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The Tracking 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.

$8.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$6.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Education$32MCivil Rights$13MScience & Tech$5.2MHealth$3.3MCommunity Improvement$1.3MPublic Benefit$1.3MHuman Services$550kInternational$226kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+4 grants · $8.6M
$800,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$83M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY$6,250,000
MMAC COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC$1,000,000
NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC$800,000
TURNING POINT USA INC$500,000
THE CREATIVE DEFENSE FOUNDATION$50,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%THE NEW SCHOOL: $150k → 17%THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND INC: $5.0M → 14%THE CREATIVE DEFENSE FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY: $6.3M → 32%MMAC COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC: $1.0M → 17%TURNING POINT USA INC: $500k → 16%TURNING POINT USA: $400k → 14%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $4.8M → 11%MITRE ENGENUITY INCORPORATED: $5.0M → 6%NATIONAL CRYPTOLOGIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $150k → 6%SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%SCHULTE ROTH & ZABEL LLC: $150k → 17%CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC: $4.5M → 14%TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY: $5.0M → 32%TURNING POINT USA: $400k → 14%TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $500k → 11%NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $1.0M → 17%CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC: $4.0M → 14%TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY: $3.8M → 32%TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $350k → 11%NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $800k → 17%CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC: $3.6M → 14%TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY: $3.6M → 32%TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $250k → 11%NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $400k → 17%INSTITUTE FOR STATE EFFECTIVENESS: $176k → 14%TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY: $2.0M → 32%NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $300k → 17%CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC: $1.3M → 14%NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $250k → 17%NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $250k → 17%NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $250k → 17%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

IL
WI
NY
IN
NJ
VA
MD
DC
AL
FL
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$40M · 7 repeat orgs$17M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

$40M
$16M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
-9%

Still filing today

86%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalHuman ServicesCivil RightsHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • TU
    Tuskegee University
    5× · 2020–2024 · $21M · revenue +42%
  • CB
    CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $13M · revenue +163% · 26% of their budget
  • TP
    TURNING POINT USA INC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue ×14

Funded once

  • ME
    MITRE ENGENUITY INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2019 · $5.0M
  • TM
    Thurgood Marshall College Fund
    one grant, 2020 · $5.0M · revenue -9%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University
    one grant, 2017 · $4.8M · revenue +5%
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
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
4
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
5
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
6
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
7
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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8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Furman University

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.

Education
10
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
11
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
12
Clarkson University

Clarkson university is an independent, nationally recognized technological university whose faculty of teacher-scholars aspires to offer superior instruction and engage in high-quality research and scholarship in engineering, business,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse University; the most unlike its peers is Mmac Community Support 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 18 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Tuskegee University: $20,650,000 · EducationTuskegee UniversityThurgood Marshall College Fund: $5,000,000 · EducationThurgood Marshall College FundThe Trustees of Princeton University: $4,800,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton University+3 more: $690,000 · EducationCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC: $13,350,000 · Civil RightsCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS…MITRE ENGENUITY INCORPORATED: $5,000,000 · OtherMITRE ENGENUIT…TURNING POINT USA INC: $1,300,000 · OtherTURNING POINT …TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $1,100,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PR…+1 more: $150,000 · OtherNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $3,250,000 · HealthMMAC COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementNo One Left Behind: $500,000 · Human ServicesSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE FOR STATE EFFECTIVENESS: $176,000 · InternationalCREATIVE DEFENSE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · InternationalNATIONAL CRYPTOLOGIC FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$31,140,000Civil Rights$13,350,000Other$7,550,000Health$3,250,000Community Improvement$1,000,000Human Services$550,000International$226,000Arts & Culture$150,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTuskegee University: $20,650,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC: $13,350,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund: $5,000,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $4,800,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $3,250,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $1,300,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetMMAC COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetNo One Left Behind: $500,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetUS Chamber of Commerce Foundation: $340,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR STATE EFFECTIVENESS: $176,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetNATIONAL CRYPTOLOGIC FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetThe New School: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCREATIVE DEFENSE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Tracking Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tracking Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 18 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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