· Public charity
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $116k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Valor Soccer | $35,325 |
| YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE | $20,000 |
| FEDERAL WAY KNIGHTS BASEBALL | $19,800 |
| SnoKing Amateur Hockey Associ | $16,606 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,168 |
| Lakewood Winter Club | $10,287 |
| Bonney Lake HS Parent | $9,460 |
| Seattle Adaptive Sports | $7,335 |
| Bonney Lake HS PPP Baseball | $6,740 |
| Valor Premier G09 Gold | $5,930 |
| KVHA 8U | $5,390 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KCKENT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2022 · $63k · revenue +276% · 92% of their budget
- TYTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871)4× · 2019–2023 · $60k · revenue +31%
- SASnoKing Amateur Hockey Associ2× · 2022–2023 · $55k
Funded once
- SSKAHAone grant, 2018 · $12k
- PPSAHAone grant, 2017 · $9k
SNO-KING AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +141%
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.
7 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. 7 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Thunderbird Community Sports Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Thunderbird Community Sports Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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