How much did THE TINY TIGER FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Arts & Culture$413kHuman Services$235kAnimals$155kRecreation & Sports$151kEducation$129kCivil Rights$50kEnvironment$35kYouth Development$10kOther$525k

02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k13 grants · $55k
$10k–50k26 grants · $330k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC$25,000
COMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION$25,000
WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$20,000
NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION$15,000
CHESTNUT HILL BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION$15,000
GODDARD HOUSE - HOME FOR AGED WOMEN$15,000
PINE STREET INN INC$15,000
THE PRINCIPLE FOUNDATION$15,000
ADVENTURE UNLIMITED$15,000
MORE THAN WORDS INC$10,000
FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION$10,000
BOSTON BALLET INC$10,000
CAMPS NEWFOUND AND OWATONNA$10,000
CENTRAL SQUARE THEATER INC$10,000
BOSTON PARTNERS IN EDUCATION$10,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $225k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 9%. 47% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.6M · 39 repeat orgs$92k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.6M

$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+64%

Still filing today

74%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsAnimalsCivil RightsOther

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

BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +151%
CZ
COMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION
5× · 2020–2024 · $95k · revenue +61%
AU
ADVENTURE UNLIMITED
5× · 2020–2024 · $86k · revenue +106%

Funded once

VINFEN CORPORATIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +64%
CF
CENTER FOR ARTISTRY AND SCHOLARSHIP
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -2%
GB
GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANKgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +78%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Currier Gallery of Art

Focused on art, centered in community, committed to inspire.

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Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art

Creation and operation of world class contemporary art museum and securing related funding.

Education

Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education

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

Boston Arts Summer Institute Inc

Recreation & Sports

Historic Boston Incorporated

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University of Massachusetts Foundation

The mission of the university of massachusetts foundation, inc. is to foster and promote the growth, progress and general welfare of the university of massachusetts as stated in the original 1950 articles of organization. the foundation…

Education

Guild of Boston Artists Inc

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Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum

The mission of the boston athenaeum is to engage all who seek knowledge by making accessible our library's collections and spaces, thereby inspiring reflection, discourse, creative expression, and joy.

Education

Boston Architectural College

Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…

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Harvard Club of Boston Foundation

Education

President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is More Than Words Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Art Institute of Chicago. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/38

the rest of the field

12%

6,450/53,205

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.

04the grantee network

36 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

36/36

Grantees still filing

26/36

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$570,300Arts & Culture$412,700Human Services$235,000Animals$155,000Recreation & Sports$151,000Education$129,000Civil Rights$50,000

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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncMA28.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · American Tower Charitable Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Edvestors Inc · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust · Tenacre Foundation · The Hamilton Company Charitable · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation

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 organisation THE TINY TIGER 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CENTER FOR ARTISTRY AND SCHOLARSHIP.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~9 months of operating runway; revenue held over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 472193670 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CENTER FOR ARTISTRY AND SCHOLARSHIP, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Tiny Tiger Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Tiny Tiger Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE TINY TIGER FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

36 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Tiny Tiger Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE TINY TIGER FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

36 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Tiny Tiger Foundation?

More from the funding graph