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Xterra Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$14k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Environment$52kInternational$8kFood & Nutrition$4kRecreation & Sports$3kArts & Culture$300Other$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$13,567
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION$13,567
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 14% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $16k → 9%THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%MAUI FOOD BANK INC: $3k → 9%HAWAII FOODBANK INC: $500 → 9%GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $8k → 14%GOAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN BICYCLING ASSOCIATION - COLORADO: $3k → 7%FEEDING AMERICA: $700 → 14%NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%WEBER PATHWAYS: $2k → 9%NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $14k → 9%OGDEN FIRST INC: $300 → 9%NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $4k → 9%NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $15 → 9%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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
2
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
3
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

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4
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
5
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
6
Waste Not Inc

Waste Not cultivates sustainable food systems that help people and the planet flourish. We do this by eliminating food waste and hunger through innovative community partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
7
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
8
Feeding Hawaii Together

To combat hunger on o'ahu by ensuring reliable access to nutritious, culturally appropriate food for all.

Human Services
9
Common Ground Collective

It is our mission at common ground collective to transform maui into a bountiful and productive island that benefits both the real-life settings, and hands-on assistance; we will help to elevate distressed and underprivileged members of…

Food & Nutrition
10
Feed Hawaii

Feed hawaii's mission is to support a sustainable regional food system by providing essential services and resources for local food producers and increasing community access to fresh healthy food.

Food & Nutrition
11
Montana Food Bank Network Inc

Our mission: to end hunger in montana through food acquisition and distribution, education, and advocacy. we are the only statewide hunger organization, providing emergency food and increasing food access among needy children, seniors and…

Food & Nutrition
12
Kauai Food Bank Inc

The mission of the food bank is to educate, provide nutritious food for the hungry, and respond to emergencies.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Foodbank Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ogden First Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $48,393 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATIONINTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN BICYCLING ASSOCIATION - COLORADO: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $7,620 · InternationalGLOBALGIVIN…GOAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $3,100 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $700 · Food & NutritionHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $500 · Food & NutritionWEBER PATHWAYS: $3,210 · Civil RightsTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $1,600 · EnvironmentOGDEN FIRST INC: $300 · Arts & Culture
Recreation & Sports$50,893International$7,620Other$5,000Food & Nutrition$4,300Civil Rights$3,210Environment$1,600Arts & Culture$300

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $48,393 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $7,620 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEBER PATHWAYS: $3,210 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $3,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN BICYCLING ASSOCIATION - COLORADO: $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOGDEN FIRST INC: $300 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Xterra Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Xterra Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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