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Tatajado Fund

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.

$120k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$58k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$413kArts & Culture$103kYouth Development$24kPhilanthropy$23kFood & Nutrition$22kAnimals$10kHuman Services$8kEducation$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $47k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL$58,000
NEW ISRAEL FUND$25,000
ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL$22,001
Individual grant recipient$5,000
CITYMEALS ON WHEELS$4,000
MO HUMANE SOCIETY$2,750
THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE RIVE$2,000
HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%THE MAIN IDEA: $13k → 9%NEW YORK TIMES NEEDIEST CASES FUND: $3k → 17%HESED AVRAHAM: $2k → 20%ROCKING THE BOAT: $2k → 28%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $45k → 14%TEMPLE BETHE-EL: $5k → 16%ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $25k → 18%FOOD BANK OF NEW YORK: $5k → 17%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $38k → 14%ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $22k → 18%WORLD CONNECT: $2k → 17%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $25k → 14%ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $15k → 18%CITYMEALS ON WHEELS: $8k → 17%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $8k → 14%ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $13k → 18%CITYMEALS ON WHEELS: $4k → 17%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $2k → 14%ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $13k → 18%CITYMEALS ON WHEELS: $3k → 17%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $2k → 14%MONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $10k → 18%MONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $5k → 18%MONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $1k → 18%CENTRAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO: $10k → 18%MACOA: $5k → 18%CENTRAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO: $5k → 18%FAMILY SUSHINE CENTER: $3k → 18%FAMILY SUSHINE CENTER: $3k → 18%THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE RIVE: $2k → 18%MACOA: $2k → 18%MACOA: $2k → 18%MO HUMANE SOCIETY: $4k → 18%FAMILY SUSHINE CENTER: $1k → 18%MO HUMANE SOCIETY: $3k → 18%RIVER REGION UNITED WAY: $600 → 18%MONTGOMERY HUMANE SOCIETY: $2k → 18%LANDMARKS FOUNDATION OF MONTGOMERY: $300 → 18%MONTGOMERY HUMANE SOCIETY: $2k → 18%MONTGOMERY PRIDE UNITED: $300 → 18%CAMP SUNSHINE FOR GIRLS: $9k → 18%JOY TO LIFE FOUNDATION: $4k → 18%JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL ALABAM: $2k → 18%JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL ALABAM: $2k → 18%THE MONTGOMERY ACADEMY: $2k → 18%JEAN K WEIL LIBRARY: $834 → 18%HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK: $1k → 18%HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK: $500 → 18%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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$444k · 11 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
12

Total granted

$444k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+4%

Still filing today

64%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionInternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyAnimalsEducationOther
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

  • RI
    REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $293k · revenue +32%
  • AS
    ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
    5× · 2020–2025 · $87k · revenue +73%
  • C
    CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MAIN IDEA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +39%
  • CS
    CAMP SUNSHINE FOR GIRLS
    one grant, 2023 · $9k
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF NEW YORK
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
The Birmingham Foundation
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2
Municipal Art Society of New York

The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…

Arts & Culture
3
Mint Museum of Art Inc

The mint museum welcomes all to be inspired and transformed through the power of art and creativity.

Arts & Culture
4
Montgomery Botanical Center
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5
Alabama Restaurant & Hospitality Association Foundation
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6
The Montgomery Family Foundation
Philanthropy
7
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

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8
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
9
The Harvard Club of Alabama
Education
10
The Studio Museum in Harlem

The studio museum in harlem is a contemporary art museum that focuses on the work of artists of african descent - as well as work that has been inspired and influenced by african culture - past and present; through its exhibitions,…

Arts & Culture
11
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
12
Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heart of Alabama Food Bank Inc; the most unlike its peers is Montgomery Pride United. 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

17 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. 17 of the 27 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC: $293,000 · InternationalREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INCNEW ISRAEL FUND: $120,000 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND+1 more: $2,000 · InternationalALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $86,501 · Arts & CultureALABAMA SHAKESPEAR…MONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION: $16,000 · Arts & CultureMONTGOMERY MUSEUM …THE MAIN IDEA INC: $13,000 · OtherTHE MAIN ID…CAMP SUNSHINE FOR GIRLS: $9,000 · OtherCAMP SUNSHI…MACOA: $8,334 · OtherMACOAFAMILY SUSHINE CENTER: $7,668 · OtherFAMILY SUSH…MO HUMANE SOCIETY: $7,000 · OtherMO HUMANE S…Individual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual …FOOD BANK OF NEW YORK: $5,000 · OtherFOOD BANK O…JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL ALABAM: $4,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDE…+6 more: $6,984 · Other+6 moreCENTRAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND: $3,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $600 · PhilanthropyCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $15,150 · Food & NutritionTHE MONTGOMERY ACADEMY: $1,868 · Food & NutritionHEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC: $1,500 · Food & NutritionJOY TO LIFE FOUNDATION: $4,000 · HealthMONTGOMERY HUMANE SOCIETY: $3,334 · Animals
International$415,000Arts & Culture$102,501Other$65,986Philanthropy$18,600Food & Nutrition$18,518Health$4,000Animals$3,334

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC: $293,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $120,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $86,501 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION: $16,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $15,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MAIN IDEA INC: $13,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetJOY TO LIFE FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMONTGOMERY HUMANE SOCIETY: $3,334 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CONNECT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MONTGOMERY ACADEMY: $1,868 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCKING THE BOAT INC: $1,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIVER REGION UNITED WAY: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY PRIDE UNITED: $300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLANDMARKS FOUNDATION OF MONTGOMERY: $300 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 S Adam Schloss Fo…The J K Lowder Family…The Landa FundJohn and Joyce Caddel…Samuel L Schloss Fami…B Stephen Schloss Fou…Gordy-Mead-Britton Fo…Loeb Family Foundatio…Crum Family Charitabl…Arthur M Britton Foun…Jado FundWe3 Fund
The S Adam Schloss Foundation IncAL24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The S Adam Schloss Foundation Inc · The J K Lowder Family Foundation · The Landa Fund · John and Joyce Caddell Foundation · Samuel L Schloss Family Foundation Tr Schlossburke K Trustee · B Stephen Schloss Foundation · Gordy-Mead-Britton Foundation · Loeb Family Foundation Inc · Crum Family Charitable Foundation · Arthur M Britton Foundation Inc · Jado Fund · We3 Fund

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 Tatajado Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tatajado Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Tatajado Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Tatajado Fund 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 27 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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