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The Tarko 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.

$87k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$35kPublic Benefit$35kFood & Nutrition$27kEnvironment$24kHuman Services$24kInternational$14kEducation$13kCivil Rights$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$2,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$926k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR THE INTEGRATION OF DANCE AND MARTIAL ARTS$20,000
GAVI ALLIANCE$10,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE$5,000
MARSHALL RELIEF ALLIANCE$5,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$5,000
MANNA FOODBANK$5,000
BALLARD FOOD BANK$5,000
HOLOCAUST CENTER FOR HUMANITY$5,000
KAVANA$4,000
BEACON OF HOPE$2,500
DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION$2,500
REBUILD HOT SPRINGS AREA$2,500
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC$2,500
MOUNTAIN VALLEYS RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
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 (FY20–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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 SERVICE: $5k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WNC: $3k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SEATTLE: $3k → 9%COMMUNITY SECURITY SERVICE: $2k → 17%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
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

VT
WA
MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
OR
IA
CT
KS
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$198k · 36 repeat orgs$129k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
46

Total granted

$198k
$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
0%

Still filing today

83%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k 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
Human ServicesEnvironmentCivil RightsArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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

  • HC
    Holocaust Center For Humanity
    4× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +29%
  • GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
    4× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +17%
  • TW
    The Washington Bus Education Fund
    2× · 2022–2023 · $12k · revenue +222%

Funded once

  • LE
    Lawton Elementary School PTA
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +7%
  • AC
    ABORTION CARE NETWORK
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -42%
  • CP
    CHICAGOLAND PIG RESCUE
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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
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
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
4
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
5
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
6
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
7
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
8
Western Resource Advocates

Western Resource Advocates (WRA) is a regional nonprofit advocacy organization fighting climate change and its impacts to sustain the environment, economy, and people of the West. As the region's go-to experts for more than three decades,…

Crime & Legal
9
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
10
Taproot Earth

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

Environment
11
Refugee Womens Alliance

ReWA is a non-profit, multi-ethnic organization that promotes inclusion, independence, personal leadership, and strong communities by providing refugee and immigrant women and their families with culturally and linguistically appropriate…

Human Services
12
International Rivers Network

International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Democracy Forward Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

71 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. 71 of the 97 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/71
Grantees still filing
40/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTER FOR THE INTEGRATION OF DANCE AND MARTIAL ARTS: $20,000 · OtherCENTER FOR THE INTEGRATION OF DANCE AND MARTIAL ARTSHolocaust Center For Humanity: $15,000 · OtherHolocaust Center For HumanityGAVI ALLIANCE: $10,000 · OtherMARWENS ARTS: $9,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $9,500 · OtherBALLARD FOOD BANK: $8,500 · Other+60 more: $124,600 · Other+60 moreJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $9,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMI…CONNECTIONS FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN: $5,500 · Human ServicesCONNECTIONS…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WNC INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMI…Community Security Service: $4,500 · Human ServicesCommunity S…Dream of Detroit: $4,000 · Human ServicesDream of De…NATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL IN…+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesThe Washington Bus Education Fund: $12,000 · Civil RightsThe Washing…WISCONSIN VOICES INC: $8,000 · Civil RightsWISCONSIN V…Chicago Votes: $6,500 · Civil RightsChicago Vot…Yellowhammer Fund: $2,500 · Civil RightsYellowhamme…NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC: $2,000 · Civil RightsNEW GEORGIA…+1 more: $1,000 · Civil RightsGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $13,000 · Food & NutritionMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $6,000 · Food & NutritionAsheville Poverty Initiative: $3,000 · Food & NutritionFood Research & Action Center: $2,500 · Food & NutritionFREEDOM HOUSE: $10,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $2,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER: $8,000 · Arts & CultureBorderless Magazine NFP: $4,000 · Arts & CultureCASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA: $1,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH SEATTLE EMERALD: $500 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST FOLKLIFE: $500 · Arts & CultureFREE SPIRIT MEDIA NFP: $6,500 · Youth DevelopmentMaris Place: $4,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLFORWARD: $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentRole Model Movement Inc (NFP): $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentAlbany Park Theater Project: $500 · Youth Development
Other$197,100Human Services$32,500Civil Rights$32,000Food & Nutrition$24,500International$15,500Arts & Culture$14,000Youth Development$14,000

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 budgetHolocaust Center For Humanity: $15,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Washington Bus Education Fund: $12,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBALLARD FOOD BANK: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN VOICES INC: $8,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Votes: $6,500 over 4y, 0.3% 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 budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WNC INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMaris Place: $4,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCommunity Security Service: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLittle Village Environmental Justice Org: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBorderless Magazine NFP: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDream of Detroit: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKAVANA THE KAVANA COOPERATIVE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAppalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAsheville Poverty Initiative: $3,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood Research & Action Center: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Land Institute: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMountain Valleys Resource Conservation & Development Council: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYellowhammer Fund: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSKAGIT LAND TRUST: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATIONAL VIDEO CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEACE WINDS AMERICA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO 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 budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $1,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLFORWARD: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAtlantic Street Center: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Haven of Asheville: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% 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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
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.
05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 97 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home