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The Finninsula Foundation Inc Co Ted Sandler

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.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$98kReligion$75kEmployment$45kArts & Culture$26kHuman Services$17kPhilanthropy$15kEnvironment$14kYouth Development$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
8
States reached
$452k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST CHRISTOPHERS CHURCH$8,700
NEW MARKET SKILLS CENTER$5,000
SOUTHERN OREGON PUBLIC TELEVISION$2,500
ROGUE VALLEY MANOR FOUNDATION$2,500
JEFFERSON PUBLIC RADIO$2,500
OLYMPIA COALITION ECOSYSTEMS PRESERVATION$1,500
VETERANS MEMORIAL MUSEUM$1,000
GRIFFIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION$1,000
ROTARY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND$500
JOLT NEWS ORGANIZATION$500
FOCUS$500
OLYMPIA ROTARY FOUNDATION$500
ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$500
MEXICAN MEDICAL INC$500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$300
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 (FY17–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMUNITY LIFELINE: $750 → 11%COMMUNITY LIFELINE: $100 → 11%CRISIS CLINIC OF THURSTON & MASON COUNTIES: $500 → 9%ROGUE VALLEY MANOR FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%ROGUE VALLEY MANOR FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%ROGUE VALLEY MANOR FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%ROGUE VALLEY MANOR FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%ROGUE VALLEY MANOR FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL: $500 → 9%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
IL
NY
OR
PA
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
GA
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$264k · 38 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
48

Total granted

$264k
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+40%

Still filing today

61%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • TG
    THE GRIFFIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +11% · 86% of their budget
  • RV
    ROGUE VALLEY MANOR FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +62%
  • LO
    LIVING OPPORTUNITIES INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $11k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +64%
  • CP
    CENTRAL POINT SCHOOL DISTRICT #6
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • PJ
    Pope John Paul II High School
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -1%
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
Washington State University Foundation

The mission of the Foundation is to promote, accept, and maximize private support for programs, initiatives, and properties of Washington State University and its regional campuses. The Foundation also prudently manages, invests, and…

Education
2
Olympia Film Society

To present film, music and art that engages our community, encourages volunteerism and ensures the preservation of the Capitol Theater.

Arts & Culture
3
Washington Filmworks

To build and enhance the competitiveness of Washington State's film and associated creative industry. We accomplish this by marketing and managing the state's production incentive program, representing the state in national and…

Community Improvement
4
North Olympic Land Trust

To conserve lands that sustain the communities of the olympic peninsula through grants and donations for fee simple ownership and purchased and donated conservation easements.

Environment
5
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
6
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
7
Seattlecu Foundation

The foundations impact pillars include wealth creation for low-income and marginalized communities, supporting small businesses, investing in our communities, and providing services for immigrant communities.

Education
8
Puget Sound Restoration Fund

To restore habitat, water quality and native species in the puget sound

Environment
9
Seattle Athenaeum

The Seattle Athenaeum connects a dynamic literary community through a curated book collection, diverse programming, and opportunities for engaging conversations and transformative ideas.

Education
10
Futurewise

Futurewise works throughout Washington state to encourage healthy, equitable and opportunity-rich communities, and to protect our most valuable farmlands, forests and water resources through wise land use policies and practices.

Environment
11
Portland State University Foundation

Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.

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12
Highline Medical Center Foundation

Highline Medical Center Foundation brings our community together to support exceptional health care, close to home, for all who need it. Thanks to the generosity of our caring neighbors and friends, we help ensure that St Anne Hospital has…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Living Opportunities Inc; the most unlike its peers is Olympia Kiwanis Club. 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

