· Private foundation
Tietjen 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $220k
- $250k+1 grant · $629k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUTHERAN SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY CHICAGO | $629,000 |
| TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $155,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $65,000 |
| LUTHERAN FAM & CHILDRENS SERVICE | $22,500 |
| OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF AMERICA | $3,000 |
| NURSES FOR NEWBORNS | $2,500 |
| CHILDREN OF GRACE | $1,000 |
| LUTHERAN DISASTER RESPONSE | $1,000 |
| CROSSINGS | $1,000 |
| GATEWAY 180 HOMELESS SERVICES | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| LUTHERAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION | $250 |
| BAILEY-MATTHEWS NATIONAL SHELL MUSEUM& AQUARIUM | $250 |
| ALL AMONG US | $250 |
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 (FY21–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 11% 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.
19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 7 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- NFNURSES FOR NEWBORNS3× · 2021–2024 · $8k · revenue +34%
- WOWINGS OF HOPE3× · 2021–2023 · $4k · revenue +1%
- COCHILDREN OF GRACE2× · 2022–2024 · $2k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- LSLUTHERAN SCHOOL OF THEOLOGYone grant, 2019 · $350k
- MAMARSHALLTOWN ARTS AND CIVIC CENTERone grant, 2022 · $25k
- LSLUTHERAN SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY OF CHICone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
Our mission is to break the cycle of child abuse by empowering children, families and communities.
Lutheran family services of nebraska, inc.'s (lfs) mission is to express god's love for all people by providing quality human care services that build and strengthen individual, family and community life. our vision is saftey, hope and…
Witnessing to god's love for all people, we stand with and advocate for migrants and refugees, transforming communities through ministries of service and justice.
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
See schedule o lutheran family services in the carolinas (lfs) is dedicated to one simple goal, improving the lives of the most vulnerable populations in north and south carolina. the lfs mission statement is, "empowered by christ, we walk…
Legacy Visiting Nurse Association (LVNA) provides palliative care to terminally ill patients and supportive services to patients, their families, and significant others, through an outpatient hospice program. The home hospice program…
To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.
Empowering women to break the cycles of poverty, addiction, and human trafficking.
See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…
Lutheran services florida brings god's healing, hope, and help to people in need in the name of jesus christ.
Opportunities, inc. of jefferson county provides services for individuals for the purpose of maximizing their success and enhancing their abilities to be independent, contributing members of the community.
LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opportunity International Inc D/B/a Opportunity International-Us and the most unlike its peers is All Among Us Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 37 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 OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds NURSES FOR NEWBORNS ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF GRACE ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HOMELESS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ALL AMONG US INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Elementary School Association ↗
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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Tietjen 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.