· Private foundation
Tickle Family 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.
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 $10k7 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $128k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUMMIT CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD | $27,500 |
| ASBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $25,000 |
| UNITED STATES ISRAEL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL OPERATIONS FUND | $10,000 |
| UAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BIG OAK RANCH INC | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE PLATEAU | $5,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $5,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| OAK MOUNTAIN MISSION MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM PASSTHROUGHS | $56 |
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, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- BGBoys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc4× · 2019–2024 · $310k · revenue +74%
- SCSummit Charter School Foundation6× · 2019–2024 · $219k · revenue +280%
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC4× · 2017–2020 · $156k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- TVTHE VILLAGE GREENone grant, 2018 · $100k
- COCATHEDRAL OF ST PAULone grant, 2021 · $26k
- GRGLENVILLE-CASHIERS RESCUE SQUAD INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +141%
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 conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
To unite, guide, support and speak for those engaged in commerce, the professions, and economic and civic endeavors in luzerne county and, through the private sector enterprise, to seek to enhance the quality of life and general welfare in…
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Provide philanthropic support to firsthealth of the carolinas, inc., a healthcare system exempt from income tax under irs section 501c(3) and 170(b)(1)(a)(iii).
To provide quality, cost-effective, accessible, and affordable healthcare to the community.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
Collaboratively identify community priority needs and desired outcomes, unite community resources in pursuit of agreed upon goals, and take action
To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.
To be the leading voice of business in coumbia county providing advocacy, promotion, and benefit solutions to its members.
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Bell Center for Early Intervention Programs and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 29 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 Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc ↗
- Who funds Summit Charter School Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds UAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Special Operations Fund ↗
- Who funds WOODLAWN UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds RED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds OAK MOUNTAIN MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CASHIERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GLENVILLE-CASHIERS RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds BIG OAK RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VISION CASHIERS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED ABILITY 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: Florence Mauboules Charitable Trust · Protective Life Foundation · The Double Eagle Foundation 4191-06-43 · The Hackney Foundation · The Billi Marcus Foundation Inc · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Altecstyslinger Foundation · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Brighton Foundation Trust Robert D Markley Trustee · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Sneed Family Foundation
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 Tickle Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.