· Private foundation
The Tyler 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 $10k14 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $224k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Community Foundation for Monterey | $124,000 |
| Florida State University Fdn | $100,000 |
| Carmel High School Foundation | $20,000 |
| Naval Postgraduate School Foundatio | $20,000 |
| Naval Postgraduate School Foundatio | $5,000 |
| Carmel Bach Festival | $5,000 |
| Pacific Repertory Theatre | $5,000 |
| Monterey Symphony | $2,000 |
| Carmel High School Foundation | $1,100 |
| Sigma Chi Foundation | $1,000 |
| Pi Beta Phi | $1,000 |
| Carmel Public Library Foundation | $1,000 |
| Pebble Beach Company Foundation | $1,000 |
| Del Monte Forest Conservancy | $1,000 |
| Monterey Peninsula College Foundati | $1,000 |
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, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Tyler Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 70% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 66% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2023 · $112k · revenue +64%- CBCarmel Bach Festival Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $58k · revenue +20%
- SCSigma Chi Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- UFUMKC FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +94%
- CMCSU Monterey Bayone grant, 2022 · $20k
- LFLSU FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -30%
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.
To further the scientific, literary, educational and charitable purposes of california state university, monterey bay, including fundraising, development, endowment management, financial assistance, public relations and other support.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
To benefit the university of california santa cruz.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
Established in 1962, the foundation is the central foundation for the california state university (csu) system and serves the office of the chancellor. the foundation exists to support excellence in teaching and learning, and to serve the…
Csu east bay foundation is an auxiliary organization of california state university east bay and the california state university system. the organization's mission is to provide services that aid, supplement, and advance the educational…
To accept and manage restricted and unrestricted gifts benefiting california state university east bay. additionally, the trustees support the university through advocacy, development, personal contributions and counsel to the university's…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Raise private resources to advance the mission and priorities of the university and serve as ambassadors in the community. provide stewardship in the prudent investment of resources and ensure the integrity of the foundation through…
Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Monterey County and the most unlike its peers is Del Monte Forest Conservancy. 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 60 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 43 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
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 MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Florida State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CARMEL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Carmel Bach Festival Inc ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UMKC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LSU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sigma Chi Foundation ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY COUNTY SYMPHONY ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds Carmel Bach Festival Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Austin Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds CARMEL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Monterey Peninsula College Foundation ↗
- Who funds NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds DEL MONTE FOREST CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Casa Abrego Preservation Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Carmel Foundation ↗
- Who funds Pebble Beach Company Foundation ↗
- Who funds Viviendas Leon ↗
- Who funds Chapter III Washington DC The ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLS3 ↗
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: Alexander F Victor Foundation · Barnet Segal Charitable Trust · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Richard and Mary Pat McCormick Charitable Trust · Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation · Howard and Karin Evans Family Foundation · Welton Foundation · Berkshire Foundation · William McCaskey Chapman and Adaline Dinsmore Chapman Foundation · Steven L Hallgrimson Foundation Inc · Arts Council for Monterey County · Pebble Beach Company 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 Tyler 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% 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.