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The Titus Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$975k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$220k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$3.3MHousing & Shelter$1.2MEducation$1.2MHealth$633kScience & Tech$400kEnvironment$271kInternational$255kFood & Nutrition$234kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $269k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $670k
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY$220,000
GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE$150,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$50,000
GOG FOUNDATION$50,000
JULIE FUND INC$50,000
WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME$50,000
TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS-PLEDGE$50,000
BRAC USA$50,000
SWIM ACROSS AMERICA$34,000
US FUND FOR UNICEF$30,000
OLE MISS ATHLETICS ASSOCIATION$25,000
TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS-GARDEN PROJECT$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
PROJECT COMEBACK$25,000
IPSWICH RIVER WATERSHED- EDUCATIONOUTREACH PROGRAM$25,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $173k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME: $50k → 14%HOP ON A CURE FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME: $50k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME: $30k → 14%CHINESE CHILDREN ADOPTION INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 8%SERVICE DOG PROJECT: $15k → 10%CHINESE CHILDREN ADOPTION INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 8%CHINESE CHILDREN ADOPTION INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 8%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES: $3k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES: $3k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
MA
RI
CA
CO
MD
NC
DC
LA
MS
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.7M · 47 repeat orgs$582k to everyone else

47 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
25

Total granted

$7.7M
$542k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+84%

Still filing today

62%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
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

  • TC
    THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF DENVER INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +58%
  • TS
    THE ST FRANCIS CENTER
    2× · 2020–2021 · $592k · revenue +42%
  • FB
    FAMILYAID BOSTON INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $580k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • MO
    MGH OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH
    one grant, 2023 · $276k
  • ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $80k · revenue +13%
  • DF
    DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE HARMONY EQUINE CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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.

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Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
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
4
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
7
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
8
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
9
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
10
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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11
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
12
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League; the most unlike its peers is The Antero Foundation. 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

45 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. 45 of the 76 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
39/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER: $2,226,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVERTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF DENVER INC: $1,005,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF DENVER INC+4 more: $45,142 · Arts & CultureTHE ST FRANCIS CENTER: $592,207 · OtherTHE ST FRANCIS CENTERFAMILYAID BOSTON INC: $580,000 · OtherFAMILYAID BOSTON INCMGH OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH: $276,216 · OtherMGH OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCHUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI: $225,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPIAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $110,000 · Other+45 more: $1,368,225 · Other+45 moreKENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $464,965 · EducationKENT DENVER…ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $320,000 · EducationST LAWRENCE…+4 more: $53,000 · Education+4 moreGLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED: $400,000 · Science & TechTHE GOG FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · HealthTHE JULIE FUND INC: $150,000 · Health+3 more: $8,500 · HealthBRAC USA INC: $150,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $90,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $130,000 · Human ServicesCCAI: $15,000 · Human ServicesSERVICE DOG PROJECT INC: $15,000 · Human Services+3 more: $12,500 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$3,276,142Other$3,151,648Education$837,965Science & Tech$400,000Health$308,500International$240,000Human Services$172,500

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 budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER: $2,226,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF DENVER INC: $1,005,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetTHE ST FRANCIS CENTER: $592,207 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetFAMILYAID BOSTON INC: $580,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetKENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $464,965 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetGLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED: $400,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $320,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GOG FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JULIE FUND INC: $150,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetBRAC USA INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $130,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $110,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSwim Across America Inc: $84,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $80,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPROJECT COMEBACK: $75,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $56,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNourishing the North Shore Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOLE MISS ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCCAI: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Museum of Natural History: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE IPSWICH LOCAL NEWS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSERVICE DOG PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Antero Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $5,142 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO YOUTH FOR A CHANGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MORGAN ADAMS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMEBACK YOGA: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIPSWICH RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEARL RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE DEVELOPMEN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF DENVER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ST FRANCIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FAMILYAID BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds KENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE GOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JULIE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds BRAC USA INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds Swim Across America Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT COMEBACK ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Nourishing the North Shore Inc ↗
  • Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds OLE MISS ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTH COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds CCAI ↗
  • Who funds DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗

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 Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Rose Community Founda…The Colorado Health F…Rose FoundationThe Anschutz Foundati…Institution for Savin…Caring for Colorado F…Temple Hoyne Buell Fo…Cummings Foundation G…Xcel Energy FoundationMile High United Way …
The Denver FoundationCO22.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc

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 Titus Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Titus Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Ipswich River Watershed Association: 68% of income from government
  • Nourishing the North Shore Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated: 16% of income from government
  • New England Innocence Project: 12% of income from government
  • Familyaid Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Three Sisters Garden Project Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 76 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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