· Private foundation
The Tiny Tiger 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $333k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $27,500 |
| COMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION | $20,000 |
| BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| ADVENTURE UNLIMITED | $15,000 |
| CHESTNUT HILL BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| PINE STREET INN INC | $15,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION | $15,000 |
| VINFEN'S GATEWAY ARTS | $15,000 |
| BOSTON PARTNERS IN EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| THE PRINCIPLE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GODDARD HOUSE - HOME FOR AGED WOMEN | $10,000 |
| BOSTON BALLET INC | $10,000 |
| 826 BOSTON INC | $10,000 |
| BOSTON CASA | $10,000 |
| FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $319k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 39% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
WGBH Educational Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $148k · revenue +9%
BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +25%- CZCOMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND6× · 2020–2025 · $115k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR ARTISTRY AND SCHOLARSHIP INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +81%
- TPTHE PRINCIPIA CORPORATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k
- CNCAMPS NEWFOUND AND OWATONNAone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
Boston children's museum engages children and families in joyful discovery experiences that instill an appreciation of our world, develop foundational skills, and spark a lifelong love of learning. boston children's museum is a welcoming,…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Bringing people together for experiences that spark creativity and innovative thinking by making inspiring educational connections among art, history, and natural science.
Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Boston center for the arts (bca) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts campus that supports working artists to create, perform, and exhibit new works; develops new audiences; and connects the arts to the community.
How this is measured
43 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. 43 of the 51 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURE UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds Chestnut Hill Benevolent Association ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE PRINCIPLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 826 BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CASA INC ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds VINFEN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATORY LAB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL SQUARE THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds Lyric Stage Company of Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds HALE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds TENACITY INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS PROJECT 351 INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds Camp Newfound Owatonna Corporation ↗
- Who funds FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LONGYEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ALBERT BAKER FUND ↗
- Who funds CHERISHABILITY ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds LITERATIONS CORP ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Isabel Foundation · Tenacre Foundation · Barr Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Powell Crown Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Tiny Tiger Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tiny Tiger Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Vinfen Corporation: 83% of income from government
- Jewish Vocational Service Inc: 39% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Boston Casa Inc: 20% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc: 7% of income from government
- Zumix Inc: 5% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc: 4% of income from government
- 826 Boston Inc: 3% of income from government
- Central Square Theater Inc: 2% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
- Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England: 2% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc: 1% of income from government
- Conservatory Lab Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc: 0% of income from government
- Farm and Wilderness Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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