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Tas Foundation Inc

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.

$211k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.0MArts & Culture$231kHealth$93kHuman Services$54kEnvironment$20kEmployment$17kFood & Nutrition$13kReligion$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $86k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
$5,050
Median grant
5
States reached
$987k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARIEMONT SCHOOL FOUNDATION$55,000
BOSTON COLLEGE$50,000
CHILDRENS THEATRE OF CINCINNATI$36,000
COLGATE UNIVERSITY$35,000
CANCER FAMILY CARE INC$15,000
LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC$5,050
OHIO RIVER FOUNDATION$5,000
LEARNING GROVE INC$5,000
CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM$2,500
LA SOUPE INC$1,500
CINCINNATI COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES: $5k → 7%FIRST STEP HOME INC: $5k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 16%SWEET CHEEKS DIAPER BANK: $6k → 16%SWEET CHEEKS DIAPER BANK: $3k → 16%SWEET CHEEKS DIAPER BANK: $3k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $4k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $3k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $3k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $3k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
CT
KY
NC
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 21 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
8

Total granted

$1.4M
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+43%

Still filing today

81%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TM
    THE MARIEMONT SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $517k · revenue +50% · 40% of their budget
  • CU
    COLGATE UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $345k · revenue +80%
  • TC
    The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati
    9× · 2017–2025 · $193k · revenue +157%

Funded once

  • CC
    CINCINNATI CANCER FOUNDATION INC CO WILLIAM L BARRETT MD
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • CP
    Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -5%
  • PA
    PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +66%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.

Arts & Culture
2
Cincinnati Public Radio Inc

Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.

Arts & Culture
3
The Christ Hospital Foundation

The mission of the christ hospital foundation ('tch fdn') is to support the mission of the christ hospital ('tch'). tch's mission is to improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the…

Health
4
Cincinnati Museum Center

Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.

Arts & Culture
5
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
6
Columbus Community Clinical Oncology Program

Our mission is to deliver state-of-the-art cancer care to patients in their communities through clinical trials. this allows individuals to remain in their won neighborhoods, while receiving the latest and best in cancer screenings,…

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7
Cincinnati Observatory Center

The mission of the cincinnati observatory is to maintain the integrity and heritage of an historic 19th century observatory and to educate, engage, and inspire our community about astronomy and science.

Arts & Culture
8
Children's Hospital Medical Center

Cincinnati children's hospital medical center will be the leader in improving child health. cincinnati children's will provide child health and transform delivery of care through fully integrated, globally recognized research, education,…

Health
9
The Contemporary Arts Center

The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.

Arts & Culture
10
University of Cincinnati Physicians Inc

Ucp organizes, manages, and delivers the clinical activities and professional medical services of the faculty of the university of cincinnati college of medicine.

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11
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
12
The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

As a trusted and connected partner, we inspire generous people to invest in a more equitable and vibrant region now and for generations to come.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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

25 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. 25 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
16/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MARIEMONT SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $517,000 · EducationTHE MARIEMONT SCHOOL FOUNDATIONCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $345,000 · EducationCOLGATE UNIVERSITYTHE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL: $94,500 · EducationTHE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOLTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $50,000 · Education+2 more: $9,000 · EducationThe Children's Theatre of Cincinnati: $192,500 · Arts & CultureThe Children's T…CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $14,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEU…+3 more: $12,250 · Arts & Culture+3 moreRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $31,500 · OtherLEARNING GROVE INC: $20,000 · OtherCINCINNATI CANCER FOUNDATION INC CO WILLIAM L BARRETT MD: $15,000 · OtherART MUSEUM: $12,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherWOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $6,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,500 · Other+1 more: $1,500 · OtherBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $28,550 · HealthCancer Family Care Inc: $17,500 · HealthThe Childrens Hospital: $15,000 · HealthConnecticut Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge: $9,000 · HealthTHE CANCER COUCH FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · HealthCINCINNATI WORKS: $16,500 · Human ServicesCOVERD GREATER CINCINNATI: $11,000 · Human ServicesPATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE FIRST STEP HOME INC: $4,500 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesOhio River Foundation: $20,000 · EnvironmentLA SOUPE INC: $13,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$1,015,500Arts & Culture$218,750Other$102,500Health$72,550Human Services$38,000Environment$20,000Food & Nutrition$13,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE MARIEMONT SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $517,000 over 9y, 40% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $345,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Theatre of Cincinnati: $192,500 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL: $94,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $28,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOhio River Foundation: $20,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetLEARNING GROVE INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Family Care Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCINCINNATI WORKS: $16,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Childrens Hospital: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLA SOUPE INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCOVERD GREATER CINCINNATI: $11,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetConnecticut Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge: $9,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCincinnati Playhouse in the Park: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts: $4,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FIRST STEP HOME INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CANCER COUCH FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCincinnati College Preparatory Academy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Greater Cincinnat…Andrew Jergens Founda…Carol Ann and Ralph V…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Johnson Charitable Gi…Marge & Charles J Sch…Pfau Charitable Found…Charles H Dater Found…John a Schroth Family…Duke Energy FoundationJack J Smith Jr Chari…The James J and Joan …
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH26.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · Pfau Charitable Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Duke Energy Foundation · Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust · The James J and Joan a Gardner Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tas Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tas Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Tas Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Tas 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home