How much did SHUNPIKE grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of SHUNPIKE’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

choirmembersmusic

2019

seattletheater

2020

—

2021

jewishreduceincreaseyouth

2022

medianorthwest filmfilm forumartistsshakespeareaccessseattle

2023

adaptations classicwordsnovelteasecontemporarystorytellingcreateliterary burlesque

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k9 grants · $70k
$10k–50k9 grants · $135k
$50k–250k8 grants · $683k

$14,500

Median grant

States reached

$3.1M

Total assets

Largest grants

VASHON ARTIST RESIDENCY LLC$123,048
ADAPTIVE AND INCLUSIVE MOVEMENT INITIATIVE$114,455
ENJOY PRODUCTIONS INC$100,576
NORTHWEST FILM FORUM$87,383
PORK FILLED PRODUCTIONS$69,934
ROBEL AND MICAEL DBA UPNUP LLC$69,721
THALIA'S UMBRELLA$64,389
SEATTLE ARTIST LEAGUE LLC$53,225
DACHA THEATRE$26,897
BRYAN OHNO LTD$16,275
WASHINGTON CAPOEIRA CENTER LLC$14,890
SHATTERED GLASS PROJECT$14,694
THEATRE BATTERY$14,500
SOUTHEAST ASIAN COMEDY COLLECTIVE LLC$14,053
DEEPTI DESIGNS INC$13,312

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $214k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.7M · 29 repeat orgs$830k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +422% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.7M

$593k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+422%

+23%

Still filing today

14%

41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $237k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CulturePhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesHealthCrime & LegalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

NF
NORTHWEST FILM FORUM
2× · 2022–2024 · $131k · revenue +27%
WM
World Mind Creation Academy
2× · 2020–2021 · $88k · revenue +422% · 41% of their budget
UT
UNLEASH THE BRILLIANCE
2× · 2020–2021 · $18k · revenue +612%

Funded once

BL
Borealis Light Art Collective
one grant, 2018 · $86k
BC
BUILDING CHANGESgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $45k · revenue +531%
SH
South Hudson Music Projectgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $42k · revenue +64% · 39% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Seattle Opera

To thrill, inspire and educate through the shared experience of opera

Arts & Culture

Seattle Chamber Music Festival

To foster the appreciation of chamber music in our region by presenting performances featuring world-class musicians in accessible and inviting formats, with an emphasis on developing a broad-based sustainable audience through education…

Arts & Culture

Seattle Artists

Cultural performances and childhood music education

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Southwest Washington Center for the Arts

Philanthropy

Washington Ensemble Theatre

Through collaborative artistic leadership, Washington Ensemble Theatre fearlessly creates audacious stories for adventurous Seattle audiences.

Arts & Culture

Pacific Northwest Music Project

Arts & Culture

Short Run Seattle

Short Run focuses on the medium of comics as a coalescence of art and literature. We believe in the intimate experience of holding a book in your hands. Thats why we highlight artists from the Pacific Northwest and around the world who…

Recreation & Sports

Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra

The Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra crafts performances that tell the story of the human experience in new ways, providing musical arts education and fulfillment to people of all walks of life. SMCO features music by composers of…

Arts & Culture

Annex Theatre

The performance of live performance to the general public. Annex Theatre is a democratic collective of theatre artists dedicated to creating bold new work in an environment of improbability, resourcefulness, and risk.

Arts & Culture

Future Arts

Our mission is to cultivate cross-pollination between technology, nature, and the arts. We connect, mentor, commission and develop showcasing opportunities for underserved new media artists.

Arts & Culture

The Esoterics

The Esoterics is a Seattle-based vocal ensemble dedicated to performing and perpetuating contemporary choral music from around the world. By cultivating artistic expression and cultural understanding, The Esoterics aspires to reflect the…

Arts & Culture

Arx Music Association

arx duo is a percussion chamber group dedicated to the creation and presentation of new music. arx duos mission is to foster audiences that are imaginative and open-minded through engagement and art; forming intrinsic values that further…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Shakespeare Festival and the most unlike its peers is Unleash the Brilliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 8 years old; the field is 15. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 20% of your grantees by number, and just 37% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%2/78

the rest of the field

12%

1,925/16,485

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

22/23

Grantees still filing

18/23

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,890,387Arts & Culture$364,589Human Services$213,588Health$45,350Crime & Legal$17,812Community Improvement$17,687Philanthropy$16,824

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

ArtsfundWA27× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Artsfund · Raynier Institute & Foundation · School's Out Washington · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation SHUNPIKE funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ADAPTIVE AND INCLUSIVE MOVEMENT INITIATIVE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~11 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.3× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 874635726 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ADAPTIVE AND INCLUSIVE MOVEMENT INITIATIVE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 94% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Shunpike?

Find your warmest path to Shunpike through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SHUNPIKE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Shunpike?

More from the funding graph

SHUNPIKE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Shunpike?

More from the funding graph