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Alfred E Tonti Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$300k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$500kReligion$438kPhilanthropy$369kFood & Nutrition$269kEducation$225kHuman Services$57kHealth$31kPublic Benefit$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $178k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Notre Dame$50,000
The Catholic Foundation$35,000
JOIN$23,000
Bishop Watterson High School$21,000
Holy Family Soup Kitchen$21,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
Food for the Poor$15,000
Cross International Catholic Outrea$14,000
Marietta Community Foundation$13,000
Tiffin Community Foundation$11,000
St Charles$10,000
St Agatha De Paul Society$9,000
St Brendan Church$8,000
St Agatha Retired Religious Fund$5,000
Boys Town$5,000
02The need
03

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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Boys Town: $5k → 12%Boys Town: $4k → 12%Boys Town: $4k → 12%Boys Town: $4k → 12%Boys Town: $4k → 12%Boys Town: $3k → 12%Boys Town: $3k → 12%Boys Town: $3k → 12%Boys Town: $3k → 12%Buckeye Ranch: $5k → 15%Buckeye Ranch: $3k → 15%Buckeye Ranch: $3k → 15%Buckeye Ranch: $3k → 15%Buckeye Ranch: $3k → 15%Buckeye Ranch: $2k → 15%Buckeye Ranch: $2k → 15%Buckeye Ranch: $2k → 15%Buckeye Ranch: $2k → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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OH
NE
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TN
DC
AL
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 29 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
12

Total granted

$1.6M
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+145%

Still filing today

24%
8%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalReligionHealthPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TT
    THE TIFFIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +76%
  • EW
    ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +98%
  • FF
    Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
    9× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +145%
  • SM
    St Michaels Catholic Church
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
2
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
3
University of Dayton

The university of dayton is a top-tier independent, catholic research educational institution founded in 1850. the primary exempt purpose is providing post secondary education through undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and continuing…

Education
4
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
5
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
6
The Christ Hospital

Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.

Health
7
Fairfield University

To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.

Education
8
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
9
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
10
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
11
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
12
Community Memorial Hospital of Menomonee Falls Inc

To advance the health of our communities through excellence and discovery, inspiring each person to live their unique, best life.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Buckeye Ranch Inc; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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

10 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. 10 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Catholic Foundation: $256,000 · OtherThe Catholic FoundationBISHOP WATTERSON HIGH SCHOOL: $204,500 · OtherBISHOP WATTERSON HIGH SCHOOLJOIN: $169,000 · OtherJOINHoly Family Soup Kitchen: $151,000 · OtherHoly Family Soup KitchenIndividual grant recipient: $91,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSt Agatha De Paul Society: $69,000 · OtherCross International Catholic Outrea: $68,000 · OtherST BRENDAN CHURCH: $50,500 · Other+27 more: $294,500 · Other+27 moreUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $500,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame d…MARIETTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $63,000 · PhilanthropyTHE TIFFIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $101,000 · InternationalFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $33,000 · Human ServicesTHE BUCKEYE RANCH INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC: $45,000 · ReligionST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $6,000 · Health
Other$1,353,500Education$500,000Philanthropy$113,000International$101,000Human Services$58,000Religion$45,000Health$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $500,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $101,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMARIETTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $63,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TIFFIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $33,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BUCKEYE RANCH INC: $25,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank: $17,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE US: $12,500 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
  • Who funds MARIETTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TIFFIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
  • Who funds THE BUCKEYE RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
  • Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE US ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗

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.

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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 Alfred E Tonti Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alfred E Tonti Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of 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 · 0–10%
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 43 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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