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The Tuttleman 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k66 grants · $278k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $384k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $561k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INSIGHT MEDITATION SOCIETY | $103,000 |
| WILMINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL INC | $85,000 |
| NYU SCHOOL OF LAW OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI RELATIONS | $80,000 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY | $67,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $63,000 |
| HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA | $62,500 |
| MAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL- JEFFERSON HEALTH | $50,000 |
| TEMPLE ADATH ISRAEL | $50,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS) | $30,000 |
| BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $25,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC | $25,000 |
| BARNARD COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| HELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEY INC | $20,000 |
| CARIDAD INC | $15,000 |
| FIRST FRIDAY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $179k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
90 repeat relationships — 59 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $273k 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
- TUTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education6× · 2017–2024 · $346k · revenue +5%
BARNARD COLLEGE5× · 2017–2024 · $203k · revenue +60%- SSSTEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC4× · 2017–2020 · $175k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- TWThe Wharton School University of Pennsylvaniaone grant, 2020 · $75k
- TWThe Wharton Schoolone grant, 2019 · $75k
- BCBarnard College Columbia Universityone grant, 2020 · $70k
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.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…
Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
We connect the people and places of philadelphia through art and partnership. the organization is a free-standing platform that endeavors to show forward-thinking, high-quality contemporary visual and performance art in the city. the…
Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
Drwc's mission is to maintain and promote the use and development of the city of philadelphia's waterfront. this task is of vital importance to the city and one which the city would otherwise be rquired to perform absent the drwc.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
The association for public art (apa, formerly the fairmount park art association) commissions, preserves, interprets and promotes public art in philadelphia. dedicated to creating a museum without walls that informs, engages and inspires…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels America and the most unlike its peers is The Cat Collaborative. 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 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
157 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. 157 of the 258 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 Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds STEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds The Magee Memorial Hospital for Convalescents ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN BARTRAM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE PILOT SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES LTD ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEY ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA VOICE ↗
- Who funds CARIDAD INC ↗
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: The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Future Standard Foundation · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · The Neubauer Family Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation · Laffey-McHugh 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 Tuttleman 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.
- Delaware Center for Justice — 73% of income from government
- The Ministry of Caring Inc — 30% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
- Developing Artist Collaboration — 19% of income from government
- Wilmington Ballet Academy of the Dance Inc — 17% of income from government
- Humane Animal Partners — 14% of income from government
- Kalmar Nyckel Foundation — 14% of income from government
- Delaware Children's Museum Inc — 11% of income from government
- Delaware Theatre Company — 8% of income from government
- Delaware Art Museum Inc — 8% of income from government
- Special Olympics Delaware Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Delaware Contemporary Arts Inc Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% of income from government
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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