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The Robert and Jane Toll Foundation at a glance

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The Robert and Jane Toll 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.

$3.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$3.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$14MEducation$10MInternational$2.5MHealth$620kArts & Culture$608kHuman Services$145kRecreation & Sports$100kReligion$61kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
  • $250k+1 grant · $3.6M
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$66M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIVE TOGETHER FOUNDATION$3,600,000
CHANGE SUMMER$125,000
TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM$10,000
THE WOLFSONIAN - FIU$1,000
SOLEBURY POLICE BENEVOLENCE ASSOCIATION$500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PROJECT HOME: $5k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%SUNRISE DAY CAMP: $2k → 6%SUNRISE DAY CAMP: $1k → 6%PLEASANT LAKE & PARKER POND ASSOCIATION: $500 → 7%YAMBA MALAWL: $5k → 17%IRAP (INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT): $10k → 17%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

ME
WA
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 49 repeat orgs$861k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

49 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
68

Total granted

$22M
$735k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+15%

Still filing today

59%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • SF
    SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND
    3× · 2021–2023 · $300k · revenue +15%
  • BARD COLLEGE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $195k · revenue +118%
  • PC
    PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $140k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • MS
    MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +60%
  • SY
    SAY YES TO EDUCATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $101k · revenue -100%
  • AH
    ABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +292%
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
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fund for the City of New York Inc; the most unlike its peers is Five Together Foundation. 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

73 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. 73 of the 125 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/73
Grantees still filing
47/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIVE TOGETHER FOUNDATION: $16,989,500 · PhilanthropyFIVE TOGETHER FOUNDATION+6 more: $484,000 · PhilanthropyTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $9,569,705 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNS…+13 more: $637,164 · Education+13 moreSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $2,054,566 · InternationalSEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND: $300,000 · International+1 more: $10,000 · InternationalTHE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $400,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $150,000 · OtherWIN (WOMEN IN NEED): $135,000 · OtherSAY YES TO EDUCATION INC: $101,300 · OtherPARK AVENUE ARMORY: $100,000 · OtherALLMEP (Alliance for Middle East Peace): $75,000 · OtherTEMPLE BETH SHOLOM: $71,450 · OtherTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Other+83 more: $642,859 · OtherFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $500,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $800 · Community ImprovementMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $150,000 · HealthABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC: $10,000 · Health+3 more: $8,500 · HealthCHANGE SUMMER INC: $125,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$17,473,500Education$10,206,869International$2,364,566Other$1,735,609Community Improvement$500,800Health$238,500Youth Development$125,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIVE TOGETHER FOUNDATION: $16,989,500 over 3y, 97% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $9,569,705 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $2,054,566 over 3y, 15% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND: $300,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKING'S ACADEMY INC: $200,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $195,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAGAHOZO-SHALOM YOUTH VILLAGE INC: $110,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSAY YES TO EDUCATION INC: $101,300 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARING EXCESS: $19,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN MODERN OPERA COMPANY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPhysicians For Reproductive Health: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MUSICIANS UNITE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPHIPPS HOUSES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENT ADVOCACY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLION GLOBAL FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN THE ARTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCasa Cornelia Legal Services: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYAMBA MALAWI INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEDUCATION LAW CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCORNERSTONE FOR HOPE: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% 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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Miami Foundation …The Tammy and Jay Lev…The Goldman Sachs Cha…FjcNational Philanthropi…Greater Miami Jewish …United Way Miami IncThe William Penn Foun…The Philadelphia Foun…Gates FoundationMightycause Charitabl…
Jewish Communal FundNY19.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Miami Foundation Inc · The Tammy and Jay Levine Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Fjc · National Philanthropic Trust · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · United Way Miami Inc · The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Gates Foundation · Mightycause Charitable 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 The Robert and Jane Toll Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert and Jane Toll Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Farm Share Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Young Musicians Unite Inc: 0% of income from government
  • National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc: 0% of income from government
  • New World Symphony Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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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Find your warmest path to The Robert and Jane Toll 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 125 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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