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.

The Tyler Foundation

The Tyler Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$290k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$124k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% 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

02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k14 grants · $26k
$10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$50k–250k2 grants · $224k

$1,100

Median grant

States reached

$7.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
Pebble Beach Company Foundation	$1,000
Pi Beta Phi	$1,000
Del Monte Forest Conservancy	$1,000
Sigma Chi Foundation	$1,000
Carmel Public Library Foundation	$1,000
Monterey Peninsula College Foundati	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of The Tyler Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 70% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 66%.

The Tyler Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.1M · 25 repeat orgs$127k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.1M

$122k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%

+94%

Still filing today

64%

53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyInternationalHuman ServicesOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
7× · 2017–2023 · $112k · revenue +64%
CB
Carmel Bach Festival Inc
7× · 2018–2024 · $58k · revenue +20%
SC
Sigma Chi Foundation
8× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +32%

Funded once

US
UC San Diego
one grant, 2022 · $20k
CM
CSU Monterey Bay
one grant, 2022 · $20k
LF
LSU FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -30%

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Foundation of California State University Monterey Bay

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.

Education

Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education

Uc Santa Cruz Foundation

To benefit the university of california santa cruz.

Education

Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

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…

Education

California State University Foundation

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…

Philanthropy

Califonia State University East Bay Foundation Inc

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…

Education

Cal State East Bay Educational Foundation

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…

Education

The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education

The University Foundation At Sacramento State

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…

Education

Claremont Graduate University

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…

Education

Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education

San Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation

To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Monterey County; 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.

05the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/27

Grantees still filing

15/27

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$489,954Other$426,700Health$225,500Philanthropy$155,000Arts & Culture$83,600Human Services$3,000International$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Tyler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tyler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

5report 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

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home