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John H Tietze Foundation at a glance

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John H Tietze Foundation

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.

$460k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$460k
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.

Education$3.1MInternational$35kPhilanthropy$25kArts & Culture$10kHealth$10kFood & Nutrition$10kRecreation & Sports$10k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$460,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Washington Foundation$460,000
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 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Mayo Foundation: $25k → 9%International rescue committee: $10k → 12%The Dallas Heritage Village: $10k → 14%Shawnee Mission Education Foundation: $5k → 5%Kansas University Endowment: $80k → 15%The Center for Practical Bioethics: $5k → 15%University of Colorado Foundation: $175k → 12%University of Washington Foundation: $460k → 9%Hungry Hearts Foundation: $10k → 9%Shawnee Mission Education Foundation: $5k → 5%Kansas State University Foundation: $50k → 15%The Center for Practical Bioethics: $5k → 15%University of Colorado Foundation: $100k → 12%University of Washington Foundation: $375k → 9%Kansas University Endowment: $50k → 15%University of Colorado Foundation: $100k → 12%University of Washington Foundation: $320k → 9%Kansas State University Foundation: $35k → 15%University of Colorado Foundation: $100k → 12%University of Washington Foundation: $310k → 9%Kansas University Endowment: $30k → 15%University of Washington Foundation: $300k → 9%Kansas State University Foundation: $25k → 15%University of Washington Foundation: $193k → 9%University of Washington Foundation: $143k → 9%University of Washington Foundation: $143k → 9%University of Washington Foundation: $75k → 9%The Museum of Flight: $10k → 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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 7 repeat orgs$90k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against -14% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$3.1M
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
-14%

Still filing today

71%
50%

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
EducationArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +46%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $475k · revenue +79%
  • KS
    KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2020 · $110k · revenue +107%

Funded once

  • RU
    Rice Univesity of Development
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • MF
    Mayo Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +307%
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 Ku Endowment Charitable Gift Fund

To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…

Philanthropy
2
Washington State University Foundation

The mission of the Foundation is to promote, accept, and maximize private support for programs, initiatives, and properties of Washington State University and its regional campuses. The Foundation also prudently manages, invests, and…

Education
3
Colorado State University Foundation

See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…

Education
4
The Kansas University Endowment Association

KU Endowment partners with donors in providing philanthropic support to build a greater University of Kansas.

Education
5
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
6
Washburn University Foundation

The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.

Education
7
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
8
Indiana University Foundation

The Indiana University Foundation (IUF) maximizes private philanthropic support for Indiana University by fostering lifelong relationships with key stakeholders and providing advancement leadership and fundraising services for (Continued…

Education
9
Missouri Western State University Foundation Inc

The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…

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10
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

—
11
University of Oregon Foundation

The purpose and mission of the foundation are, acting on its own or through affiliates, to support and assist the university of oregon in its activities by management and administration of foundation assets representing privately donated…

Education
12
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Colorado Foundation; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee 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

9 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. 9 of the 13 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $2,319,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $475,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $110,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationKansas University Endowment: $160,000 · OtherKansas Uni…Rice University Office of Development: $60,000 · OtherRice Unive…Rice Univesity of Development: $25,000 · OtherRice Unive…Mayo Foundation: $25,000 · OtherMayo Found…CENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS INC: $10,000 · OtherDALLAS COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY: $10,000 · OtherHUNGRY HEARTS FOUNDATON: $10,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureInternational Rescue Committee INC: $10,000 · International
Education$2,914,000Other$300,000Arts & Culture$10,000International$10,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $2,319,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $475,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSHAWNEE MISSION EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNGRY HEARTS FOUNDATON: $10,000 over 1y, 9.7% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 13 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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