· Private foundation
Michael F Tweedle and Christine a Poon 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NEW YORK INC | $25,000 |
| CATO INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| KNOX COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| AYN RAND INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| HERITAGE BAPTIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| PELOTONIA | $10,000 |
| THE ATLAS SOCIETY LTD | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION | $20 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +3%
- GFGETTYSBURG FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $101k · revenue +18%
- TATHE AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF OBJECTIVISM5× · 2018–2025 · $57k · revenue +165%
Funded once
- OHOHIO HEALTH FOUNDATION CO THE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $100k
- JCJAMES CANCER HOSPITAL SOLOVE RESEARCH INSTITUTEone grant, 2020 · $50k
- FCFISHER COLLEGE OF BUSINESSone grant, 2019 · $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.
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.
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How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 38 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds THE AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF OBJECTIVISM ↗
- Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
- Who funds KNOX COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BEXLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ATLAS SOCIETY LTD ↗
- Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WILD ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Pediatric & Laser Neurosurgery Inc ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Crosby Band Parents ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Michael F Tweedle and Christine a Poon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael F Tweedle and Christine a Poon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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