Washington · Nonprofit
THIRD PLACE TECHNOLOGIES
THIRD PLACE TECHNOLOGIES (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $129,785 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($64,785). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $100k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $130k
- Net assets
- $6k
What Third Place Technologies does
Mission
Our mission to foster interdisciplinary collaboration, community, and life-long learning for artists, creative technologists, and civic activists. We provide spaces, exhibitions and events, workshops, and new technologies for the creative community at the intersection of art, technology, and civic engagement to create, collaborate, learn, and share their work.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Collaboration Spaces: For 2024, our primary activity was running a membership-based art gallery and collaborative studio called Sky Artworks in the Town of Skykomish. We also provided administrative, fundraising, and art space support for a sister collaborative art space in Seattle called Passable Art.
$66,275 spent$30,835 earned by the program84% of program spendingCollaborative Events: We ran a collaborative art/tech event called Electric Sky in the Skykomish Ballpark, bringing togethers to collaborate and share their work in a popup makerspace and art show that is open to the public.
$7,153 spent$1,040 earned by the program9% of program spendingEducation: We conducted a numbers workshops to foster life-long learning at the intersection of art and technologies both in our collaboration spaces and at our events.
$5,007 spent$2,384 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $78,435.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $14k to $8k (−38%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 68% · 2021 0% · 2022 12% · 2023 16% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of THIRD PLACE TECHNOLOGIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (79% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Shelly Farnham
President of the Board of Directors
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $45k → $23k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THIRD PLACE TECHNOLOGIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THIRD PLACE TECHNOLOGIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THIRD PLACE TECHNOLOGIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of THIRD PLACE TECHNOLOGIES's grant income comes from Washington funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THIRD PLACE TECHNOLOGIES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 793 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THIRD PLACE TECHNOLOGIES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THIRD PLACE TECHNOLOGIES: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THIRD PLACE TECHNOLOGIES?
- THIRD PLACE TECHNOLOGIES (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $129,785 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($64,785). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THIRD PLACE TECHNOLOGIES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $129,785 in grants to THIRD PLACE TECHNOLOGIES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THIRD PLACE TECHNOLOGIES?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $64,785 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THIRD PLACE TECHNOLOGIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing