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Threshold Foundation
The foundation's mission is to foster environmental sustainability and community empowerment through strategic grant-making and partnerships
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 37 grants below total $2,185,625 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,339,600 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $153,975 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k20 grants · $536k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $194,000 |
| WAY TO RISE PHILANTHROPIC | $194,000 |
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $154,500 |
| ATELIER FOR COMMUNITY | $122,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND | $116,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION | $100,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING | $94,000 |
| PEACEWORKS NETWORK FOUNDATION | $85,000 |
| WIMBERLEY VALLEY WATERSHED | $81,000 |
| CALHOUN COUNTY RESOURCE | $80,000 |
| GROUNDSWELL FUND | $73,000 |
| THE NORTH FUND | $72,000 |
| GLOBAL JUSTICE ECOLOGY PROJEC | $71,000 |
| ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADV | $63,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP POLICY INTEGRITY | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $788k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
76 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 61 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $913k 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
- WTWAY TO RISE3× · 2022–2024 · $343k · revenue +313%
- PFPartnership for Policy Integrity4× · 2021–2024 · $288k · revenue +95%
Earth Island Institute Inc5× · 2017–2024 · $248k · revenue +271%
Funded once
- EYEKVNV YEFOLECVLKEone grant, 2023 · $315k · revenue -8%
- NDNATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORKgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $126k · revenue +37%
- OFONE FAIR WAGE INCone grant, 2020 · $112k · revenue -23%
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.
To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.
International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.
New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.
Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…
E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.
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…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Riverstyx 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 22 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
210 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. 210 of the 238 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 Groundswell Fund ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAY TO RISE ↗
- Who funds EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE ↗
- Who funds THE PEACEWORKS NETWORK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Partnership for Policy Integrity ↗
- Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Peace Development Fund ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Coalition for Good Governance ↗
- Who funds ECDYSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC ↗
- Who funds Verified Voting Foundation ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds PSEPHOS INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds Audit USA ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL JUSTICE ECOLOGY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds NORTH FUND ↗
- Who funds FREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds TAXPAYERS FOR COMMON SENSE ↗
- Who funds THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE DIALOGUE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ATELIER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AMAL-TIKVA INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE OF PORTUGUESE SPEAKERS INC ↗
- Who funds Just Vision Inc ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY ALLIANCE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds ONE FAIR WAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Dogwood Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds Cascade Pacific RC&D Area ↗
- Who funds SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARENTS CIRCLE - FAMILIES FORUM ↗
- Who funds POLICYLINK ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION ↗
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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Tides Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Windward Fund · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Wallace Global Fund II · Proteus Fund Inc
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 Threshold 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.
- Land and Cultural Preservation Fund Inc — 51% of income from government
- Peace and Justice Center — 41% of income from government
- Foodcorps Inc — 21% of income from government
- Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers Inc — 4% of income from government
- Bring It Home Florida Inc — 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.