How much does Tikvah Charitable Trust give?

Tikvah Charitable Trust reported 52 grants totaling $11,954 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 49 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Tikvah Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (21%), Health (18%), Environment (11%).

Who are Tikvah Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics ($4k), Educational Foundation of Watertown Inc ($4k), Justin J Watt Foundation Inc ($4k).

Does Tikvah Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Tikvah Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Tikvah Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Emil Ewald Family Foundation Inc, Baird Foundation Inc.

Where is Tikvah Charitable Trust based?

Tikvah Charitable Trust is based in WI.

Tikvah Charitable Trust

Tikvah Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Tikvah Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$12k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$2k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$20kHealth$17kEnvironment$10kEducation$8kRecreation & Sports$5kAnimals$5kInternational$4kArts & Culture$4kOther$0

02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100

Median grant

States reached

$126k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PASADENA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$1,583
CHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF WAUKESHA COUNTY	$1,040
MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION	$700
LEAVE NO TRACE CENTER FOR OUTDOOR ETHICS	$520
JUST TRYAN IT	$500
NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$500
Individual grant recipient	$500
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO	$500
AMERICAN RIVERS	$500
Individual grant recipient	$500
THE BREAD BASKET	$500
EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF WATERTOWN	$500
WESTSIDE GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE OF LA	$334
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION	$333
Individual grant recipient	$300

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$53k · 58 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

58 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$53k

$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+5%

Still filing today

55%

65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEnvironmentArts & CultureAnimalsInternationalEducationOther

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

LN
LEAVE NO TRACE CENTER FOR OUTDOOR ETHICS
7× · 2018–2025 · $4k · revenue +21%
CH
Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation
7× · 2017–2024 · $3k · revenue +42%
AMERICAN RIVERS INC
4× · 2022–2025 · $2k · revenue +187%

Funded once

WC
WATERTOWN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2019 · $10k
JJ
JUSTIN J WATT FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue -62%
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%

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.

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment

The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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African Wildlife Foundation Inc

Awf's mission is to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern africa. we work to equip african governments, institutions, business, and communities with the tools, insights, and support they need to define, own, and realize a…

Animals

Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education

Natural Resources Foundation of

To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.

—

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals

World Monuments Fund Inc

Wmf is the leading independent organization devoted to safeguarding the world's most treasured places to enrich people's lives and build mutual understanding across cultures and communities. the organization is headquartered in new york…

Arts & Culture

Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment

Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education

American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Last Chance Treatment Foundation Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

82 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 82 of the 138 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

80/82

Grantees still filing

51/82

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$54,550Environment$9,017Philanthropy$8,688Health$8,208Education$5,800Recreation & Sports$4,700Animals$4,134

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

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.

Herbert H Kohl Charities IncWI18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Emil Ewald Family Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Green Bay Packers Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Tikvah Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tikvah Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely 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.

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More from the funding graph

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