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T & W Foundation Inc at a glance

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T & W Foundation Inc

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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$1.5M
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$4.0MHuman Services$367kPhilanthropy$194kArts & Culture$114kFood & Nutrition$80kReligion$5kHealth$2k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $88k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $76k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
$12,759
Median grant
6
States reached
$462k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$1,500,000
Individual grant recipient$75,750
AHL FOUNDATION$25,000
KOREAN ADOPTEES OF CHICAGO$20,000
HOWARD COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$12,759
KOREAN QUARTERLY$10,000
CROPS OF LOVE MINISTRIES$10,000
CHUN KYUNG JA FOUNDATION$10,000
AMERICAN WHEAT MISSION$5,000
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 (FY24–24, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%325 KAMRA INC: $50k → 8%ADOPTEE HUB: $8k → 14%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
IL
NY
MA
IN
CA
MD
NC
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 6 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +132% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$3.0M
$257k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+132%
0%

Still filing today

33%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionOther
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

  • IS
    INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2.5M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2023–2025 · $258k
  • AF
    AHL FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $90k · revenue +132%

Funded once

  • VO
    VARIOUS OTHER 501C3'S
    one grant, 2019 · $194k
  • 3K
    325 KAMRA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0% · 75% of their budget
  • AH
    ADOPTEE HUB LLC
    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
Korean American Music Supporters Association Usa Inc

To promote the careers of young musicians and enhance the lives of residents in our community through cultural exchange between Korea and the U.S.

Arts & Culture
2
The Korean Library Foundation
Education
3
Korean American Cultural Foundation Inc

To assist in fostering a better understanding of korean culture and providing opportunities to local korean american artists. atlanta korean film festival inc. promotes and shares korean culture and heritage so that it enriches our…

Human Services
4
Korea Music Foundation Inc

To stimulate public interest in good music, to offer an opportunity to those interested in music to perform musical compositions of merit

Arts & Culture
5
Arirang Foundation Inc

Spread korean culture through media

Arts & Culture
6
Korean American Association Inc

Supporting Immigrated Korean Families in Raleigh Area

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7
Atlanta Korean Cultural Center Inc

To provide awareness and spread of Korean Cultural practices to the local community.

Arts & Culture
8
Kyung Hee International Foundation

To contribute for the benefit and prosperity of kyung hee university and enablement of kyung hee university's fulfillment for a "cultral world for humanity".

Education
9
San Francisco Korean Master Chorale

To promote korean community across the world with music

Philanthropy
10
Korean Community Association of Colorado Inc

providing educational events and business networking, etc to Korean community in Colorado.

Arts & Culture
11
Korean Food Global Association

Educate people about Korean food

Food & Nutrition
12
Korean Academy of Colorado Inc

Korean Language and Culture Education

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ahl Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Crops of Love Ministries Usa 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

10 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. 10 of the 16 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
2/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY: $2,500,000 · OtherINDIANA STATE UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient: $258,240 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVARIOUS OTHER 501C3'S: $194,173 · OtherVARIOUS OTHER 501C3'S+4 more: $58,000 · OtherILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,500,000 · EducationILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONAHL FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 · EducationAHL FOUNDATION INC+2 more: $22,759 · EducationCROPS OF LOVE MINISTRIES USA INC: $80,000 · Religion325 KAMRA INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesADOPTEE HUB LLC: $8,250 · Human ServicesCHUN KYUNG-JA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WASHINGTON CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC: $3,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,010,413Education$1,612,759Religion$80,000Human Services$58,250Arts & Culture$13,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,500,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetAHL FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetCROPS OF LOVE MINISTRIES USA INC: $80,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budget325 KAMRA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 75% of budgetHOWARD COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $12,759 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHUN KYUNG-JA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetKOREAN QUARTERLY: $10,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetADOPTEE HUB LLC: $8,250 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetAMERICAN WHEAT MISSION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 T & W Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from T & W Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to T & W Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to T & W Foundation Inc 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 16 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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