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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.

$456k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
34
Grants FY2024
23
Organizations funded FY2023
61%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$8,750
Largest grant, FY2024
$67,000
Organizations funded a year
23 to 37
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
16
Total assets, FY2024
$6.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 61% of the organizations TIFF Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving30$361k53%
FY202323$333k61%
FY202224$351k38%
FY202123$345k35%
FY202037$314k38%
FY201936$323k36%
FY201834$342k56%
FY201728$299kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.2MArts & Culture$519kInternational$328kHealth$211kRecreation & Sports$191kPhilanthropy$149kEnvironment$112kAnimals$90kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 102 grantees
All grantees of TIFF Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lancaster County Society for Historical Preservation Inc$302,000635%
Durham Academy Inc$170,00070%
Jbfc Inc Dba Mainspringsjbfc$145,83363%
Williams College$145,00070%
Mackenzies Mission$106,25056%
Discovery Green Conservancy$105,70060%
United States Fund for Unicef$95,00040%
Southampton Township Wildfowl Association Inc$75,00053%
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation$74,00040%
University of Minnesota Foundation$60,00040%
The Covenant School Inc$58,50030%
University of California Berkeley Foundation$50,00020%
National Review Institute$46,31050%
Robert a Toigo Foundation$35,00021%
Wellesley College$33,50020%
Uncommon Lender Inc$30,00020%
University of Richmond$29,00020%
Stevens Cooperative School$25,71420%
The Walsh College Foundation$25,00021%
World Pediatrics$25,00010%
Ltsc Community Development Corporation$25,00010%
Lutheran Education Association of Houston$25,0001n/a
Friends of Cat Island United$25,000145%
Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc$25,00010%
Japanese American Cultural and Community Center$25,00021%
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Inc$25,00010%
Food Bank for New York City$23,50020%
St Louis University High School$20,0004n/a
The Spence School$20,00020%
Macomb Community College Foundation$20,00021%
The New Hampton School$20,00020%
Baby2baby$20,00010%
Cardigan Mountain School$17,50020%
Alzheimer's Foundation of America Inc$17,00010%
Window to the World Communications Inc$16,90040%
Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc$15,00020%
Go for Broke National Educational Center$15,00011%
Japanese American National Museum$15,00030%
Larche Noah Sealth of Seattle$15,00030%
Music of the Baroque$15,00011%
Us- Japan Council$15,00010%
Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc$15,00010%
Ravinia Festival Association$10,24040%
Capital Clubhouse Inc$10,00017%
Elizabeth Home$10,00020%
Smithsonian Institution$10,00010%
Princeton Ymca-Ywca$10,00026%
Catholic Community Services of Western Washington$10,00020%
Golden Apple Foundation for Excellence in Teaching$10,00010%
Fund for the City of New York Inc$10,00010%
Hillwood Estate Museum & Gardens$10,0001n/a
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center$10,00020%
University City Science Center$10,00010%
Beagle Freedom Project$10,00010%
Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tn Inc$10,00020%
A Million Stars Inc Dba College Bound$10,00010%
Student Dream$10,00025%
Urban League of Metropolitan St Louis$8,75010%
Anti-Defamation League Foundation$8,50010%
Patton Veterans Project Inc$8,50015%
Dut Jok Youth Foundation Inc$7,5001n/a
Wikimedia Foundation Inc$5,30020%
Davidson College$5,25030%
New Beginnings$5,00010%
Orchestra of the Americas Group Inc$5,00010%
The Bryn Mawr School for Girls of Baltimore City Inc$5,00010%
Bahamas National Trust Fund Inc$5,00011%
Clinton River Watershed Council$5,00011%
Washington Township Schools Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Black Women in Venture Capital$5,0001n/a
Pawsibilities Animal Rescue$5,00013%
The Cincinnati Tennis Foundation$5,00010%
Anti-Defamation League$5,00010%
Ballard Food Bank$5,00010%
Habitat for Humanity Greater Boston Inc$5,00010%
Food for the Poor Inc$5,00010%
The Maryland Food Bank Inc$5,00010%
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center$5,00010%
Keiro Services$5,00010%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$5,00010%
National Park Foundation$5,00010%
The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Inc$5,00010%
Save The Children Federation Inc$5,00010%
Skippack Fire Company$5,00011%
Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption$4,25010%
Chicago Horticultural Society$3,50020%
Furman University$2,00020%
Glen View Club Scholarship Foundation$2,00040%
Opportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us$1,75040%
Crossnore Communities for Children$1,7503n/a
Chicago Hope Academy$1,25030%
The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598)$1,20020%
Houston Public Media Foundation$84040%
The University of Georgia Foundation$50020%
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc$50010%
The Art Institute of Chicago$50020%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$5001n/a
Lyric Opera of Chicago$50020%
Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired$50020%
Medical College of Va Foundation$25010%
School on Wheels Inc$2001n/a
Donorschooseorg$5410%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($281k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

TIFF Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 94 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLancaster County Society for Historical Preservation Inc: $302,000 over 6y, 35% of budgetDurham Academy Inc: $170,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJbfc Inc Dba Mainspringsjbfc: $145,833 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetWilliams College: $145,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMackenzies Mission: $106,250 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetDiscovery Green Conservancy: $105,700 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $95,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSouthampton Township Wildfowl Association Inc: $75,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetInstitute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: $74,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Minnesota Foundation: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Covenant School Inc: $58,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of California Berkeley Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Review Institute: $46,310 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetRobert a Toigo Foundation: $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWellesley College: $33,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUncommon Lender Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Richmond: $29,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStevens Cooperative School: $25,714 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Walsh College Foundation: $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWorld Pediatrics: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLtsc Community Development Corporation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Cat Island United: $25,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetCatholic Legal Immigration Network Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJapanese American Cultural and Community Center: $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSponsors for Educational Opportunity Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFood Bank for New York City: $23,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Spence School: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMacomb Community College Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe New Hampton School: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBaby2baby: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCardigan Mountain School: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Foundation of America Inc: $17,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWindow to the World Communications Inc: $16,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Symphony Orchestra Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGo for Broke National Educational Center: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetJapanese American National Museum: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLarche Noah Sealth of Seattle: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMusic of the Baroque: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUs- Japan Council: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBerkshire Natural Resources Council Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRavinia Festival Association: $10,240 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCapital Clubhouse Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetElizabeth Home: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPrinceton Ymca-Ywca: $10,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetCatholic Community Services of Western Washington: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGolden Apple Foundation for Excellence in Teaching: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFund for the City of New York Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 94.

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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.

Fidelity FoundationMA15.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About TIFF Charitable Foundation

How much does TIFF Charitable Foundation give?
TIFF Charitable Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $456,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 37 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does TIFF Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (36%), Arts & Culture (16%), International (10%).
Who are TIFF Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Lancaster County Society for Historical Preservation Inc ($302k), Durham Academy Inc ($170k), Jbfc Inc Dba Mainspringsjbfc ($146k).
Does TIFF Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does TIFF Charitable 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 TIFF Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Foundation, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The Kresge Foundation.
Where is TIFF Charitable Foundation based?
TIFF Charitable Foundation is based in DE.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 131 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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