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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.

$8.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
138
Grants FY2025still arriving
31
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$30MPhilanthropy$811kArts & Culture$564kPublic Benefit$482kScience & Tech$378kHealth$323kHuman Services$317kSocial Science$296kOther$0
02FY2025 · 138 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k40 grants · $108k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $757k
  • $50k–250k63 grants · $6.1M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
$35,000
Median grant
31
States reached
$170M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Transylvania University$125,000
Minnesota Humanities Center$125,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Tides Center: $50k → 10%Queens Community House: $85k → 13%BronxWorks Inc: $50k → 28%Wounded Warrior Project Inc: $700 → 14%Queens Community House: $82k → 13%Puppies Behind Bars Inc: $1k → 17%Queens Community House: $25k → 13%Puppies Behind Bars Inc: $1k → 17%Queens Community House: $3k → 13%Puppies Behind Bars Inc: $1k → 17%Puppies Behind Bars Inc: $500 → 17%John Jay College Foundation Inc: $104k → 17%ExpandED Schools: $100k → 17%The Reading Team: $5k → 17%The Reading Team: $5k → 17%The Reading Team: $5k → 17%The Children's Aid Society: $200 → 17%The Children's Aid Society: $50k → 17%The Children's Aid Society: $100 → 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

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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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$28M · 179 repeat orgs$5.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

179
135

Total granted

$28M
$4.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+13%

Still filing today

79%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • BARD COLLEGE
    3× · 2021–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +118%
  • RF
    Research Foundation of the City University of New York
    4× · 2021–2024 · $605k · revenue +33%
  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $500k · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • IS
    International Scholarship & Tuition Services Accounting Office
    one grant, 2024 · $575k
  • UO
    University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez Campus
    one grant, 2024 · $200k
  • AU
    ASHLAND UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $163k · revenue +5%
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
Manhattanville University

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

Education
2
Lehigh University

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…

Education
3
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
4
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
5
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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6
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
7
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
8
Furman University

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.

Education
9
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
10
The George Washington University

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…

Education
11
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
12
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fordham University; 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.
04the grantee network

267 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. 267 of the 367 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
267/267
Grantees still filing
177/267
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BARD COLLEGE: $1,170,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGETHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $741,750 · Education+102 more: $17,872,303 · Education+102 moreIndividual grant recipient: $2,154,925 · OtherIndividual grant recipientInternational Scholarship & Tuition Services Accounting Office: $575,000 · Other+75 more: $9,634,751 · Other+75 moreQUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE: $194,500 · Human ServicesJOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $104,000 · Human ServicesEXPANDED SCHOOLS INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $50,300 · Human ServicesBRONXWORKS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $50,000 · Human ServicesCAL POLY POMONA PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $117,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JACK MILLER CENTER FOR TEACHING AMERICA'S FOUNDING PRINCIPLES AND: $103,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW WORLD FOUNDATION: $75,000 · PhilanthropyVICTORIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 · PhilanthropyCouncil on Foundations Inc: $44,000 · PhilanthropyJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $40,500 · PhilanthropyCANDID: $40,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARTFORD: $25,000 · PhilanthropyEmerald Cities Collaborative Inc: $300,000 · Public BenefitTHE CENTER FOR EVALUATION INNOVATION INC: $25,000 · Public BenefitCAMBA INC: $125,000 · Community ImprovementMARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION: $90,000 · Community ImprovementINTERFAITH AMERICA: $150,000 · Religion
Education$19,784,053Other$12,364,676Human Services$548,800Philanthropy$514,500Public Benefit$325,000Community Improvement$215,000Religion$150,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetBARD COLLEGE: $1,170,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $741,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $605,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE: $500,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNew York University: $450,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University: $429,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $425,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Dallas: $407,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY: $400,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC: $398,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $375,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INC: $362,500 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $351,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES: $350,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDICKINSON COLLEGE: $341,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $325,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $325,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetElon University: $325,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Central College: $325,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetValdosta State University Foundation Inc: $325,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCOUNCIL OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $306,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEmerald Cities Collaborative Inc: $300,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT WILMINGTON: $300,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $287,462 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $285,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $280,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $275,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $275,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMinnesota Humanities Center: $275,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $275,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetClark Atlanta University Inc: $250,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTuskegee University: $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDILLARD UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $245,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetST JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $230,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $210,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetMINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE FUND: $199,200 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES: $195,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetQUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE: $194,500 over 3y, 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.

  • 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 Nova Southeastern University Inc ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds Elon University ↗
  • Who funds North Central College ↗
  • Who funds Valdosta State University Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Emerald Cities Collaborative Inc ↗
  • Who funds STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT WILMINGTON ↗
  • 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 THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Minnesota Humanities Center ↗

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 Andrew W Mellon F…Lumina Foundation for…Arthur Vining Davis F…Arthur V Davis Founda…Ascendium Education S…Ecmc FoundationGates FoundationPinkerton FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The Henry Luce Founda…The Bessemer Giving F…American Council of L…
The Andrew W Mellon FoundationNY31.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Teagle Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Teagle 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 367 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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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 endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home