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The Sprunk Family Foundation at a glance

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The Sprunk Family Foundation

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.

$385k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$170k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.3MHealth$353kInternational$283kCommunity Improvement$95kHuman Services$77kYouth Development$70kRecreation & Sports$7kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $320k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION$170,000
SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$100,000
UNITED STATES ASSOCIATION FOR UNHCR$50,000
SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS$20,000
MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL$20,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION$5,000
PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION$1,000
PRESS ON FOUNDATION$1,000
WOMENS SPORTS FOUNDATION$1,000
BABY2BABY$1,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC$1,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$1,000
OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING$700
DISABILITY RIGHTS OREGON$700
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 (FY20–24, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TESTICULAR CANCER FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC: $25k → 9%GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC: $25k → 9%HOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICES: $1k → 8%GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC: $25k → 9%CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $250 → 9%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $500 → 17%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
MT
NY
MA
OR
OH
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of The Sprunk Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Sprunk Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 23 repeat orgs$137k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
31

Total granted

$2.1M
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
0%

Still filing today

96%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesCivil RightsInternationalEducationOther
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

  • WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +42%
  • SP
    ST PATRICK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · $221k · revenue +84%
  • SA
    SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +156%

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BRETT BOYER FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +50%
  • TF
    Thayer Family Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -64%
  • FH
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Centergraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +169%
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
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
The Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment
3
Toxic-Free Future F/K/a Washington Toxics Coalition

As a national leader in environmental health research and advocacy, toxic- free future uses the power of science, education, and activism, to drive strong laws and corporate responsibility that protect the health of all people and the…

Environment
4
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…

Health
5
Western Healthconnect

Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.

Health
6
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
7
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
8
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
9
Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho

To provide exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education, and advocacy for all.

Health
10
Climate Leadership Council Inc

To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.

Environment
11
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
12
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
31/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · EducationWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $340,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION+2 more: $2,250 · EducationST PATRICK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $220,500 · HealthST PATRICK HOSPIT…SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthSWEDISH MEDICAL C…+10 more: $21,300 · Health+10 moreUnited States Association for UNHCR: $200,000 · InternationalUnited States …MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL: $80,000 · InternationalMEDICAL TEAMS …+3 more: $4,350 · InternationalSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $95,000 · Environment+6 more: $4,150 · EnvironmentGREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA: $75,000 · Human Services+4 more: $2,250 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION AND LAKE COUNTY: $40,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentCrew Haven Corporation: $6,250 · OtherNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $3,100 · OtherPRESS ON FOUNDATION: $3,000 · OtherThayer Family Foundation: $5,000 · OtherPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $4,600 · OtherROSE HAVEN CIC: $2,000 · Other+19 more: $10,750 · Other
Education$1,342,250Health$341,800International$284,350Environment$99,150Human Services$77,250Recreation & Sports$41,000Youth Development$30,000Other$34,700

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $340,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetST PATRICK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $220,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $95,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA: $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION AND LAKE COUNTY: $40,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA: $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BRETT BOYER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCrew Haven Corporation: $6,250 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetThayer Family Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $4,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetZERO PROSTATE CANCER: $3,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $3,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROSE HAVEN CIC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $1,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIRSHBERG FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Cancer Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArmer Foundation for Kids: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS OREGON: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AUDRE LORDE PROJECT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTESTICULAR CANCER SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIntermountain Planned Parenthood: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWE THE PROTESTERS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMAEVERYTHANG COMMUNITY CENTER IN: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOregon Environmental Council: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTesticular Cancer Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREWILD: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Washington Found: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOL EARTH ACTION USA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $250 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.

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.

First Interstate Banc…M J Murdock Charitabl…Headwaters Health Fou…Montana Community Fou…Otto Bremer TrustUnited Way WorldwideAbbVie FoundationSeattle FoundationThe Oregon Community …ImpactassetsincMorgan Stanley Global…Verizon Foundation
First Interstate BancSystem Foundation IncMT15.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · United Way Worldwide · AbbVie Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Verizon Foundation

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 Sprunk Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sprunk Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Disability Rights Oregon: 84% of income from government
  • Homeplate Youth Services: 17% of income from government
  • Medical Teams International: 14% of income from government
  • Community Transitional School: 7% of income from government
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
11report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Sprunk Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Sprunk Family Foundation 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 61 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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