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Wayne D Kuni and Joan E Kuni Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$7.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Health$12MEducation$6.6MPhilanthropy$3.7MHousing & Shelter$644kHuman Services$344kArts & Culture$217kCommunity Improvement$162kRecreation & Sports$142kOther$0
02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $412k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $986k
  • $250k+7 grants · $6.2M
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$172M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$2,026,766
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$1,440,000
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER$898,738
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY$894,373
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$350,000
SWEDISH CANCER INSTITUTE$298,592
SAMMY'S PLACE$283,333
Individual grant recipient$225,000
POCKET NEIGHBORHOOD FOUNDATION$200,000
FOURTH PLAIN FORWARD$161,448
PHAME ACADEMY$102,100
CITY OF VANCOUVER$100,000
Individual grant recipient$97,500
PARKVIEW SERVICES$50,200
GERMAINE'S CULINARY INC$50,000
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HORIZON PROJECT INC: $200k → 12%SAMMY'S PLACE: $283k → 12%OREGON SELF ADVOCACY COALITION: $200 → 14%HOME LIFE: $20k → 18%FOUNDATION FOR THE CHALLENGED: $5k → 15%PARKVIEW SERVICES: $75k → 9%TIERRA VILLAGE: $20k → 9%HOLLY RIDGE CENTER: $30k → 10%THE ARC OF GRAY'S HARBOR: $354k → 18%HORIZON PROJECT INC: $200 → 12%PARKVIEW SERVICES: $50k → 9%ALPHA SUPPORTED LIVING SERVICES: $150k → 9%NORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES: $500 → 9%ALPHA SUPPORTED LIVING SERVICES: $25k → 9%ADVOCATES FOR LIFE SKILLS AND OPPORTUNITY INC: $300k → 12%COMMUNITY VISION INC: $5k → 12%COMMUNITY VISION INC: $5k → 12%COMMUNITY VISION INC: $3k → 12%COMMUNITY VISION INC: $2k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$16M · 14 repeat orgs$4.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
14

Total granted

$16M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+10%

Still filing today

71%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEmploymentCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther

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

  • FH
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +97%
  • HORIZON PROJECT INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +2%
  • AS
    ALPHA SUPPORTED LIVING SERVICES
    2× · 2023–2024 · $175k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • TA
    The ARC of Grays Harbor
    one grant, 2023 · $354k · revenue +4% · 63% of their budget
  • AF
    ADVOCATES FOR LIFE SKILLS AND OPPORTUNITY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue -9%
  • VC
    VILLAGE COMMUNITY SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -24%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
LArche Portland

At l'arche portland people with and without developmental disabilities create home and build community together. we nurture long-term mutual relationships that reveal the gifts of people with developmental disabilities. in doing so we…

Human Services
2
Abilities At Work

To provide employment and alternative service programs for developmentally disabled adults in the portland metro area.

Employment
3
Specialized Housing Inc

Provide housing to low-income individuals with disabilities.

Housing & Shelter
4
Provail

Provail's mission is to support people with disabilities to fulfill their life choices.

Health
5
Oregon Supported Living Prgm

To empower adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities

—
6
Southern Oregon Aspire

Our mission is to inspire unlimited opportunities for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to live the life they choose by providing person-centered supports tailored to the unique needs of each individual.

Employment
7
The Arc Oregon

The arc of oregon, together with its network of members and affiliated chapters, advocates for the rights and full community participation of all children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

—
8
Westside Community Focus

Westside community focus is a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching independent living skills, as well as providing housing, advocacy and other services that primarily assist adults who have developmental disabilities. we strive to…

Human Services
9
Residential Services Inc

Residential Services, Inc. provides living options and related supports to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities of all ages.

Health
10
Lifeworks Incorporated

Lifeworks provides education, jobs and homes for persons with developmental disabilities empowering them to lead meaningful lives within the community. our guiding principles ensure that lifeworks staff and volunteers strive to create and…

Human Services
11
Community Residences Inc

Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.

Human Services
12
Inclusive Horizons Inc

Inclusive Horizons provides community integration services for adults with intensive behavioral support needs through individualized programming, vocational skill development, life skills training, and meaningful participation in community…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advocates for Life Skills and Opportunity Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tierra Village Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealthcare Access and Innov…Supportive Housing & Transi…Community Arts OrganizationsChildren's Health & Wellnes…Legal Advocacy and AccessYouth Education Funders
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr19%33%20–35yr12%33%35–55yr14%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr19%66%20–35yr12%28%35–55yr14%1%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/42
the rest of the field
13%
4,044/32,119

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.

