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The Torosian 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k68 grants · $105k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Heart of America Shakespeare | $11,702 |
| Greater Arizona Puppet Theatre | $8,707 |
| Bay Head Yacht Club Foundation | $8,152 |
| Jewel Ball | $6,273 |
| St Andrew's Episcopal Church | $4,662 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,200 |
| Phoenix Symphony | $3,900 |
| Ability KC | $3,500 |
| Valley Youth Theatre | $3,035 |
| WWI Museum | $3,000 |
| Alwun House | $2,750 |
| BMA Memorial Foundation | $2,700 |
| Child's Play Inc | $2,535 |
| First Call | $2,500 |
| Pembroke Hill School | $2,147 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
116 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2025, 71 since wound down; 24 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AKABILITY KC9× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +60%
ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2020 · $25k · revenue +4%- BHBAY HEAD YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
- SLSt Lawrence Univ - KieneTorosian Scholorshipone grant, 2017 · $5k
- KCKANSAS CITY ACTORS THEATRE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +45%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
The american theatre guild is dedicated to providing the experience of live theatre to foster passion, inspire creativity and empower youth within our communities.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.
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…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Young Audiences Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hunt Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
142 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 142 of the 295 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds UNICORN THEATRE ↗
- Who funds LUCKY PLUSH PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds ABILITY KC ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BAY HEAD YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWEL BALL ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds VALLEY YOUTH THEATRE ↗
- Who funds PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Great Arizona Puppet Theater Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST SHAKESPEARE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST CALL ALCOHOLDRUG PREVENTION RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THEATER WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INSPIRE KC INC ↗
- Who funds NEWHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD'S PLAY ↗
- Who funds ACT ONE ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Saint Lukes 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.
Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · The Francis Family Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · The Sosland Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The Sherman Family Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Marion and Henry Bloch Family 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 Torosian 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.
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.
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