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Skookum Educational Programs Dba Tessera

At the close of 2024, skookum managed operations in 14 states plus the district of columbia, and employed over 1,700 people.

$543k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$456k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$668kPublic Benefit$567kPhilanthropy$112kCivil Rights$89kHealth$48kFood & Nutrition$38kEmployment$36kInternational$31kRecreation & Sports$30kOther$228k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
  • $250k+1 grant · $456k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$178M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STEPS INC$455,744
AMERICORPS INC$33,440
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE$12,500
PORTLIGHT STRATEGIES INC$10,000
PERMISSION TO START DREAMING FOUNDATION$8,800
SPOKANE GUILDS SCHOOL & NEUROMUSCULAR CENTER$8,000
EAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC$7,800
LEV FOUNDATION$6,600
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $668k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WELCOME HOME: $7k → 8%THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC: $15k → 9%BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $30k → 7%ELIZA HOPE FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%KITSAP COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $192k → 10%BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%KITSAP COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $133k → 10%KITSAP COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $129k → 10%KITSAP COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $113k → 10%FISHLINE FOOD BANK & COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES: $10k → 10%THE COFFEE OASIS: $15k → 10%BREMERTON YMCA: $6k → 10%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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MN
MA
PA
CT
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
TX

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.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 13 repeat orgs$188k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
17

Total granted

$1.7M
$173k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+29%

Still filing today

85%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionCivil RightsPublic BenefitInternationalOther

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

  • KC
    KITSAP COMMUNITY RESOURCES
    4× · 2020–2023 · $567k · revenue +61%
  • PT
    PERMISSION TO START DREAMING FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $112k · revenue +354%
  • BC
    BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2023 · $40k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • RS
    RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +2%
  • SL
    SEATTLE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -17%
  • LUKE'S WINGS
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -20%

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
Provail

Provail's mission is to support people with disabilities to fulfill their life choices.

Health
2
Port Angeles Food Bank

Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.

Food & Nutrition
3
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
4
Arc of Washington Co Inc

To create partnerships that foster nurturing communities where people with disabilities can live their vision of valued life.

Human Services
5
Special Olympics Washington

Mission: to provide inclusive sports, health, and leadership programs that enable individuals with idd to develop skills, improve health, and participate fully in their communities.vision: to be the leading organization in washington state…

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6
Help Foundation Inc

To ensure individuals with learning and developmental disabilities have the homes, environments, and opportunities to be valued members of our community. we serve this mission by providing housing and supportive services to individuals…

Human Services
7
The Arc of Southwest Georgia Inc

Our mission is to create life-changing solutions for people with disabilities.

Human Services
8
Larche Spokane

To make known the gifts of people with development disabilities, revealed through mutually transforming relationships, to foster an environment in community that responds to the changing needs of members while being faithful to the core…

Human Services
9
Cares of Washington

Support people with disabilities and low incomes to realize their purpose, potential and strength.

Employment
10
Autism Opportunities Foundation

We improve the lives of the people in our care affected by autism.

Health
11
The Lighthouse for the Blind in New Orleans Inc

To empower people with disabilities through employment, services and advocacy.

Health
12
Triumph Foundation

Triumph Foundation's quality-of-life programs educate, support, and empower children, adults, and veterans living with spinal cord injuries, paralyzing disorders, and disabilities - providing vital care services, resources, essential…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Lighthouse for the Blind Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Portlight Strategies Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsYouth Sports ProgramsCommunity College Foundatio…Cancer Support ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Food Banks and PantriesDevelopmental Disabilities …Military Veterans Support
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%18%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%37%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr13%39%35–55yr16%1%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/32
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,533

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.

04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 32 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
20/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KITSAP COMMUNITY RESOURCES — $567,134 · Human ServicesKITSAP COMMUNITY RESOURCESBOULDER CREST FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Human ServicesBOULDER CREST FOUNDATION+6 more — $61,000 · Human Services+6 moreSteps Vista Inc fka Steps Inc — $567,416 · Public BenefitSteps Vista Inc fka Steps IncCORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE — $78,871 · OtherCORPORATION FOR NAT…SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE — $38,140 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD…FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY — $36,080 · OtherFORT HAYS STATE UNI…COMMUNITY EMPLOYMENT ALLIANCE — $36,400 · OtherCOMMUNITY EMPLOYMEN…MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION — $30,640 · OtherMAKING A DIFFERENCE…RIVER CITY INCLUSIVE GYMNASTICS INC — $30,000 · OtherRIVER CITY INCLUSIV…+9 more — $75,300 · Other+9 morePERMISSION TO START DREAMING FOUNDATION — $111,565 · PhilanthropyPORTLIGHT STRATEGIES INC — $82,000 · Civil RightsLEV Foundation — $6,600 · Civil RightsRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC — $20,000 · HealthLUKE'S WINGS — $15,000 · HealthEAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC — $13,000 · HealthCOLONIAL HEIGHTS FOOD PANTRY INC — $27,840 · Food & NutritionTHURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK — $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$668,134Public Benefit$567,416Other$325,431Philanthropy$111,565Civil Rights$88,600Health$48,000Food & Nutrition$37,840

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSteps Vista Inc fka Steps Inc — $567,416 over 3y, 90% of budgetKITSAP COMMUNITY RESOURCES — $567,134 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetPERMISSION TO START DREAMING FOUNDATION — $111,565 over 7y, 8.7% of budgetPORTLIGHT STRATEGIES INC — $82,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetBOULDER CREST FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST TENNESSEE — $38,140 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY EMPLOYMENT ALLIANCE — $36,400 over 3y, 13% of budgetMAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION — $30,640 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRIVER CITY INCLUSIVE GYMNASTICS INC — $30,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetCOLONIAL HEIGHTS FOOD PANTRY INC — $27,840 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSEATTLE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLUKE'S WINGS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE COFFEE OASIS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC — $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES (CENTRAL ORGANIZATION) — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH PUGET SOUND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH KITSAP FISHLINE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTLC - The Treatment & Learning Centers — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELIZA HOPE FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSpokane Guilds' School & Neuromuscular Center — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEV Foundation — $6,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONSLOW COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC — $5,800 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Puget Sound Energy Fo…Seattle FoundationEnterprise Holdings F…Carmax FoundationKitsap Community Foun…Medina FoundationGreater Tacoma Commun…Texas Instruments Fou…Mightycause Charitabl…Baird Foundation IncAmerican Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…
Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE18.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Kitsap Community Foundation · Medina Foundation · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Skookum Educational Programs Dba Tessera 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Welcome Home Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 Skookum Educational Programs Dba Tessera?

Find your warmest path to Skookum Educational Programs Dba Tessera 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 32 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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