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Bristle Cone Pine Foundation 009266-000

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.

$60k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Environment$142kArts & Culture$85kFood & Nutrition$78kHuman Services$33kHealth$30kCrime & Legal$26kEducation$23kPhilanthropy$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$60,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$87k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION$60,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%GOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 17%GOOD PLUS FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT SERVICES: $5k → 10%HARMONY HOUSE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC: $5k → 18%FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS: $5k → 10%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$268k · 13 repeat orgs$195k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
44

Total granted

$268k
$195k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+18%

Still filing today

85%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Food & NutritionArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther

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

  • NB
    NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $51k · revenue +1%
  • TC
    THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE FAIR SENTENCING OF YOUTH
    2× · 2020–2023 · $25k · revenue +71%
  • J
    JusticeAid
    3× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +119%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FOOTE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +23%
  • CITY HARVEST INC
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +3%
  • NS
    N STREET VILLAGE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -12%

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.

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The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
2
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
3
Farmer Foodshare Inc

Our mission is to increase access to fresh, local food for all while supporting the viability of marginalized farmers to create a more equitable food system.

Food & Nutrition
4
Moveable Feast Inc

Moveable feast's mission is to improve the health of marylanders experiencing food insecurity and chronic illness by preparing and delivering medically tailored meals and providing nutrition education, thereby achieving racial, social, and…

5
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
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Philabundance

PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…

Food & Nutrition
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Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
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Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
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Food Connect Co

At food connect, we're dedicated to bridging the gaps in our food system, working to end hunger and fostering healthier communities through our innovative initiatives and programs. we build scalable technologies that support last-mile…

Food & Nutrition
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Urban Recipe Inc

Urban recipe promotes food security and dignity through intentionally designed community-driven food cooperatives prioritizing equitable food access, relationship building and participation in decision making.

Food & Nutrition
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Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition
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Harvesters - the Community Food Network

Harvesters mobilizes the power of our community to create equitable access to nutritious food and address the root causes and impact of hunger.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mobile Meals of Spartanburg County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Life Pieces to Masterpieces. 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 backsteadyLocal History MuseumsIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity Arts CentersPolicy Research and AdvocacyYouth Development ServicesLocal Food System Organizat…United Way AffiliatesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Senior Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Food Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsDomestic Violence ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …
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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%36%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%40%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%12%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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%0/49
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,516

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

48 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 59 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
34/48
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $130,000 · OtherSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION+30 more — $122,500 · Other+30 moreNEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC — $51,000 · Arts & CultureNEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF…JusticeAid — $20,000 · Arts & CultureJusticeAidOREGON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON CENTER FOR CON…OREGON CONTEMPORARY THEATRE — $4,500 · Arts & CulturePOWRPLNT INC — $3,500 · Arts & CultureLIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES — $3,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureOPEN TABLE MDI — $10,000 · Food & NutritionOPEN TABLE …CITY HARVEST INC — $7,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVES…UNION COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS — $5,000 · Food & NutritionUNION COUNT…MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREENVILLE INC — $5,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WH…MOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC — $5,000 · Food & NutritionMOBILE MEAL…LOAVES AND FISHES — $5,000 · Food & NutritionLOAVES AND …THE SPARTANBURG SOUP KITCHEN INC — $5,000 · Food & NutritionTHE SPARTAN…CHEROKEE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS — $5,000 · Food & NutritionCHEROKEE CO…THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE FAIR SENTENCING OF YOUTH — $25,000 · Crime & LegalGOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesHARMONY HOUSE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHE INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERING GREAT IDEAS — $5,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES — $5,000 · Human ServicesPRUDENCE CRANDALL CENTER INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOOTE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED — $10,000 · EducationA WIDER CIRCLE INC — $5,000 · EducationFree Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop — $5,000 · EducationThe Crayon Initiative — $1,500 · EducationENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropySpartanburg County Foundation — $5,000 · PhilanthropyFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF LAGRANGE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$252,500Arts & Culture$88,500Food & Nutrition$47,000Crime & Legal$25,000Human Services$23,000Education$21,500Philanthropy$20,000

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 budgetNEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC — $51,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN FOR THE FAIR SENTENCING OF YOUTH — $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJusticeAid — $20,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FOOTE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN TABLE MDI — $10,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetECOTRUST — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetN STREET VILLAGE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpartanburg County Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARMONY HOUSE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOST INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOREGON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFOSTERING GREAT IDEAS — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF GREENVILLE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIDDLE TYGER COMMUNITY CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLAGRANGE PERSONAL AID ASSOCIATION ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Luke's Foundation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF LAGRANGE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetFree Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSpartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SPARTANBURG SOUP KITCHEN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHEROKEE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOREGON CONTEMPORARY THEATRE — $4,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFORGE CITY WORKS INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOWRPLNT INC — $3,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetLIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOregon Environmental Council — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLAB INCORPORATED — $2,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPRUDENCE CRANDALL CENTER INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRESHWATER TRUST — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUL RIVER INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Crayon Initiative — $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ZENGER FARM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $1,000 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 Winky Foundation Co Wilmington Trust CoDE34.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Winky Foundation Co Wilmington Trust Co · Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009 · South Carolina Christian Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · Spartanburg County Foundation · Falatok Foundation · Sisk Foundation Buncombe St Methodist Church · Prisma Health-Upstate · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Duke Energy Foundation · Timken Foundation of Canton · Barnet 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 Bristle Cone Pine Foundation 009266-000 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
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Prudence Crandall Center Inc30% of income from government
  • Friends of Zenger Farm28% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank21% of income from government
  • The Freshwater Trust17% of income from government
  • Ecotrust14% of income from government
  • New Britain Museum of American Art Inc7% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc6% of income from government
  • Oregon Contemporary Theatre5% of income from government
  • Oregon Center for Contemporary Art Inc4% of income from government
  • Forge City Works Inc1% of income from government
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
15report 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, FY2025

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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Find your warmest path to Bristle Cone Pine Foundation 009266-000 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 59 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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