· Private foundation
Twanda Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $151k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Las Trampas Inc | $50,000 |
| The Kelsey | $50,000 |
| John Muir Health Foundation | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $26,000 |
| Urgent Action Fund via Network for Good | $25,000 |
| UCSF Benioff Childrens Hospital Foundation | $25,000 |
| Salesian College Prep HS | $15,000 |
| Diablo Regional Arts Assoc - Women's Artistic Alliance | $10,000 |
| Salesian College Prep HS | $10,000 |
| Planned Parenthood Northern California | $10,000 |
| East Bay Times Share the Spirit | $10,000 |
| Meals on Wheels | $10,000 |
| Hospice of the East Bay | $10,000 |
| CCC Crisis Center | $7,500 |
| Lindsay Wildlife Experience | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $234k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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 +48% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
78 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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
- LTLas Trampas School Inc6× · 2017–2025 · $126k · revenue +80%
- DRDiablo Regional Arts Association9× · 2017–2025 · $119k · revenue +38%
- EBEAST BAY INTEGRATED CARE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- UAUrgent Action Fund - Ukraine Women's Refugee Asstone grant, 2022 · $35k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $25k
- LTLas Trampas Inc - 2 10K VISA txnsone grant, 2018 · $20k
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.
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
Kaiser foundation for the advancement of integrated health care is a nonprofit 501(c)(4) advocacy organization to engage in proactive advocacy to promote understanding of the benefits of integrated care and coverage, and support of the…
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
To provide life long professional services to support all people with hearing or communication challenges in achieving their goals.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
Essential access advances reproductive equity and champions quality sexual and reproductive health care for everyone, everywhere.
Located in scenic Napa Valley, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art engages its community in the connective power of art and nature through its permanent collection of Northern California art, contemporary exhibitions, and thought-provoking…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Mentis provides bilingual professional mental health services to people throughout the county of every age, stage, and income level.
(cont from page 1) democratic society, and invaluable as a source of personal enrichment and growth.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Futures Explored Inc and the most unlike its peers is Reno Jazz Orchestra. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 139 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 Las Trampas School Inc ↗
- Who funds Diablo Regional Arts Association ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY INTEGRATED CARE INC ↗
- Who funds URGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM ↗
- Who funds Wellspring Educational Services Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KELSEY ↗
- Who funds LINDSAY WILDLIFE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN ↗
- Who funds SEVA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds LA CLINICA DE LA RAZA INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE PONY EXPRESS ↗
- Who funds CHOICE IN AGING ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION 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: Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Hedco Foundation · Lowell Berry Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · McNabb Foundation · John Muir Health · William a Kerr Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · The Joseph and Vera Long 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 Twanda 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.
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.