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Towanda Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k10 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OMEGA INSTITUTE FOR HOLISTIC STUDIES INC | $249,750 |
| THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC | $100,000 |
| APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB | $25,000 |
| NA AH ILLAHEE FUND | $25,000 |
| GROUNDSWELL FUND | $25,000 |
| EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE INC | $20,000 |
| SUSTAINABLE OCEAN ALLIANCE INC | $20,000 |
| SURFRIDER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP | $10,000 |
| THE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC | $10,000 |
| BILLION OYSTER PROJECT | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +19% since the first grant, against -59% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 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, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $405k 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
- GFGroundswell Fund2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +19%
Earth Island Institute Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +19%- TCTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- BHBRANDYWINE HEIGHTS AREA SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $26k
- TRTOGETHER RISINGone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -62%
HONOR THE EARTHone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -59%
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.
Protecting and promoting the marine biodiversity of Hawai'i through coral restoration, ecological monitoring, regenerative tourism, and cultural integration
To mobilize people in local communities around the world to protect marine wildlife and the oceans and inland watersheds that sustain them.
Harness the power of collective action to rebuild ocean life in this generation, for people and the planet.
The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…
Oceans Initiative is a team of scientists on a mission to protect marine life and the ecosystems on which they depend, and to share our innovative science to guide conservation action.
Scientific Research on marine mammals and education
Support ecosystem-based wildlife management by increasing public awareness of wildlife issues, responding to information requests, advocating for science-based wildlife habitat management through proposal and comment submissions, and…
OneReefs mission is to ensure healthy ocean ecosystems and thriving coastal communities across the Pacific.
Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.
To scale coral reef restoration through a holistic model of art, science and community. we design marine regeneration hubs that consist of sculptural coral gardens and land-based coral farms. we aim to target local impacts on reefs while…
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
Save threatened marine life using pioneering research, education, and sustainable conservation solutions
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sustainable Ocean Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Na'ah Illahee Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 16 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
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 OMEGA INSTITUTE FOR HOLISTIC STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Groundswell Fund ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Na'ah Illahee Fund ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER RISING ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE OCEAN ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds HONOR THE EARTH ↗
- Who funds WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC ↗
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: Marin Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Towanda 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% 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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