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Tecumseh Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$210k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Health$2.0MEducation$1.4MYouth Development$826kFood & Nutrition$786kAnimals$739kRecreation & Sports$641kPublic Safety & Disaster$610kHuman Services$411kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $103k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.6M
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLORADO ACADEMY CA FUND$210,200
MOMENTUM ADVISORY COLLECTIVE$200,000
UPAYA ZEN CENTER$150,000
TELLURIDE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$100,000
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE$100,000
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES$100,000
COMITIS CRISIS CENTER INC$100,000
TELLURIDE MOUNTAIN CLUB$100,000
TELLURIDE SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER$100,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
EXPLORE AUSTIN$85,000
HOSPICE AUSTIN$62,500
MOUNTAINFILM$50,000
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE$50,000
DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE$50,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $502k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $50k → 16%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $63k → 10%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $50k → 10%PROJECT WORTHMORE: $100k → 8%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $25k → 10%PROJECT WORTHMORE: $100k → 8%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $13k → 10%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $10k → 10%SAME CAFE: $25k → 12%SAME CAFE: $25k → 12%SAN MIGUEL RESOURCE CENTER: $26k → 7%SAN MIGUEL RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 7%THERAPY PET PALS OF TEXAS: $3k → 10%THERAPY PET PALS OF TEXAS: $3k → 10%FLATWATER FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.3M · 53 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

53 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
54

Total granted

$8.3M
$997k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+10%

Still filing today

58%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $243k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesAnimalsHealthEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $470k · revenue +23%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation
    4× · 2020–2023 · $467k · revenue +26%
  • AE
    AUSTIN EXPLORE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $459k · revenue +276%

Funded once

  • CA
    CENTRAL AUSTIN HOCKEY ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $155k · revenue +439% · 96% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $150k
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -40%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
2
Cook Children's Medical Center

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
3
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
4
Uatx

Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…

Education
5
Cook Children's Health Plan

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
6
Safe in Austin Rescue Ranch

Our healing hearts program rescues animals from abuse, neglect or have a special need and introduces them to children and adults that suffer from the same backgrounds for some healing time at no cost.

Animals
7
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
8
Cook Children's Medical Center - Prosper

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
9
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
10
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

11
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
12
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League and the most unlike its peers is Dog Is My Copilot. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr15%9%5–10yr21%24%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr12%29%35–55yr13%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%3%<5yr15%9%5–10yr21%29%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr12%31%35–55yr13%7%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/69
the rest of the field
13%
4,367/33,348

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.

04the grantee network

66 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 66 of the 115 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/66
Grantees still filing
42/66
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COLORADO ACADEMY CA FUND — $1,291,210 · OtherCOLORADO ACADEMY CA FUNDCOMITIS CRISIS CENTER INC — $650,000 · OtherCOMITIS CRISIS CENTER INCSAN MIGUEL COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE — $405,000 · OtherSAN MIGUEL COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUECANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE — $365,000 · OtherCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCETELLURIDE SCIENCE — $355,000 · OtherTELLURIDE SCIENCEIndividual grant recipient — $350,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUPAYA ZEN CENTER INC — $250,000 · OtherPRODIGY VENTURES INC — $250,000 · OtherMOMENTUM ADVISORY COLLECTIVE — $200,000 · Other+70 more — $1,477,473 · Other+70 moreTHE TELLURIDE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $685,000 · HealthTHE TELLURIDE…Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation — $466,850 · HealthChildren's Ho…+4 more — $7,000 · HealthAUSTIN EXPLORE INC — $459,262 · EducationAUSTIN EX…Ocean First Institute — $150,000 · EducationOcean Fir…Food For Thought Denver — $120,000 · EducationFood For …HAVERN CENTER INC — $50,000 · EducationHAVERN CE…YOUTHROOTS — $50,000 · EducationYOUTHROOT…+1 more — $1,000 · EducationFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $470,000 · Food & NutritionCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $50,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $6,000 · Food & NutritionPROJECT WORTHMORE — $200,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE AUSTIN — $160,000 · Human ServicesSO ALL MAY EAT INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesSAN MIGUEL RESOURCE CENTER (SMRC) — $30,500 · Human ServicesHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC — $17,500 · Human Services+3 more — $12,261 · Human ServicesTelluride Mountain Club — $200,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL AUSTIN HOCKEY ASSOCIATION — $155,000 · Recreation & SportsAUSTIN METRO HOCKEY ASSOCIATION — $85,000 · Recreation & SportsPease Park Conservancy — $40,000 · Recreation & Sports4ATX FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Recreation & SportsDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE — $278,000 · AnimalsEMANCIPET INC — $30,000 · AnimalsAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC — $25,000 · AnimalsDOG IS MY COPILOT — $20,000 · Animals+3 more — $13,050 · Animals
Other$5,593,683Health$1,158,850Education$830,262Food & Nutrition$526,000Human Services$520,261Recreation & Sports$510,000Animals$366,050

