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The Teagle 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $108k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $757k
- $50k–250k63 grants · $6.1M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Bard College | $1,000,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $608,000 |
| California Maritime Academy FDN Inc | $245,000 |
| North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities | $175,000 |
| Vanderbilt University | $175,000 |
| North Carolina State University | $175,000 |
| University of Massachusetts Amherst | $150,000 |
| New England Board of Higher Education | $143,000 |
| Texas A&M University System | $131,250 |
| Augustana College | $130,260 |
| Drexel University | $128,000 |
| Lyon College | $127,500 |
| Northern Kentucky University | $125,000 |
| Minnesota Humanities Center | $125,000 |
| Transylvania University | $125,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $568k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
179 repeat relationships — 86 still active in FY2025, 93 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
BARD COLLEGE3× · 2021–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +118%- RFResearch Foundation of the City University of New York4× · 2021–2024 · $605k · revenue +33%
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE3× · 2023–2025 · $500k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- ISInternational Scholarship & Tuition Services Accounting Officeone grant, 2024 · $575k
- UOUniversity of Puerto Rico Mayaguez Campusone grant, 2024 · $200k
- AUASHLAND UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $163k · revenue +5%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
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…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
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.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Education and Research
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fordham University and the most unlike its peers is Yeamans Hall Club Foundation Inc. 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.
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 53 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
267 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. 267 of the 367 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds University of Dallas ↗
- Who funds GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds North Central College ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Valdosta State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Nova Southeastern University Inc ↗
- Who funds Elon University ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT WILMINGTON ↗
- Who funds STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Emerald Cities Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Humanities Center ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Arthur Vining Davis Foundation #2 · Arthur V Davis Foundation Pf #3 · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Ecmc Foundation · Gates Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Henry Luce Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · American Council of Learned Societies
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 Teagle 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.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa — 5% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
- George Fox University — 2% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- The Banner Lake Club Inc — 1% of income from government
- United Way of Palm Beach County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Campus Compact — 1% of income from government
- Washington College — 0% of income from government
- The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc — 0% of income from government
- Drew University — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Portland State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.
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