How much does Tecumseh Foundation give?

Tecumseh Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $1,706,400 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 71 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Tecumseh Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (21%), Education (14%), Youth Development (9%).

Who are Tecumseh Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Telluride Medical Center Foundation ($685k), Comitis Crisis Center Inc ($650k), Food Bank of the Rockies ($470k).

Does Tecumseh Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Tecumseh Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Tecumseh Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, Colorado Gives Foundation, Anschutz Family Foundation.

Where is Tecumseh Foundation based?

Tecumseh Foundation is based in TX.

Tecumseh Foundation

Tecumseh Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Tecumseh Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.7M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$210k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k17 grants · $46k
$10k–50k8 grants · $103k
$50k–250k15 grants · $1.6M

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$32M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
COLORADO ACADEMY CA FUND	$210,200
MOMENTUM ADVISORY COLLECTIVE	$200,000
UPAYA ZEN CENTER	$150,000
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES	$100,000
Individual grant recipient	$100,000
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE	$100,000
TELLURIDE MOUNTAIN CLUB	$100,000
TELLURIDE SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER	$100,000
TELLURIDE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION	$100,000
COMITIS CRISIS CENTER INC	$100,000
EXPLORE AUSTIN	$85,000
HOSPICE AUSTIN	$62,500
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE	$50,000
DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE	$50,000
MOUNTAINFILM	$50,000

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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$8.3M · 53 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesAnimalsHealthEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

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 +498% · 96% of their budget
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2021 · $150k
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -40%

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.

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

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

Leadership Austin

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

Youth Development

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

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

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

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

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

Arizona Community Foundation

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

Philanthropy

Texas Trees Foundation

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

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Colorado Gives Foundation

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

Philanthropy

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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League; 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.

04the grantee network

66 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. 66 of the 115 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)

63/66

Grantees still filing

42/66

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$5,593,683Health$1,158,850Education$830,262Food & Nutrition$526,000Human Services$520,261Recreation & Sports$510,000Animals$366,050

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.

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

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

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, 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