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE TELLURIDE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $685,000 over 5y, 39% of budgetCOMITIS CRISIS CENTER INC — $650,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $470,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation — $466,850 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAUSTIN EXPLORE INC — $459,262 over 5y, 24% of budgetTELLURIDE SCIENCE — $355,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE — $278,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPROJECT WORTHMORE — $200,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMOMENTUM ADVISORY COLLECTIVE — $200,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetTelluride Mountain Club — $200,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetHOSPICE AUSTIN — $160,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNTAINFILM — $160,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetCENTRAL AUSTIN HOCKEY ASSOCIATION — $155,000 over 1y, 96% of budgetOcean First Institute — $150,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetFood For Thought Denver — $120,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetWEST AUSTIN YOUTH ASSOCIATION — $102,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN METRO HOCKEY ASSOCIATION — $85,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC — $70,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetChampions Off the Field — $67,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE REFUGE FOR DMST — $60,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHAVERN CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTHROOTS — $50,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetSO ALL MAY EAT INC — $50,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPease Park Conservancy — $40,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetSAN MIGUEL RESOURCE CENTER (SMRC) — $30,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budget4ATX FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetEMANCIPET INC — $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAMFED USA FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAFE ALLIANCE — $21,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRUE NORTH YOUTH PROGRAM — $20,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetDOG IS MY COPILOT — $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTART UP KIDS CLUB — $20,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC — $17,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSki and Snowboard Club Vail — $10,450 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRODIGY VENTURES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWOMEN RISING PRODUCTIONS — $10,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetRoots & Wings International Ministries — $8,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAustin German Shepherd Rescue — $7,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTHERAPY PET PALS OF TEXAS — $6,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AND MORE INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 THE TELLURIDE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds COMITIS CRISIS CENTER INC
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation
  • Who funds AUSTIN EXPLORE INC
  • Who funds TELLURIDE SCIENCE
  • Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE
  • Who funds PROJECT WORTHMORE
  • Who funds MOMENTUM ADVISORY COLLECTIVE
  • Who funds Telluride Mountain Club
  • Who funds HOSPICE AUSTIN
  • Who funds MOUNTAINFILM
  • Who funds CENTRAL AUSTIN HOCKEY ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds Ocean First Institute
  • Who funds Food For Thought Denver
  • Who funds WEST AUSTIN YOUTH ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
  • Who funds AUSTIN METRO HOCKEY ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC
  • Who funds Champions Off the Field
  • Who funds THE REFUGE FOR DMST
  • Who funds HAVERN CENTER INC
  • Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc
  • Who funds YOUTHROOTS
  • Who funds SO ALL MAY EAT INC
  • Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC
  • Who funds Pease Park Conservancy
  • Who funds SAN MIGUEL RESOURCE CENTER (SMRC)
  • Who funds 4ATX FOUNDATION

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.

Austin Community Foundation IncTX33.6× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Moody Foundation · The Cooper Matthews Foundation · Ecg Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · St David's Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Ebb Point Foundation- Blackrock

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 Tecumseh 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 8%
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
22report 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, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Tecumseh Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Tecumseh Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 115 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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