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The Tiscornia Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$165k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$519kHuman Services$352kHealth$152kArts & Culture$60kReligion$16kYouth Development$13kFood & Nutrition$7kInternational$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $86k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DENNISON UNIVERSITY$25,000
FIRST TEE OF THE LOW COUNTRY$21,400
ABINGDON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$10,000
SHORTER UNIVERSITY$10,000
ECUMENICAL FAITH IN ACTION$10,000
PATHWAYS PREGNANCY CENTER$10,000
JUVENILE DIABETES FOUNDATION$8,500
FIRST CHURCH OF GOD$8,000
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL$7,500
CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$6,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
SPARTAN FUND - MICHIGAN ST UNIVERS$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–21, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SHE HAS A NAME: $3k → 15%SHE HAS A NAME: $3k → 15%PROGAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: $10k → 10%SHE HAS A NAME: $3k → 15%PROGAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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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 — 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 41 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

41 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
14

Total granted

$1.0M
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+48%

Still filing today

24%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
EducationReligionHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • DU
    DENISON UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $87k · revenue +39%
  • EF
    ECUMENICAL FAITH IN ACTION INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +49%
  • CC
    CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
    6× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER MICHIANA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +177%
  • JM
    JDRF MI GREAT LAKES WEST CHAPTER
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • BH
    BENTON HARBOR READINESS CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $10k

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.

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Spring Arbor University

Spring arbor university is a community of learners distinguished by our lifelong involvement in the study and application of the liberal arts, total commitment to jesus christ as the perspective for learning and critical participation in…

Education
2
Bethany Lutheran College Inc

Bethany lutheran college provides christian higher education in a challenging academic environment where personal mentoring guides students to pursue knowledge, truth, and discernment for productive and fulfilling lives.

Education
3
Calvin University

The mission of calvin university is to equip students to think deeply, to act justly, and to live wholeheartedly as christ's agents of renewal in the world.

Education
4
Belhaven University

Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.

Education
5
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
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Great Lakes Bible College

Great lakes christian college, an institution of higher education affiliated with christian churches/churches of christ, seeks to glorify god by preparing students to be servant-leaders in the church and world.

Education
7
Southern Methodist College

The college's mission is to train christians to serve god and his church.

Education
8
Grace Schools

Grace college is an evangelical christian community of higher education which applies biblical values in strengthening character, sharpening competence, and preparing for service. grace theological seminary is a learning community…

Education
9
Carthage College

Seeking truth, building strength, inspiring service - together

Education
10
Central Christian College of Kansas

Central christian college of kansas is a four-year, non-profit liberal arts college with the primary mission of offering a christ-centered education for character.

Education
11
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
12
Portersville Christian School

The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shorter University and the most unlike its peers is Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State. 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

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIRST TEE OF THE LOW COUNTRY — $118,251 · OtherFIRST TEE OF THE LOW COUNTRYJUVENILE DIABETES FOUNDATION — $100,300 · OtherJUVENILE DIABETES FOUNDATIONABINGDON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $60,000 · OtherABINGDON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHIndividual grant recipient — $46,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHRISTAR — $38,000 · OtherSPARTAN FUND - MI STATE UNIVERSITY — $30,000 · OtherCRU — $27,900 · Other+38 more — $366,331 · Other+38 moreSHORTER UNIVERSITY — $133,300 · EducationSHORTER UNIVERSITYDENISON UNIVERSITY — $87,000 · EducationDENISON UNIVERSITYCORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $23,500 · EducationCORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN AC…+1 more — $1,100 · EducationECUMENICAL FAITH IN ACTION INC — $24,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $7,000 · ReligionBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP — $7,000 · ReligionPROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE — $20,000 · Human ServicesSHE HAS A NAME — $9,000 · Human ServicesABORTION ALTERNATIVES & CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER — $15,750 · HealthBurr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA — $4,000 · Arts & CultureCharis Hills Inc — $4,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$786,782Education$244,900Religion$38,000Human Services$29,000Health$15,750Youth Development$5,000Arts & Culture$4,000Recreation & Sports$4,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSHORTER UNIVERSITY — $133,300 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY — $87,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetECUMENICAL FAITH IN ACTION INC — $24,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $23,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE — $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetABORTION ALTERNATIVES & CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER — $15,750 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetSHE HAS A NAME — $9,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetLAKE MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUSAN MAST ALS FOUNDATION — $6,750 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCharis Hills Inc — $4,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMARYVILLE COLLEGE — $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds SHORTER UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds ECUMENICAL FAITH IN ACTION INC
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
  • Who funds PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE
  • Who funds ABORTION ALTERNATIVES & CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER MICHIANA INC
  • Who funds SHE HAS A NAME
  • Who funds LAKE MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP
  • Who funds SUSAN MAST ALS FOUNDATION

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.

Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA9.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organization The Tiscornia Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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