Skip to content
Plinth

· Private foundation

TA Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$86k
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Recreation & Sports$455kEducation$123kSocial Science$35kInternational$1k
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
World Cup Dreams Foundation$10,000
Team Summit$10,000
Westminster University$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$7,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 23% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $1k → 17%THE ATLAS SOCIETY: $35k → 16%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $1k → 14%Westminster University: $10k → 8%Lange Colby: $10k → 7%Team Summit: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FDN: $102k → 8%SHERIDAN COLLEGE: $5k → 10%World Cup Dreams Foundation: $10k → 13%Gavett Tim: $7k → 7%SHERIDAN COLLEGE: $5k → 10%Maple Wiley: $5k → 7%Steffey George: $5k → 7%Fournier Simon: $5k → 7%St Germain William: $5k → 7%Klomhaus Storm: $3k → 7%Salani Hunter: $2k → 7%Wardle Galena: $1k → 7%Trudeau Sammi: $1k → 7%Arthur Julian: $1k → 7%Hune Carson: $1k → 7%Dilling Jacob: $1k → 7%Deguardia Dominick: $1k → 7%Jimmy Krupka: $1k → 7%Rowekamp Katie: $1k → 7%Zaytseva Viktoria: $1k → 7%Coe Sierra: $500 → 7%Sargent Harper: $500 → 7%Nolting Jeremy: $500 → 7%Crawley Audrey: $500 → 7%Palmquist Jevin: $500 → 7%Shackleton Dominic: $500 → 7%Beauregard Adrian: $500 → 7%Hunt Annika: $500 → 7%Reed Sawyer: $500 → 7%White Calen: $500 → 7%Bell Tucker: $250 → 7%Wirth Lucy: $250 → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$284k · 33 repeat orgs$329k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +83% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
64

Total granted

$284k
$254k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%
+23%

Still filing today

3%
6%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsInternationalArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2020–2023 · $116k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2021–2023 · $30k
  • WC
    WORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $102k · revenue -63%
  • TA
    THE ATLAS SOCIETY LTD
    one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +23%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $13k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
3
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
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
8
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
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Alaska Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Atlas Society Ltd. 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 one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 128 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $116,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $15,000 · Other+116 more — $244,000 · Other+116 moreUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION — $101,809 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA F…WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVER+1 more — $1,000 · EducationTHE ATLAS SOCIETY LTD — $35,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsTEAM SUMMIT — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,000 · International
Other$425,400Education$122,809Arts & Culture$35,000Recreation & Sports$30,000International$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION — $101,809 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ATLAS SOCIETY LTD — $35,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM SUMMIT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE ATLAS SOCIETY LTD
  • Who funds WORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds TEAM SUMMIT
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization TA Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%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 · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to TA Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to TA 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 128 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    More from the funding graph