How much does Shunpike give?

Shunpike reported 26 itemized grants totaling $887,519, out of $1,070,952 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Shunpike fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (53%), Human Services (29%), Housing & Shelter (5%).

Who are Shunpike's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Thalias Umbrella ($491k), WeApp ($304k), Vashon Artist Residency LLC ($236k).

Does Shunpike fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Shunpike?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Artsfund, Raynier Institute & Foundation, School's Out Washington.

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Washington · Public charity

Shunpike

SHUNPIKE empowers artists through equitable access to vital expertise, opportunities and business services.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 26
Itemized grants FY2024: 19
Organizations funded FY2023: 58%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $888k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $14,500
Largest grant, FY2024: $123,048
Organizations funded a year: 15 to 19; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $3.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 58% of the organizations Shunpike funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $219k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	26	$888k	46%
FY2023	19	$483k	58%
FY2022	17	$514k	53%
FY2021	16	$385k	31%
FY2020	17	$465k	59%
FY2019	15	$234k	33%
FY2018	15	$392k	67%
FY2017	16	$205k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.9MHuman Services$1.0MHousing & Shelter$193kYouth Development$121kReligion$103kCommunity Improvement$44kHealth$33kRecreation & Sports$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Thalias Umbrella	$490,539	8	n/a
WeApp	$303,589	4	n/a
Vashon Artist Residency LLC	$236,430	3	n/a
Adaptive and Inclusive Movement Initiative	$213,588	2	94%
Pork Filled Productions	$140,638	5	n/a
Northwest Film Forum	$130,804	2	8%
Robel and Micael Dba Upnup LLC	$124,650	3	n/a
Anthony R Benton Dba Musica Dba Rainier Avenue Radio World	$121,282	5	n/a
Copious Love	$109,809	3	n/a
Enjoy Productions Inc	$100,576	1	n/a

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All grantees of Shunpike by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Thalias Umbrella	$490,539	8	n/a
WeApp	$303,589	4	n/a
Vashon Artist Residency LLC	$236,430	3	n/a
Adaptive and Inclusive Movement Initiative	$213,588	2	94%
Pork Filled Productions	$140,638	5	n/a
Northwest Film Forum	$130,804	2	8%
Robel and Micael Dba Upnup LLC	$124,650	3	n/a
Anthony R Benton Dba Musica Dba Rainier Avenue Radio World	$121,282	5	n/a
Copious Love	$109,809	3	n/a
Enjoy Productions Inc	$100,576	1	n/a
World Mind Creation Academy	$88,073	2	41%
Borealis Light Art Collective	$86,145	1	n/a
Honk Fest West	$78,315	4	n/a
Seattle Artist League LLC	$76,575	3	n/a
Pacific Northwest Cabaret Association	$69,759	6	n/a
Jewel Box Theater	$68,211	5	n/a
Japan Creative Arts LLC Dba the School of Taiko	$63,434	4	n/a
Bryan Ohno Ltd	$62,536	2	n/a
Thingyverse Productions LLC	$61,550	2	n/a
Theatre Battery	$49,857	5	n/a
Building Changes	$45,350	1	1%
South Hudson Music Project	$41,923	1	39%
NCW Arts Alliance	$37,208	1	n/a
Seattle Ladies Choir	$35,883	1	62%
Halfmoon Movmt & Healing Arts	$32,820	2	n/a
Burmer Music LLC	$32,061	1	n/a
Walk Away City Collab - Passian Center	$28,523	2	n/a
Seattle Rock Orchestra	$28,080	2	n/a
Stay Up Late Show	$27,014	3	n/a
The Rhapsody Project	$26,943	1	16%
Dacha Theatre	$26,897	1	26%
The Horse in Motion	$24,544	3	n/a
Mawp LLC	$24,011	2	n/a
Pushpull LLC	$22,958	2	n/a
Seattle Jewish Chorale	$20,994	1	n/a
Weapp	$20,110	1	n/a
Coriolis Dance Collective	$18,931	1	n/a
Easthub	$18,500	1	7%
Unleash the Brilliance	$17,812	2	6%
Merna a Hecht	$16,059	1	n/a
Tint Dance Festival	$15,514	2	n/a
Washington Capoeira Center LLC	$14,890	1	n/a
Shattered Glass Project	$14,694	1	n/a
Southeast Asian Comedy Collective LLC	$14,053	1	n/a
Theater Simple	$13,699	2	n/a
Deepti Designs Inc	$13,312	1	n/a
Tacoma Youth Theatre	$11,400	1	n/a
Map Theatre	$11,284	2	n/a
Tales of the Alchemysts Theater	$10,323	1	n/a
University of Texas	$10,000	1	n/a
Tacoma Neighborhoods Together	$9,526	1	13%
Write253	$9,488	1	n/a
Fogue LLC	$9,350	1	n/a
Olympia All Ages Project Dba Olympia Music History Project	$9,237	1	n/a
Emerald Ballet Academy LLC	$9,178	1	n/a
Noveltease Theatre	$9,082	1	n/a
Map Theatre	$9,000	1	n/a
Seattle Shakespeare Festival	$9,000	1	0%
Michele Anne Kuhlman Dba Mik Kuhlman	$8,313	1	n/a
M-Power Youth	$8,182	1	n/a
Community Enrichment for Klickitat County	$8,161	1	11%
Seattledances	$8,119	1	n/a
Artist Trust	$8,023	1	0%
Foss Waterway Seaport	$7,933	1	1%
Bushwick Northwest	$7,667	1	n/a
Nonfiction Media	$7,650	1	n/a
Evergreen Social Impact	$7,336	1	0%
NW Rockhounds	$7,239	1	n/a
Team - Tomorrow LLC	$6,925	1	n/a
Fractured Atlas Inc	$6,728	1	0%
Theater Simple	$6,593	1	n/a
Emiko Nakamura Dba Eurasia Arts Foundation	$6,250	1	n/a
Meister Performances LLC	$6,166	1	n/a
Sound Ensemble	$6,093	1	n/a
Richard Hugo House	$6,000	1	0%
Shaheera Anwar Bhutto	$6,000	1	n/a
Seattle Documentary Association	$5,616	1	n/a
Sea-King Media Group	$5,232	1	67%

Shunpike supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 19.

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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.

ArtsfundWA30× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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About Shunpike

How much does Shunpike give?: Shunpike reported 26 itemized grants totaling $887,519, out of $1,070,952 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Shunpike fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (53%), Human Services (29%), Housing & Shelter (5%).
Who are Shunpike's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Thalias Umbrella ($491k), WeApp ($304k), Vashon Artist Residency LLC ($236k).
Does Shunpike fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Shunpike?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Artsfund, Raynier Institute & Foundation, School's Out Washington.
Where is Shunpike based?: Shunpike is based in WA.