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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.

$515k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$249,750
Organizations funded a year
2 to 9
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$9.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Towanda Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving12$515k42%
FY20239$140k100%
FY20222$36kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Education$296kEnvironment$190kArts & Culture$100kCivil Rights$70kInternational$25kHuman Services$10k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Omega Institute for Holistic Studies Inc$249,75011%
The Film Collaborative Inc$100,00011%
Appalachian Mountain Club$50,00020%
Groundswell Fund$50,00020%
Earth Island Institute Inc$40,00020%
Brandywine Heights Area School$26,0001n/a
Na'ah Illahee Fund$25,00011%
Together Rising$20,20010%
Greenwave Organization Corp$20,00020%
The Coral Reef Alliance$20,00020%
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All grantees of Towanda Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Omega Institute for Holistic Studies Inc$249,75011%
The Film Collaborative Inc$100,00011%
Appalachian Mountain Club$50,00020%
Groundswell Fund$50,00020%
Earth Island Institute Inc$40,00020%
Brandywine Heights Area School$26,0001n/a
Na'ah Illahee Fund$25,00011%
Together Rising$20,20010%
Greenwave Organization Corp$20,00020%
The Coral Reef Alliance$20,00020%
Sustainable Ocean Alliance Inc$20,00010%
The Surfrider Foundation$20,00020%
Billion Oyster Project Inc$20,00020%
Clean Ocean Action Inc$10,00011%
Honor the Earth$10,00010%
Women Moving Millions Inc$10,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Towanda Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOmega Institute for Holistic Studies Inc: $249,750 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Film Collaborative Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGroundswell Fund: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNa'ah Illahee Fund: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTogether Rising: $20,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGreenwave Organization Corp: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Coral Reef Alliance: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSustainable Ocean Alliance Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Surfrider Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBillion Oyster Project Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetClean Ocean Action Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHonor the Earth: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWomen Moving Millions Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Marin Community FoundationCA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to Towanda Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Towanda 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.

About Towanda Foundation

How much does Towanda Foundation give?
Towanda Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $514,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Towanda Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (43%), Environment (27%), Arts & Culture (14%).
Who are Towanda Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Omega Institute for Holistic Studies Inc ($250k), The Film Collaborative Inc ($100k), Appalachian Mountain Club ($50k).
Does Towanda Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Towanda Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Towanda Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Impactassetsinc, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Towanda Foundation based?
Towanda Foundation is based in DE.

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 16 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-PF 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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