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Threshold Foundation

The foundation's mission is to foster environmental sustainability and community empowerment through strategic grant-making and partnerships

$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$194k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$3.1MCivil Rights$2.1MInternational$2.0MPublic Benefit$1.9MArts & Culture$1.5MPhilanthropy$865kCommunity Improvement$700kFood & Nutrition$691kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 37 grants below total $2,185,625, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,339,600 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $153,975 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k20 grants · $536k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.6M
$40,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Valley Verde: $27k → 8%CALIFORNIA GLOBAL YOUTH PEACE SUMMIT: $34k → 8%CALIFORNIA GLOBAL YOUTH PEACE SUMMIT: $14k → 11%ALLIANCE FOR FAIR FOOD: $33k → 10%BRING IT HOME FLORIDA: $30k → 13%Ekvn-Yefolecv: $315k → 18%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUK: $19k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF COMBATANTS FOR PEACE INC: $35k → 12%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $40k → 23%RUNNING STRONG FOR AMER INDN: $30k → 6%MAPS: $64k → 8%BRING IT HOME FLORIDA: $26k → 13%MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE OF PORTUGUESE SPEAKERS (MAPS): $55k → 8%Southern Partners Fund: $20k → 13%SHAREABLE (PASS-THROUGH FROM TIDES FOUNDATION): $12k → 8%AMALA FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%AMALA FOUNDATION: $14k → 10%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

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
MS
AL
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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.9M · 76 repeat orgs$5.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

76
135

Total granted

$7.9M
$4.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+17%

Still filing today

93%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $913k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureCivil RightsInternationalEducationHuman 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

  • WT
    WAY TO RISE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $343k · revenue +313%
  • PF
    Partnership for Policy Integrity
    4× · 2021–2024 · $288k · revenue +95%
  • Earth Island Institute Inc
    5× · 2017–2024 · $248k · revenue +271%

Funded once

  • EY
    EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE
    one grant, 2023 · $315k · revenue -8%
  • ND
    NATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORKgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $126k · revenue +37%
  • OF
    ONE FAIR WAGE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $112k · revenue -23%
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.

1
Nature for Justice

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.

Environment
2
International Rivers Network

International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.

Environment
3
CarbonPlan

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

Environment
4
New Roots Institute

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

Food & Nutrition
5
Global Forest Generation

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,…

Environment
6
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
7
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
8
Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

Environment
9
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
10
Western Resource Advocates

Western Resource Advocates (WRA) is a regional nonprofit advocacy organization fighting climate change and its impacts to sustain the environment, economy, and people of the West. As the region's go-to experts for more than three decades,…

Crime & Legal
11
E3G Third Generation Environmentalism

E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.

