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Tri-Valley Morning Star Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Religion$39kEducation$7kPhilanthropy$2kInternational$560Public Safety & Disaster$500Environment$406Recreation & Sports$350Arts & Culture$226Other$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$463
Median grant
4
States reached
$860k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TriValley Bread Of Life Christian Church$6,000
Grape Vine Mission Center General Funding$1,000
International Committee of The Red Cross$500
International Patrons of Duomo di Milano Inc$500
Grape Vine Mission Center (Orphan Village)$480
Individual grant recipient$463
Individual grant recipient$300
Swiss Museum of Transport$226
Individual grant recipient$203
Grand Canyon Conservancy specially for Hualapai Tribe$200
Groton School$150
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Grand Canyon Conservancy specially for Hualapai Tribe: $200 → 16%American Online Giving Foundation Inc: $1k → 10%Groton School: $1k → 8%IEFT Angel Project: $560 → 11%Gofundme: $100 → 7%The School Fund: $220 → 8%YWAM St Moritz: $300 → 9%Tri-Valley Bread of Life Christian Church: $11k → 10%Hope for PDCD Foundation: $100 → 12%International Patrons of Duomo di Milano Inc: $500 → 17%Bay Area Heart Walk - American Heart Association: $50 → 14%Georgetown University: $1k → 14%Dartmouth College: $350 → 10%Groton School: $950 → 8%Grape Vine Mission Center: $1k → 10%Georgetown University: $370 → 14%DARTMOUTH College (Trustees of Dartmouth College): $350 → 10%Groton School: $628 → 8%TriValley Bread Of Life Christian Church: $6k → 10%GEORGETOWN University (Athletics Excellence Fund): $350 → 14%Dartmouth College: $350 → 10%Groton School: $350 → 8%Grape Vine Mission Center General Funding: $1k → 10%Georgetown University: $350 → 14%Dartmouth College: $200 → 10%Groton School: $350 → 8%Tri-Valley Bread Of Life Christian Church - Church Building: $6k → 10%Phi Beta Kappa Society: $110 → 14%Groton School: $150 → 8%Grape Vine Mission Center (Orphan Village): $480 → 10%TriValley Bread Of Life Christian Church: $5k → 10%Tri-Valley Bread Of Life Christian Church - Orphan Village: $420 → 10%Tri-Valley Bread Of Life Christian Church - Church Building: $4k → 10%Grape Vine Mission Center: $250 → 10%Tri-Valley Bread of Life Christian Church: $4k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
MT
NY
MA
PA
CA
NE
DE
AZ
DC
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$42k · 5 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against -24% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
13

Total granted

$42k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
-24%

Still filing today

40%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyHealthEnvironmentInternationalOther

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

  • TB
    TRI-VALLEY BREAD OF LIFE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
    4× · 2019–2025 · $25k
  • TB
    Tri-Valley Bread Of Life Christian Church - Church Building
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k
  • GROTON SCHOOL
    6× · 2019–2025 · $3k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • IA
    IEFT Angel Project
    one grant, 2019 · $560
  • CC
    Christ Church Cathedral Reinstatement Project
    one grant, 2024 · $500
  • TB
    Tri-Valley Bread Of Life Christian Church - Orphan Village
    one grant, 2024 · $420

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
4
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

6
Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford

The principal objects of the University are the advancement of learning by teaching and research, and its dissemination by every means. We work as one Oxford bringing together our staff, students and alumni, our colleges, faculties,…

7
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
8
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
9
President and Fellows of Middlebury College

Through a commitment to immersive learning, we prepare students to lead engaged, consequential, and creative lives, contribute to their communities, and address the world's most challenging problems.

Education
10
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
11
University of Denver

The university of denver (du) is a higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees - the mission of the university of denver is to promote learning by engaging with students (continued on schedule o)in…

Education
12
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Donorschooseorg and the most unlike its peers is Hope for Pdcd 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRI-VALLEY BREAD OF LIFE CHRISTIAN CHURCH — $25,230 · OtherTRI-VALLEY BREAD OF LIFE CHRISTIAN CHURCHTri-Valley Bread Of Life Christian Church - Church Building — $9,950 · OtherTri-Valley Bread Of Life Christian Church - Church BuildingGrape Vine Mission Center — $1,730 · Other+16 more — $6,012 · Other+16 moreGROTON SCHOOL — $3,478 · EducationGROTON SCHOOLGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $1,770 · EducationGEORGETOWN UN…Trustees of Dartmouth College — $900 · EducationTrustees of D…+1 more — $25 · EducationAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · PhilanthropyINTERNATIONAL PATRONS OF DUOMO DI MILANO INC — $500 · PhilanthropyGOFUNDMEORG — $100 · PhilanthropySCHOOL FUND — $220 · InternationalYELLOWSTONE FOREVER — $206 · EnvironmentHope for PDCD Foundation — $100 · Health
Other$42,922Education$6,173Philanthropy$1,600International$220Environment$206Health$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGROTON SCHOOL — $3,478 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $1,770 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College — $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL FUND — $220 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYELLOWSTONE FOREVER — $206 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope for PDCD Foundation — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 GROTON SCHOOL
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL PATRONS OF DUOMO DI MILANO INC
  • Who funds SCHOOL FUND
  • Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER
  • Who funds GOFUNDMEORG
  • Who funds Hope for PDCD Foundation
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Tri-Valley Morning Star 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.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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