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Catherine Tolliver Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$72k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$38k
Largest
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$544kEmployment$13k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
$4,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Silver Cross Foundation$38,000
Little Company of Mary Hospital Foundation$15,420
Alzheimer's Association$4,000
National Institute of Mental Health$4,000
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention$3,000
American Heart Association$3,000
American Cancer Society$3,000
Sertoma Centre$2,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%American Foundation for Suicide Prevention: $15k → 17%American Heart Association: $5k → 14%American Cancer Society: $5k → 13%Silver Cross Foundation: $45k → 7%Sertoma Centre: $2k → 14%National Institute of Mental Health: $20k → 8%American Foundation for Suicide Prevention: $3k → 17%American Heart Association: $3k → 14%American Cancer Society: $3k → 13%Silver Cross Foundation: $45k → 7%Sertoma Centre: $2k → 14%National Institute of Mental Health: $4k → 8%American Foundation for Suicide Prevention: $3k → 17%American Heart Association: $2k → 14%American Cancer Society: $2k → 13%Silver Cross Foundation: $43k → 7%Sertoma Centre: $2k → 14%National Institute of Mental Health: $4k → 8%American Foundation for Suicide Prevention: $3k → 17%American Heart Association: $2k → 14%American Cancer Society: $2k → 13%Silver Cross Foundation: $40k → 7%Sertoma Centre: $2k → 14%American Heart Association: $2k → 14%American Cancer Society: $2k → 13%Silver Cross Foundation: $38k → 7%American Heart Association: $2k → 14%American Cancer Society: $2k → 13%Silver Cross Foundation: $25k → 7%American Heart Association: $2k → 14%American Cancer Society: $2k → 13%Silver Cross Foundation: $25k → 7%American Heart Association: $2k → 14%Silver Cross Foundation: $20k → 7%Silver Cross Foundation: $20k → 7%Little Company of Mary Hospital Foundation: $15k → 14%Little Company of Mary Hospital: $15k → 14%Little Company of Mary Hospital Foundation: $15k → 14%Little Company of Mary Hospital Foundation: $15k → 14%Little Company of Mary Hospital Foundation: $15k → 14%Little Company of Mary Hospital Foundation: $15k → 14%Little Company of Mary Hospital Foundation: $12k → 14%Little Company of Mary Hospital: $10k → 14%Little Company of Mary Hospital: $10k → 14%Alzheimer's Association: $5k → 14%Alzheimer's Association: $4k → 14%Alzheimer's Association: $4k → 14%Alzheimer's Association: $4k → 14%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$557k · 10 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
0

Total granted

$557k
$0

Still filing today

60%
0%

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
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

  • SC
    Silver Cross Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $301k · revenue +118%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +33%
  • SC
    SERTOMA CENTRE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +52%

Funded once

    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
    Mercy Health

    Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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    2
    American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

    See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

    Health
    3
    Saratoga Care Inc

    To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.

    Health
    4
    Asco Association

    Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

    Community Improvement
    5
    Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

    The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

    Health
    6
    American Academy of Neurology

    The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

    Community Improvement
    7
    University of Florida Health Corporation

    UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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    8
    The Saratoga Hospital

    To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.

    Health
    9
    Minnesota Medical Association

    To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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    10
    American Society of Anesthesiologists

    Advancing the practice and securing the future of anesthesiology through medical education, creation and dissemination of new knowledge, improvement of patient care, and legislative and regulatory advocacy.

    —
    11
    Roper St Francis Healthcare

    Healing all people with compassion, faith, and excellence.

    Health
    12
    American Hospital Association

    To advance the health of all individuals and communities. The AHA leads, represents and serves hospitals, health systems and other related organizations that are accountable to the community and committed to equitable care and health…

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    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Little Company of Mary Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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

    8 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. 8 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.

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    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    2
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    6/8
    Grantees still filing
    3/8
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    Silver Cross Foundation: $301,000 · OtherSilver Cross FoundationLittle Company of Mary Hospital Foundation: $87,420 · OtherLittle Company of Mary Hospital FoundationLittle Company of Mary Hospital Inc: $35,000 · OtherLittle Company of Mary Hospital IncNational Institute of Mental Health: $27,500 · OtherNational Institute of Mental Health+2 more: $23,000 · OtherAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $23,000 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDAT…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $22,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER …American Heart Association Inc: $22,000 · HealthAmerican Heart A…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $16,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISE…
    Other$473,920Health$83,500

    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 budgetSilver Cross Foundation: $301,000 over 9y, 5.3% of budgetLittle Company of Mary Hospital Foundation: $87,420 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetLittle Company of Mary Hospital Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $22,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $22,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $16,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSERTOMA CENTRE INC: $13,000 over 9y, 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 Silver Cross Foundation ↗
    • Who funds Little Company of Mary Hospital Foundation ↗
    • Who funds Little Company of Mary Hospital Inc ↗
    • Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
    • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
    • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
    • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
    • Who funds SERTOMA CENTRE INC ↗

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Catherine Tolliver Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Catherine Tolliver Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

    2023
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      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.
      05Through Plinth

      Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

      How do I get to Catherine Tolliver Foundation?

      Find your warmest path to Catherine Tolliver Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

      Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

      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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