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Tillotson-Menlo Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Tillotson-Menlo Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$531k
Granted FY2025still arriving
52
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$42k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$984kRecreation & Sports$426kPublic Safety & Disaster$380kArts & Culture$318kPublic Benefit$291kAnimals$272kYouth Development$240kHuman Services$145kOther$0
02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $131k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $400k
$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF MENLO (ADMINISTRATIVE)$41,540
GAYLESVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTCITY OF GAYLESVILLE$40,000
MENLO FIRE DEPARTMENTCITY OF MENLO$27,113
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CHATTOOGA COUNTY UNIT$25,400
CEDAR BLUFF SCHOOL$25,000
ANIMAL ADVOCATES OF CHATTOOGA COUNTY$25,000
Individual grant recipient$17,649
TRION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$15,502
TRINITY ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION$15,000
SUMMERVILLE TRION ROTARY CLUB$15,000
SUMMERVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL$13,192
CHATTOOGA COUNTY 4-H$13,000
Individual grant recipient$12,839
CHATTOOGA COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM$11,900
SUMMERVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENTCITY OF SUMMERVILLE$11,732
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MERCY SENIOR CARE: $5k → 15%GLOBAL IMPACT INTERNATIONAL INC: $5k → 15%FAMILY CARE CENTER: $13k → 16%FAMILY CARE CENTER: $10k → 16%FAMILY CARE CENTER: $10k → 16%FAMILY CARE CENTER: $10k → 16%FAMILY CARE CENTER: $10k → 16%FAMILY CARE CENTER: $5k → 16%FAMILY CARE CENTER: $5k → 16%FAMILY CARE CENTER: $5k → 16%FAMILY CARE CENTER: $5k → 16%FAMILY CARE CENTER: $5k → 16%LIVING STONE: $3k → 16%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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 73 repeat orgs$277k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

73 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
36

Total granted

$4.2M
$221k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
0%

Still filing today

16%
6%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $132k · revenue +26%
  • SR
    SUMMERVILLE-TRION ROTARY TRUST
    5× · 2020–2025 · $94k · revenue +459% · 98% of their budget
  • FC
    FAMILY CARE CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +303%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHATTOOGA COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • CC
    CHATTOOGA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL FAIR COMMISSIONER
    one grant, 2022 · $17k
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
Suwannee Valley Humane Society Inc

Spay/neuter program and care of homeless animals at shelter facility.

Animals
2
Southeast Ga Humane Society

Humane treatment of animals.

Animals
3
Etc Georgia Inc

Prevention of cruelty to animals

Animals
4
Hope House of Cherokee County Inc

Provide temporary shelter and assistance

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5
North Georgia Animal Alliance

Cat rescue

Animals
6
Georgia Hope Inc

Provide Displaced Children in a loving, warm, nurturing, educational therapeutic home with foster parents until permanency can be sought or by return to biological families or placement in adoptive homes

—
7
Franklin County Humane Society

Care for stray animals/control populatio

Animals
8
Operation Kindness Searcy County Humane Society

Animal shelter

Animals
9
Gove County Eldercare Inc

Provide long term care for the gove county community

Health
10
Safe Haven 4 Cats Sc

Tnrf feral cats and adoption of freindly

Animals
11
Evelyns Rescue Inc

Rescuing dogs from shelters from n ga

Animals
12
Tcgc Animal League Inc

Animal rescue

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Hands Ending Hunger Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

20 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. 20 of the 118 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $361,999 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCITY OF MENLO (ADMINISTRATIVE): $301,998 · OtherCITY OF MENLO (ADMINISTRATIVE)MENLO SCHOOL: $170,820 · OtherLEROY MASSEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $163,380 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CHATTOOGA COUNTY UNIT: $146,937 · OtherMENLO FIRE DEPARTMENTCITY OF MENLO: $135,886 · OtherCEDAR BLUFF SCHOOL: $132,686 · Other+98 more: $2,473,786 · Other+98 moreANIMAL ADVOCATES OF CHATTOOGA COUNTY INC: $185,000 · AnimalsCHEROKEE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $70,000 · AnimalsTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $131,800 · EnvironmentFAMILY CARE CENTER INC: $77,500 · Human ServicesMERCY SENIOR CARE INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesGLOBAL IMPACT INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesThe Childrens Advocacy Center: $43,100 · Crime & LegalTRION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $26,961 · EducationGadsden State Cardinal Foundation: $10,000 · EducationNORTH GEORGIA CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $15,381 · HealthCANCER NAVIGATORS INC: $15,000 · HealthFOUR POINTS INC FOUR POINTS INC: $6,379 · Health
Other$3,887,492Animals$255,000Environment$131,800Human Services$120,500Crime & Legal$43,100Education$36,961Health$36,760

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetANIMAL ADVOCATES OF CHATTOOGA COUNTY INC: $185,000 over 9y, 25% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $131,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMERVILLE-TRION ROTARY TRUST: $93,850 over 5y, 98% of budgetFAMILY CARE CENTER INC: $77,500 over 9y, 5.2% of budgetCHEROKEE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $70,000 over 6y, 42% of budgetThe Childrens Advocacy Center: $43,100 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetMERCY SENIOR CARE INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTRION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $26,961 over 5y, 100% of budgetHELPING HANDS ENDING HUNGER INC: $23,275 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetNORTH GEORGIA CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $15,381 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetCANCER NAVIGATORS INC: $15,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetGadsden State Cardinal Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - COOSA VALLEY INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOUR POINTS INC FOUR POINTS INC: $6,379 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLITTLE RIVER ARTS COUNCIL INC: $6,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPARADISE GARDEN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetLiving Stone Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetMentone Educational Resources Foundation Inc: $800 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds ANIMAL ADVOCATES OF CHATTOOGA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SUMMERVILLE-TRION ROTARY TRUST ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY CARE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CHEROKEE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds The Childrens Advocacy Center ↗
  • Who funds MERCY SENIOR CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds TRION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Floyd Healthcare Mana…The Community Foundat…International Paper C…Georgia Power Foundat…Amazonsmile Foundation
Floyd Healthcare Management IncGA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Floyd Healthcare Management Inc · The Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia Inc · International Paper Company Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Tillotson-Menlo Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tillotson-Menlo Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 Tillotson-Menlo Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Tillotson-Menlo Charitable 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 118 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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