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Spirit Dance 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $11k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FDN OF JH | $55,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| ETHICAL CULTURAL FIELDSTON SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $1,000 |
| COLONNADES THEATRE LAB | $1,000 |
| PAYPAL GIVING FUND DC | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- DWDANCERS WORKSHOP5× · 2017–2023 · $32k · revenue +29%
- HFHabitat for Humanity of the Greater Teton Area5× · 2017–2021 · $24k · revenue +260%
- ECETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL7× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- BTBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue -27%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR A MINDFUL SOCIETY INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -97%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
The mission of the Jackson hole chamber of commerce is to champion the interest of local businesses, enhance their prosperity and strengthen the economic climate of teton county
Alaska Whale Foundation is dedicated to marine mammal conservation through research monitoring and education.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Wildlife conservation global, inc. operates the okapi conservation project (ocp) which works in the democratic republic of the congo with the institute in congo for the conservation of nature (iccn) and local communities throughout the…
Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.
WEF's mission is inspiring the water community in pursuit of human and environmental well-being. WEF is a global environmental leader committed to water quality education and technical best practices. WEF connects water professionals;…
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights First and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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.
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 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
26 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. 26 of the 49 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds DANCERS WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of the Greater Teton Area ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF GENEROSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PAWS - PROVIDING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Mending Kids International dba Mending Kids ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR A MINDFUL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SALVADORAN AMERICAN HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEST GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST ↗
- Who funds Becoming Jackson Whole ↗
- Who funds One22 Inc ↗
- Who funds WONDER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Community Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds COLONNADES THEATRE LAB INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Hughes Charitable Foundation · Hughes Charitable Foundation · The Jwj Family Foundation Inc · Perkins Charitable Foundation · Morse Family Foundation · Karl M Johnson Foundation · The Brooks Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Fjc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Spirit Dance Foundation 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.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Salvadoran American Humanitarian Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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