· Public charity
The Triskeles Foundation
Our mission is to co-create a conscious and sustainable world through engaged philanthrophy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 109 grants below total $2,696,646 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,376,294 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,679,648 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k37 grants · $206k
- $10k–50k60 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k10 grants · $853k
- $250k+2 grants · $630k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REVOLUTION SCHOOL | $380,000 |
| COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| OAKLAND COMMUNITY LAND TRUST | $125,000 |
| PRESS STREET | $105,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA BALLET | $105,000 |
| WILLIAMS COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| OAKLAND INTERFAITH GOSPEL CHOIR | $94,000 |
| BRING IT HOME FLORIDA | $80,720 |
| SOLIDAIRE NETWORK INC | $75,000 |
| HUDSON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $68,531 |
| WOMEN DONOR'S NETWORKS | $50,000 |
| GENERATIVE SOMANTICS | $50,000 |
| RAGGED WING ENSEMBLE | $35,000 |
| HOPE COMMUNITY SERVICES | $32,400 |
| THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION | $32,016 |
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 (FY17–20, $381k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% 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.
64 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2020, 18 since wound down; 54 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $949k 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
- RSREVOLUTION SCHOOL2× · 2019–2020 · $580k · revenue +282% · 53% of their budget
- TPTHE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION4× · 2017–2020 · $376k · revenue +72%
- AFASSOCIATION FOR THE COLONIAL THEATRE2× · 2017–2018 · $175k · revenue +24%
Funded once
URBAN AFFAIRS COALITIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue +98%- W1WALDORF 100 INTERNATIONAL GROUPone grant, 2018 · $100k
- CCCamphill Communities Californiagraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +40%
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.
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To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prime Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is Akonadi Foundation. 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
169 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. 169 of the 205 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 REVOLUTION SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION ↗
- Who funds COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE COLONIAL THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Oakland Community Land Trust ↗
- Who funds Antenna ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND INTERFAITH GOSPEL CHOIR INC ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds Camphill Communities California ↗
- Who funds GENERATIVE SOMATICS ↗
- Who funds BRING IT HOME FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN DONORS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE'S LIGHT & THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Solidaire Network Inc ↗
- Who funds SHAKTI RISING INC ↗
- Who funds JANE PLACE NEIGHBORHOOD SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds KIDS RETHINK NEW ORLEANS SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CLAYWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Ragged Wing Ensemble ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRESH ARTISTS ↗
- Who funds DANCING GROUNDS ↗
- Who funds Partners Creating Community Inc ↗
- Who funds TRELLIS FOR TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds From The Heart Productions ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH HEARING LOSS ↗
- Who funds Restoring Lifeways ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
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: Rsf Social Finance Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The William Penn Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Hamilton Family Foundation · Chester County Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation · Nia Community Foundation · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
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 Triskeles Foundation 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.
- Baltimore Clayworks Inc — 5% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- Emerson College — 0% of income from government
- Bring It Home Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 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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