· Private foundation
Twinstar Community Foundation
Our focus is to erase school lunch debt.
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
- Under $10k46 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $117k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOGETHER | $100,000 |
| YELM COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $39,917 |
| ALL KIDS WIN | $20,000 |
| BRIDGEWAY HOUSE | $15,000 |
| THE AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,555 |
| LEAGUE OF SOUTHEASTERN CREDIT UNION | $10,555 |
| CUAID | $10,555 |
| CENTRALIA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,502 |
| NORTH THURSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $8,935 |
| ABERDEEN SCHOOL DISTRICT | $4,200 |
| TUMWATER SCHOOL DISTRICT | $4,184 |
| ONALASKA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $3,784 |
| OLYMPIA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $2,600 |
| NAPAVINE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $2,480 |
| ADNA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $2,200 |
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 (FY23–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +14% since the first grant, against -46% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 24 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, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $154k 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
- YSYELM SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 23× · 2022–2024 · $65k
- HBHomeless Backpacks Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +169%
- OSOLYMPIA SCHOOL DISTRICT3× · 2022–2024 · $22k
Funded once
- PSPUBLIC SCHOOLS OF HAWAII FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -46%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $25k
- NTNORTH THURSTON SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2022 · $14k
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.
Sccs builds the city of god by forming servant leaders who love goodness, truth, and beauty.
To provide a christian grade school education for those desiring it in hudsonville, mi and surrounding areas.
Provides Private Christian Education from Kindergarten through Grade 12.
The school functions as an extension of Christian Home supporting parents who seek to obey the biblical instruction which give them the ultimate responsibility for the education of their children. They offer a curiculum of Christian…
To assist families by proving a Christ-centered bible-based education that inspires each student to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and pursue excellence in moral character, academics, and service to others.
Covenant Christian School (CCS) is committed to the academic, spiritual, physical, and social growth of our children in a Christ-centered environment. Continued on Schedule O Covenant Christian School cultivates a distinctive generation…
Primary & Secondary Education
Christian Heritage School exists to assist parents and churches in fulfilling their God-given responsibility to teach their children that "in (Christ) are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge" (Col. 2:3) and to provide its…
Christian education for children
Cherry Hills Christian School awakens the educational experience by preparing students to live fully for God in a rapidly changing world, knowing they are His masterpieces, uniquely designed for His purpose.
Arborbrook Christian Academy partners with parents to equip, empower, and encourage students to cultivate godly character, pursue life-long learning, and love the Lord Jesus Christ.
Christian Montessori Academy is dedicated to offering a joyful, loving, and supportive learning environment in a Christ-centered atmosphere. CMA currently serves ages 3-15 in our Primary through Middle School classrooms.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Together. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 83 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.
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: Washington First Robotics · Building Changes · Share Our Strength · Invested · Washington Music Educators Association · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington · GenYOUTH Incorporated · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Twinstar Community 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.
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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