· Private foundation
The Niner Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $218k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $353k
- $250k+3 grants · $4.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $2,100,000 |
| GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL | $2,000,000 |
| COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $500,000 |
| OLD BILL'S FUN RUN - CFJH | $200,850 |
| MUST CHARITIES | $151,900 |
| WYOMING PBS FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| PENFED FOUNDATION | $29,000 |
| GREENWICH HISTORIC SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC | $25,000 |
| OSU FOUNDATION THE JAMES HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF SLO COUNTY | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART | $24,220 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| JUAN NEVAREZ MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES USA | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $134k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +37% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.7M 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
- MMUST9× · 2017–2025 · $930k · revenue +402%
- NMNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES9× · 2017–2025 · $303k · revenue +83%
- TGTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $228k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- TAThe Art Students League Of New York Incone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -46%
- TJTHE JAMES HOSPITALone grant, 2024 · $25k
- TCTHE CENTER FUNDone grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
We conserve and care for the diverse wildlands, farms, and ranches of the central coast. we connect people to the land and to each other.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
The santa barbara zoo is dedicated to the preservation, conservation, and enhancement of the natural world and its living treasures through education, research, recreation and conservation.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
The trust for public land creates parks and protects land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come. in the past year, we helped communities to plan for parks and conservation, fund parks and conservation,…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Surfing for Hope Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
73 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. 73 of the 127 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 GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds MUST ↗
- Who funds Community Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds The Art Students League Of New York Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds REACH PREP INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREENWICH LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds One22 Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WYOMING PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COAST VINEYARD TEAM ↗
- Who funds THE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds BRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Hinds Hospice ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds JOSHUA TREE HIGHLANDS ARTIST RESIDENCY CORP ↗
- Who funds WOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Womens Justice Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN PEOPLE & WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Resnick Foundation · Must · Hughes Charitable Foundation · The Opatrny Family Foundation · Harold J Miossi Charitable Trust · The Brooks Foundation · Jeffery and Sasha Szytel Family Foundation · The James and Felicia Cashin Foundation Inc · The Mt Moro Foundation · The Dorf Foundation Inc
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 The Niner 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.
- African People & Wildlife Fund Inc — 32% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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.