· Private foundation
The Tome Foundation Inc
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
- $50k–250k3 grants · $413k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING | $725,072 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER | $525,078 |
| BERRY COLLEGE | $155,336 |
| AMERICAN COLLEGE OF BUILDING ARTS | $138,198 |
| NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY | $119,159 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of The Tome Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 35% of the giving stays in GA; by stated purpose, 0%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVER5× · 2021–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +12%
- MSMOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE4× · 2021–2024 · $601k · revenue +34%
- ACAMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE BUILDING ARTS4× · 2022–2025 · $553k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- SCSHEPHERD CENTER INCone grant, 2020 · $63k · revenue +22%
- GAGEORGIA AQUARIUM INC & SUBSIDIARYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $63k · revenue +235%
- CHCHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INCone grant, 2020 · $63k
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 university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
Mcdaniel college is a diverse student-centered community committed to excellence in the liberal arts & sciences and professional studies with careful mentoring and attention to the individual. mcdaniel changes lives. we challenge students…
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
See Disclosure Above.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 13 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 UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds BERRY COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE BUILDING ARTS ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA AQUARIUM INC & SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds THE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Howard School Inc ↗
- Who funds QUALITY GROWTH INSTITUTE INC ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Tome Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tome Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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