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The Tuffli Family 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
46%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$40,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$400,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 13
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$23M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 46% of the organizations The Tuffli Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $267k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEnvironmentInternationalHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$1.1M20%
FY202413$537k46%
FY202310$486k20%
FY202210$682k20%
FY20217$881k43%
FY202012$361k50%
FY201910$362k60%
FY201710$265kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$2.8MHealth$1.8MEnvironment$1.3MHousing & Shelter$350kReligion$208kArts & Culture$178kInternational$115kEducation$110kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
IN
CA
UT
CO
TN
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($697k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Tuffli Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSouth Coast Botanic Garden Foundation Inc: $1,165,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetThe Beacon House Association of San Pedro: $635,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetPediatric Therapy Network: $352,576 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPeninsula Committee Children's Hospital: $316,666 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetTorrance Memorial Medical Center Health Care Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCommunitys Child Inc: $250,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetEdify: $155,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPalos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy: $151,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetProvidence Little Company of Mary Foundation: $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBaylor Scott & White Health: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCasa del Mar Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetJust in Time for Foster Youth: $75,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Humble Village: $65,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetPalos Verdes Performing Arts: $52,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetWorldlink Partners: $50,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetHouse of Hope Foundation Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFirst Descents: $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAutry Museum of the American West: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTorrance Police Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCurebound: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPalos Verdes Peninsula Education Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Legion Post 437: $7,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetLong Beach Bar Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetOutreach Foundation of the Presbyterian Church Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThird Dist Fire Chief Assn Mabas 24: $400 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

The Kenneth T and Eileen L Norris FoundationCA24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Kenneth T and Eileen L Norris Foundation · California Community Foundation · Oarsmen Foundation · Long Beach Community Foundation · The Crail-Johnson Foundation · The Confidence Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Rogers Family Charitable Trust · Vistas for Children Inc · Henry L Guenther Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Sempra 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.

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About The Tuffli Family Foundation

How much does The Tuffli Family Foundation give?
The Tuffli Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $1,201,050 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does The Tuffli Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (37%), Health (24%), Environment (17%).
Who are The Tuffli Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: South Coast Botanic Garden Foundation Inc ($1.2M), The Beacon House Association of San Pedro ($635k), Pediatric Therapy Network ($353k).
Does The Tuffli Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Tuffli Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Tuffli Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Kenneth T and Eileen L Norris Foundation, California Community Foundation, Oarsmen Foundation.
Where is The Tuffli Family Foundation based?
The Tuffli Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 44 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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