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Bw718 Foundation Inc

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.

$677k
Granted FY2018
10
Grants FY2018
3
States reached
$170k
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 FY20172018.

Religion$329kHealth$291kEducation$229kAnimals$142kHuman Services$127kRecreation & Sports$102kYouth Development$20kArts & Culture$10kOther$0
02FY2018 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $67k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $601k
$80,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$6k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF VIRGINIA$170,000
ANIMAL SHELTER OF THE WOOD RIVER V$96,000
ADVOCATES FOR SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC$95,000
THE COMMUNITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION$95,000
VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION$80,000
ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION$65,000
US SKI & SNOWBOARDING FOUNDATION$25,000
BLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC$22,000
AYLETT COUNTY DAY SCHOOL$20,000
SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION$9,000
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 (FY17–18, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%BLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC: $22k → 7%BLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC: $10k → 7%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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$869k · 6 repeat orgs$290k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +98% since the first grant, against +66% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
9

Total granted

$869k
$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+98%
+66%

Still filing today

50%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther

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

  • SL
    ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $270k · revenue +98%
  • SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $47k · revenue +12%
  • BC
    BLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC THE SENIOR CONNECTION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $32k · revenue +200%

Funded once

  • BH
    Baptist Health South Florida Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +66%
  • PM
    PIONEER MONTESSORI SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +31%
  • BC
    BLAINE COUNTY 4-H
    one grant, 2017 · $12k

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
Sunny Hollow Montessori

Sunny hollow montessori cultivates each child's intellectual and creative potential, appreciation of relationships in nature and society, and sense of individual responsibility.

Education
2
Vail Mountain School

We inspire tomorrow's ethical leaders by developing character, seeking knowledge, and building a community of lifelong learners from the heart of the colorado mountains to the world beyond.

Education
3
Our Lady of the Woods Corporation

To operate a private school for age 3 through eighth grade students.

4
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
5
Ball Charter Schools (Val Vista)

Arizona ball charter schools provides a personalized education to all students emphasizing comprehensive academic excellence in a safe, nurturing environment through partnering parents, students and staff.

Education
6
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
7
Big Sur Charter School

The school designs and implements academically challenging programs tailored to students'individual learning needs. engaging families and community organizations as partners in learning, the school promotes creativity, understanding, and…

Education
8
The Chestnut Hill School

At the chestnut hill school, our mission to educate children is deeply rooted in a commitment to academic excellence, diversity, and community. we engage, challenge and support children as they develop the skills and confidence to achieve…

Education
9
Cliff Valley School Inc

To provide outstanding education, focused on children's academic and social development in a caring community environment.

10
Richard Winn Academy

To provide a superior education for prekindergarten through twelfth grade students in a safe, well-disciplined and nurturing environment. this mission has remained constant throughout the 50 plus year history of the school. founders…

11
Sonoma Charter School

Sonoma charter school seeks to achieve academic excellence through engaged learning in a setting that involves students, teachers, and parents.

Education
12
The Town School Inc

The town school is committed to elementary coeducation, serving students in nursery through eighth grade. as we embrace high academic and ethical standards for each student, we are guided by our school motto, let there be joy in learning.…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New Community School Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Art for the Journey. 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

12 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. 12 of the 19 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DIOCESE OF VIRGINIA — $328,500 · OtherDIOCESE OF VIRGINIAANIMAL SHELTER OF THE WOOD RIVER V — $142,000 · OtherANIMAL SHELTER OF THE WOOD RIVER VADVOCATES FOR SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT INC — $95,000 · OtherADVOCATES FOR SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT I…US SKI & SNOWBOARDING FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherUS SKI & SNOWBOARDING FOUNDATIONSUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $46,700 · OtherSUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC+5 more — $39,000 · Other+5 moreST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC — $270,149 · HealthST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUND…Baptist Health South Florida Inc — $20,000 · HealthBaptist Health South Flori…VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · EducationVIRGINIA TECH FOUND…The Community Library Association Inc — $95,000 · EducationThe Community Libra…PIONEER MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $13,200 · EducationPIONEER MONTESSORI …THE MENTORING NETWORK INC — $7,500 · EducationBLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC THE SENIOR CONNECTION — $31,859 · Human ServicesArt For The Journey — $10,000 · Arts & CultureBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC — $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$701,200Health$290,149Education$215,700Human Services$31,859Arts & Culture$10,000Food & Nutrition$10,000

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 budgetST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC — $270,149 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Community Library Association Inc — $95,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $46,700 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC THE SENIOR CONNECTION — $31,859 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBaptist Health South Florida Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIONEER MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $13,200 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetArt For The Journey — $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MENTORING NETWORK INC — $7,500 over 1y, 6.0% 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.

Idaho Community Foundation IncID15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Spur Community Foundation Inc · Heinz Family Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Greater Horizons · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Bw718 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Bw718 Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Bw718 Foundation Inc 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 19 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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