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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST CHRISTOPHERS CHURCH | $8,700 |
| NEW MARKET SKILLS CENTER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| ROGUE VALLEY MANOR FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SOUTHERN OREGON PUBLIC TELEVISION | $2,500 |
| OLYMPIA COALITION ECOSYSTEMS PRESERVATION | $1,500 |
| GRIFFIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| VETERANS MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $500 |
| FOCUS | $500 |
| OLYMPIA ROTARY FOUNDATION | $500 |
| ROTARY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND | $500 |
| MEXICAN MEDICAL INC | $500 |
| JOLT NEWS ORGANIZATION | $500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $300 |
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 (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 your grants land in higher-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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- TGTHE GRIFFIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +11% · 86% of their budget
- RVROGUE VALLEY MANOR FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +3%
- LOLIVING OPPORTUNITIES INC2× · 2017–2018 · $11k · revenue +28%
Funded once
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +64%- CPCENTRAL POINT SCHOOL DISTRICT #6one grant, 2020 · $5k
- PJPope John Paul II High Schoolone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -1%
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.
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…
To present film, music and art that engages our community, encourages volunteerism and ensures the preservation of the Capitol Theater.
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…
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.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
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.
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.
To restore habitat, water quality and native species in the puget sound
The Seattle Athenaeum connects a dynamic literary community through a curated book collection, diverse programming, and opportunities for engaging conversations and transformative ideas.
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.
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Living Opportunities Inc and 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.
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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 97 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 THE GRIFFIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OLYMPIA ECOSYSTEMS ↗
- 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 OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN OREGON PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds JPR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- 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 HARLEQUIN PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Olympia Downtown Alliance ↗
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: 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
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 The Finninsula Foundation Inc Co Ted Sandler 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.
- 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
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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