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Tetrad Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$61k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Itemized grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$55k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 4
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$181k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Tetrad Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Recreation & SportsHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$55k33%
FY20234$57k100%
FY20224$17k75%
FY20214$16k75%
FY20202$12kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$108kHuman Services$28kReligion$8kEnvironment$5kPhilanthropy$2kFood & Nutrition$2kHousing & Shelter$1kHealth$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Second Harvest$26,50041%
Aspinwall Riverfront Park Inc$8,00010%
Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church$7,5002n/a
412 Food Rescue Inc$2,00010%
Light of Life Ministries Inc$1,34710%
Sharing Smiles Inc$1,0001n/a
Clemente Collection at Engine House 25$50010%

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($110k), not named here.

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.

Charles R Burke Jr FoundationPA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charles R Burke Jr Foundation · The Burke Foundation · The Burke Family Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About Tetrad Foundation

How much does Tetrad Foundation give?
Tetrad Foundation reported 3 itemized grants totaling $54,500, out of $60,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Tetrad Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (66%), Human Services (17%), Religion (5%).
Who are Tetrad Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Second Harvest ($27k), Aspinwall Riverfront Park Inc ($8k), Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church ($8k).
Does Tetrad Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Tetrad 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 Tetrad Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charles R Burke Jr Foundation, The Burke Foundation, The Burke Family Foundation.
Where is Tetrad Foundation based?
Tetrad Foundation is based in PA.

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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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