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Technovation

Empower girls and families to identify community problems and create tech and engineering solutions that develop their leadership and creative problem-solving skills.

$398k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Education$90kYouth Development$60kArts & Culture$10kEmployment$7kHuman Services$6k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $5,750 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $398,444 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $392,694 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$5,750
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STEM EDUCATION AND INNOVATION CENTER$5,750
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GATEWAY REGION YMCA: $6k → 21%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

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Grants abroad, by region — $286k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions, $281k to organizations and $5k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$88k · 31% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: MINI GRANT

South America$79k · 28% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: MINI GRANT · METLIFE

North America (Canada and Mexico)$58k · 20% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: MINI GRANT

Central America and the Caribbean$40k · 14% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: MINI GRANT

Sub-Saharan Africa$10k · 3% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: MINI GRANT

East Asia and the Pacific$6k · 2% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: MINI GRANT

Russia and Neighboring States$5k · 2% · 1 person

Stated purpose: MINI GRANT

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

03Your 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.

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Camp Fire Inland Southern California

To connect young people to the outdoors, to others and to themselves.

Youth Development
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Camp Fire Central Puget Sound

Camp fire inspires and enables youth and families of all backgrounds and abilities to discover their spark, value the natural world, and become tomorrow's leaders, today.

Youth Development
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Camp Fire Central Texas

Camp Fire Central Texas builds caring, confident youth and future leaders through hands-on science, outdoor experiences, and service to the community.

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Spark Youth

Spark-Y provides youth with action-oriented labs, in and out of the classroom, that empower young people with STEM education, job experience, and a place to test and grow sustainable solutions in our modern communities.

Human Services
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Camp Fire Central Oregon

Young people want to shape the world. camp fire central oregon (cfco) provides them the opportunity to find their spark, lift their voice, and discover who they are. in camp fire, it begins now. light the fire within!

Youth Development
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Camp Fire Samish

Build caring, confident youth and future leaders.

Youth Development
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American Youthworks

American youthworks (ayw) annually provides 400+ young adults with training and resources to build careers and strengthen their communities through education, paid career training, and national service. ayw programs prepare participants…

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Adventure West Council Boy Scouts of America

The mission of the adventure west council, boy scouts of america, is to instill honor, integrity, and leadership in youth by engaging youth and families through fun, quality programs, outdoor experiences, and service to community.

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Boys & Girls Clubs of the North Valley

To inspire and enable all young people to reach their full potential as caring, productive, and responsible citizens.

Youth Development
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Camp Fire Minnesota

With nature as our catalyst, we energize youth to discover their spark so their futures glow brighter.

Youth Development
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Agriculteral Extension Camps Inc

4-h camp ohio is a year round resident camp specializing in youth education. the camp serves 13 counties of 4-h groups & 1 state leadership camp. school & outdoor ed groups are the mainstay of the business from march through may & sept…

Youth Development
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Camp Fire Southeast Michigan

Building caring and confident youth and future leaders

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camp Fire Inland Northwest and the most unlike its peers is App Inventor 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

10 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 20172025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITY YEAR INC — $30,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INCCAMP FIRE INLAND NORTHWEST — $12,000 · OtherCAMP FIRE INLAND NORTHWESTCAMP FIRE GULF WIND INC — $12,000 · OtherCAMP FIRE GULF WIND INCOHIO AFTERSCHOOL NETWORK — $12,000 · OtherOHIO AFTERSCHOOL NETWORKHarrison County Library System — $12,000 · OtherHarrison County Library SystemALABAMA KIDS CODE — $10,000 · OtherALABAMA KIDS CODEDETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS COMMUNITY DISTRICT — $8,000 · OtherDETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS COMMUNITY DISTRICTPTSA MICHIGAN CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS AND STUDENTS — $8,000 · OtherPTSA MICHIGAN CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS AND STUDENTSAlameda County Board of Supervisors — $6,000 · OtherSTEM EDUCATION AND INNOVATION CENTER — $5,750 · OtherCAMP FIRE SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP FIRE SNOHO…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERCED COUNTY — $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CL…App Inventor Foundation — $10,000 · EducationInsights-El Paso Science Center Inc — $10,000 · Arts & CultureSER METRO DETROIT JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC — $7,000 · EmploymentGATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $6,000 · Human Services
Other$115,750Youth Development$24,000Education$10,000Arts & Culture$10,000Employment$7,000Human Services$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCITY YEAR INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP FIRE SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $12,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERCED COUNTY — $12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCAMP FIRE INLAND NORTHWEST — $12,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCAMP FIRE GULF WIND INC — $12,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetApp Inventor Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetInsights-El Paso Science Center Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetSER METRO DETROIT JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Blackbaud Giving FundSC8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Technovation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • City Year Inc11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Technovation?

Find your warmest path to Technovation 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 16 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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