· Private foundation
Tamaasus
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 $10k18 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $15,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,533 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,190 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,488 |
| MIZNA | $1,085 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE | $1,000 |
| THE BROOKLYN YOUTH CHOIR | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $704 |
| Individual grant recipient | $700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $699 |
| THE INVISIBLE DOG FUNDRAISER KICKSTARTER | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 83% of grant dollars ($620k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 17% that went abroad ($129k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $105) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 17% of all-years giving ($129k)
9 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 28% of Tamaasus’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 15 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ISINTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN2× · 2021–2022 · $40k · revenue +20%
- NUNaropa University4× · 2017–2021 · $13k · revenue +34%
- TPTHE POETRY PROJECT LTD5× · 2020–2024 · $6k · revenue ×32
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $58k
- USUPLAND SOUND LLCone grant, 2023 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
Enhance Columbia University's education mission by acquiring and publishing outstanding original works by scholars and others that contribute to an understanding of global human concerns. Columbia University Press became part of the…
Ether Sea Projects D/B/A Litmus Press publishes innovative poetry, prose, and formally experimental writing from around the world. We champion avant-garde legacies through our stewardship of foundational feminist predecessors of small…
Dzanc Books was hailed as the future of publishing in Publishers Weekly in December 2007. Beginning with modest goals of publishing 4-6 titles each year, the house now publishes between 10-15 books annually. Notable and award-winning…
The organization is an independent publisher of a public space books and a literary and arts magazine that supports overlooked and unclassifiable work from beyond established confines. the organizations programs also include writing and…
Through publications, events, and active community participation, Nomadic Press collectively weaves together platforms for intentionally marginalized voices to take their rightful place within the world of the written and spoken word.…
Graywolf press publishes risk-taking, visionary writers who transform culture through literature. when writers are free to do their most ambitious work, their books serve as portals to new possibilities and enable deeper understanding…
Poetry flash builds community through literature
To publish and foster appreciation of comtemporary literary works.
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 106 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 INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BROOKLYN ↗
- Who funds PRATT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Naropa University ↗
- Who funds THE POETRY PROJECT LTD ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds COFFEE HOUSE PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE INC ↗
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: The Poetry Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tamaasus funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tamaasus. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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