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TIFF Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$67k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $97k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $242k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $117k
$8,750
Median grant
16
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LANCASTER COUNTY SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL PRESERVATI$67,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN$50,000
WELLESLEY COLLEGE$25,000
SOUTHAMPTON TOWNSHIP WILD FOWL ASSOCIATION INC$25,000
MACKENZIES MISSION$25,000
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY$25,000
WINDWARD FUND$20,000
UNCOMMON LENDER INC$20,000
BABY2BABY$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
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$10,000
CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL$10,000
A MILLION STARS INC$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CAPITAL CLUBHOUSE: $10k → 14%THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE TRIANG: $700 → 8%LARCHE NOAH SEALTH OF SEATTLE: $5k → 9%THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF THE TRIANGLE AREA: $500 → 8%LARCHE NOAH SEALTH OF SEATTLE: $5k → 9%LARCHE NOAH SEALTH OF SEATTLE: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $5k → 9%ELIZABETH HOME: $5k → 9%ELIZABETH HOME: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

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
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 20% of TIFF Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

TIFF Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 56 repeat orgs$672k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
49

Total granted

$2.0M
$547k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+28%

Still filing today

89%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureInternationalHealthHuman 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • LC
    LANCASTER COUNTY SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL PRESERVATION INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $302k · revenue +246% · 35% of their budget
  • DA
    DURHAM ACADEMY INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $170k · revenue +65%
  • JI
    JBFC INC DBA MAINSPRINGSJBFC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $146k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • LC
    LANCASTER COUNTY SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · $45k
  • KB
    KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $26k
  • WP
    WORLD PEDIATRICSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +40%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
7
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
10
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
11
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
12
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan; 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.
05the grantee network

109 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
108/109
Grantees still filing
83/109
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DURHAM ACADEMY INC: $170,000 · EducationDURHAM ACADEMY INCWilliams College: $145,000 · EducationWilliams CollegeUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $100,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du LacUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $60,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENN…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth College: $45,833 · EducationROBERT A TOIGO FOUNDATION: $35,000 · EducationWellesley College: $33,500 · Education+22 more: $229,304 · Education+22 moreLANCASTER COUNTY SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL PRESERVATION INC: $302,000 · OtherLANCASTER COUNTY SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL PRESER…THE COVENANT SCHOOL INC: $58,500 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $58,500 · OtherTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA The Pe: $47,500 · OtherNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $46,310 · OtherLANCASTER COUNTY SOCIETY: $45,000 · OtherSouthampton Township Wildfowl Association Inc: $75,000 · OtherSouthampton Township Wildfowl Association IncINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION: $74,000 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER…+56 more: $594,614 · Other+56 moreJBFC INC DBA MAINSPRINGSJBFC: $145,833 · InternationalJBFC INC DB…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $95,000 · InternationalUNITED STAT…WORLD PEDIATRICS: $25,000 · InternationalWORLD PEDIA…FRIENDS OF CAT ISLAND UNITED: $25,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF …US- JAPAN COUNCIL: $15,000 · International+3 more: $11,750 · InternationalCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $68,833 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $60,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $45,000 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyJAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $25,000 · Arts & CultureWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $16,900 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureGO FOR BROKE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $15,000 · Arts & CultureJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $15,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC OF THE BAROQUE: $15,000 · Arts & CultureRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $10,240 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM & GARDENS: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePATTON VETERANS PROJECT INC: $8,500 · Arts & CultureOrchestra of the Americas Group Inc: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,340 · Arts & CultureMACKENZIES MISSION: $106,250 · HealthALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $17,000 · HealthFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $10,000 · HealthKEIRO SERVICES: $5,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $5,000 · Health+2 more: $2,250 · HealthDiscovery Green Conservancy: $105,700 · Recreation & SportsDUT JOK YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsThe Cincinnati Tennis Foundation: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$978,637Other$1,301,424International$317,583Philanthropy$183,833Arts & Culture$146,980Health$145,500Recreation & Sports$118,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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 budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $68,833 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COVENANT SCHOOL INC: $58,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $58,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $46,310 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $45,833 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetWINDWARD FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 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 budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The Kresge FoundationIbm International Fou…Public Welfare Founda…Employees Community F…National Philanthropi…American Gift FundGreater HorizonsCalifornia Community …The Ford FoundationThe Rockefeller Found…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization TIFF Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from TIFF Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home