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Tilia 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.

$4k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$34kEducation$34kArts & Culture$28kEnvironment$24kHealth$1kCommunity Improvement$500Human Services$350Crime & Legal$250Other$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,958
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORKERS FOR PARKS$3,958
02The need
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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 (FY20–23, $350) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOMEN'S SUPPORT SERVICES: $250 → 9%CHORE SERVICE: $100 → 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

ME
MN
NY
MA
NJ
CT
MD
DC
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$98k · 20 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
44

Total granted

$98k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+24%

Still filing today

85%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SB
    ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $12k · revenue +15%
  • BB
    BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $9k · revenue +53%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    2× · 2017–2018 · $8k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY OUTWARD BOUND CENTER INC DBA NYC OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +5%
  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • CM
    CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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.

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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
2
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
3
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
4
Municipal Art Society of New York

The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…

Arts & Culture
5
Battery Park City Parks Conservancy Corporation

The battery park city parks conservancy's mission is to manage, maintain, operate, repair, preserve and program activities to a world class standard for the residential parks, open space, and other public structures located on the 92 acre…

Recreation & Sports
6
Queens Botanical Garden Society Inc

Queens botanical garden is an urban oasis where people, plants and cultures are celebrated through inspiring gardens, innovative educational programs and demonstrations of environmental stewardship.

Environment
7
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
8
Linnaean Society of Ny the Linnaean Society of New York Ltd

The Linnaean Society of New York aims to promote public interest in the natural sciences. We provide free, publicly available natural history presentations and scientific lectures and provide free, publicly available nature and birding…

Arts & Culture
9
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
10
Mountain Top Arboretum Inc

Conserve, enhance, and celebrate our distinctive catskill sanctuary through sustainable horticulture, responsible land stewardship, and innovative educational programming

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Sonnenberg Gardens and Mansion- State Historic Park

Sonnenberg gardens and mansion preserves the living collection of nine historic gardens and interprets, and promotes the life, times, and legacy of canandaigua's thompson family estate.

Environment
12
Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation

Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hollister House Garden Inc. 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

50 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. 50 of the 64 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/50
Grantees still filing
32/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW YORKERS FOR PARKS: $31,483 · OtherNEW YORKERS FOR PARKSTHE CHAMBER OF MUSIC: $4,500 · OtherTHE CHAMBER OF MUSICYALE UNIVERSITY: $4,100 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYYALE UNIVERSITY: $3,065 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYCHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY: $2,950 · OtherINNISFREE GARDEN: $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · Other+27 more: $6,550 · Other+27 moreBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $9,250 · EnvironmentBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARD…NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $6,275 · EnvironmentNEW YORK BOTANICAL GA…NEW YORK CITY OUTWARD BOUND CENTER INC DBA NYC OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLS: $3,708 · EnvironmentNEW YORK CITY OUTWARD…SHARON LAND TRUST INC: $3,250 · EnvironmentSHARON LAND TRUST INC+6 more: $1,050 · EnvironmentST BERNARD'S SCHOOL INC: $12,000 · EducationST BERNARD'S SCHOOL…CORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationCORPORATION OF ST T…The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $2,250 · EducationThe New York Public…PACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE: $1,500 · EducationPACKER COLLEGIATE I…THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $1,000 · Education+2 more: $300 · EducationMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $7,500 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUS…NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $6,700 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC …The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc: $2,500 · Arts & CultureThe Chamber Musi…WNET: $1,500 · Arts & CultureWNET+3 more: $285 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,600 · Recreation & SportsOLMSTED NETWORK INC: $500 · Recreation & SportsBEATRIX FARRAND GARDEN ASSOC INC: $250 · Recreation & SportsWASHINGTON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $110 · Recreation & SportsINNISFREE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropySAVE SHARON HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 · Public Benefit
Other$57,148Environment$23,533Education$22,050Arts & Culture$18,485Recreation & Sports$2,460Philanthropy$1,000Public Benefit$1,000

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 budgetNEW YORKERS FOR PARKS: $31,483 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetST BERNARD'S SCHOOL INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $9,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $6,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $6,275 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY OUTWARD BOUND CENTER INC DBA NYC OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLS: $3,708 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHARON LAND TRUST INC: $3,250 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWNET: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINNISFREE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE SHARON HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMount Desert Land and Garden Preserve: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINNISFREE FOUNDATION INC: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOLMSTED NETWORK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEATRIX FARRAND GARDEN ASSOC INC: $250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL HERITAGE TRUST: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT SAGE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY FUTURES INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKINGSLEY TRUST ASSOCIATION: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUSA FOR UNFPA INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $175 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHollister House Garden Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWETHERSFIELD FOUNDATION INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANDCRAFT GARDEN FOUNDATION INC: $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $110 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY MALL ASSOCIATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHORE SERVICE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLICOLOR INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR LANDSCAPE STUDIES INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSharon Historical Society: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMusic Mountain Incorporated: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUDSON REVIEW INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $75 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GATEWAY SCHOOLS INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE GARDEN CENTER INC DBA BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Berkshire Taconic Com…Easton Family FundThe New York Communit…The Offensend Family …Jewish Communal FundMJPM FoundationWalter and Phyllis An…The Mortimer & Barbar…Peter and Helen Haje …The Hallingby Family …Low Road FoundationThe Gilbert and Ildik…
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation IncMA21.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Easton Family Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Offensend Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · MJPM Foundation · Walter and Phyllis Ann Borten Foundation · The Mortimer & Barbara Klaus Family Foundation · Peter and Helen Haje Foundation · The Hallingby Family Foundation Inc · Low Road Foundation · The Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Family 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 Tilia Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tilia Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
  • Berkshire Garden Center Inc Dba Berkshire Botanical Garden Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Music Mountain Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Tilia Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Tilia Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 64 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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where grant money is based, and what stays home