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The Triskeles Foundation

Our mission is to co-create a conscious and sustainable world through engaged philanthrophy.

$4.4M
Granted FY2020
109
Grants FY2020
18
States reached
$380k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Arts & Culture$1.5MEducation$944kPhilanthropy$783kCommunity Improvement$416kCivil Rights$364kEnvironment$352kHealth$302kHousing & Shelter$279kOther$0
02FY2020 · 109 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 109 grants below total $2,696,646, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,376,294 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,679,648 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k37 grants · $206k
  • $10k–50k60 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $853k
  • $250k+2 grants · $630k
$10,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REVOLUTION SCHOOL$380,000
COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION$250,000
OAKLAND COMMUNITY LAND TRUST$125,000
PENNSYLVANIA BALLET$105,000
PRESS STREET$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PRIME COALITION INC: $25k → 8%POCONO SERVICES FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $6k → 12%BRING IT HOME FLORIDA: $81k → 15%YOUTH PASSAGEWAYS: $40k → 16%GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH HEARING LOSS: $20k → 10%GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH HEARING LOSS: $20k → 10%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $60k → 16%TIDES CENTER: $25k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $21k → 10%COLUMBIA COUNTY SANCTUARY MOVEMENT: $7k → 11%La Comunidad Hispana: $13k → 6%LA COMUNIDAD HISPANA: $6k → 6%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $28k → 7%Cradles to Crayons: $13k → 17%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $10k → 17%MODEST NEEDS FOUNDATION: $8k → 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

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VT
NH
WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
AR
NC
DC
LA
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GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 64 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
72

Total granted

$3.3M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+51%

Still filing today

89%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $949k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentInternationalHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • RS
    REVOLUTION SCHOOL
    2× · 2019–2020 · $580k · revenue +282% · 53% of their budget
  • TP
    THE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $376k · revenue +72%
  • AF
    ASSOCIATION FOR THE COLONIAL THEATRE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $175k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • URBAN AFFAIRS COALITIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue +98%
  • W1
    WALDORF 100 INTERNATIONAL GROUP
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • CC
    Camphill Communities Californiagraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +40%
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.

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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
2
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
3
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
4
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
5
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment
6
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
7
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
8
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
9
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
10
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
11
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
12
Climate Breakthrough Inc

To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prime Coalition Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

169 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. 169 of the 205 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)
51
Early backer (in before they grew)
165/169
Grantees still filing
136/169
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION: $300,000 · OtherURBAN AFFAIRS COALITIONWALDORF 100 INTERNATIONAL GROUP: $100,000 · OtherCamphill Communities California: $100,000 · OtherGENERATIVE SOMATICS: $87,500 · Other+113 more: $1,834,707 · Other+113 moreTHE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION: $376,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PENNSYLVANIA BALLE…ASSOCIATION FOR THE COLONIAL THEATRE: $175,000 · Arts & CultureASSOCIATION FOR THE CO…OAKLAND INTERFAITH GOSPEL CHOIR INC: $101,600 · Arts & CultureOAKLAND INTERFAITH GOS…THE PEOPLE'S LIGHT & THEATRE COMPANY: $78,440 · Arts & CultureTHE PEOPLE'S LIGHT & T…FRACTURED ATLAS INC: $68,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INCBALTIMORE CLAYWORKS INC: $62,000 · Arts & CultureDANCING GROUNDS: $55,000 · Arts & CultureFRESH ARTISTS: $55,000 · Arts & CultureFrom The Heart Productions: $49,500 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $45,000 · Arts & Culture+18 more: $190,809 · Arts & Culture+18 moreREVOLUTION SCHOOL: $580,000 · EducationREVOLUTION SCHOOLAntenna: $120,000 · EducationAntennaWilliams College: $100,000 · EducationWilliams CollegeSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $65,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND IN…PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS: $44,000 · EducationPROTEUS FUND INC: $41,000 · Education+12 more: $135,762 · Education+12 moreWOMEN DONORS NETWORK: $80,000 · PhilanthropySolidaire Network Inc: $75,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $56,000 · PhilanthropyTRELLIS FOR TOMORROW: $50,000 · PhilanthropyRichmond Community Foundation: $33,346 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $32,016 · PhilanthropyGroundswell Fund: $30,000 · PhilanthropyRESOURCE GENERATION INC: $27,500 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY COALITION: $20,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $56,487 · PhilanthropyCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $110,000 · Human ServicesBRING IT HOME FLORIDA INC: $80,720 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $46,000 · Human ServicesGLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH HEARING LOSS: $40,000 · Human ServicesRestoring Lifeways: $40,000 · Human ServicesPRIME COALITION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesLCH Health and Community Services: $18,750 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $15,000 · Human Services+3 more: $20,506 · Human ServicesCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $255,000 · Community Improvement+4 more: $23,800 · Community ImprovementOakland Community Land Trust: $125,000 · Housing & ShelterJANE PLACE NEIGHBORHOOD SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE: $69,500 · Housing & ShelterBOLINAS COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterNEW ROAD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterEDEN COUNCIL FOR HOPE AND OPPORTUNITY: $12,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $6,800 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,422,207Arts & Culture$1,256,349Education$1,085,762Philanthropy$485,349Human Services$395,976Community Improvement$278,800Housing & Shelter$273,300

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetREVOLUTION SCHOOL: $580,000 over 2y, 53% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION: $376,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION: $300,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $255,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE COLONIAL THEATRE: $175,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetOakland Community Land Trust: $125,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetAntenna: $120,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $110,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetOAKLAND INTERFAITH GOSPEL CHOIR INC: $101,600 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWilliams College: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamphill Communities California: $100,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetGENERATIVE SOMATICS: $87,500 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetBRING IT HOME FLORIDA INC: $80,720 over 1y, 21% of budgetWOMEN DONORS NETWORK: $80,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PEOPLE'S LIGHT & THEATRE COMPANY: $78,440 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSHAKTI RISING INC: $70,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetJANE PLACE NEIGHBORHOOD SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE: $69,500 over 2y, 20% of budgetKIDS RETHINK NEW ORLEANS SCHOOLS: $69,100 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $68,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBALTIMORE CLAYWORKS INC: $62,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetRagged Wing Ensemble: $60,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $56,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANCING GROUNDS: $55,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetFRESH ARTISTS: $55,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetTRELLIS FOR TOMORROW: $50,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetPartners Creating Community Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetFrom The Heart Productions: $49,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $46,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS: $44,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $41,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRestoring Lifeways: $40,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $36,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Schuylkill Center For Environmental Education: $34,750 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetRichmond Community Foundation: $33,346 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWisdom & Money: $32,650 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $32,400 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $32,016 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENCAMPMENT FOR CITIZENSHIP: $30,500 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetNEUROFIT NETWORKS INC DBA PARKINSON WELLNESS RECOVERY PWR: $30,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetThe Pachamama Alliance: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetASSOCIATION OF WALDORF SCHOOLS OF NORTH AMERICA: $30,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBOLINAS COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGroundswell Fund: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OJAI FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNEW ROAD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP: $30,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetBread and Roses Community Fund: $28,844 over 3y, 0.4% 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.

Rsf Social Finance IncThe Philadelphia Foun…Amalgamated Charitabl…The William Penn Foun…ImpactassetsincHamilton Family Found…Chester County Commun…The San Francisco Fou…The Alexander and Mar…Nia Community Foundat…Berkshire Taconic Com…The William & Flora H…
Rsf Social Finance IncCA74.1× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
43report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 Triskeles Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Triskeles 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 205 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record and reports $14k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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