Minnesota · Private foundation
The Tiller Family 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.
- $96k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
52% of The Tiller Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Mayo Clinic, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 10 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 15
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations The Tiller Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $46k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $32k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $31k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $36k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $44k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $32k | 45% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $48k | 64% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $45k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Charlotte News Inc | $43,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | $43,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Shelburne Farms | $20,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Town of Charlotte | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Shelburne Museum Inc | $18,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Place of Hope in Haiti Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Dattilio Medical Mission Ltd | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation | $9,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Guthrie Theater Foundation | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Hennepin Theatre Trust | $5,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($94k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Tiller Family Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Tiller Family Foundation
- How much does The Tiller Family Foundation give?
- The Tiller Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $95,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Tiller Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (59%), Arts & Culture (13%), Education (9%).
- Who are The Tiller Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Friends of the Charlotte News Inc ($44k), Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University ($43k), Shelburne Farms ($21k).
- Does The Tiller Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Tiller Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Tiller Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is The Tiller Family Foundation based?
- The Tiller Family Foundation is based in MN.
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