How much did The Tombros Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 97% of The Tombros Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

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2021

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2022

pennspecial

2023

special

2024

healthspecialpenn

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k7 grants · $30k
$10k–50k5 grants · $90k
$50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$250k+1 grant · $450k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$8.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

Penn State University$450,200
BPS Foundation$60,000
Greens ledge light Preservation Society Inc$25,000
Americares Free Clinic Inc$25,000
Deer Valley YMCA Family Camp$20,000
Hospital for special surgery$10,000
Discovery Space of Central Pennsylvania$10,000
Mount Nittany Health Foundation$7,000
Special Olympics Pennsylvania$7,000
Penn State Women's Volleyball Booster Club Inc$5,000
Mental Health Collaborative$5,000
Karli Short Better Tomorrow Foundation$3,000
One Mind$2,000
Saint Catherine Center for Special Needs$1,000

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 7%. 99% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.5M · 10 repeat orgs$123k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.5M

$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%

+122%

Still filing today

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthArts & CultureEducationOther

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

BF
BPS Foundation
2× · 2023–2024 · $285k · revenue +1104%
Greens ledge light Preservation Society Inc
3× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +11%
DS
Discovery Space of Central Pennsylvania Inc
3× · 2022–2024 · $43k · revenue +64%

Funded once

PS
Penn State Dance Marathon
one grant, 2022 · $26k
SW
Success with Honor
one grant, 2023 · $24k
NM
Nurturing Minds Incgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +122%

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.

Pennsylvania State Shotgunning

The mission of the pennsylvania state shotgunning association is to foster national and international amateur competition in shooting sports, particularly trapshooting. due to the very expensive nature of the competitive shooting sports…

Recreation & Sports

Keystone State Games Inc

To promote physical fitness, sports activity, and sportsmanship as a health improvement and disease prevention strategy for all pennsylvanians and other participants and to create an expanded, coordinated and citizen-sponsored program of…

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Simply Sports Inc

Recreation & Sports

Life Sciences Pennsylvania

Ensure pennsylvania is the united states hub for the life sciences by creating a business and public policy environment which fosters life sciences growth and success.

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The Center for Medical Technology

To develop a health care system where patients, clinicians, health care policymakers, and payers have the evidence they need to make informed health decisions.

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Brain Research Foundation

Support of neuroscience research to advance the understanding of brain function and treatment.

Health

Blacklick Valley Foundation &

Blacklick valley foundation ambulance service is a medical transport service company providing local medical emergency transportation to individuals in the nanty glo, pennsylvania area and out of the area non- emergency transportation.

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Connecticut Science Center Inc

To inspire life-long learning through the operation of a state-wide science center.

Arts & Culture

North Penn Comprehensive Health Services

Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve by providing world-class care in a compassionate, patient-centered environment.

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Miracle League of Connecticut Inc

The mission of the miracle league of ct is to provide boys and girls ages 5-18 with developmental and/or physical challenges the opportunity to participate in baseball and other team sports in a safe environment.

Youth Development

Great Lakes Museum of Science

To make science, technology, engineering, and math (stem) come alive.

Science & Tech

Central Pa X-Treme Tumblers Inc

To support and advance amateur gymnastics, to cooperate with usa gymnastics and to stimulate mutual devotion and good sportsmanship among gymnasts

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Pennsylvania Inc and the most unlike its peers is Karli Short Better Tomorrow Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

10 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)

9/10

Grantees still filing

9/10

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$4,490,850Arts & Culture$102,700Health$40,000Education$18,000

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA8.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation 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 organisation The Tombros 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

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1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

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: Greens ledge light Preservation Society Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~13 months of operating runway; revenue grew 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 813221399 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 Greens ledge light Preservation Society Inc, 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 13 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% 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.

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How do I get to The Tombros Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Tombros 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 Tombros Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Tombros Foundation?

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The Tombros Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Tombros Foundation?

More from the funding graph