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Twing Charitable Trust

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.

$280k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ambramson Senior Care$100,000
University of Colorado Hospital Fou$30,000
ALS United Mid-Atlantic Regions$20,000
Summit County Rescue Group$10,000
Jewish Family and Children's Servic$10,000
Summit Foundation$10,000
American Friends of NATAL$10,000
Food Bank of the Rockies$10,000
Humane Colorado$10,000
Parkinson Association of the Rockie$10,000
World Wildlife Fund$10,000
Tunnels to Towers Foundation$10,000
Boys and Girls Club of Metro Denver$10,000
St Anthony Summit Hospital Health F$10,000
Summit Lost Pet Rescue$5,000
02The need
02

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Ambramson Senior Care: $100k → 7%Tunnels to Towers Foundation: $10k → 11%American Friends of NATAL: $10k → 17%World Wildlife Fund: $10k → 14%Summit Lost Pet Rescue: $5k → 9%University of Colorado Hospital Fou: $30k → 10%Humane Colorado: $10k → 12%Match Dog Rescue: $5k → 7%Jewish Family and Children's Servic: $10k → 7%St Anthony Summit Hospital Health F: $10k → 9%Colorado Parks and Wildlife: $5k → 12%ALS United Mid-Atlantic Regions: $20k → 7%Summit County Rescue Group: $10k → 9%Parkinson Association of the Rockie: $10k → 12%Summit Foundation: $10k → 9%Food Bank of the Rockies: $10k → 12%Smart Bellies: $5k → 9%Boys and Girls Club of Metro Denver: $10k → 12%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.

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 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
Summit County Search and Rescue Fun

Search and rescue in summit county

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Summit Dog Rescue

Summit dog rescue, boulder, colorado is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dog rescuededicated to a mindful, holistic approach to rescuing great dogs and cats, and adopting them into exceptional forever homes. our goal is not to do high volume dog…

Animals
3
Dogs Unbroken

Dog Rescue Dogs Unbroken supports Colorado dogs at higher risk for euthanasia evaluating their behavioral stability and applying training methods appropriate for their needs. The goal of helping each dog learn to make good choices in…

Animals
4
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
5
Colorado Pet Pantry

The organization temporarily feeds colorado pets, allowing families to increase their ability to care for pets with the goal of keeping them out of shelters and with their families.

Animals
6
Colorados Wildlife Deserves Better

To oppose a colorado state ballot initiative banning large cat game hunting

7
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
8
Front Range German Shepherd Rescue Inc

Rescues dogs, rehomes German shepherds, and provides medical and shelter care.

Animals
9
K-9 Search and Rescue Inc

K9 search and resuce operations

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Friends of Mount Evans & Lost Creek Wildernesses

The Friends of Mount Evans & Lost Creek Wilderness (FOMELC) is a 501(c)3 charitable organization founded in November 2005. FOMELC is a 100% volunteer non-profit organization. We offer volunteer opportunities for all ages, physical…

Environment
11
Wolfe Ranch Rescue
Animals
12
Lucky Day Animal Rescue of Colorado

Lucky Day Animal Rescue of Colorado LDAR serves the public as a 501c3 tax exempt, non-profit organization dedicated to the rescue of homeless and abandoned animals in Colorado and surrounding areas. We rescue, rehabilitate and find homes…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League and the most unlike its peers is World Wildlife Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 18 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Ambramson Senior Care — $100,000 · OtherAmbramson Senior CareUniversity of Colorado Hospital Fou — $30,000 · OtherUniversity of Colorado Hospital FouALS United Mid-Atlantic Regions — $20,000 · OtherALS United Mid-Atlantic RegionsJewish Family and Children's Servic — $10,000 · OtherSUMMIT COUNTY RESCUE GROUP INC — $10,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC — $10,000 · OtherSt Anthony Summit Hospital Health F — $10,000 · Other+1 more — $5,000 · OtherDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE — $10,000 · AnimalsSUMMIT LOST PET RESCUE INC — $5,000 · AnimalsMatchdog Rescue — $5,000 · AnimalsFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $10,000 · Food & NutritionSMART BELLIES — $5,000 · Food & NutritionTHE SUMMIT FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyPARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF THE ROCKIES — $10,000 · HealthSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC — $10,000 · International
Other$195,000Animals$20,000Food & Nutrition$15,000Philanthropy$10,000Health$10,000Education$10,000Environment$10,000International$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUMMIT FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMatchdog Rescue — $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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.

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Twing Charitable Trust 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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202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–10%
    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Twing Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Twing Charitable Trust 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.

    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 18 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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