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The Niner Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Niner Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$2.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$3.1MReligion$2.3MRecreation & Sports$1.4MPhilanthropy$1.2MEnvironment$573kHealth$516kEducation$318kInternational$113kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k30 grants · $81k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $218k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $353k
  • $250k+3 grants · $4.6M
$3,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$7.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF SLO COUNTY$25,000
THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC$25,000
GREENWICH HISTORIC SOCIETY$25,000
OSU FOUNDATION THE JAMES HOSPITAL$25,000
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART$24,220
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$15,000
JUAN NEVAREZ MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP$10,000
JACOB A RIIS NEIGHBORHOOD SETTLEME$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND: $4k → 8%HINDS HOSPICE: $4k → 19%JACOB A RIIS NEIGHBORHOOD SETTLEME: $5k → 13%BRENDAN LOONEY FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND: $4k → 8%CANINE COMPANIONS: $2k → 9%HINDS HOSPICE: $3k → 19%JACOB A RIIS NEIGHBORHOOD SETTLEME: $2k → 13%TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND: $4k → 8%HINDS HOSPICE: $3k → 19%JACOB A RIIS NEIGHBORHOOD SETTLEME: $2k → 13%TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND: $4k → 8%HINDS HOSPICE: $3k → 19%JACOB A RIIS NEIGHBORHOOD SETTLEME: $2k → 13%TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND: $4k → 8%HINDS HOSPICE: $3k → 19%TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND: $4k → 8%TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND: $2k → 8%HINDS HOSPICE: $2k → 19%TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND: $4k → 8%TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND: $2k → 8%HINDS HOSPICE: $2k → 19%HINDS HOSPICE: $2k → 19%ONE 22: $25k → 5%HINDS HOSPICE: $2k → 19%ONE 22: $25k → 5%EL CAMINO HOMELESS ORGANIZATION: $2k → 12%EL CAMINO HOMELESS ORGANIZATION: $2k → 12%JACK'S HELPING HAND: $2k → 12%JACK'S HELPING HAND: $2k → 12%JACK'S HELPING HAND: $2k → 12%SURFING FOR HOPE FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%SURFING FOR HOPE FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
WY
IA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
NM
DC
OK
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.9M · 62 repeat orgs$4.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
47

Total granted

$4.9M
$249k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+29%

Still filing today

58%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • M
    MUST
    9× · 2017–2025 · $930k · revenue +402%
  • NM
    NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $303k · revenue +83%
  • TG
    THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $228k · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • TA
    The Art Students League Of New York Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -46%
  • TJ
    THE JAMES HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • TC
    THE CENTER FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Cuenca Los Ojos

Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.

Environment
2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

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.

Philanthropy
4
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
5
The Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County

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.

Environment
6
Friends of the Earth

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…

Environment
7
Santa Barbara Zoological Foundation

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.

Animals
8
The Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment
9
Sustainable Conservation

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…

Environment
10
The Trust for Public Land

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,…

Environment
11
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
12
California Ocean Science Trust

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

73 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. 73 of the 127 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/73
Grantees still filing
48/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $2,100,000 · OtherST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHOLD BILL'S FUN RUN - CFJH: $1,400,850 · OtherOLD BILL'S FUN RUN - CFJHTHE LAND CONSERVANCY OF SLO COUNTY: $250,000 · OtherPENFED FOUNDATION: $207,605 · OtherTHE JAMES CANCER HOSPITAL: $175,000 · Other+71 more: $782,495 · Other+71 moreGRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $2,000,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL INCCommunity Center for the Arts: $500,000 · Arts & CultureCommunity Center for the ArtsNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES: $303,162 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF …+10 more: $267,700 · Arts & Culture+10 moreMUST: $929,950 · PhilanthropyMUST+5 more: $47,300 · PhilanthropyTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $227,500 · EnvironmentTHE GREENWICH LAND TRUST INC: $65,000 · Environment+3 more: $6,050 · EnvironmentThe Trustees of Princeton University: $109,000 · EducationREACH PREP INC: $68,000 · EducationThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $26,000 · EducationBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $24,000 · EducationGREENWICH ACADEMY INC: $21,000 · EducationWomens Justice Initiative Inc: $18,000 · Education+2 more: $4,000 · EducationWAVENY LIFECARE NETWORK INC: $172,000 · HealthWILLIAMS SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC: $12,500 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $8,000 · Health+6 more: $15,150 · HealthOne22 Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC: $32,000 · Human ServicesHinds Hospice: $22,500 · Human ServicesJACOB A RIIS NEIGHBORHOOD SETTLEMENT: $11,000 · Human ServicesLUMINA ALLIANCE: $8,400 · Human ServicesJACKS HELPING HAND INC: $6,200 · Human Services+4 more: $12,500 · Human Services
Other$4,915,950Arts & Culture$3,070,862Philanthropy$977,250Environment$298,550Education$270,000Health$207,650Human Services$142,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMUST: $929,950 over 9y, 18% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES: $303,162 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $227,500 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $109,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Art Students League Of New York Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $80,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetREACH PREP INC: $68,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetTHE GREENWICH LAND TRUST INC: $65,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetOne22 Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWYOMING PBS FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $35,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCENTRAL COAST VINEYARD TEAM: $34,300 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetTHE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC: $32,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $26,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $24,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHinds Hospice: $22,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH ACADEMY INC: $21,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOSHUA TREE HIGHLANDS ARTIST RESIDENCY CORP: $20,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetWOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $18,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWomens Justice Initiative Inc: $18,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetAFRICAN PEOPLE & WILDLIFE FUND INC: $17,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetPacific Wildlife Care: $14,400 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetKIDS FIRST AT SUNSET VIEW: $14,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetSoutheast Asean Alliance Inc: $12,600 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetWILLIAMS SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJACOB A RIIS NEIGHBORHOOD SETTLEMENT: $11,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInland Empire Community Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJACKSON HOLE COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLUMINA ALLIANCE: $8,400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDIOS ON THE PARK INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetRitas Rainbows: $8,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetJACKS HELPING HAND INC: $6,200 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOPERATION SURF: $6,050 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSLOW MONEY SAN LUIS OBISPO: $6,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetTRANSITIONSMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONTIGO IMMIGRANT JUSTICE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSURFING FOR HOPE FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetOFF SQUARE THEATRE COMPANY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEL CAMINO HOMELESS ORGANIZATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $2,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 ↗

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

The Community Foundat…Community Foundation …Resnick FoundationMustHughes Charitable Fou…The Opatrny Family Fo…Harold J Miossi Chari…The Brooks FoundationJeffery and Sasha Szy…The James and Felicia…The Mt Moro FoundationThe Dorf Foundation I…
The Community Foundation San Luis ObispoCA42.1× affinity18 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Niner Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Niner Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 127 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home