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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Human Services$762kHealth$641kFood & Nutrition$117kPhilanthropy$112kPublic Safety & Disaster$82kEducation$61kEmployment$36kRecreation & Sports$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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
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

  • 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%
  • TC
    THE COFFEE OASIS
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -19%
  • LUKE'S WINGS
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -20%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Lighthouse for the Blind Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTHE COFFEE OASIS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLUKE'S WINGS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSEATTLE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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 budgetTLC - The Treatment & Learning Centers: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH KITSAP FISHLINE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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
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.

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

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 Skookum Educational Programs Dba Tessera funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Skookum Educational Programs Dba Tessera. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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