· Private foundation
Tarandi Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
81% of Tarandi Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Brown University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 $10k7 grants · $16k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $69,653 |
| SUNY OSWEGO | $6,000 |
| OSWEGO BOOKMOBILE | $2,500 |
| MEXICO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $2,000 |
| SANDY CREEK CENTRAL SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| HANNIBAL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $2,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF OSWEGO | $1,000 |
| CATO MERIDAN CENTRAL SCHOOL | $750 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +24% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 9 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OUOSWEGO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC2× · 2019–2021 · $27k · revenue +88%
- OBOSWEGO BOOKMOBILE INC4× · 2019–2025 · $9k · revenue +65%
- DDONORSCHOOSEORG5× · 2017–2022 · $4k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- ACAPW CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2024 · $6k
- AEAPW EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $3k
- MEMINETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
The oswego alumni association's purpose is to promote the welfare of the state university of new york at oswego through alumni programs, publications and scholarships.
To promote in the interest of the college community, a program of service, social activity, and educational projects through the expenditure of the student activity fee organized to serve the student body agency in the presentation of…
The organization operates, manages and promotes ancillary services for the benefit of the campus community, including faculty, staff and students in harmony with the educational mission and goals of the state university of new york at…
To support educational youth sports programs in oscoda, michigan, by helping to provide team uniforms, equipment, supplies, transportation and other support for high school and middle school sports programs.
Award scholarships for college education
The organization supports the local high school band and color guard.
The organization is a parent teacher entity for the local middle school.
Support to lake oswego high school
The oswego county historical society seeks to interpret its collections to connect the community to past, present and future topics relevant to local history, and to promote a public interest in oswego countys historical resources.
Investing in public education to give students unmatched opportunities to flourish.
A community based organization of interested citizens committed to the goal of enriching and enhancing educational opportunities for the youth of Community School District 308 by providing funding beyond the normal operating budget of the…
See schedule othe mission of the oswego public library is to be the learning center for the greater oswego area and the place people turn to for the discovery of ideas, the joy of reading and the power of information. our diverse…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 30 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 BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OSWEGO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FULTON SUNRISE ROTARY CLUB ↗
- Who funds OSWEGO BOOKMOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds MANLIUS PEBBLE HILL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN CONCERNS INC ↗
- Who funds BUCCANEER BOOSTERSINC ↗
- Who funds OSWEGO LAKER SWIM CLUB CORPORATION ↗
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 James V Tesoriero Charitable Fund · Richard S Shineman Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tarandi Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tarandi Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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