· Public charity
Shunpike
SHUNPIKE empowers artists through equitable access to vital expertise, opportunities and business services.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +422% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +16%
- 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 +46% · 39% of their budget
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.
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.
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Through collaborative artistic leadership, Washington Ensemble Theatre fearlessly creates audacious stories for adventurous Seattle audiences.
Musical and other cultural performances and music education for youth
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…
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.…
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.
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…
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…
TPS works to foster and advocate for a robust and equitable theatre community in the Puget Sound Region.
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 78 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Shunpike funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shunpike. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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