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Twispworks Foundation

Our mission is to start, build, and grow, together.

$8k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Human Services$43kArts & Culture$13kHealth$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kRecreation & Sports$6kFood & Nutrition$5kEnvironment$2kAnimals$2k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $7,642, the rows itemized in this filing. The $8,142 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$7,642
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KTRT$7,642
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 18%KTRT: $8k → 17%METHOW MOMENTS TENT AND EVENT RENTALS: $7k → 17%Tappi: $2k → 17%Methow Field Institute: $2k → 17%Eqpd: $2k → 17%Merc Playhouse: $2k → 17%True North Letterpress: $2k → 17%Sunny Pine Farm: $2k → 17%Kevin's Collision Repair LLC: $2k → 17%Methow Valley Inn: $2k → 17%Goldenhorn Enterprises: $2k → 17%3rd Avenue Salon: $2k → 17%Diamond Patina: $2k → 17%Twisp River Inn Bed & Breakfast: $2k → 17%Valley Style: $2k → 17%Bella Luna Nostalgic Gownery: $2k → 17%Fiber LLC: $2k → 17%Daily Business: $2k → 17%Idle a While: $2k → 17%Methow Valley Jewelers Collective: $2k → 17%Yo Dog: $2k → 17%MVCC: $2k → 17%Mowen Hayley: $2k → 17%Twisp River Wellness: $2k → 17%La Fonda Lopez: $2k → 17%The Floyd Company: $2k → 17%BARNYARD THEATER LLC: $7k → 17%Alondra's Cleaning Service: $2k → 17%River Run Inn: $2k → 17%Mt Gardner Inn: $2k → 17%Gathered: $2k → 17%Winthrop Gallery: $2k → 17%Methow Rafting: $2k → 17%Linwood Restaurant LLC: $2k → 17%Barnyard Theater LLC: $2k → 17%Bear Creek Golf Course: $2k → 17%Nectar Skin Bar & Boutique: $2k → 17%French Quail: $2k → 17%Alison F Childers-Darwood: $2k → 17%Winthrop Ice & Sports Rink: $2k → 17%Terry's Appliance: $2k → 17%Mount Gardner Massage: $2k → 17%Old Schoolhouse Brewery: $2k → 17%Retro Pony: $2k → 17%Mary Gray Personal Trainer: $2k → 17%Oliver's Artisan Kitchen: $2k → 17%Winthrop Guitar Studio: $2k → 17%Winthrop Iron Horse LLC: $2k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field
04the grantee network

4 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 4 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
4/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BARNYARD THEATER LLC: $8,000 · OtherBARNYARD THEATER LLCKTRT: $7,642 · OtherKTRTMETHOW MOMENTS TENT AND EVENT RENTALS: $6,500 · OtherMETHOW MOMENTS TENT AND EVENT RENTALS+43 more: $64,500 · Other+43 moreMethow Valley Community Center: $1,500 · Recreation & SportsWinthrop Ice & Sports Rink: $1,500 · Recreation & SportsMethow Field Institute: $1,500 · EnvironmentThe Merc Playhouse Society: $1,500 · Public Benefit
Other$86,642Recreation & Sports$3,000Environment$1,500Public Benefit$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMethow Valley Community Center: $1,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMethow Field Institute: $1,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWinthrop Ice & Sports Rink: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Merc Playhouse Society: $1,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Methow Valley Community Center ↗
  • Who funds Methow Field Institute ↗
  • Who funds Winthrop Ice & Sports Rink ↗
  • Who funds The Merc Playhouse Society ↗

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.

Alliance 2005Community Foundation …Ndc Housing & Economi…
Alliance 2005WA21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Twispworks Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Twispworks Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 50 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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