Environment
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

210 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. 210 of the 238 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
69
Early backer (in before they grew)
206/210
Grantees still filing
137/210
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MILESTON COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION: $225,825 · OtherVerified Voting Foundation: $210,000 · OtherEKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $315,325 · OtherCENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC: $204,095 · OtherECDYSIS FOUNDATION: $238,769 · Other+93 more: $4,750,203 · Other+93 morePartnership for Policy Integrity: $288,000 · EnvironmentPartnership fo…Earth Island Institute Inc: $247,700 · EnvironmentEarth Island I…GLOBAL JUSTICE ECOLOGY PROJECT INC: $192,356 · EnvironmentGLOBAL JUSTICE…Dogwood Alliance Inc: $110,000 · EnvironmentDogwood Allian…Amazon Watch Inc: $80,000 · EnvironmentCalhoun County Resource Watch: $80,000 · EnvironmentSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: $72,000 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $70,000 · Environment+21 more: $776,993 · Environment+21 moreTHE PEACEWORKS NETWORK FOUNDATION: $303,473 · InternationalTHE PEACEWORK…Peace Development Fund: $249,660 · InternationalPeace Develop…NEW ISRAEL FUND: $186,173 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FU…THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE DIALOGUE NETWORK INC: $160,000 · InternationalTHE MIDDLE EA…FRIENDS OF AMAL-TIKVA INC: $120,500 · InternationalFRIENDS OF AM…Just Vision Inc: $115,000 · InternationalJust Vision I…THOUSAND CURRENTS: $81,515 · InternationalECOPEACE MIDDLE EAST ENVIRONMENTAL NGO FORUM: $74,661 · InternationalUS-Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership: $67,224 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ROOTS: $62,000 · International+8 more: $283,685 · International+8 moreGroundswell Fund: $448,000 · PhilanthropyGroundswell …TIDES FOUNDATION: $422,800 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDA…Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $247,749 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated …PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $194,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL E…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARENTS CIRCLE - FAMILIES FORUM: $102,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRI…ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $63,000 · PhilanthropyDOC SOCIETY INC: $60,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $114,113 · Philanthropy+3 moreCoalition for Good Governance: $240,450 · Arts & CultureCoalition…WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $230,000 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAK…ALLIANCE FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE INC: $187,750 · Arts & CultureALLIANCE …INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATI…UTAH FILM CENTER: $80,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM…Film Society of Austin Inc: $65,000 · Arts & CultureFILMS FOR HUMANITY INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBUS INSTITUTE FOR COMTEMPORARY JOURNALISM: $45,000 · Arts & CultureEFFORTS OF GRACE INC: $44,390 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $254,804 · Arts & Culture+8 morePSEPHOS INC: $196,000 · Civil RightsPSEPHOS I…FREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE INC: $168,000 · Civil RightsFREE SPEE…NATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK: $125,515 · Civil RightsNATIONAL …EQUALITY ALLIANCE OF SAN DIEGO: $114,050 · Civil RightsEQUALITY …ONE FAIR WAGE INC: $111,890 · Civil RightsONE FAIR …ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION: $100,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE …ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING: $94,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE …EQUALITY FEDERATION: $58,215 · Civil RightsUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $55,000 · Civil Rights+7 more: $209,772 · Civil Rights+7 moreWAY TO RISE: $342,800 · EducationPROTEUS FUND INC: $250,500 · EducationWimberley Valley Watershed Association: $81,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES: $67,896 · EducationSustainable Economies Law Center: $63,302 · EducationNEW STORIES: $53,709 · EducationAUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $50,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $35,300 · Education+4 more: $105,726 · Education
Other$5,944,217Environment$1,917,049International$1,703,891Philanthropy$1,651,662Arts & Culture$1,292,394Civil Rights$1,232,442Education$1,050,233

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 budgetGroundswell Fund: $448,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $422,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWAY TO RISE: $342,800 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetEKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $315,325 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetTHE PEACEWORKS NETWORK FOUNDATION: $303,473 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetPartnership for Policy Integrity: $288,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $250,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPeace Development Fund: $249,660 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $247,749 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $247,700 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCoalition for Good Governance: $240,450 over 4y, 36% of budgetECDYSIS FOUNDATION: $238,769 over 5y, 22% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $230,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetVerified Voting Foundation: $210,000 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetCENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC: $204,095 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetPSEPHOS INC: $196,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $194,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAudit USA: $193,554 over 5y, 54% of budgetGLOBAL JUSTICE ECOLOGY PROJECT INC: $192,356 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetALLIANCE FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE INC: $187,750 over 3y, 16% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $186,173 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH FUND: $172,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE INC: $168,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetTAXPAYERS FOR COMMON SENSE: $161,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetTHE MIDDLE EAST PEACE DIALOGUE NETWORK INC: $160,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetNATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK: $125,515 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetATELIER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION: $122,000 over 1y, 84% of budgetFRIENDS OF AMAL-TIKVA INC: $120,500 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE OF PORTUGUESE SPEAKERS INC: $119,171 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetJust Vision Inc: $115,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetEQUALITY ALLIANCE OF SAN DIEGO: $114,050 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetONE FAIR WAGE INC: $111,890 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDogwood Alliance Inc: $110,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCascade Pacific RC&D Area: $105,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $102,582 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARENTS CIRCLE - FAMILIES FORUM: $102,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetPOLICYLINK: $101,120 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION: $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $97,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLAW FORWARD INC: $96,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING: $94,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDRUG POLICY ALLIANCE: $89,518 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR HEALTHY FOOD SYSTEMS: $85,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN FOOD & AGRICULTURE NETWORK: $85,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetTHOUSAND CURRENTS: $81,515 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWimberley Valley Watershed Association: $81,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $80,000 over 2y, 0.5% 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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…ImpactassetsincRsf Social Finance IncThe Schmidt Family Fo…PatagoniaorgTides FoundationClif Family FoundationThe Ford FoundationWindward FundRockefeller Philanthr…Wallace Global Fund IIProteus Fund Inc
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC49.7× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 238 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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