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Ernst & Gertrude Ticho Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Ernst & Gertrude Ticho Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$317k
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$568kHealth$411kInternational$391kHousing & Shelter$344kEnvironment$142kHuman Services$133kScience & Tech$125kReligion$121kOther$0
02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k29 grants · $122k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $195k
$5,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL$25,000
BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL$20,000
FRIENDSHIP PLACE$20,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH FLORIDA$15,000
CONGREGATION SHIRAT SHALOM$15,000
OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH$15,000
RUTH RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES$15,000
ST COLUMBA'S NURSERY SCHOOL$15,000
THE WATERSHED PROJECT$15,000
LIFE SPACE FOUNDATION$10,000
CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK$10,000
FACING ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$7,000
A WIDER CIRCLE$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN: $5k → 11%Victim Witness Services - Coconino County: $5k → 16%CHOBAD OF BOQUETTE INC: $3k → 20%Honor Flight: $15k → 7%American Red Cross - South Central Kentucy: $5k → 18%KIDSIDE INC: $10k → 15%Victim Witness Services: $2k → 16%BILL WILSON CENTER: $5k → 8%Kidside: $10k → 15%YMCA Of South Palm Beach: $8k → 11%YMCA Of South Palm Beach: $3k → 11%YMCA Of South Palm Beach: $3k → 11%Palisade Village: $5k → 14%YMCA Of South Palm Beach: $3k → 11%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

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
OH
CT
CA
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
NC
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 68 repeat orgs$387k to everyone else

68 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
50

Total granted

$2.3M
$336k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+37%

Still filing today

60%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • FP
    Friendship Place
    8× · 2017–2024 · $320k · revenue +104%
  • Best Buddies International Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $195k · revenue +81%
  • OB
    OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $158k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • CP
    CA Polytechnic State University
    2× · 2021–2022 · $25k
  • TU
    THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    3× · 2020–2022 · $25k · revenue +93%
  • CN
    Children's National Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
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
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
3
Public Health Institute

Public health institute generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.

Health
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
6
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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8
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,…

—
9
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
10
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
11
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
12
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Breakthrough Inc; the most unlike its peers is South Bay Clean Creeks Coalition. 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

73 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. 73 of the 129 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/73
Grantees still filing
49/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION SHIRAT SHALOM CORP: $96,500 · OtherCONGREGATION SHIRAT SHALOM CORPFAU Atlantic Univ Foundation: $94,000 · OtherFAU Atlantic Univ FoundationAmerican Red Cross: $80,000 · OtherAmerican Red CrossRuth Rales Jewish Family Serv: $70,000 · OtherAmerica's VetDogs - Veteran's K-9 Corp Inc: $60,000 · OtherFL Psychoanalytic Foundation: $60,000 · OtherJEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC: $56,500 · OtherJubilee Jumpstart: $52,500 · OtherUniversity of California Regents: $50,000 · OtherRegents of the Univ of CA: $50,000 · OtherCITRUS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC: $52,000 · Other+71 more: $734,000 · Other+71 moreOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $158,000 · EducationOPERATION BREAKTH…WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: $79,500 · EducationWASHINGTON INTERN…A WIDER CIRCLE INC: $32,000 · EducationA WIDER CIRCLE IN…THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF…The Florida State University Foundation Inc: $29,500 · EducationThe Florida State…THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationTHE UC DAVIS FOUN…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI: $15,000 · Education+5 more: $44,500 · Education+5 moreFriendship Place: $320,000 · Housing & ShelterFriendship Pl…Best Buddies International Inc: $195,000 · InternationalBest Budd…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 · International+5 more: $25,000 · International+5 moreTHE WATERSHED PROJECT: $20,000 · EnvironmentDaily Acts Organization: $15,000 · EnvironmentMACARTHUR BEAUTIFICATION GROUP: $11,000 · EnvironmentSacramento Area Creeks Council: $10,000 · EnvironmentKEEP COYOTE CREEK BEAUTIFUL: $10,000 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE SOLANO INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentSouth Bay Clean Creeks Coalition: $8,000 · EnvironmentURBAN RIVERS INC: $6,000 · EnvironmentOccidental Arts and Ecology Center: $5,000 · EnvironmentWater Education Foundation: $3,500 · EnvironmentBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $35,000 · HealthRUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $30,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $17,000 · HealthTHE 22 PROJECT INC: $5,000 · HealthMICHIGAN PSYCHOANALYTIC FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Health+2 more: $5,000 · HealthKIDSIDE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $16,500 · Human ServicesHONOR FLIGHT INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesVictim Witness Services For Coconino County: $7,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human ServicesBILL WILSON CENTER: $5,000 · Human ServicesPalisades Village: $5,000 · Human ServicesArizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,500 · Human Services
Other$1,455,500Education$428,500Housing & Shelter$320,000International$230,000Environment$98,500Health$97,000Human Services$81,000

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 budgetFriendship Place: $320,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $195,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $158,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: $79,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC: $56,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetJubilee Jumpstart: $52,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCITRUS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC: $52,000 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION INC: $41,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $32,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIFESPACE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetThe Florida State University Foundation Inc: $29,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $29,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIDSIDE INC: $20,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetTHE WATERSHED PROJECT: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBOCA HELPING HANDS INC: $17,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $16,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI: $15,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDaily Acts Organization: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPartnership for Appalachian Girls Education: $12,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetYOLO FOOD BANK: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice by the Sea Inc: $12,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMACARTHUR BEAUTIFICATION GROUP: $11,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WATERSHED RESEARCH & TRAINING CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEHOPE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSacramento Area Creeks Council: $10,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetWe Care Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetKEEP COYOTE CREEK BEAUTIFUL: $10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSUSTAINABLE SOLANO INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetGOODWILL OF SILICON VALLEY INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDowntown Streets Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOME INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Bay Clean Creeks Coalition: $8,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFLORIDA PSYCHOANALYTIC FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Palm Beach Post Season to Share Inc: $7,500 over 4y, 27% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVictim Witness Services For Coconino County: $7,000 over 4y, 0.3% 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 Friendship Place ↗
  • Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Jubilee Jumpstart ↗
  • Who funds CITRUS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc ↗
  • Who funds A WIDER CIRCLE INC ↗
  • Who funds RUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LIFESPACE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Florida State University Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KIDSIDE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WATERSHED PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds BOCA HELPING HANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HONOR FLIGHT 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.

PatagoniaorgNational Fish and Wil…Tides FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Morgan Stanley Global…Paypal Charitable Giv…Vanguard Charitable E…Raymond James Charita…Network for GoodJpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…
PatagoniaorgCA11.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Network for Good · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Ernst & Gertrude Ticho Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ernst & Gertrude Ticho Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Company Inc: 64% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Adventure Theatre Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 129 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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