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Tao Jones Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
54
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Health$4.2MEducation$1.3MInternational$620kPhilanthropy$573kPublic Safety & Disaster$533kHuman Services$420kArts & Culture$419kScience & Tech$200kOther$0
02FY2024 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $267k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.4M
$10,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$1,400,000
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$200,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$107,500
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$101,000
INTERMOUNTAIN FOUNDATION$100,000
MAGEE-WOMEN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION$100,000
BAPTIST HEALTH OF SOUTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION$100,000
JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION$100,000
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$100,000
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER$100,000
GREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$100,000
PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT$100,000
SHELTERBOX$75,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$50,000
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL$50,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEFFREY COOMBS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%SID JACOBSON JCC: $500 → 6%SHELTERBOX USA: $10k → 9%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%CROTCHED MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%SHLETERBOX USA: $5k → 9%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA: $13k → 13%SHELTERBOX USA: $5k → 9%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%SHELTERBOX USA: $5k → 9%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%SHELTERBOX USA: $250 → 9%I LOVE VENEZUELA FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%SHELTERBOX USA: $250 → 9%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%THE SHARMADA FOUNDATION: $40k → 15%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA: $5k → 13%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Tao Jones Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Tao Jones Charitable Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.1% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.2M · 50 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

50 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
78

Total granted

$5.2M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+27%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $506k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesInternationalEducationOther

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

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +132%
  • MR
    MAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $617k · revenue +13%
  • JH
    JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • BL
    BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $504k · revenue +73%
  • BL
    BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $500k
  • AB
    ABACO-WINDING BAY RELIEF FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $498k

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
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
2
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health
5
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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6
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
7
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
8
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
9
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
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United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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11
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc

The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating acurefor multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies, leverage data to…

Health
12
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lenny Zakim Fund and the most unlike its peers is Wylie's Day Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Women & Girls Leadership De…Community College Foundatio…Jewish Community Organizati…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community Arts CentersAddiction Recovery ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyDomestic Violence ServicesCancer Support ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsAnimal Rescue and ShelterUnited Way AffiliatesEnvironmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr19%31%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr14%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr19%14%20–35yr14%25%35–55yr14%52%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/120
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,238

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

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

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 115 of the 155 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
115/115
Grantees still filing
76/115
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $2,265,566 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute IncMAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION — $617,225 · HealthMAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATIONJACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 · HealthJACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INCTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $250,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCHPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $225,000 · HealthINTERMOUNTAIN FOUNDATION — $200,000 · Health+19 more — $456,740 · Health+19 moreBOSTON LATIN SCHOOL — $500,000 · OtherBOSTON LATIN SCHOOLABACO-WINDING BAY RELIEF FUND — $498,261 · OtherABACO-WINDING BAY RELIEF FUN…HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL — $200,000 · OtherHARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOLMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL — $151,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPIT…BAPTIST HEALTH OF SOUTH FLORIDA (BHSF) FOUNDATION — $101,000 · OtherPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $100,000 · Other+58 more — $647,332 · Other+58 moreBOSTON LATIN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION — $504,135 · EducationBOSTON LATI…University of Miami — $207,500 · EducationUniversity …THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERS…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $50,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $45,000 · Education+4 more — $15,973 · EducationNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $250,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SAPLING FOUNDATION — $44,000 · PhilanthropyCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $31,000 · PhilanthropyCAPE AND ISLANDS UNITED WAY INC — $25,000 · Philanthropy+13 more — $66,455 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $100,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $69,000 · InternationalOne Drop Foundation Inc — $50,900 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $50,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $50,000 · InternationalAFRICA FOUNDATION (USA) — $30,000 · InternationalPROJECT HEALTHY CHILDREN INC — $25,000 · InternationalAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC — $25,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF — $20,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc — $15,110 · International+2 more — $3,750 · InternationalSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $68,944 · Arts & CultureSPHINX ORGANIZATION INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC — $43,750 · Arts & CultureWGBH Educational Foundation — $40,000 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $10,750 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $20,520 · Arts & CultureSHELTERBOX USA INC — $110,500 · Human ServicesSHARMADA FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $20,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC — $17,500 · Human ServicesUnited Help Ukraine Inc — $10,574 · Human Services+7 more — $8,325 · Human Services
Health$4,314,531Other$2,197,593Education$872,608Philanthropy$516,455International$438,760Arts & Culture$288,964Human Services$206,899

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $2,265,566 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION — $617,225 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBOSTON LATIN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION — $504,135 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetJACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $225,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $207,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERMOUNTAIN FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetSHELTERBOX USA INC — $110,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBaptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEVADA DONOR NETWORK INC — $95,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $69,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $68,944 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOne Drop Foundation Inc — $50,900 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK GIRLS SMILE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBUZZARDS BAY COALITION — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE OUR SISTERS UNITED — $50,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetSPHINX ORGANIZATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC — $43,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSHARMADA FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $31,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICA FOUNDATION (USA) — $30,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCAPE WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE INC — $25,500 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetTHE LENNY ZAKIM FUND — $25,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetUSAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORCESTER CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT HEALTHY CHILDREN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE AND ISLANDS UNITED WAY INC — $25,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHEART OF ILLINOIS HARVEST — $22,901 over 1y, 17% of budgetADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Other Side Academy — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $15,110 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.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

GivenGain Foundation …Eastern Bank Foundati…The Ayco Charitable F…Boston Foundation IncBny Mellon Charitable…Rockland Trust Charit…Combined Jewish Phila…Barr FoundationVegas Golden Knights …Nevada Community Foun…Mgm Resorts FoundationNV Energy Charitable …
GivenGain Foundation USAFL21.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: GivenGain Foundation USA · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Barr Foundation · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Mgm Resorts Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Tao Jones Charitable Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
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no gov · 260%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc — 53% of income from government
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc — 19% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
  • University of Miami — 5% of income from government
  • Worcester Center for Performing Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Grub Street Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Als One Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
  • Boston Philharmonic Orchestra Corporation — 1% of income from government
  • Jackson Health Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Friends of Mvyradio Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
  • Animal Rescue League of Boston — 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
26get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 Tao Jones Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Tao Jones Charitable Foundation Inc 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 155 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.

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