· Private foundation
Equinox Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHWEST CENTER FOR BIODIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| GLYNWOOD CENTER INC | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| NRDC ACTION FUND | $10,000 |
| REED COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| FERN RIDGE LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $10,000 |
| UNITED STATES ASSOCIATION FOR UNHCR | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CHEWONKI FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| EPICENTER 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 (FY21–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +36% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- BCBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION6× · 2017–2024 · $62k · revenue +47%
- CCCARLETON COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +39%
- OSOXBOW SCHOOL6× · 2018–2023 · $24k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- RCREED COLLEGE PARENTS FUNDone grant, 2017 · $15k
- GCGYLNWOOD CENTERone grant, 2020 · $15k
- SPST PAUL'S SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nrdc Action Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cascade Medical Team. 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 30 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.
26 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. 26 of the 37 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 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds REED INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds OXBOW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Chewonki Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FERN RIDGE LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC CREST TRAIL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds NRDC ACTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds EPICENTER Foundation ↗
- Who funds GLYNWOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BRING Recycling ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CASCADE MEDICAL TEAM ↗
- Who funds McKenzie River Trust ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KENYA SCHOOLS AND WILDLIFE ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds SEED GLOBAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYA ↗
- Who funds NDN COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
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: The Oregon Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Equinox 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.
- McKenzie River Trust — 8% of income from government
- Bring Recycling — 7% of income from government
- Playa — 5% of income from government
- Food for Lane County — 5% of income from government
- Reed Institute — 1% of income from government
- Bennington College Corporation — 0% 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.