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Seven Springs Foundation at a glance

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Seven 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.

$116k
Granted FY2022
7
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

98% of Seven Springs Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Marin Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Seven Springs Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $116k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’17
4
’18
6
’19
6
’20
8
’21
7
’22
2
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$1.8MEnvironment$320kArts & Culture$168kEducation$95kHealth$25kCommunity Improvement$10kAnimals$10k
02FY2022 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k1 grant · $4k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $112k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$12k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOLDEN GATE SALMON ASSOC$30,000
BELVEDERE TIBURON LANDMARK SOCIETY$20,000
MAUI NUI BOTANICAL GARDENS$20,000
RESOURCE RENEWAL INSTITUTE$15,000
SHARING NATURE WORLDWIDE$15,000
HUI NO'EAU VISUAL ARTS CENTER$12,000
THRESHOLD FOUNDATION$3,500
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 (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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%HOSPICE MAUI: $5k → 9%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$584k · 9 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
3

Total granted

$584k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+351%

Still filing today

89%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentInternationalHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • MN
    MAUI NUI BOTANICAL GARDENS INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $125k · revenue +58%
  • GS
    GOLDEN STATE SALMON ASSOCIATION INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $105k · revenue +43%
  • HN
    HUI NO'EAU
    6× · 2017–2022 · $72k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • LP
    LOKAHI PACIFICgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +351%
  • PE
    PONO ETHOS
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • HM
    HOSPICE MAUI INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +112%
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
Ocean Alliance Project

Protecting and promoting the marine biodiversity of Hawai'i through coral restoration, ecological monitoring, regenerative tourism, and cultural integration

Science & Tech
2
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
3
Na Mamo o Kawa

to rehabilitate, curate, and steward the natural and cultural resources of Kawa to honor the past, benefit the present, and preserve for the future generations of Ka'u, the Island of Hawaii and all humankind.

Environment
4
The Haiku Aina Permaculture Initiative
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5
Protect & Preserve Hawaii Inc

Embracing our kuleana to protect and preserve hawaii's fragile ecosystems through conservation, culture, and community.

Environment
6
Malama Kua Aina
Environment
7
Conservation Council for Hawaii

Dedicated to the protection of native hawaiian plants, animals, and ecosystems for future generations.

Environment
8
Hui Aloha Kiholo

Our mission is to protect, perpetuate, and enhance the cultural and natural landscape of the kiholo bay area through collaborative management and active community stewardship.

Arts & Culture
9
Tri-Isle Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc

To identify problems in natural resources and support community-based and identified projects that protect, preserve and develop island communities with a focus on maui county through the implementation, management and fiscal sponsorship…

—
10
Hanalei River Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Waimea Malama Inc
Environment
12
Hawaiian Islands Land Trust

Hawaiian islands land trust dba hawai'i land trust (hilt) is hawai'i's statewide land trust that is both a hawai'i 501(c)3 nonprofit, and a nationally accredited land trust. hilt's mission is to protect and steward the lands that sustain…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marin Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Resource Renewal Institute. 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 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. 12 of the 14 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,837,361 · PhilanthropyMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONMAUI NUI BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $125,000 · EnvironmentMAUI NUI BOT…RESOURCE RENEWAL INSTITUTE: $105,000 · EnvironmentRESOURCE REN…Sharing Nature Worldwide: $40,000 · EnvironmentSharing Natu…HUI NO'EAU: $72,000 · OtherMAUI ARTS CULTURAL CENTER: $41,300 · OtherENVIRONMENT HAWAII INC: $25,560 · OtherPONO ETHOS: $10,000 · OtherLOKAHI PACIFIC: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · OtherGOLDEN STATE SALMON ASSOCIATION INC: $105,000 · EducationBELVEDERE-TIBURON LANDMARKS SOCIETY: $55,000 · Arts & CultureUpstream USA Inc: $20,000 · HealthTHRESHOLD FOUNDATION: $14,671 · International
Philanthropy$1,837,361Environment$270,000Other$163,860Education$105,000Arts & Culture$55,000Health$20,000International$14,671

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 budgetMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,837,361 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMAUI NUI BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $125,000 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetRESOURCE RENEWAL INSTITUTE: $105,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetGOLDEN STATE SALMON ASSOCIATION INC: $105,000 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetHUI NO'EAU: $72,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetBELVEDERE-TIBURON LANDMARKS SOCIETY: $55,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetSharing Nature Worldwide: $40,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetENVIRONMENT HAWAII INC: $25,560 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUpstream USA Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHRESHOLD FOUNDATION: $14,671 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLOKAHI PACIFIC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHOSPICE MAUI INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Marin Community Found…Fred Baldwin Memorial…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Marin Community FoundationCA22.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Seven Springs Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seven Springs Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Upstream Usa Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 14 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home