53 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. 53 of the 96 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/53
Grantees still filing
36/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST CHRISTOPHERS CHURCH: $69,226 · OtherST CHRISTOPHERS CHURCHNEW MARKET SKILLS CENTER: $34,000 · OtherNEW MARKET SKILLS CENTER+62 more: $59,554 · Other+62 moreTHE GRIFFIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $63,684 · EducationTHE GRIFFIN SCHOOL FOUNDATIONJPR FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · EducationJPR FOUNDATION INCJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $7,500 · EducationBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INCPope John Paul II High School: $4,500 · Education+5 more: $3,950 · EducationOlympia Artspace Alliance: $5,250 · Arts & CultureHANDS ON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $2,515 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN OREGON PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $2,500 · Arts & CultureVETERANS MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $2,300 · Arts & CultureThe JOLT News Organization: $1,000 · Arts & CultureOlympia Downtown Alliance: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $800 · Arts & CultureOLYMPIA ECOSYSTEMS: $13,000 · EnvironmentCAPITOL LAND TRUST: $620 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $500 · EnvironmentROGUE VALLEY MANOR FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY LIFELINE OF MASON COUNTY: $850 · Human ServicesCRISIS CLINIC OF THURSTON & MASON COUNTIES: $500 · Human ServicesCHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL OF THURSTON COUNTY: $500 · Human ServicesLIVING OPPORTUNITIES INC: $10,500 · EmploymentThe Community Foundation of South Puget Sound: $9,600 · Philanthropy+2 more: $500 · Philanthropy
Other$162,780Education$102,134Arts & Culture$17,865Environment$14,120Human Services$13,850Employment$10,500Philanthropy$10,100

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE GRIFFIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $63,684 over 8y, 86% of budgetOLYMPIA ECOSYSTEMS: $13,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetJPR FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROGUE VALLEY MANOR FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLIVING OPPORTUNITIES INC: $10,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Community Foundation of South Puget Sound: $9,600 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOlympia Artspace Alliance: $5,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPope John Paul II High School: $4,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHANDS ON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $2,515 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN OREGON PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $2,300 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHOMES FIRST: $2,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHURSTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSTROPHY FOUNDATION: $1,952 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetOlympia Rotary Foundation: $1,750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOlympia Kiwanis Club: $1,132 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetOlympia Symphony Orchestra: $1,050 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe JOLT News Organization: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOlympia Downtown Alliance: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIFELINE OF MASON COUNTY: $850 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPTIONS PREGNANCY CLINIC: $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAPITOL LAND TRUST: $620 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHURSTON COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL OF THURSTON COUNTY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLACEY ROTARY FOUNDATION: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAVING GREAT ANIMALS: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALL Foundation of Washington: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBSF INTERNATIONAL LLC: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS MICROFINANCE INITIATIVE: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THURSTON COUNTY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOlympia Historical Society: $200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Washington Center for the Performing Arts: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRALIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH SOUND READING FOUNDATION: $150 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPOINTE DU HOC FOUNDATION: $150 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOMANS CLUB OF OLYMPIA: $150 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDSTRIVE: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMONT COLLEGE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFROG DOG K9 INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds THE GRIFFIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OLYMPIA ECOSYSTEMS ↗
  • Who funds JPR FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ROGUE VALLEY MANOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LIVING OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound ↗
  • Who funds BRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Olympia Artspace Alliance ↗
  • Who funds Pope John Paul II High School ↗
  • Who funds HANDS ON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN OREGON PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
  • Who funds VETERANS MEMORIAL MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds HOMES FIRST ↗
  • Who funds THURSTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds STROPHY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Olympia Rotary Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THURSTON COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Olympia Kiwanis Club ↗
  • Who funds Olympia Symphony Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
  • Who funds HARLEQUIN PRODUCTIONS INC ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Thurston County Econo…Dawkins Charitable Tr…Puget Sound Energy Fo…ArtsfundThe Norcliffe Foundat…Seattle FoundationFred Goldberg Family …Mary P Dolciani Hallo…Renah Blair Rietzke F…Credit Unions in the …Pacific Mountain Work…
The Community Foundation of South Puget SoundWA42.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound · Thurston County Economic Development Cou · Dawkins Charitable Trust · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Artsfund · The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Fred Goldberg Family Foundation · Mary P Dolciani Halloran Foundation · Renah Blair Rietzke Family Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington Peak Credit Union · Pacific Mountain Workforce Development Council

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 The Finninsula Foundation Inc Co Ted Sandler funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Finninsula Foundation Inc Co Ted Sandler. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Living Opportunities Inc: 90% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting: 1% of income from government
  • Southern Oregon Public Television Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 The Finninsula Foundation Inc Co Ted Sandler 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 96 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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