· Public charity
Shunpike
SHUNPIKE empowers artists through equitable access to vital expertise, opportunities and business services.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 26 grants below total $887,519 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,070,952 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $183,433 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $683k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $214k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +422% since the first grant, against +13% 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $237k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AAADAPTIVE AND INCLUSIVE MOVEMENT INITIATIVE2× · 2023–2024 · $214k · revenue +155% · 94% of their budget
- NFNORTHWEST FILM FORUM2× · 2022–2024 · $131k · revenue +7%
- WMWORLD MIND CREATION ACADEMY2× · 2020–2021 · $88k · revenue +422% · 41% of their budget
Funded once
- BLBorealis Light Art Collectiveone grant, 2018 · $86k
- BCBUILDING CHANGESone grant, 2020 · $45k · revenue +6%
- SHSouth Hudson Music Projectgraduatedone 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.
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.
Musical and other cultural performances and music education for youth
The Seattle Athenaeum connects a dynamic literary community through a curated book collection, diverse programming, and opportunities for engaging conversations and transformative ideas.
we're an arts non profit that serves underserved artists through our residency program
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.
Through collaborative artistic leadership, Washington Ensemble Theatre fearlessly creates audacious stories for adventurous Seattle audiences.
Strawberry Theatre Workshop is committed to the idea that the theatre is the peoples place of aspiration and that any voice from the stage is translated exponentially into conversations at coffee shops bus stops classrooms and playfields.…
Puget Sound Revels builds community through the arts using traditional song dance and story drawn from many cultures. Revels offers theater productions seasonal celebrations and educational opportunities for people of all ages races…
18th & Union's mission is to sustain an affordable, inclusive, and intimate space that nurtures art and community. 18th & Union maintains a 48-seat performance space, including lobby, restrooms, storage, and theatrical lighting, sound, and…
To produce and promote west seattle's premier summer arts showcase on alki beach. our goal is to advance art education and appreciation while encouraging community involvement and cultural diversity for the community's benefit.
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) — 19% of your grantees by number, and just 37% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 78 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds ADAPTIVE AND INCLUSIVE MOVEMENT INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST FILM FORUM ↗
- Who funds WORLD MIND CREATION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BUILDING CHANGES ↗
- Who funds South Hudson Music Project ↗
- Who funds NCW Arts Alliance ↗
- Who funds Seattle Ladies Choir ↗
- Who funds THE RHAPSODY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds DACHA THEATRE ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE JEWISH CHORALE ↗
- Who funds EASTHUB ↗
- Who funds Unleash the Brilliance ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Artsfund · Raynier Institute & Foundation · School's Out Washington · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 organization 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.
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 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.
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