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The Thunderbird Community Sports Foundation

THE THUNDERBIRD COMMUNITY SPORTS FOUNDATION promotes good health, physical education, and academic achievement by providing scholarships and grants for amateur athletes in the puget sound region, as well as providing grants to local youth and amateur sports associations.

$205k
Granted FY2023
11
Itemized grants FY2023
11
Organizations funded FY2023
36%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$151k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$10,287
Largest grant, FY2023
$35,325
Organizations funded a year
3 to 11
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$326k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations The Thunderbird Community Sports Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’22’23
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202311$151k36%
FY20229$157k67%
FY20213$31k67%
FY20198$64k63%
FY20186$50k67%
FY20176$39kn/a
84% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Recreation & Sports$258kPhilanthropy$63kHuman Services$60kArts & Culture$23kEducation$9kHealth$9kEnvironment$7kYouth Development$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($228k), not named here.

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.

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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.

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About The Thunderbird Community Sports Foundation

How much does The Thunderbird Community Sports Foundation give?
The Thunderbird Community Sports Foundation reported 11 itemized grants totaling $151,041, out of $204,793 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Thunderbird Community Sports Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (53%), Philanthropy (13%), Human Services (12%).
Who are The Thunderbird Community Sports Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Kent Community Foundation ($63k), The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Seattle (6871) ($60k), Federal Way Knights Baseball Club ($54k).
Does The Thunderbird Community Sports Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Thunderbird Community Sports Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Thunderbird Community Sports Foundation based?
The Thunderbird Community Sports Foundation is based in WA.

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 27 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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