 · $330k
  • US
    UW SCHOOL OF MEDICINE - ANESTHEOLOGY
    one grant, 2022 · $155k
  • UD
    UW DEPARTMENT OF ANESTHESIOLOGY
    one grant, 2020 · $155k
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
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
2
Northwest Film Forum

Northwest Film Forum incites public dialogue and creative action through collective cinematic experiences. A nonprofit film and arts center located in Seattle, Northwest Film Forum presents hundreds of films, festivals, community events,…

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
Center for Contemporary Art & Culture

To enliven and expand the understanding of craft and the museum experience for all.

Arts & Culture
5
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art

Bainbridge island museum of art (bima) inspires curiosity, wonder and understanding by connecting people with the contemporary art and craft of the puget sound region.

Arts & Culture
6
Friends of Seattle Waterfront

To bring people, communities, and resources together to ensure waterfront park thrives as a vibrant gathering space - uplifting locals, fostering connections and honoring seattle's natural beauty and stories.

Community Improvement
7
Discover Your Northwest

Discover Your Northwest promotes the discovery of northwest public lands, enriches the experience of visitors and builds community stewardship of these special places today and for generations to come.

Recreation & Sports
8
Washington Filmworks

To build and enhance the competitiveness of Washington State's film and associated creative industry. We accomplish this by marketing and managing the state's production incentive program, representing the state in national and…

Community Improvement
9
The Urbanist

Seattle-based online publication seeking to examine and influence urban policies.

Community Improvement
10
On the Boards

On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.

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11
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
12
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Vashon Repertory Theatre. 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

56 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. 56 of the 85 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/56
Grantees still filing
33/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $2,940,482 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $938,200 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $238,167 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION+3 more: $79,991 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $759,300 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONUW COLLEGE OF BUILT ENVIRONMENT: $329,688 · OtherUW COLLEGE OF BUILT ENVIRONMENTUW - MADISON: $304,236 · OtherUW - MADISONUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON - MEANY THEATRE: $221,832 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON - MEANY THE…POMEGRANATE CENTER: $208,860 · OtherPOMEGRANATE CENTERSEATTLE SYMPHONY: $203,650 · OtherSEATTLE SYMPHONYUW SCHOOL OF MEDICINE - ANESTHEOLOGY: $155,000 · OtherUW DEPARTMENT OF ANESTHESIOLOGY: $155,000 · OtherUW COLLEGE OF ENVIRONMENT: $133,248 · Other+33 more: $1,012,206 · Other+33 moreNational Nordic Museum: $884,751 · Arts & CultureNational Nordic Mus…NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR DANISH AMERICA: $290,275 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL FOUNDATION…THE DANISH IMMIGRANT MUSEUM: $235,115 · Arts & CultureTHE DANISH IMMIGRAN…NORDIC NORTHWEST: $150,500 · Arts & CultureNORDIC NORTHWESTNORTHWEST DANISH ASSOCIATION: $69,525 · Arts & Culture+16 more: $254,740 · Arts & Culture+16 moreSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $668,436 · PhilanthropyCommunity Roots Housing Foundation: $46,759 · Philanthropy+1 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropyCENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE: $360,100 · Environment+6 more: $24,310 · EnvironmentMaris Place: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe American-Scandinavian Foundation: $76,200 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · International+3 more: $7,000 · International
Education$4,196,840Other$3,483,020Arts & Culture$1,884,906Philanthropy$730,195Environment$384,410Youth Development$100,000International$93,200

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $2,940,482 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $938,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNational Nordic Museum: $884,751 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $668,436 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE: $360,100 over 4y, 22% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR DANISH AMERICA: $290,275 over 4y, 27% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $238,167 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DANISH IMMIGRANT MUSEUM: $235,115 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetPOMEGRANATE CENTER: $208,860 over 2y, 53% of budgetNORDIC NORTHWEST: $150,500 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetREBILD NATIONAL PARK SOCIETY INC: $85,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetThe American-Scandinavian Foundation: $76,200 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNORTHWEST DANISH ASSOCIATION: $69,525 over 5y, 14% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $49,991 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Roots Housing Foundation: $46,759 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetOREGON BALLET THEATRE: $37,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $35,140 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARTSFUND: $35,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWEST DENMARK HERITAGE COUNCIL INC: $28,000 over 6y, 26% of budgetPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArtist Trust: $22,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetATWORK: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSEATTLE ATHENAEUM: $20,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetCLIMATE SOLUTIONS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF STATENS MUSEUM FOR KUNST LTD: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetNEW IMPACT: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMUSEUM OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSWEDISH CULTURAL CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRUM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFORTERRA NW: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDANISH AMERICAN HERITAGE SOCIETY: $5,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetCenter For Wooden Boats: $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNATUREBRIDGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHistorical Society of Seattle & King County dba Museum of History & Industry: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILDERNESS WATCH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORY INK: $4,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPUGET SOUNDKEEPER ALLIANCE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRAZOM INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,500 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 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds National Nordic Museum ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR DANISH AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE DANISH IMMIGRANT MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds POMEGRANATE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NORDIC NORTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds Maris Place ↗
  • Who funds REBILD NATIONAL PARK SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds The American-Scandinavian Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST DANISH ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Community Roots Housing Foundation ↗
  • Who funds OREGON BALLET THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ARTSFUND ↗

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 FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…The Bullitt FoundationArtsfundThe Hugh and Jane Fer…The Norcliffe Foundat…M J Murdock Charitabl…Treeline FoundationReal Progress Foundat…Moccasin Lake Foundat…Lucky Seven FoundationDv & Ida McEachern Ch…
Seattle FoundationWA33.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Bullitt Foundation · Artsfund · The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Treeline Foundation · Real Progress Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Dv & Ida McEachern Charitable Tr

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 Scan Design Foundation by Inger & Jens Bruun funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Scan Design Foundation by Inger & Jens Bruun. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Oregon Ballet Theatre: 0% of income from government
  • Portland State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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How do I get to Scan Design Foundation by Inger & Jens Bruun?

Find your warmest path to Scan Design Foundation by Inger & Jens Bruun 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 85 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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