Washington · Nonprofit
TWO CRANES INSTITUTE
TWO CRANES INSTITUTE (Washington) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,576 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($37,538). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $579k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $346k
What Two Cranes Institute does
Mission
To provide education programs for children, teens, and adults that promote nonviolence and cultivate peaceful solutions to conflict.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Aikido classes for youth and adults - two cranes aikido offers a fun and dynamic training program for children, teens, and adults.
$181,268 spent$179,640 earned by the program68% of program spendingEthical and practical applications of aikido principles to trauma program - tci provides a trauma program geared toward psychotherapists and health practitioners in phase 1 and the general public in phase 2. This program focuses on using the principles of aikido as effective tools in treating individuals with mental and emotional health problems. It is designed to enhance the existing training and expertise of mental health professionals, equipping them with modalities complementary to whatever specific practices they might employ. These tools can be applied in hospital settings treating veterans suffering from ptsd, in the prison environment encouraging violence reduction techniques and with children and adults who have experienced abuse and are not responding to cognitive and behavioral therapeutic approaches.
$50,648 spent$50,194 earned by the program19% of program spendingLeadership education program - tci provides leadership education programs for emerging leaders or those in transition to improve their management skills, develop the emotional intelligence to handle complex situations and the ability to resolve conflicts, build trust, facilitate effective teamwork and negotiate sustainable agreements.
$26,657 spent$26,418 earned by the program10% of program spendingAfter school program - tci brings aikido to youth through arrangements with existing after-school programs on their school premises. These classes introduce aikido principles of self-awareness, attention, respect, choice and conflict resolution through basic physical and social (games) practices of aikido.
$5,331 spent$5,284 earned by the program2% of program spendingTeacher training program - this program will teach a range of skills emphasizing conflict resolution, personal safety, teaching aikido technique and philosophy for the purpose of sharing with children, teens, and adults. Tci includes a study of energy awareness, taking charge of the space around us, boundary setting, de-escalating conflict, leadership skills and staying calm and making skillful choices when problems arise.
$2,667 spent$2,641 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $266,571.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.7M to $2.0M (+18%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 5% · 2023 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of TWO CRANES INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $9k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 TWO CRANES INSTITUTE’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
TWO CRANES INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 TWO CRANES INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 90% · 2021 74% · 2022 60% · 2023 99% — 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
TWO CRANES INSTITUTE draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
TWO CRANES INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TWO CRANES INSTITUTE
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TWO CRANES INSTITUTE?
- TWO CRANES INSTITUTE (Washington) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,576 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($37,538). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TWO CRANES INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $99,576 in grants to TWO CRANES INSTITUTE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TWO CRANES INSTITUTE?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $37,538 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TWO CRANES INSTITUTE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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