· Public charity
Tiaa Charitable Inc
Tiaa charitable is formed to encourage philanthropy and charitable giving by receiving gifts of money or property, investing and reinvesting the same, providing support and assistance to encourage the making of charitable contributions, and applying the income and principal thereof through contributions to the organizations or directly…
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70% of Tiaa Charitable Inc’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 300 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Tiaa Charitable Inc named its own grantees at scale: 1043 organizations, $35M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k398 grants · $2.7M
- $10k–50k594 grants · $11M
- $50k–250k82 grants · $7.3M
- $250k+17 grants · $14M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Endowment Foundation FBO Bert Fish Founda | $2,945,727 |
| BNY Mellon Charitable Gift Fund | $2,387,016 |
| Brown University | $1,399,050 |
| The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Cente | $1,200,000 |
| Penn State University | $930,602 |
| Renaissance Charitable Foundation | $840,396 |
| Chance Academy | $685,000 |
| Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study | $603,500 |
| The U C Davis Foundation | $526,800 |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $516,860 |
| Third Avenue Playhouse Inc | $400,000 |
| Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of DC | $362,450 |
| Doctors with Borders | $356,135 |
| Cambridge in America | $340,000 |
| Harvard Art Museums | $299,835 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–20, $791k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +37% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.
726 repeat relationships: 608 still active in FY2020, 118 since wound down; 515 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2021, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CACHANCE ACADEMY3× · 2018–2020 · $2.2M · revenue +66% · 100% of their budget
- FAFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2021 · $1.8M · revenue +56%
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2021 · $1.2M · revenue +98%
Funded once
- WRWILL ROGERS HIGH SCHOOL COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue -76% · 60% of their budget
- TBTEMPLE BETH OR PRESCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $276k
- UBUNITED BOARD FOR CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN ASIAgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue +420%
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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How this is measured
1213 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1213 of the 1,674 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
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- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
- Who funds UT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds CHANCE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Illinois Institute of Technology ↗
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- Who funds Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILL ROGERS HIGH SCHOOL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds THIRD AVENUE PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
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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.
Open a dossier: Ernst & Young Foundation · Kpmg US Foundation Inc · Deloitte Foundation · Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc · Altman Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Arlington Community Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Ibm International Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Douglas County Community Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tiaa Charitable Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tiaa Charitable Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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