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John and Kusumam Titus 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.

$546k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it funds
0181% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Religion$686kHuman Services$522kInternational$104kArts & Culture$31kHealth$10kRecreation & Sports$2kPhilanthropy$2kHousing & Shelter$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $46k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAR THOMA MISSION BOARD$500,000
Individual grant recipient$7,500
AERO CONTROLS CHARITABLE FUND$7,400
MTVEA - MAR THOMA VOULNTARY EVANGELISTS ASSOCIATION$5,500
CARMELITES OF MARY IMMACULATE$5,000
FOMAA - FEDERATION OF MALAYALEE ASSOCIATIONS$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
ST LUKE MAR THOMA CHURCH$1,000
ETERNAL CHURCH OF GOD$1,000
ST THOMAS MTC CHURCH HOUSTON$1,000
RT REV ABRAHAM MAR$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
HERROB MARTHOMA CHURCH$750
TRINITY MAR THOMAS CHURCH HUSTON$500
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 (FY22–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Sound Generations: $1k → 9%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
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
VA
AZ
KS
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.

6%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$80k · 8 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
33

Total granted

$80k
$764k

Still filing today

0%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $541k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’21’22’23’24
InternationalPhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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

  • MT
    MAR THOMA CHURCH OF GREATER SEATTLE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $35k
  • F-
    FOMAA -FEDERATION OF MALAYALEE ASSOCIATIONS OF AMERICAS
    2× · 2021–2023 · $15k
  • SC
    SEATTLE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL & KENT GUILD
    2× · 2021–2023 · $10k

Funded once

  • LY
    Love Your Neighbor
    one grant, 2019 · $500k
  • TD
    The Diocese of North America-Marthoma
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • TD
    The Dioces of North America-Marthoma
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
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
Southern Asian Public Health Association
Health
2
Jaya Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Sahayog Foundation
Community Improvement
4
The Kailash Goyal Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Prasaad
Religion
6
Kala Seva Arts & Cultural Society Inc

Arts and culture in society

Arts & Culture
7
Swagar Foundation
—
8
Samjivani Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Brahm Foundation

Religious worship daily poojas and festi

Education
10
Vattikuti India Relief Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Shraman Foundation
Arts & Culture
12
Auroveda Operating Foundation Charitable Trust
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kaw Charity; the most unlike its peers is Viju & Asha Charitable Foundation. 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 59 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Love Your Neighbor: $500,000 · OtherLove Your NeighborMAR THOMA MISSION BOARD: $500,000 · OtherMAR THOMA MISSION BOARDThe Diocese of North America-Marthoma: $100,000 · OtherThe Diocese of North America-MarthomaThe Dioces of North America-Marthoma: $100,000 · OtherThe Dioces of North America-Marthoma+48 more: $173,300 · Other+48 moreFEDERATION OF MALAYALEE ASSOCIATIONS OF AMERICAS: $8,000 · InternationalAsha for Education: $500 · InternationalAUBURN FOOD BANK: $1,000 · PhilanthropyKAW CHARITY: $1,000 · PhilanthropySOUND GENERATIONS: $1,000 · Human ServicesKERALA ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON: $500 · Arts & CultureBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $250 · Health
Other$1,373,300International$8,500Philanthropy$2,000Human Services$1,000Arts & Culture$500Health$250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFEDERATION OF MALAYALEE ASSOCIATIONS OF AMERICAS: $8,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKAW CHARITY: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSOUND GENERATIONS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKERALA ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON: $500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAsha for Education: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $250 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 FEDERATION OF MALAYALEE ASSOCIATIONS OF AMERICAS ↗
  • Who funds AUBURN FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds VIJU & ASHA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KAW CHARITY ↗

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.

Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC6.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 John and Kusumam Titus Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John and Kusumam Titus Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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 · 0–5%
    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

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    How do I get to John and Kusumam Titus Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to John and Kusumam Titus 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 59 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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