· Private foundation
Crystal Springs 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $841k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHELTERBOX | $250,000 |
| THE OTHER SIDE ACADEMY | $250,000 |
| LDS FAST OFFERING FUND | $150,000 |
| FREEDOM MISSIONARY CHURCH | $120,000 |
| AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH AIDS | $115,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $100,000 |
| ACTION AGAINST HUNGER | $100,000 |
| FRED HUTCH (UW MEDICINE) | $100,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $100,000 |
| BRIDGE OF PROMISE | $56,000 |
| FOREVER YOUNG FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| RAVEN ROCK RANCH | $25,000 |
| MAUI PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| KLAMATH BASIN SENIOR CITIZEN'S CENTER | $7,500 |
| HENRY'S FORK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $754k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SUSHELTERBOX USA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +34%
- TOThe Other Side Academy4× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +271%
- ENENGAGE NOW AFRICA INC2× · 2022–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +31%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN KING COUNTYone grant, 2020 · $315k
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2020 · $300k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY NWone grant, 2021 · $252k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.
USA for UNHCR protects and supports refugees by mobilizing resources, elevating awareness, and driving action through a network of engaged supporters.
Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…
URF is a 501(c)(30 nonprofit based in California. We receive funds through private donations and spend them on several programs, providing aid, rescue, and relief for Ukrainian war victims in the form of cash donations for food, shelter,…
Aid For Starving Children provides assistance around the world to children and their families by providing food, shelter, clean water, financial assistance, education, and emergency relief to victims of famine, natural disasters, and war.
Irap is a global legal aid and advocacy organization working to create a world where refugees and all people seeking safety are empowered to claim their right to freedom of movement and a path to lasting refuge. everyone should have a safe…
Zoe Empowers is a global network of local organizations throughout Africa and India providing a replicable and scalable framework whereby youth led or resourced families are provided the training, resources, and community support to become…
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
A family for every child in our lifetime.
To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa and the most unlike its peers is Raven Rock Ranch. 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.
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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
24 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. 24 of the 40 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SHELTERBOX USA INC ↗
- Who funds The Other Side Academy ↗
- Who funds ENGAGE NOW AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds FOREVER YOUNG FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds ASSET INDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OF PROMISE ↗
- Who funds UPAYA SOCIAL VENTURES ↗
- Who funds RAVEN ROCK RANCH ↗
- Who funds HENRYS FORK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH BASIN SENIOR CITIZENS' CENTER ↗
- Who funds MAUI PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EMPACT NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds Vai Sikahema Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROGUE RETREAT ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH CENTER OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Seattle Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Crystal Springs 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Rogue Retreat — 12% of income from government
- Klamath Basin Senior Citizens' Center — 6% of income from government
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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