· Private foundation
TIFF Charitable 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 $10k18 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $242k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $117k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LANCASTER COUNTY SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL PRESERVATI | $67,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN | $50,000 |
| MACKENZIES MISSION | $25,000 |
| SOUTHAMPTON TOWNSHIP WILD FOWL ASSOCIATION INC | $25,000 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY | $25,000 |
| WINDWARD FUND | $20,000 |
| BABY2BABY | $20,000 |
| UNCOMMON LENDER INC | $20,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC | $17,000 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF PHILADELPHIA AND SUSQUEH | $10,000 |
| A MILLION STARS INC | $10,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| NEW HAMPTON SCHOOL | $10,000 |
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, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 22% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 20% of TIFF Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 16 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k 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
- LCLANCASTER COUNTY SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL PRESERVATION INC6× · 2018–2024 · $302k · revenue +246% · 35% of their budget
- DADURHAM ACADEMY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $170k · revenue +65%
- JIJBFC INC DBA MAINSPRINGSJBFC6× · 2017–2022 · $146k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- LCLANCASTER COUNTY SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $45k
- KBKENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $26k
- WPWORLD PEDIATRICSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +40%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan and the most unlike its peers is Dut Jok Youth Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
109 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. 109 of the 131 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 LANCASTER COUNTY SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds DURHAM ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds JBFC INC DBA MAINSPRINGSJBFC ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds MACKENZIES MISSION ↗
- Who funds Discovery Green Conservancy ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds Southampton Township Wildfowl Association Inc ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COVENANT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds ROBERT A TOIGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds UNCOMMON LENDER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds STEVENS COOPERATIVE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WORLD PEDIATRICS ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Education Association of Houston ↗
- Who funds THE WALSH COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CAT ISLAND UNITED ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC LEGAL IMMIGRATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
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: Fidelity Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Kresge Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Public Welfare Foundation Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · National Philanthropic Trust · American Gift Fund · Greater Horizons · California Community Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Rockefeller 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 TIFF Charitable 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 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
- Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
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.