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Sft Endowment for Technology Education and the Arts at a glance

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Sft Endowment for Technology Education and the Arts

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.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$76kHealth$42kHuman Services$40kAnimals$25kRecreation & Sports$23kPublic Safety & Disaster$19kScience & Tech$13kEducation$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$577k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$10,000
TELLURIDE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$7,500
THE DAWN REDWOODS CHARITABLE TRUST$7,500
LITTLE VILLAGE FOUNDATION$7,500
TELLURIDE AVALANCE DOGS$7,500
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 (FY19–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%WESPARK CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $3k → 10%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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$230k · 9 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
8

Total granted

$230k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+1%

Still filing today

67%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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

  • LV
    Little Village Foundation
    6× · 2019–2025 · $42k · revenue +52%
  • TD
    THE DAWN REDWOODS CHARITABLE TRUST
    7× · 2019–2025 · $40k · revenue +160%
  • TT
    THE TELLURIDE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2025 · $23k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • TS
    TELLURIDE SCIENCE
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +1%
  • S
    SUNNYSIDEFIVE
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • SM
    SAN MIGUEL RECREATION CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
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
The Telluride Institute Inc

The telluride institute is an innovative non-profit organization that fosters the transition to a sustainable world. we work with communities, business, and the public sector to create and advance real solutions that support the health of…

Social Science
2
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

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Health
3
Telluride Society for Jazz

The telluride society for jazz is dedicated to the preservation, appreciation and artistry of the great american art called jazz.

Arts & Culture
4
Terasaki Inst for Biomedical Innovation
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5
The Scripps Research Institute

The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…

Health
6
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
7
Telluride Association Inc

To support higher education

Education
8
Breakthrough T1D

Breakthrough t1d is the leading global t1d organization working to accelerate life-changing breakthroughs to cure, prevent, and treat t1d and its complications.

Health
9
The American Tinnitus Association

The mission of the american tinnitus association is to promote relief, help prevent, and research tinnitus cures, evidenced by its core values of compassion, credibility, and responsibility.compassion: evidenced in a spirit of hope…

Health
10
Telluride Adaptive Sports Program

Tasp is a non-profit organization dedicated to enrich the lives of people with disabilities by providing educational and recreational opportunities that develop life skills, encourage personal growth and promote independence.

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11
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
12
The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration

Promote and fund research into developing better diagnostic processes, therapies, and cures for frontotemporal degeneration (ftd); provide information, education, support and advocacy to persons diagnosed with ftd, their families and…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Telluride Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Little Village Foundation. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 19 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $40,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE DAWN REDWOODS CHARITABLE TRUST: $40,000 · OtherTHE DAWN REDWOODS CHARITABLE TRUSTTELLURIDE AVALANCHE DOGS: $25,000 · OtherTELLURIDE AVALANCHE DOGSTELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS: $20,000 · OtherTELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTSHEARST CASTLE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $14,000 · OtherHEARST CASTLE PRESERVATION FOUNDATIONTELLURIDE SCIENCE: $10,000 · OtherTELLURIDE SCIENCESUNNYSIDEFIVE: $10,000 · OtherSUNNYSIDEFIVESAN MIGUEL RECREATION CENTER: $7,500 · Other+1 more: $3,000 · OtherTHE TELLURIDE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $22,500 · HealthTHE TELLURIDE MEDICA…TELLLURIDE EMERGENCY TECHNICIANS ASSOC: $14,000 · HealthTELLLURIDE EMERGENCY…CLAREMATRIX: $11,500 · HealthCLAREMATRIXMetta Institute: $5,000 · HealthMetta InstituteLittle Village Foundation: $42,000 · Arts & CultureLittle Village …CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human ServicesWESPARK INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationTELLURIDE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$170,000Health$53,000Arts & Culture$42,000Human Services$13,000Education$10,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLittle Village Foundation: $42,000 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetTHE DAWN REDWOODS CHARITABLE TRUST: $40,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTHE TELLURIDE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTELLLURIDE EMERGENCY TECHNICIANS ASSOC: $14,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetCLAREMATRIX: $11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTELLURIDE SCIENCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTELLURIDE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMetta Institute: $5,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESPARK INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN12.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Sft Endowment for Technology Education and the Arts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sft Endowment for Technology Education and the Arts. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 19 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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