Missouri · Private foundation
Tietjen Family 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.
- $516k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $329,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations Tietjen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $516k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $892k | 47% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $267k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $333k | 61% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $467k | 80% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $330k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $395k | 75% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $268 | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Nurses for Newborns | $8,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Wings of Hope | $4,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Crossing | $3,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Messiah Lutheran Church | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Children of Grace | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Gateway Homeless Services Inc | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of Lantern Hill Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| All Among US Inc | $750 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Nurses for Newborns | $8,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Wings of Hope | $4,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Crossing | $3,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Messiah Lutheran Church | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Children of Grace | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Gateway Homeless Services Inc | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of Lantern Hill Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| All Among US Inc | $750 | 2 | 0% |
| Lutheran Senior Services | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Lutheran Elementary School Association | $500 | 2 | 0% |
| Shell Museum and Educational Foundation Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tietjen Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About Tietjen Family Foundation
- How much does Tietjen Family Foundation give?
- Tietjen Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $515,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Tietjen Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (84%), Food & Nutrition (4%), Human Services (3%).
- Who are Tietjen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Opportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us ($20k), Nurses for Newborns ($9k), Wings of Hope ($5k).
- Does Tietjen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tietjen Family 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 Tietjen Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, St Louis Community Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
- Where is Tietjen Family Foundation based?
- Tietjen Family Foundation is based in MO.
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