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Bristle Cone Pine Foundation 009266-000

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$72k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$142kArts & Culture$85kFood & Nutrition$78kHuman Services$33kHealth$30kCrime & Legal$26kEducation$23kPhilanthropy$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$3,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOTE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC$15,000
NEW HAVEN LEGAL ASSISTANCE$5,000
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC$5,000
NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$5,000
MAKEHAVEN INC$5,000
OPEN SPACE$3,500
THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$3,000
THE NEW HAVEN READS COMMUNITY BOOK$3,000
ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION$3,000
CHARLESTON LIBRARY SOCIETY$3,000
YELLOW WORK INC$3,000
CUSABO NATION LACROSSE$3,000
PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF CHARLESTON$2,500
LOWCOUNTRY AUTISM FOUNDATION INC$2,500
CHARLESTON PARKS CONSERVANCY$2,000
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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

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AL
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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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$303k · 15 repeat orgs$229k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
42

Total granted

$303k
$184k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+8%

Still filing today

80%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureFood & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • NB
    NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $56k · revenue +1%
  • TC
    THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE FAIR SENTENCING OF YOUTH
    2× · 2020–2023 · $25k · revenue +18%
  • TF
    THE FOOTE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED
    2× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • CITY HARVEST INC
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +3%
  • FM
    Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshopgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +62%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +21%
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
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
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
4
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
5
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…

Crime & Legal
6
West Side Center for Community Life

To pursue anti-hunger initiatives through the west side campaign against hunger (wscah) program whose mission is to alleviate hunger by ensuring that all new yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food and supportive…

Youth Development
7
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
8
Nashville Food Project Inc

The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food to cultivate community and alleviate hunger. through community food access, agriculture, education, and strategic partnerships, we work toward a…

Food & Nutrition
9
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
10
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
11
Common Good City Farm

Common Good City Farm is an urban farm in Washington, DC, where community members source fresh food, see sustainable urban agriculture in action, and learn healthy skills. Our mission is to sustain and support a more equitable community…

Food & Nutrition
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dc Central Kitchen Inc; the most unlike its peers is Soul River Inc. 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

64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 76 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/64
Grantees still filing
42/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $130,000 · OtherSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION+43 more: $158,000 · Other+43 moreNEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC: $56,000 · Arts & CultureNEW BRITAIN MUSEUM O…JusticeAid: $20,000 · Arts & CultureJusticeAidOREGON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON CONTEMPORARY THEATRE: $4,500 · Arts & CultureOpen Space: $3,500 · 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 TABL…CITY HARVEST INC: $7,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARV…CHEROKEE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS: $5,000 · Food & NutritionCHEROKEE …MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREENVILLE INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON …LOAVES AND FISHES: $5,000 · Food & NutritionLOAVES AN…THE SPARTANBURG SOUP KITCHEN INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionTHE SPART…MOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionMOBILE ME…UNION COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS: $5,000 · Food & NutritionUNION COU…THE FOOTE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $25,000 · EducationTHE FOOTE…Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop: $5,000 · EducationFree Mind…MAKEHAVEN INC: $5,000 · EducationMAKEHAVEN…A WIDER CIRCLE INC: $5,000 · EducationA WIDER C…Yellow Work Inc: $3,000 · EducationYellow Wo…The Crayon Initiative: $1,500 · EducationTHE 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 ServicesLOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF: $2,000 · Human ServicesENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $13,000 · PhilanthropySpartanburg County Foundation: $5,000 · PhilanthropyFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF LAGRANGE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$288,000Arts & Culture$97,000Food & Nutrition$47,000Education$44,500Crime & Legal$25,000Human Services$25,000Philanthropy$23,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC: $56,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN FOR THE FAIR SENTENCING OF YOUTH: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FOOTE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJusticeAid: $20,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 5y, 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 budgetFree Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HOST INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHEROKEE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOREGON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetN STREET VILLAGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLE TYGER COMMUNITY CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF GREENVILLE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpartanburg County Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHARMONY HOUSE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF LAGRANGE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE SPARTANBURG SOUP KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFOSTERING GREAT IDEAS: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLAGRANGE PERSONAL AID ASSOCIATION ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSt Luke's Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 budgetYellow Work Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOregon Environmental Council: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCUSABO NATION LACROSSE INC DBA SOUTH CAROLINA YOUTH LACROSSE: $3,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCOLLAB INCORPORATED: $2,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Preservation Society of Charleston Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRESHWATER TRUST: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRUDENCE CRANDALL CENTER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Charleston Parks Conservancy: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Crayon Initiative: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGreen Heart Project Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUL RIVER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Winky Foundation …Gerrish H Milliken Fo…South Carolina Christ…The Jolley FoundationSpartanburg County Fo…Falatok FoundationSisk Foundation Bunco…Prisma Health-UpstateSisters of Charity Fo…Duke Energy FoundationTimken Foundation of …Barnet Foundation
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

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 Bristle Cone Pine Foundation 009266-000 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bristle Cone Pine Foundation 009266-000. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Prudence Crandall Center Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Friends of Zenger Farm: 28% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • The Freshwater Trust: 17% of income from government
  • Ecotrust: 14% of income from government
  • New Britain Museum of American Art Inc: 7% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Oregon Contemporary Theatre: 5% of income from government
  • Oregon Center for Contemporary Art Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Forge City Works Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting: 1% 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, 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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 76 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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