· Private foundation
Therese Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIVING GOODS | $20,000 |
| HELLEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| AGAINST MALARIA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| NEW INCENTIVES | $20,000 |
| EDUCATE GIRLS | $20,000 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $20,000 |
| THE NIGHT MINISTRY CHICAGO | $20,000 |
| JEREMIAH PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $10,000 |
| GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against -95% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JPJEREMIAH PROGRAM8× · 2018–2025 · $110k · revenue +182%
- TAThe Against Malaria Foundation7× · 2019–2025 · $105k · revenue +29%
- HKHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL8× · 2018–2025 · $95k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES DOROTHY DAY CENTone grant, 2018 · $20k
- WAWE ALL CODEone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue -95%
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.
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.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Health Poverty Action USA acts in solidarity with health workers, activists & communities worldwide to improve health & challenge the causes of poverty. We do this in 3 distinct ways: 1. We approach health as an issue of social justice. We…
Global Strategies empowers communities in the most neglected areas of the world to improve the lives of women and children through healthcare.
The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…
To raise donations to (i) provide a daily meal in a place of education for children in the world's poorest communities; (ii) occasionally provide relief for those suffering, in any part of the world, as a result of humanitarian crises…
Intelehealth leverages open-source technology for Governments, NGOs and Hospitals to seamlessly connect 'hard to reach' populations with high quality primary healthcare. Health organizations all over the world have used our technology to…
Charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world. continued on schedule o.
Zoe Empowers is a global network of local organizations throughout Africa and India providing a replicable and scalable framework whereby youth led or resourced families are provided the training, resources, and community support to become…
Iyf is a global ngo that prepares young people to be healthy, productive and engaged citizens.
Women in global health (wgh) is a global movement and organization that brings together all genders and backgrounds to achieve gender equality in global health leadership.
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds LIVING GOODS ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW INCENTIVES ↗
- Who funds The Cookie Cart ↗
- Who funds EDUCATE GIRLS ↗
- Who funds AT HOME GROUP ↗
- Who funds WE ALL CODE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Therese Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Therese Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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