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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 FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$2.8MHealth$1.8MEnvironment$1.3MHousing & Shelter$350kReligion$208kArts & Culture$178kInternational$115kEducation$110kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $237k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $295k
  • $250k+2 grants · $665k
$40,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEACON HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF SAN PEDRO$400,000
South Coast Botanic Garden Foundation Inc$265,000
PROVIDENCE LITTLE COMPANY OF MARY FOUNDATION$100,000
Community's Child Inc$80,000
The Humble Village$65,000
Casa Del Mar Inc$50,000
USC Marshall School of Business$45,000
House of Hope Foundation$40,000
Peninsula Committee Children's Hospital$40,000
Edify$30,000
Vision of Children Foundation$25,000
BARNABAS GROUP$25,000
Peninsula Senior Center$20,000
Help Me Help You Inc$11,650
Dorcus Inc$3,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOOVER INSTITUTION: $25k → 8%Edify: $30k → 11%South Coast Botanic Garden Foundation Inc: $800k → 14%MARIPOSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%Baylor Scott & White Health: $100k → 14%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $25k → 14%World Link Partners: $50k → 8%First Descents: $35k → 12%EDIFY: $25k → 11%PENINSULA LAND CONSERVANCY: $450k → 14%Edify: $25k → 11%South Coast Botanic Garden Foundation Inc: $265k → 14%EDIFY: $25k → 11%PALOS VERDES PENINSULA LAND CONSERVANCY: $150k → 14%Edify: $25k → 11%PALOS VERDES ARTS CENTER: $100k → 14%Edify: $25k → 11%SOUTH COAST BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 14%Community's Child Inc: $80k → 14%Community's Child Inc: $75k → 14%Community's Child Inc: $50k → 14%Peninsula Committee Children's Hospital: $40k → 14%Peninsula Committee Children's Hospital: $40k → 14%The Humble Village: $65k → 11%PENINSULA COMMITTEE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $40k → 14%Peninsula Committee Children's Hospital: $40k → 14%Peninsula Committee Children's Hospital: $40k → 14%Peninsula Committee Children's Hospital: $40k → 14%PENINSULA COMMITTEE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $38k → 14%PALOS VERDES PERFORMING ARTS: $30k → 14%Casa Del Mar Inc: $50k → 11%Casa Del Mar Inc: $50k → 11%California Community Foundation: $560k → 14%California Community Foundation: $525k → 14%PROVIDENCE LITTLE COMPANY OF MARY FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $496k → 14%CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $415k → 14%CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $365k → 14%California Community Foundation: $310k → 14%BEACON HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF SAN PEDRO: $400k → 14%BEACON HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF SAN PEDRO: $100k → 14%BEACON HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF SAN PEDRO: $80k → 14%BEACON HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF SAN PEDRO: $40k → 14%House of Hope Foundation: $40k → 14%USC Marshall School of Business: $45k → 14%Torrance Memorial Foundation: $250k → 14%PEDIATRIC THEREPY NETWORK: $200k → 14%PEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORK: $153k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.6M · 20 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +85% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
15

Total granted

$3.6M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+85%
+32%

Still filing today

65%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEnvironmentInternationalArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • SC
    SOUTH COAST BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +152%
  • TB
    THE BEACON HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF SAN PEDRO
    5× · 2020–2025 · $635k · revenue +315%
  • PT
    PEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORK
    2× · 2017–2020 · $353k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $450k
  • TM
    Torrance Memorial Medical Center Health Care Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +151%
  • PV
    PALOS VERDES ARTS CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
2
Usc Verdugo Hills Hospital Foundation

To raise funds in order to support the operation of the usc verdugo hills hospital, an organization exempt under irc 501(c)(3).

Health
3
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
4
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd

Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…

Health
5
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
6
Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

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7
Providence Health System - So California

As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.

Health
8
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
9
Ucsf Health Community Hospitals Fka Saint Francis Memorial Hospital

Ucsf health community hospital's mission statement is caring, healing, teaching, and discovering.

Health
10
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
11
Pacific Central Coast Health Centers

Pacific central coast health centers', sponsored by dignity community care, mission is to provide access to cost effective, quality medical services in the northern santa barbara county, san luis obispo county, kern county and ventura…

Health
12
Sutter Coast Hospital

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Worldlink Partners. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%7%<5yr16%3%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr12%32%35–55yr13%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr16%2%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr17%8%20–35yr12%64%35–55yr13%20%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
15%
16,478/108,471

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.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 44 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
21/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,670,968 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONPROVIDENCE LITTLE COMPANY OF MARY FOUNDATION — $125,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BEACON HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF SAN PEDRO — $635,000 · HealthTHE BEACON HOUSE ASSOCI…PENINSULA COMMITTEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $316,666 · HealthPENINSULA COMMITTEE CHI…Torrance Memorial Medical Center Health Care Foundation — $250,000 · HealthTorrance Memorial Medic…COMMUNITYS CHILD INC — $250,000 · HealthCOMMUNITYS CHILD INCBaylor Scott & White Health — $100,000 · HealthBaylor Scott & White He…+2 more — $55,000 · HealthSOUTH COAST BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC — $1,165,000 · EnvironmentSOUTH COAST BOTANIC…PALOS VERDES PENINSULA LAND CONSERVANCY — $151,000 · EnvironmentPALOS VERDES PENINS…Individual grant recipient — $450,000 · OtherIndividual grant reci…PEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORK — $352,576 · OtherPEDIATRIC THERAPY NET…The Vision of Children — $125,000 · OtherThe Vision of Childre…PALOS VERDES ARTS CENTER — $100,000 · OtherPALOS VERDES ARTS CEN…Peninsula Senior Center — $80,000 · OtherPeninsula Senior Cent…BARNABAS GROUP — $50,000 · OtherPALOS VERDES PERFORMING ARTS — $52,500 · OtherJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH — $75,000 · OtherWORLDLINK PARTNERS — $50,000 · Other+16 more — $117,150 · Other+16 moreEdify — $155,000 · InternationalThe Humble Village — $65,000 · InternationalUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $45,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $25,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · EducationMARIPOSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationPALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationCASA DEL MAR INC — $100,000 · Housing & Shelter
Philanthropy$2,795,968Health$1,606,666Environment$1,316,000Other$1,452,226International$220,000Education$130,000Housing & Shelter$100,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,670,968 over 6y, 0.2% of 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 budgetThe Vision of Children — $125,000 over 5y, 8.7% 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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST DESCENTS — $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARIPOSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetAUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCUREBOUND — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTORRANCE POLICE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 1.7% 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
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.

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.

The Kenneth T and Eil…California Community …Oarsmen FoundationLong Beach Community …The Crail-Johnson Fou…The Confidence Founda…The Ahmanson Foundati…Rogers Family Charita…Vistas for Children I…Henry L Guenther Foun…Orange County Communi…Sempra Foundation
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

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 Tuffli Family 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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