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The Tov Foundation at a glance

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The Tov 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.

$94k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$383kFood & Nutrition$150kPhilanthropy$80kHealth$36kReligion$33kCrime & Legal$18kInternational$6kEducation$5k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $56k
$7,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR HOME FOR THE AGED$20,000
PROJECT ANGEL FOOD$15,000
Chabad of Northern Nevada$11,000
ST LAWRENCE MISSION$10,000
SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL$7,500
UTAH CRISIS FOOD RESPONSE$7,500
THE TAIMAKA PROJECT$6,030
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHERN NEVADA$6,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF STOCKTON$6,000
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$5,000
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 (FY22–25, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF STOCKTON: $6k → 12%Father Ken's Vineyard Inc: $33k → 13%MERCY CHEFS INC: $40k → 20%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

WA
NY
MA
NV
CA
UT
VA
AZ
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$521k · 5 repeat orgs$189k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
7

Total granted

$521k
$141k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+19%

Still filing today

80%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalPhilanthropyFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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

  • LS
    LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR HOME FOR THE AGED
    8× · 2018–2025 · $235k · revenue +26%
  • PA
    PROJECT ANGEL FOOD
    8× · 2018–2025 · $143k · revenue +295%
  • SI
    SAVING INNOCENCE INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $43k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • MC
    MERCY CHEFS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +32%
  • FK
    Father Kens Vineyard Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $33k · revenue -48%
  • DI
    DYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue -25%
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.

1
Aid for Starving Children

Aid For Starving Children provides assistance around the world to children and their families by providing food, shelter, clean water, financial assistance, education, and emergency relief to victims of famine, natural disasters, and war.

International
2
Love the Hungry Inc

The corporation is organized to provide nutritious fortified meals throughout the world to children and families that are most vunerable to hunger and malnutriion.

Food & Nutrition
3
Global Samaritan Resources Inc

To relieve human suffering, both physical and spiritual, by providing logistics services to local, regional, and international organizations helping people who face hardship, crisis, or disaster.

International
4
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
5
The Samaritan Center-Simi Valley

The mission of the Samaritan Center-Simi Valley is to offer people experiencing housing and food insecurity supportive services essential to human dignity.

Housing & Shelter
6
Food & Friends Inc

To improve the lives and health of people with hiv/aids, cancer, and other serious illnesses by preparing and delivering (free of charge) specialized meals and groceries, providing nutritional counseling, and reducing social isolation.

Health
7
The Cathedral Soup Kitchen Inc

The Cathedral Soup Kitchen, Inc.'s mission is to help people out of food insecurity and champion their pursuit of stability and prosperity. Our vision is hope, success, and abundance for people in need in Camden. The organization serves a…

Human Services
8
Congenital Hyperinsulinism International

Congenital Hyperinsulinism International (CHI) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to improving the lives of babies, children, and adults affected by congenital hyperinsulinism (HI). HI is a life-threatening genetic disorder…

Health
9
St Francis Center

For the performance of charitable acts and service to the less fortunate.

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10
Second Chance Foods Inc

Second Chance Foods (SCF or the Organization) is dedicated to reducing food waste by rescuing food that would otherwise be discarded, reducing hunger on a local basis while elevating the health of those served by the program, and reducing…

Food & Nutrition
11
Interfaith Food Ministry Nevada County

A community where no one should feel the hurt of hunger. Interfaith Food Ministry feeds the hungry and works to reduce food insecurity in Nevada County. We help to sustain health, human dignity and the opportunity for individuals to…

Food & Nutrition
12
Vine International Inc

Vine international is a christian nonprofit relief organization serving those who serve the poor through medical missions in central america.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saving Innocence Inc; the most unlike its peers is Grand Circle Foundation Inc. 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 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. 16 of the 19 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR HOME FOR THE AGED: $235,000 · HealthLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR HOME FOR THE AGEDPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $142,500 · HealthPROJECT ANGEL FOODDYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL INC: $30,000 · HealthDYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL INC+1 more: $6,000 · HealthSAVING INNOCENCE INC: $42,500 · Human ServicesSAVING INNOCENCE INCMERCY CHEFS INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesMERCY CHEFS INCFather Kens Vineyard Inc: $33,000 · Human ServicesFather Kens Vineyard…Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada: $6,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF STOCKTON: $6,000 · Human ServicesGRAND CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · PhilanthropyGRAND CIRCLE…CHABAD OF NORTHERN NEVADA INC: $21,000 · OtherPenny Lane Centers: $20,000 · OtherST LAWRENCE MISSION: $10,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE MOUNTAINS UNITED METHODIST CHURCh: $2,000 · OtherVeterans For Child Rescue Inc: $10,000 · Crime & LegalSOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF CLARK COUNTY: $7,500 · Crime & LegalPANTRY TO PORCH: $7,500 · Food & NutritionTHE TAIMAKA PROJECT: $6,030 · InternationalSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Education
Health$413,500Human Services$127,500Philanthropy$80,000Other$53,000Crime & Legal$17,500Food & Nutrition$7,500International$6,030Education$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR HOME FOR THE AGED: $235,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $142,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetGRAND CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSAVING INNOCENCE INC: $42,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMERCY CHEFS INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFather Kens Vineyard Inc: $33,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetDYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPenny Lane Centers: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVeterans For Child Rescue Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF CLARK COUNTY: $7,500 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetPANTRY TO PORCH: $7,500 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetCatholic Charities of Northern Nevada: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF STOCKTON: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

California Community …Network for GoodMorgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
California Community FoundationCA12× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Tov Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Tov Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 19 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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