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· Public charity
SNOWMAN FOUNDATION INC
To give all children access to music through inspiration, instruments, and instruction.
$445k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants
1
Communities
$202k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2021.
Arts & Culture$242kCommunity Improvement$50kYouth Development$25k
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
2020
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2021
musicallessonslearningbelieveeducationinstrumentalmental wellness
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2021 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$201,600
Median grant
1
States reached
$18k
Total assets
Largest grants
- Play It Forward$201,600
- Yamhill Enrichment Society$50,000
02The need
04
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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 12%. 33% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-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 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.
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Oregon Music Education Association
To Enhance Education of Youth in Oregon.
Arts & Culture
2
Tacoma Youth Symphony Association
The tacoma youth symphony association is a non-profit corporation that provides music education and proformance opportunities for youths age 6 to 21.
Arts & Culture
3
Eugene Symphony Association Inc
Enriching lives through the power of music, presenting a diverse range of orchestral repertoire at the highest level of artistic excellence, and providing musical education opportunities for children and adults.
Arts & Culture
4
Portland Museum of Art
Museum/Educational
Arts & Culture
5
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
6
Cascade Youth Symphony
Year-long program designed to nurture students enjoyment of music as well as develop their musical skills and self-confidence.
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7
Seattle Opera
To thrill, inspire and educate through the shared experience of opera
Arts & Culture
8
Spokane Symphony Society
To enrich and transform lives through music.
Arts & Culture
9
Oregon Music Festival
Oregon Music Festival is a professional classical music festival dedicated to the performance, promotion, and production of classical music through concerts, projects, and educational outreach to young musicians. As a classical music…
Arts & Culture
10
Minnesota Youth Symphonies
Youth orchestra education programs dedicated to conservatory-level oechestral training.
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Portland Ovations
Portland ovations propels the artistic, social, educational and economic wellbeing of communitites through the power of the performing arts.
Arts & Culture
12
Jubilee Hall Pdx
Employment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Bravo Youth Orchestras and the most unlike its peers is Doernbecher Children's Hospital Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Arts & Culture$241,600Community Improvement$50,000Youth Development$25,000
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.
The Oregon Community FoundationOR27.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Juan Young Trust · The Collins Foundation · Oregon Jewish Community Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Oregon Robotics Tournament & Outreach
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 SNOWMAN FOUNDATION INC 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- Play It Forward — 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
04Through 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: Play It Forward.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 11.4× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 821708155 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 Play It Forward, 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
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 29% of their budget — diversified.
- 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 Snowman Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Snowman Foundation Inc 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.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines