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Alvin S Tilles Item Xx Testamentary Trust at a glance

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Alvin S Tilles Item Xx Testamentary Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$128k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$653kPhilanthropy$327kEducation$208k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $119k
$14,031
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA$35,077
LEVI ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION$28,062
MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH$14,031
MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME AND REHAB$14,031
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FORT SMITH$14,031
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH$14,031
BOST FOUNDATION$8,291
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $40k → 17%MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH: $14k → 17%LEVI HOSPITAL: $32k → 17%MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME AND REHAB: $16k → 17%NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $16k → 12%THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $37k → 17%MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH: $14k → 17%LEVI HOSPITAL: $29k → 17%MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME AND REHAB: $15k → 17%NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $15k → 12%THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $37k → 17%LEVI HOSPITAL: $29k → 17%MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME AND REHAB: $15k → 17%NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $15k → 12%THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $37k → 17%LEVI HOSPITAL: $29k → 17%MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME AND REHAB: $15k → 17%NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $15k → 12%THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $36k → 17%LEVI HOSPITAL: $29k → 17%MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME AND REHAB: $14k → 17%NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $14k → 12%JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $36k → 17%LEVI HOSPITAL: $29k → 17%MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME AND REHAB: $14k → 17%NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $14k → 12%THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $35k → 17%LEVI HOSPITAL: $28k → 17%MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME AND REHAB: $14k → 17%NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $14k → 12%JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $35k → 17%LEVI ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $28k → 17%MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME AND REHAB: $14k → 17%NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $14k → 12%JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: $34k → 17%LEVI HOSPITAL: $27k → 17%MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME AND REHAB: $14k → 17%NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $14k → 12%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$819k · 7 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
1

Total granted

$819k
$14k

Still filing today

71%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH
    9× · 2017–2025 · $131k · revenue +50%
  • BB
    B'NAI B'RITH HOME AND HOSPITAL FOR AGED INC (D/B/A MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME & REHAB)
    9× · 2017–2025 · $131k · revenue +25%
  • MH
    MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH
    8× · 2018–2025 · $117k · revenue +516%

Funded once

  • MF
    MERCY FOUNDATION FORT SMITH
    one grant, 2017 · $14k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
7/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEVI HOSPITAL: $233,234 · OtherLEVI HOSPITALMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH: $116,548 · OtherMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITHUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FORT SMITH: $41,914 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FORT SMITHMERCY FOUNDATION FORT SMITH: $14,102 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $326,620 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH…NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $130,650 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTHB'NAI B'RITH HOME AND HOSPITAL FOR AGED INC (D/B/A MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME & REHAB): $130,650 · HealthB'NAI B'RITH HOME AND HOSPI…LEVI ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $28,062 · HealthLEVI ENDOWMENT FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF AR FT SMITH FOUNDATIONINC: $88,736 · EducationBOST FOUNDATION INC: $77,204 · Human Services
Other$405,798Philanthropy$326,620Health$289,362Education$88,736Human Services$77,204

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $326,620 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $130,650 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH HOME AND HOSPITAL FOR AGED INC (D/B/A MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME & REHAB): $130,650 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH: $116,548 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF AR FT SMITH FOUNDATIONINC: $88,736 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBOST FOUNDATION INC: $77,204 over 9y, 12% 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 THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds B'NAI B'RITH HOME AND HOSPITAL FOR AGED INC (D/B/A MEMPHIS JEWISH HOME & REHAB) ↗
  • Who funds MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF AR FT SMITH FOUNDATIONINC ↗
  • Who funds BOST FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LEVI ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alvin S Tilles Item Xx Testamentary Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alvin S Tilles Item Xx Testamentary Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s 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 · 0–15%
    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 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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