· Private foundation
The Tyler Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k21 grants · $111k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $597k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING | $46,394 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $46,394 |
| RAPTOR TRUST | $25,000 |
| LAST CHANCE RANCH | $25,000 |
| MYLESTONE EQUINE RESCUE A NEW JE | $25,000 |
| HOME FOR GOOD DOG RESCUE | $20,000 |
| CROSSROADS 4 HOPE (CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY CENTRAL) | $20,000 |
| GREAT SWAMP WATERSHED ASSOCIATIO | $20,000 |
| AMERICAS GROW A ROW INC | $20,000 |
| KING'S DAUGHTERS DAY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| MANE STREAM INC | $18,000 |
| LITERACY NEW JERSEY INC | $15,000 |
| COOPERATIVE HOUSING CORPORATION | $15,000 |
| MIDLAND SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY HOPE INC | $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, $633k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 12 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k 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
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $538k · revenue +33%
- TRTHE RAPTOR TRUST8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +35%
- MEMYLESTONE EQUINE RESCUE8× · 2017–2024 · $163k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- MSM S KETTERING CANCER CNTRone grant, 2017 · $133k
- PCPLAINFIELD CITY UNION OF THE KING'S DAUGHTERS KING'S DAUGHTERS DAY SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +19%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTONone grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue -4%
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 serve the expanding and evolving in-home needs of residents of northern nj by delivering a continuum of care for clients and families through the services of a highly trained caring and compassionate workforce.
To identify children's needs through research, policy and legal analysis, to raise awareness of those needs through strategic communications, and to work with elected officials and other decision-makers to enact effective responses.
The mission of the mental health association in new jersey is to provide support and education advocacy on behalf of persons with mental illness and educate the public regarding mental health and illness in new jersey.
Homesharing's mission is to create affordable housing solutions by matching those seeking housing with those who need additional income or services to maintain their homes, while fostering independence and dignity.
To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.
To assist with the integration of individuals with developmental disabilities into society. to educate the public regarding every individual's right and need for community integration. to promote, establish, and operate community based…
The helping hand pregnancy center of sussex county, inc. helps pregnant women who are in crisis to understand and work through the alternatives, enabling them to make an informed decision concerning the outcome of the pregnancy.
The organization's primary mission is to enable developmentally disabled individuals to develop fully within the structure of family life which encourages responsibility, growth, and independence.
The Organization's mission is to improve the safety, quality, and affordability of healthcare for everyone.
The mission of hackensack riverkeeper is to protect, preserve, and restore the hackensack river watershed and its living resources. hackensack riverkeeper fights for clean water, open space preservation, and public access to the river for…
To promote the interest of its members and other home health care and hospice providers in the state of new jersey. the promotion of these interests is primarily accomplished by maintaining an awareness of governmental activities,…
To partner with children, families, and communities to help children in need to overcome significant social, emotional, and behavioral challenges.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Visions and Pathways a Nj Nonprofit Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Happy Paws Rescue Inc. 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 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 11% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 94 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 American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RAPTOR TRUST ↗
- Who funds LAST CHANCE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds MYLESTONE EQUINE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Great Swamp Watershed Association ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE WARDLAW-HARTRIDGE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Mane Stream Inc ↗
- Who funds VISIONS AND PATHWAYS A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITION ↗
- Who funds Americas Grow-A-Row ↗
- Who funds Community Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds BONNIE BRAE ↗
- Who funds LITERACY NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds Home For Good Dog Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF EASTERN UNION COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR GREAT EXPECTATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS4HOPE ↗
- Who funds RARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Adult Day Center of Somerset County Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAGE ELDERCARE ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK NETWORK OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PREVENTION EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTERDON LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Union County Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MATHENY SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CONTACT WE CARE 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: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Investors Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Ej Grassmann Trust · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Columbia Bank Foundation · The Provident Bank Foundation · Pseg Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Union Foundation · Lillian P Schenck Tw Lps Fund
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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Raritan Headwaters Association — 94% of income from government
- Empower Somerset Inc — 76% of income from government
- Hunterdon Land Trust — 48% of income from government
- Community Hope Inc — 41% of income from government
- Prevention Education Inc — 39% of income from government
- Neighborhood Health Services Corporation — 32% of income from government
- Literacy New Jersey Inc — 28% of income from government
- Nourishnj Inc — 27% of income from government
- Visions and Pathways a Nj Nonprofit Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Ywca of Eastern Union County Inc — 8% of income from government
- Opportunity Project Inc — 6% of income from government
- Bonnie Brae — 3% of income from government
- Children On the Green Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sage Eldercare — 1% of income from government
- CROSSROADS4HOPE — 1% of income from government
- Our House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Mane Stream Inc — 1% of income from government
- New Jersey Audubon Society — 1% 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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