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Tessie Grosby Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Tessie Grosby Charitable 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.

$70k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$73kYouth Development$54kHealth$42kInternational$41kHuman Services$30kEducation$18kAnimals$9kReligion$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
$1,050
Median grant
14
States reached
$85k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Palatine Opportunity Center$15,000
Jewish United Fund$11,025
Give Kids the World Village$6,614
Friends of the Israel Defense Fund$5,338
Ronald McDonald House Charities Inc$4,160
My Block My Hood My City$2,832
Bear Necessities$2,629
Tunnel to Towers$2,625
Jane's Room$2,576
Wounded Warrior Project$2,260
Int' Fellowship of Christians Jews$2,000
Best Friends Animal Society$1,569
Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League$1,555
Hillsdale College$1,500
Ignite the Spirit$1,050
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Crescent Cove: $534 → 11%Metropolitan Ministries: $258 → 13%Wounded Warrior Project: $3k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $3k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $200 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $200 → 14%Turning Point: $500 → 14%Turning Point: $500 → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $500 → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
CA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
TN
DC
MS
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 99% of Tessie Grosby Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 63% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 1%.

Tessie Grosby Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$253k · 29 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
24

Total granted

$253k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+15%

Still filing today

76%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentAnimalsPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
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

  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    6× · 2020–2025 · $69k · revenue +13%
  • GK
    GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +57%
  • RM
    Ronald McDonald House Global
    4× · 2022–2025 · $14k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • FS
    Florida Sheriffs Youth Camp
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • P
    PATH
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
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
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
2
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
3
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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4
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
5
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
6
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
7
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
8
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
9
Variety Children's Hospital

To inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child.

Health
10
2020 Mom Policy Center for Maternal

The policy center is improving maternal mental health outcomes through closing gaps in care delivery, including improving detection and access to evidence-based and informed clinical and community-based care. the policy center has been…

Health
11
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
12
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc

The tragedy assistance program for survivors (taps) is america's national nonprofit organization that has cared for the loved ones of our nation's fallen heroes since 1994. taps ensures these living legacies of service and sacrifice do not…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Ignite the Spirit. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 63 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)
37/37
Grantees still filing
29/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Palatine Opportunity Center: $41,650 · OtherPalatine Opportunity CenterGIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC: $26,562 · OtherGIVE KIDS THE WORLD INCNational MS Society: $7,455 · OtherNational MS SocietyMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC: $6,050 · OtherFriends of the Israel Defense Fund: $5,338 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $8,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES+33 more: $21,717 · Other+33 moreJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $68,603 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOL…JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $4,101 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEAC…GARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $3,120 · PhilanthropyRonald McDonald House Global: $14,013 · HealthRonald McDonald …Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation: $10,927 · HealthBear Necessities…JANE'S ROOM: $10,257 · HealthJANE'S ROOMSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $2,539 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITA…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,000 · Health+2 more: $1,180 · HealthSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $9,928 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $6,500 · EducationPiney Woods School: $1,035 · EducationRole Model Movement Inc (NFP): $9,407 · Youth DevelopmentIGNITE THE SPIRIT: $3,125 · Youth DevelopmentFlorida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc: $1,600 · Youth Development+1 more: $262 · Youth DevelopmentWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $9,023 · Human ServicesTurning Point Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesCRESCENT COVE: $534 · Human Services+1 more: $258 · Human ServicesBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $4,044 · AnimalsPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $3,533 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,150 · Animals
Other$117,272Philanthropy$75,824Health$40,916Education$17,463Youth Development$14,394Human Services$10,815Animals$8,727

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $68,603 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC: $26,562 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $14,013 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation: $10,927 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetJANE'S ROOM: $10,257 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $9,928 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRole Model Movement Inc (NFP): $9,407 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $9,023 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC: $6,050 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $4,101 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $4,044 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $3,533 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIGNITE THE SPIRIT: $3,125 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $3,120 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $2,539 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc: $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $1,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPiney Woods School: $1,035 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTurning Point Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMental Health America of Illinois: $1,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetThe Wick Theatre & Costume Museum Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $725 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $516 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE HOUSING NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $258 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpirit of America Worldwide: $156 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.

AbbVie FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Verizon FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…Network for GoodThe Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…
AbbVie FoundationIL13.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Verizon Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Metropolitan Ministries Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.

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 63 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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