How much does Taylor Unity Foundation give?

Taylor Unity Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $65,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Taylor Unity Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (18%), Environment (17%), Recreation & Sports (16%).

Who are Taylor Unity Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Natural Resources Defense Council Inc ($47k), Presidio Tr ($40k), University of Michigan ($28k).

Does Taylor Unity Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Taylor Unity Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Taylor Unity Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Veterans United Foundation, Fred V & Dorothy H Heinkel Charitable Foundation, Stafford Family Charitable Trust.

Where is Taylor Unity Foundation based?

Taylor Unity Foundation is based in MO.

Taylor Unity Foundation

Taylor Unity Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Taylor Unity 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.

$65k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$13k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$44kEnvironment$41kRecreation & Sports$41kHuman Services$35kHealth$33kYouth Development$21kPublic Benefit$16kAnimals$10kOther$0

02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k24 grants · $53k
$10k–50k1 grant · $13k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$216k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL	$12,500
EARTH JUSTICE	$6,500
OCEAN CONSERVANCY	$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN	$5,000
CEDAR CREEK RIDING SCHOOL	$4,000
CHARLOTTE- MECKLENBERG LIBRARY	$3,000
BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS	$3,000
LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE	$3,000
SALVATION ARMY	$2,000
Individual grant recipient	$2,000
Individual grant recipient	$2,000
KVC FOUNDATION	$2,000
VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER	$2,000
TRUE NORTH	$2,000
CULVER EDUCATION FOUNDATION	$2,000

02The need

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 (FY23–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$221k · 23 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$221k

$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

Still filing today

48%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentArts & CultureAnimalsEducationHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $47k · revenue +37%
UO
University of Michigan
6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +139%
TN
TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC
7× · 2019–2025 · $17k · revenue +66%

Funded once

PT
PRESIDIO TR
one grant, 2017 · $40k
SC
SMITH COLLEGE FUND
one grant, 2018 · $2k
CR
CREATING REFUGE
one grant, 2024 · $2k

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.

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

One Earth Philanthropy

One Earth connects thinkers, doers, activists, and knowledge holders from around the world to solve humanity's greatest ecological challenges--together. Our belief is simple: The solutions to the climate crisis already exist. By connecting…

Environment

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Conservation Society of California

Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.

Animals

National Caucus of Environmental Legislators

The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.

Education

Western Resource Advocates

Western Resource Advocates (WRA) is a regional nonprofit advocacy organization fighting climate change and its impacts to sustain the environment, economy, and people of the West. As the region's go-to experts for more than three decades,…

Crime & Legal

Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit

Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment

Climate Central Inc

Climate central, inc. (the organization") is an independent not-for-profit organization of leading scientists, technology experts and communication professionals that are dedicated to researching and reporting on climate change and its…

Science & Tech

Rare

Rare inspires change so people and nature thrive.

Environment

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Wilderness Society; the most unlike its peers is Francisco Park Conservancy. 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

30 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. 30 of the 56 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

30/30

Grantees still filing

19/30

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$187,050Environment$66,550Human Services$18,000Public Benefit$17,500Education$12,750Animals$7,250Philanthropy$5,000

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.

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.

Veterans United FoundationMO15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Veterans United Foundation · Fred V & Dorothy H Heinkel Charitable Foundation · Stafford Family Charitable Trust · Boone Electric Community Trust · Orscheln Industries Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Taylor Unity Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Taylor Unity Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

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