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Greenstone 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.

$239k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$391kYouth Development$347kCommunity Improvement$153kHousing & Shelter$150kEducation$108kRecreation & Sports$52kPhilanthropy$25kFood & Nutrition$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $178k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$18,750
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INW Pop Warner Football$50,000
Famil Promise of Spokane$30,000
BIG TABLE$25,000
Our Place Community Ministries$25,000
SALVATION ARMY NEW BEGINNINGS$25,000
Individual grant recipient$22,000
Hope School$20,740
Spark Central$18,750
GIZMO$12,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
Riverbend School$2,616
CHILDRENS'S VILLAGE$2,000
Women and Children Free$1,394
Post Falls Wrestiling e$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
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 (FY18–25, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHILDRENS'S VILLAGE: $2k → 10%CHILDRENS'S VILLAGE: $103 → 10%Spokane Valley Partners: $23k → 12%Spokane Valley Partners: $5k → 12%Spokane Valley Partners: $5k → 12%Hutton Settlement: $2k → 12%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.
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 14 repeat orgs$155k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +116% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
13

Total granted

$1.1M
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+116%
+16%

Still filing today

43%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CulturePublic BenefitAnimalsReligionOther
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

  • OUR PLACE COMMUNITY OUTREACH
    7× · 2018–2025 · $180k · revenue +116%
  • FP
    Family Promise of Spokane
    5× · 2021–2025 · $150k · revenue +298%
  • PI
    PARTNERS INLAND NORTHWEST
    3× · 2018–2020 · $33k · revenue +163%

Funded once

  • RW
    REACH WEST CENTRAL
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • SV
    Spokane Valley Meals On Wheels
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
  • SS
    SINTO SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -47%
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
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
2
Transitions

Transitions works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane, Washington.

Human Services
3
Family Promise of Pierce County

To empower families experiencing housing insecurity through intervention, prevention,and stabilization services.

Housing & Shelter
4
Habitat for Humanity - Spokane

Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Habitat for Humanity-Spokane adheres to a…

Housing & Shelter
5
Canopy Nwa

Canopys mission is to create a community where refugees and immigrants are welcomed and equiped with all they need to build new lives. Canopys vision is to see refugees and our community model thriving together.

Community Improvement
6
Family Promise in Anoka County

Family Promise in Anoka County (FPAC) empowers families experiencing housing insecurity to build a foundation of lasting independence.

Human Services
7
Network Services

Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…

Human Services
8
Family Promise of the Palouse Inc

Program offerings include rotational shelter with on-site case management, homeless prevention appointments, rapid rehousing/diversion appointments, volunteer activities, administrative operations, daily living tasks for families & on-site…

Human Services
9
Snohomish County Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

To provide food, shelter, clothing and other services to people in need in our community.

Human Services
10
Summit Initiative

The mission of Summit is to equip people to build authentic communities that embrace freedom through God's love, foster hope, demonstrate compassion, and help people discover their true God-given identity and purpose.

International
11
Spokane Parks Foundation

The Spokane Parks Foundation cultivates the health, growth, and continued enjoyment of our communities by inspiring giving and passion for our parks.

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12
Skagit Valley Hospitality House Association

To reflect the heart of God by feeding, sheltering, clothing, healing and empowering those in need. Programs include housing, a cafe and job training system, shelter resources, and more. Our core values are: compassion, respect, joy and…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partners Inland Northwest; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Pavillion Park. 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

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 34 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OUR PLACE COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $180,000 · OtherOUR PLACE COMMUNITY OUTREACHSALVATION ARMY NEW BEGINNINGS: $160,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY NEW BEGINNINGSHope School: $102,895 · OtherHope SchoolGIZMO: $94,000 · OtherGIZMOINW Pop Warner Football: $50,000 · OtherINW Pop Warner FootballREACH WEST CENTRAL: $30,000 · Other+20 more: $65,893 · Other+20 moreSpark Central: $346,870 · Arts & CultureSpark CentralFamily Promise of Spokane: $150,000 · ReligionFamily Promis…PARTNERS INLAND NORTHWEST: $32,500 · Human ServicesCANOPY VILLAGE INC: $2,103 · Human ServicesTHE HUTTON SETTLEMENT: $1,500 · Human ServicesThe Big Table: $25,000 · PhilanthropyNEWBY-GINNINGS OF NORTH IDAHO INC: $7,000 · Public BenefitNAOMI COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$682,788Arts & Culture$346,870Religion$150,000Human Services$36,103Philanthropy$25,000Public Benefit$7,000Housing & Shelter$2,000

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 budgetSpark Central: $346,870 over 7y, 21% of budgetOUR PLACE COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $180,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetFamily Promise of Spokane: $150,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetPARTNERS INLAND NORTHWEST: $32,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe Big Table: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSINTO SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER: $4,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCANOPY VILLAGE INC: $2,103 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAOMI COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE HUTTON SETTLEMENT: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Spark Central ↗
  • Who funds OUR PLACE COMMUNITY OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds Family Promise of Spokane ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS INLAND NORTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds The Big Table ↗
  • Who funds NEWBY-GINNINGS OF NORTH IDAHO INC ↗
  • Who funds SINTO SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CANOPY VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds NAOMI COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF PAVILLION PARK ↗
  • Who funds THE HUTTON SETTLEMENT ↗
  • Who funds Coeur d Alene Area Swim Team ↗
  • Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds MURCIS MISSION ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗

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.

Innovia FoundationWA24.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Innovia Foundation · The Avista Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Project Beauty Share · Women Helping Women Fund · Numerica Credit Union · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Greenstone Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greenstone Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%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 · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Greenstone Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Greenstone 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 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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