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The Tarko 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.

$52k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$35kPublic Benefit$35kFood & Nutrition$27kEnvironment$24kHuman Services$24kInternational$14kEducation$13kCivil Rights$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,500
Median grant
14
States reached
$907k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAWTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA$5,000
BORDERLESS MAGAZINE$3,000
THE LAND INSTITUTE$2,500
CAWC$2,500
MARWENS ARTS$2,500
FOOD RESEARCH & ACTION CENTER$2,500
MARY'S PLACE$2,500
ASAP (APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE PROJECT)$2,500
DREAM OF DETROIT$2,500
NETWORK FOR GOOD$2,500
PEACE WINDS AMERICA$2,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WNC$1,500
FRIENDS OF CHICAGO RIVER$1,500
CHICAGOLAND PIG RESCUE$1,500
COMMUNITY SECURITY SERVICE$1,500
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 18%COMMUNITY SECURITY SERVICE: $2k → 6%DREAM OF DETROIT: $3k → 21%NATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 18%COMMUNITY SECURITY SERVICE: $1k → 6%DREAM OF DETROIT: $2k → 21%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SEATTLE: $3k → 9%COMMUNITY SECURITY SERVICE: $2k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WNC: $3k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SEATTLE: $2k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WNC: $2k → 12%THE AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%CAWC: $3k → 14%CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN: $2k → 14%CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN: $1k → 14%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

VT
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MT
IL
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MI
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OR
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DC
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AL
GA
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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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$161k · 30 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
33

Total granted

$161k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+24%

Still filing today

83%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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 ServicesCivil RightsEnvironmentEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

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

  • TW
    The Washington Bus Education Fund
    2× · 2022–2023 · $12k · revenue +222%
  • FH
    FREEDOM HOUSE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +37%
  • HC
    Holocaust Center For Humanity
    3× · 2021–2023 · $10k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • AC
    ABORTION CARE NETWORK
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -42%
  • CP
    CHICAGOLAND PIG RESCUE
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -41%

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
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
3
Asylee Women Enterprise Inc

Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE), journeys with asylum seekers and other forced migrants as they navigate the immigration legal process, begin to heal from past trauma, and rebuild their lives in Baltimore.

International
4
Nature for Justice

To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.

Environment
5
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
6
Women Donors Network

Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.

Philanthropy
7
Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

Environment
8
The Alliance for Collective Action

The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…

Environment
9
Forward Justice Action Network

Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…

Human Services
10
Asian Pacific Environmental Network

APEN builds immigrant and refugee power for a just transition with local roots and statewide impact so all people can live, work, learn, play and thrive in a clean and healthy environment.

Environment
11
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

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12
Forward Together

Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Harvest Emm and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Anacortes Community Forest Lands. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Pregnancy Support ServicesSchool Parent OrganizationsEnvironmental Conservation …Faith-Based Social ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterImmigrant Worker SupportCommunity FoundationsCommunity Arts CentersHealth Access Advocacy and …Affordable Housing Developm…Youth Sports ProgramsDomestic Violence ServicesFood Banks and PantriesPolicy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%11%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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%0/66
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,499

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

65 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 83 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/65
Grantees still filing
40/65
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Holocaust Center For Humanity — $10,000 · OtherHolocaust Center For HumanityIndividual grant recipient — $9,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMARWENS ARTS — $9,500 · OtherMARWENS ARTSSOULS TO THE POLLS — $4,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER — $8,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVERLogan Square Neighborhood Association — $6,500 · OtherABORTION CARE NETWORK — $5,000 · OtherLittle Village Environmental Justice Org — $4,500 · Other+46 more — $73,600 · Other+46 moreThe Washington Bus Education Fund — $12,000 · Civil RightsThe Washingto…WISCONSIN VOICES INC — $8,000 · Civil RightsWISCONSIN VOI…Chicago Votes — $5,500 · Civil RightsChicago VotesYellowhammer Fund — $2,500 · Civil RightsYellowhammer …NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $2,000 · Civil RightsNEW GEORGIA P…CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN — $5,500 · Human ServicesCONNECTIONS …JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WNC INC — $4,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMIL…Community Security Service — $4,500 · Human ServicesCommunity Se…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $4,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMIL…NATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL IND…Dream of Detroit — $4,000 · Human ServicesDream of Det…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,000 · Human ServicesGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $8,000 · Food & NutritionAsheville Poverty Initiative — $3,000 · Food & NutritionFood Research & Action Center — $2,500 · Food & NutritionMANNA FOOD BANK INC — $1,000 · Food & NutritionOPEN BOOKS LTD — $6,000 · EducationLawton Elementary School PTA — $5,000 · EducationCOYOTE CENTRAL — $1,000 · EducationGREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP — $1,000 · EducationROCKING THE BOAT INC — $1,000 · EducationFREEDOM HOUSE — $10,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $2,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · InternationalFREE SPIRIT MEDIA NFP — $6,500 · Youth DevelopmentMaris Place — $4,500 · Youth DevelopmentRole Model Movement Inc (NFP) — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentAlbany Park Theater Project — $500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLFORWARD — $500 · Youth Development
Other$131,100Civil Rights$30,000Human Services$27,500Food & Nutrition$14,500Education$14,000International$13,000Youth Development$13,000

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 Washington Bus Education Fund — $12,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHolocaust Center For Humanity — $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWISCONSIN VOICES INC — $8,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER — $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFREE SPIRIT MEDIA NFP — $6,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLogan Square Neighborhood Association — $6,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN BOOKS LTD — $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Votes — $5,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN — $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLawton Elementary School PTA — $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetABORTION CARE NETWORK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaris Place — $4,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WNC INC — $4,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Security Service — $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLittle Village Environmental Justice Org — $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDream of Detroit — $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBALLARD FOOD BANK — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAppalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBorderless Magazine NFP — $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAsheville Poverty Initiative — $3,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Land Institute — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood Research & Action Center — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYellowhammer Fund — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATIONAL VIDEO CENTER INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEEONE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSKAGIT LAND TRUST — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEACE WINDS AMERICA — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION — $1,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Haven of Asheville — $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAtlantic Street Center — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION AIRDROP INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRole Model Movement Inc (NFP) — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAERIAL RECOVERY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELOVED ASHEVILLE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOYOTE CENTRAL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

The Chicago Community…John D and Catherine …Field Foundation of I…The Joyce FoundationSeattle FoundationFrederick Henry Princ…Dr Scholl FoundationImpactassetsincJulian Grace Foundati…Walder FoundationBuilders Vision Found…Robert R McCormick Fo…
The Chicago Community TrustIL27.5× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · The Joyce Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · Dr Scholl Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Julian Grace Foundation · Walder Foundation · Builders Vision Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation

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 The Tarko 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
27report 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

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 The Tarko Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Tarko 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 83 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.

Source object · view filing

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 camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines