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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.

$290k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2024
20
Organizations funded FY2023
15%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,100
Largest grant, FY2024
$124,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 25
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$7.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 15% of the organizations The Tyler Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyInternationalHealthOther
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
FY2024still arriving15$166k7%
FY202320$326k15%
FY202225$245k40%
FY202115$129k20%
FY202011$77k9%
FY201912$155k8%
FY201817$77k29%
FY201717$63kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$670kPhilanthropy$291kHealth$226kArts & Culture$105kReligion$45kPublic Benefit$30kCommunity Improvement$5kEnvironment$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
CA
MO
VA
MD
DC
LA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 25 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($407k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Tyler Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMontage Health Foundation: $225,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetThe Florida State University Foundation Inc: $220,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $112,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCarmel High School Foundation: $72,104 over 3y, 16% of budgetCarmel Bach Festival Inc: $58,100 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetLsu Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUmkc Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSigma Chi Foundation: $19,650 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMonterey County Symphony Assoc Inc: $15,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCarmel Bach Festival Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetAustin Community College Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCarmel Public Library Foundation: $9,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMonterey Peninsula College Foundation: $8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNaval Postgraduate School Foundation Inc: $5,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPacific Repertory Theatre: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDel Monte Forest Conservancy: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCasa Abrego Preservation Foundation: $3,500 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetThe Carmel Foundation: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRobert Louis Stevenson School: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPebble Beach Company Foundation: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetViviendas Leon: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetChapter III Washington DC The: $1,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSchools3: $500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorge C Marshall Research Foundation: $300 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

Alexander F Victor FoundationCA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Tyler Foundation

How much does The Tyler Foundation give?
The Tyler Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $289,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Tyler Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (48%), Philanthropy (21%), Health (16%).
Who are The Tyler Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Montage Health Foundation ($225k), The Florida State University Foundation Inc ($220k), Johns Hopkins University ($112k).
Does The Tyler Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Tyler 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 Tyler Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alexander F Victor Foundation, Barnet Segal Charitable Trust, Monterey Peninsula Foundation.
Where is The Tyler Foundation based?
The Tyler 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 43 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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