Washington · Nonprofit
Twispworks Foundation
Twispworks Foundation (Washington) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,727,059 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ($1,380,436). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $801k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What Twispworks Foundation does
Mission
Our mission is to start, build, and grow, together. We envision a methow valley economy rooted in livability. Since 2009, we have converted a 6.4-acre usfs ranger station into a home for 32 businesses, artists, and educational facilities. We also host arts, education, and entrepreneurship programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Campus operations: in 2025, twispworks managed campus and several methow valleywide programs. Campus is a community focused, provides space for artists, craftspeople, and small businesses, while also serving as a community gathering space and concert venue. Our campus is a placemaker for more than 35 businesses, non-profits, artists and crafts people. 2025 campus partners included an interpretive center for native american and natural history, manufacturing and professional services companies, the methow valley school districts welding and automotive tech programs providing youth real life skills in the trades, an innovative choice high school, art studios, and gallery spaces. Campus is also a community gathering space with the pavilion for events, a splash pad, public art, a signature native plant garden, and a natural dye garden. We sponsor events, celebrations, and programs engaging residents and visitors alike.
$764,922 spent84% of program spendingTwispworks has a long history of completing projects and coordinating programs that support a healthy economy in the methow valley. By providing resources, education, technical assistance, and access to financing, twispworks helps foster a dynamic and accessible entrepreneurial ecosystem. Recent highlights include the coordination of the methow investment network, a peer-to-peer lending model that connects community members with financial resources to business owners and entrepreneurs seeking funding to start or grow a business. In the last six years, this program has circulated over $4 million in the local economy.
$145,699 spent16% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $910,621.
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 2020 to 2021, from $4.1M to $4.8M (+17%).
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: 2021 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 2% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of Twispworks Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Jon Brown
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $441k → $517k.
11 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 Twispworks Foundation’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
Twispworks Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
68% 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 Twispworks Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 92% · 2019 71% · 2020 49% · 2021 51% · 2022 24% · 2023 44% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
70% of Twispworks Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
64% of Twispworks Foundation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.3M that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states 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
Twispworks Foundation's revenue fell 34% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Twispworks Foundation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $111k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$111k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Twispworks Foundation
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Twispworks Foundation: 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 Twispworks Foundation?
- Twispworks Foundation (Washington) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,727,059 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ($1,380,436). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Twispworks Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $3,727,059 in grants to Twispworks Foundation, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Twispworks Foundation?
- THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,380,436 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Twispworks Foundation 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing