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Mabel Burroughs Tyler Foundation at a glance

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Mabel Burroughs Tyler Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$17k
Granted FY2026still arriving
7
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2026.

Education$157kPhilanthropy$55kEnvironment$25kHousing & Shelter$10kHuman Services$8kArts & Culture$7kHealth$3kAnimals$3kOther$0
02FY2026 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k6 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$227k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS$10,000
NORFOLK COLLEGIATE SCHOOL$2,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF THE KINGS DAUGHTERS$2,000
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION$1,000
VIRGINIA BEACH SPCA$1,000
LYNNHAVEN RIVER NOW$1,000
RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE$250
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 (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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%BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL: $10k → 8%JUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTER: $10k → 10%UNITED WAY OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS: $10k → 19%UNITED WAY OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS: $10k → 19%LYNNHAVEN RIVER NOW: $1k → 10%UNITED WAY OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS: $10k → 19%UNITED WAY OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS: $5k → 19%UNITED WAY OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS: $5k → 19%UNITED WAY OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS: $5k → 19%UNITED WAY OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS: $5k → 19%UNITED WAY: $5k → 19%ACCESS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $2k → 19%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF THE KINGS DAUGHTERS: $2k → 19%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF THE KINGS DAUGHTERS: $500 → 19%VIRGINIA BEACH SPCA: $1k → 10%NORFOLK COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $12k → 19%VIRGINIA BEACH SPCA: $750 → 10%NORFOLK COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $12k → 19%NORFOLK COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $12k → 19%WHRO: $1k → 19%NORFOLK COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $12k → 19%WHRO: $1k → 19%CHESAPEAKE BAY ACADEMY: $35k → 10%NORFOLK COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $2k → 19%WHRO: $1k → 19%CHESAPEAKE BAY ACADEMY: $25k → 10%NORFOLK COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $2k → 19%WHRO: $1k → 19%CHESAPEAKE BAY ACADEMY: $25k → 10%NORFOLK COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $2k → 19%WHRO: $1k → 19%CHESAPEAKE BAY ACADEMY: $2k → 10%NORFOLK COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $2k → 19%WHRO: $1k → 19%NORFOLK COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $2k → 19%WHRO: $1k → 19%CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION: $20k → 19%CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION: $1k → 19%CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION: $1k → 19%CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION: $1k → 19%EGGLESTON SERVICES: $1k → 19%EGGLESTON SERVICES: $1k → 19%EGGLESTON SERVICES: $1k → 19%EGGLESTON SERVICES: $1k → 19%EGGLESTON SERVICES: $1k → 19%EGGLESTON SERVICES: $1k → 19%EGGLESTON SERVICES: $1k → 19%EGGLESTON SERVICES: $1k → 19%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$240k · 10 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2026, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

$240k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+60%

Still filing today

90%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
EducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyArts & CultureAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CB
    CHESAPEAKE BAY ACADEMY
    5× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +15%
  • NC
    NORFOLK COLLEGIATE SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2026 · $57k · revenue +24%
  • CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2026 · $23k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • JO
    JUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTERINC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -12%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
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
Virginia Beach City Public Schools Entrepreneurship and Business
Education
2
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
3
Western New York Maritime Charter School

Education of students

Education
4
Washington & Jefferson College

To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.

Education
5
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
6
Youth Sailing Virginia Inc

Youth sailing virginia's mission is to teach life skills to high school, middle school youth and their families in the commonwealth of virginia through safe, fun and competitive, recreational and educational community sailing programs with…

Recreation & Sports
7
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
8
Howard University Middle School of Mathematics & Science

The howard university middle school of mathematics and science is the only middle school in the country that is located on the campus of an hbcu. we were chartered by howard university for the express purpose of creating a pipeline for…

Education
9
Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.

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10
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
11
The Williams School

The williams school builds with each child the foundation for academic, moral and social success. a williams school student embodies confidence, integrity and a love of learning.

—
12
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chesapeake Bay Academy; the most unlike its peers is Lynnhaven River Now. 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

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 18 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHESAPEAKE BAY ACADEMY: $87,500 · EducationCHESAPEAKE BAY ACADEMYNORFOLK COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $57,150 · EducationNORFOLK COLLEGIATE SCHOOLTHE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · EducationTHE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC+1 more: $250 · EducationUnited Way of South Hampton Roads: $50,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of South H…+1 more: $250 · PhilanthropyCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE…LYNNHAVEN RIVER NOW: $1,675 · EnvironmentLYNNHAVEN …EGGLESTON SERVICES: $8,000 · OtherUNITED WAY: $5,000 · OtherACCESS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $1,500 · OtherEASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL: $1,000 · OtherChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $2,500 · Other+2 more: $875 · OtherJUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTERINC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA BEACH SPCA: $2,675 · Animals
Education$154,900Philanthropy$50,250Environment$24,675Other$18,875Housing & Shelter$10,000Arts & Culture$7,000Animals$2,675

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 budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY ACADEMY: $87,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetNORFOLK COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $57,150 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of South Hampton Roads: $50,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUDEO-CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTERINC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA BEACH SPCA: $2,675 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLYNNHAVEN RIVER NOW: $1,675 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 596 TIDEWATER: $475 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY WINE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $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.

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.

Hampton Roads Communi…Tidewater Jewish Foun…United Way of South H…Curtis Family Foundat…Chesapeake Bay Wine C…Townebank FoundationSentara HealthL & J Goldrich Founda…Franklin Family Found…The Richard S Glasser…The Dalis FoundationDollar Bank Foundation
Hampton Roads Community FoundationVA19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Curtis Family Foundation · Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation · Townebank Foundation · Sentara Health · L & J Goldrich Foundation · Franklin Family Foundation · The Richard S Glasser Family Foundation · The Dalis Foundation · Dollar Bank Foundation

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 Mabel Burroughs Tyler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mabel Burroughs Tyler 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of 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
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.
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Find your warmest path to Mabel Burroughs Tyler 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 18 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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