04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 55 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
27/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON — $6,594,411 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY — $4,905,582 · OtherOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — $1,440,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE+24 more — $1,520,787 · Other+24 moreCommunity Foundation for SW Washington — $3,738,088 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundat…+1 more — $200 · PhilanthropyFred Hutchinson Cancer Center — $3,173,738 · HealthFred Hutchinson C…SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $350,000 · HealthSEATTLE CHILDREN'…+2 more — $185,000 · HealthThe ARC of Grays Harbor — $354,000 · Human ServicesADVOCATES FOR LIFE SKILLS AND OPPORTUNITY INC — $300,000 · Human ServicesSAMMYS PLACE — $283,333 · Human ServicesHORIZON PROJECT INC — $200,200 · Human ServicesALPHA SUPPORTED LIVING SERVICES — $175,000 · Human ServicesPARKVIEW SERVICES — $125,400 · Human Services+7 more — $91,550 · Human ServicesVILLAGE COMMUNITY SERVICES — $250,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY HOMES INC — $46,740 · Housing & ShelterHousing Oregon — $21,500 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $200 · Housing & ShelterFOURTH PLAIN FORWARD — $161,448 · Community ImprovementORION INDUSTRIES — $15,686 · Community ImprovementEDWARDS CENTER INC — $64,632 · EmploymentGERMAINES CULINARY INC — $50,000 · EmploymentEXCEED ENTERPRISES INC CO ALBERTINA KERR — $20,000 · Employment
Other$14,460,780Philanthropy$3,738,288Health$3,708,738Human Services$1,529,483Housing & Shelter$318,440Community Improvement$177,134Employment$134,632

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCommunity Foundation for SW Washington — $3,738,088 over 4y, 18% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center — $3,173,738 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe ARC of Grays Harbor — $354,000 over 1y, 63% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $350,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADVOCATES FOR LIFE SKILLS AND OPPORTUNITY INC — $300,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSAMMYS PLACE — $283,333 over 1y, 20% of budgetVILLAGE COMMUNITY SERVICES — $250,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetHORIZON PROJECT INC — $200,200 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetALPHA SUPPORTED LIVING SERVICES — $175,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFOURTH PLAIN FORWARD — $161,448 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetPARKVIEW SERVICES — $125,400 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPHAME ACADEMY — $107,890 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetOLYMPIC NEIGHBORS — $100,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetPROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $85,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChildrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute — $75,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetEDWARDS CENTER INC — $64,632 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH POLE STUDIO — $58,700 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetGERMAINES CULINARY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOMES INC — $46,740 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHOLLY RIDGE CENTER — $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSpecial Olympics Oregon Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPORTLAND ART MUSEUM — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHousing Oregon — $21,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetPEARL BUCK CENTER INCORPORATED — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTIERRA VILLAGE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHOME LIFE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEXCEED ENTERPRISES INC CO ALBERTINA KERR — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTEPS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Arc of Spokane — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS OREGON — $17,900 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SHADOW PROJECT — $16,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY VISION INC — $15,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetORION INDUSTRIES — $15,686 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHarpers Playground — $13,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CHALLENGED — $5,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOregon Self Advocacy Coalition — $200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALBERTINA KERR CENTERS FOUNDATION — $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST HOUSING ALTERNATIVES — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 …Marie Lamfrom Charita…The Collins FoundationThe Robert D and Marc…OCF Joseph E Weston P…Umpqua Bank Charitabl…Meyer Memorial TrustM J Murdock Charitabl…The Firstenburg Found…The Autzen FoundationHillman Family Founda…The Ford Family Found…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR39.3× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Collins Foundation · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Firstenburg Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Ford Family Foundation

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 Wayne D Kuni and Joan E Kuni Foundation 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 68%
  • Home Life Inc — 95% of income from government
  • Community Vision Inc — 92% of income from government
  • Advocates for Life Skills and Opportunity Inc — 91% of income from government
  • Oregon Self Advocacy Coalition — 90% of income from government
  • Horizon Project Inc — 84% of income from government
  • Disability Rights Oregon — 84% of income from government
  • Edwards Center Inc — 79% of income from government
  • Pearl Buck Center Incorporated — 76% of income from government
  • Exceed Enterprises Inc Co Albertina Kerr — 68% of income from government
  • Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute — 44% of income from government
  • Sammys Place — 12% of income from government
  • The Shadow Project — 8% of income from government
  • Providence Portland Medical Foundation — 5% of income from government
  • Northwest Housing Alternatives — 1% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
  • North Pole Studio — 0% of income from government
  • Phame Academy — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
9rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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How do I get to Wayne D Kuni and Joan E Kuni Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wayne D Kuni and Joan E Kuni Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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