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Tatman Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Association For Rescue At Sea | $15,000 |
| GATEWAY FOOD PANTRY | $10,300 |
| EPHRAIM FIRE RESCUE ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| LifeWiseSTL | $6,000 |
| MITRATA NEPAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS | $5,000 |
| NORTHERN DOOR CHILDRENS CENTER | $5,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR | $5,000 |
| Ready Readers | $5,000 |
| RITENOUR COCARE FOOD PANTRY | $3,000 |
| DOOR COUNTY FOOD PANTRY | $2,700 |
| St Vincent de Paul Society | $2,600 |
| Milwaukee Rescue Mission | $2,100 |
| Tunnel To Towers Fndt | $1,600 |
| KINSHIP COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Tatman Foundation’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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 10 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NDNORTHERN DOOR CHILDRENS CENTER INC3× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +19%
- ODOPEN DOOR ANIMAL SANCTUARY6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +12%
- EMEPHRAIM MENS CLUB2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +156%
Funded once
- GSGood Samaritan Society-Scandia Viilone grant, 2021 · $75k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $50k
- CRCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESone grant, 2022 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Dcedc is a public/private partnership dedicated to improving the economic vitality of the county and its residents. dcedc has been successful in helping existing businesses create and retain thousands of jobs through a myriad of programs…
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
The mission of help of door county, inc. is to eliminate domestic abuse through prevention and intervention services and to advocate for social change.
The open door is a leading hunger-relief organization serving dakota county, minnesota, where food insecurity is a growing challenge. the open door is dedicated to ending local hunger by providing access to healthy, fresh, and nutritious…
To inspire stewardship by creating educational experiences where history and rivers come alive.
Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.
The wisconsin maritime museum connects all people with wisconsin's waterways, by engaging and educating the public about wisconsin's maritime history, wisconsin's world war ii submarines, uss cobia, and the great lakes. the wisconsin…
To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.
Our mission as a health care system is to further the healing ministry of jesus christ by improving the health and well-being of our community, especially those in need.
United way's mission is to improve lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Door County Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Noble Neighbor. 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.
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 34 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 62 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR RESCUE AT SEA INC ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS AT BIG CREEK INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN DOOR CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY MARITIME MUSEUM & LIGHTHOUSE PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds EPHRAIM FIRE - RESCUE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds EPHRAIM MENS CLUB ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds READY READERS ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Door County Community Foundation Inc · Mmg Foundation Inc · Ellsworth and Carla Peterson Charitable Foundation · Charles & Marcia Larsenanthony & Priscilla Beadell Foundation · Hislop Family Foundation · Lutsey Family Foundation · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Cordon Family Foundation Charitable Trust · Bernal T Chomeau Private Foundation · Curt and Sue Culver Family Foundation Inc · Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc
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 Tatman Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.