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The Tika Foundation at a glance

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The Tika 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.

$197k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$540kArts & Culture$401kPhilanthropy$270kEducation$55kFood & Nutrition$52kAnimals$45kCommunity Improvement$20kInternational$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH$80,000
MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO$30,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DA$25,000
MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO$20,000
ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY$20,000
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS$5,000
ARTS MIDWEST$5,000
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING$1,500
02The need
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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 (FY21–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THIS OLD HORSE INC: $500 → 6%SPOON FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%THIS OLD HORSE INC: $500 → 6%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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 22% of The Tika Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Tika Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 18% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
$1.3M · 13 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
8

Total granted

$1.3M
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+11%

Still filing today

92%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationInternationalHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • MP
    MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA
    7× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +5%
  • UO
    University of St Thomas
    8× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +49%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
    4× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • CH
    CREATING HOPE INTERNATIONALgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +54%
  • NF
    NMDP FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +93%
  • TT
    THE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +54%
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
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
2
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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3
The Global Hunger Project

The hunger project is working to create a world without hunger through women-centered, holistic development strategies that address the root causes of hunger and poverty. in 2025, it reached nearly 12.7 million people in over 10,000…

International
4
Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional Economic Development Partnership

The mission of the greater msp partnership is to accelerate regional competitiveness and inclusive economic growth through job creation, capital investment and execution of strategic initiatives. the partnership works to strengthen our…

Community Improvement
5
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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6
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
7
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
8
Planned Parenthood North Central States Foundation

To build and maintain financial support for planned parenthood north central states to advance and protect sexual and reproductive health care for all.

Human Services
9
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International
10
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
11
National Marrow Donor Program

We save lives through cellular therapy.

Health
12
Women's Foundation of Minnesota

Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Creating Hope International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 22 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $465,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCHPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $20,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood Global Inc: $20,000 · Health+2 more: $20,000 · HealthArts Midwest Incorporated: $310,000 · Arts & CultureArts Midwest IncorporatedMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $140,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN P…+3 more: $18,000 · Arts & CultureDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $271,092 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARI…NMDP FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DA: $115,000 · OtherPLANNED PA…Lake Street Council: $20,000 · OtherLake Stree…CREATING HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · OtherCREATING H…+3 more: $7,000 · OtherAnimal Humane Society: $65,000 · AnimalsUniversity of St Thomas: $50,000 · EducationTHE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $50,000 · Food & Nutrition
Health$525,000Arts & Culture$468,000Philanthropy$281,092Other$152,000Animals$65,000Education$60,000Food & Nutrition$50,000

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 budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $465,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetArts Midwest Incorporated: $310,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $271,092 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $140,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Humane Society: $65,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $50,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLake Street Council: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Global Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILL CITY FARMERS MARKET CHARITABLE FUND: $12,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCREATING HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNMDP FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPOON FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOO VISUAL ARTS CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF NGONG ROAD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHENNEPIN THEATRE TRUST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHIS OLD HORSE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetONEVILLAGE PARTNERS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Minneapolis Found…National Philanthropi…Mightycause Charitabl…Charities Aid Foundat…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Minneapolis FoundationMN18.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Tika Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tika Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 22 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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