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East West Tea Company Foundation

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.

$298k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Food & Nutrition$483kEducation$310kInternational$274kArts & Culture$138kEnvironment$132kHuman Services$127kYouth Development$125kCivil Rights$124kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $148k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$31,550
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND CO THE BATISTE FAMILY FOUNDATION$75,000
FRIENDS OF GOOD SHEPHERD INTERNATIONAL INC$75,000
ONE VILLAGE PROJECT$40,000
NEVANDRA - ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS$31,550
THE NELIXIA COMPANY SA$30,000
UTAH FILM CENTRE$25,000
CAPE NATURAL TEA PRODUCTS$11,129
THE KUMARI PROJECT$10,000
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.

Your US giving54% of grant dollars ($1.0M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 46% that went abroad ($872k) is mapped below.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $78k) 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%FRIENDS OF GOOD SHEPHERD INTERNATIONAL INC: $75k → 13%A FAMILY FOR EVERY CHILD: $3k → 15%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.

Beyond the US46% of all-years giving ($872k)

13 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Italy$153k · 3 grants
Switzerland$124k · 5 grants
Netherlands$111k · 3 grants
Panama$90k · 2 grants
Sri Lanka$64k · 2 grants
South Africa$59k · 5 grants
Germany$57k · 4 grants
United Kingdom$50k · 1 grant
Rwanda$48k · 3 grants
Spain$46k · 1 grant

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 11% of East West Tea Company Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

East West Tea Company Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 48% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 9 repeat orgs$878k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
25

Total granted

$1.0M
$692k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+20%

Still filing today

22%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationCommunity 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

  • YF
    YOGA FOR YOUTH
    4× · 2021–2024 · $430k
  • NA
    NEVANDRA - ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
    4× · 2021–2025 · $124k
  • MC
    MERCY CORPS NETHERLANDS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $111k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $75k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $68k
  • VN
    VERGER NATURALS PRIVATE LIMITED
    one grant, 2024 · $61k

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
Floresta Usa Incorporated

Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…

International
2
Nepal Youth Foundation

We bring hope to impoverished nepali children by providing what should be every child's birthright: freedom, health, shelter & education

International
3
Farmers for Forests Inc

The mission of Farmers for Forests (F4F) is to restore and protect green cover in India in close partnership with farmers and indigenous communities. All the on-ground work is enabled by AI and multi-spectral drone technology and satellite…

Human Services
4
Earthchildren Rescue Incorporated

Earthchildren builds sustainable cities and communities in dark and hard to reach places with a focus on vulnerable women and orphaned children. we create programs that deliver holistic and balanced services including learning centers and…

International
5
Food for His Children

Food for His children equips and emplowers people who are living in extreme poverty in rural Tanzania, Africa so that they can provide for their familiys basic needs including food, education, medical and a healthy home and become all Good…

International
6
The Manav Foundation
Education
7
Global Development Solutions

The purpose of global development solutions is to operate several projects and to facilitate beneficial interactions between relevant stakeholder groups. these projects include a) providing solar ovens and related resources to groups…

International
8
Friends of Family Farmers

Promote and project socially responsible agriculture in oregon, while working to support independent, family scale farmers and rachers who are ecologically farming in ways that are respectful of land, animals and community.

Food & Nutrition
9
Profugo

Community and Economic Development for Disadvantaged and Developing Communities.

International
10
Wakulima Usa

Our Food Production Center will serve as our primary storage production and distribution facility. The coop will aggregate purchase store and distribute farm inputs for members and will act as an integrator collecting the output from…

Food & Nutrition
11
Oregon Tilth Inc

Oregon tilth is a leading nonprofit certifier, educator and advocate for sustainable organic agriculture and products since 1974. the organizations mission to make the food system and agriculture biologically sound and socially equitable…

12
Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms Usa

Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms, USA (WWOOF-USA) is part of a worldwide effort to link visitors with organic farmers, promote an educational exchange, and build a global community conscious of ecological farming practices.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Everyone Church and the most unlike its peers is Appalachian Sustainable Development. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the 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 38 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YOGA FOR YOUTH — $430,000 · OtherYOGA FOR YOUTHNEVANDRA - ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS — $123,679 · OtherNEVANDRA - ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTSMERCY CORPS NETHERLANDS — $111,175 · OtherMERCY CORPS NETHERLANDSTHE NELIXIA COMPANY SA — $90,000 · OtherTHE NELIXIA COMPANY SAIndividual grant recipient — $75,000 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND CO THE BATISTE FAMILY FOUNDATION — $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $68,350 · OtherVERGER NATURALS PRIVATE LIMITED — $61,439 · Other+20 more — $498,179 · Other+20 moreTHE KUMARI PROJECT — $68,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $50,000 · International+1 more — $300 · InternationalOne Village Project — $80,000 · EnvironmentMIDDLE FORK WILLAMETTE WATERSHED COUNCIL — $10,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF GOOD SHEPHERD INTERNATIONAL INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesA FAMILY FOR EVERY CHILD — $2,644 · Human ServicesAPPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT — $40,000 · Community ImprovementUTAH FILM CENTER — $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CYBER SIKH ORGANIZATION A NON-PROFIT CALIFORNIA PUBLIC BENEFIT — $3,500 · Education
Other$1,532,822International$118,800Environment$90,000Human Services$77,644Community Improvement$40,000Arts & Culture$25,000Education$3,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOne Village Project — $80,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetTHE KUMARI PROJECT — $68,500 over 5y, 21% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAPPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT — $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFOOD FOR LANE COUNTY — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIDDLE FORK WILLAMETTE WATERSHED COUNCIL — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CYBER SIKH ORGANIZATION A NON-PROFIT CALIFORNIA PUBLIC BENEFIT — $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetA FAMILY FOR EVERY CHILD — $2,644 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE INTERNATIONAL INC — $300 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds One Village Project
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF GOOD SHEPHERD INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds THE KUMARI PROJECT
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds EVERYONE CHURCH
  • Who funds APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
  • Who funds FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY
  • Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER
  • Who funds MIDDLE FORK WILLAMETTE WATERSHED COUNCIL
  • Who funds THE CYBER SIKH ORGANIZATION A NON-PROFIT CALIFORNIA PUBLIC BENEFIT
  • Who funds A FAMILY FOR EVERY CHILD
  • Who funds CITY OF REFUGE INTERNATIONAL INC

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE5.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 East West Tea Company 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
202122232425
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 33%
  • Middle Fork Willamette Watershed Council49% of income from government
  • A Family for Every Child33% of income from government
  • Food for Lane County5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
1report 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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to East West Tea Company Foundation?

Find your warmest path to East West Tea Company 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 38 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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