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Tilly 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.

$3k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it funds
0161% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$44kHuman Services$27kHealth$1kPhilanthropy$1kPublic Benefit$250Arts & Culture$20Community Improvement$18Other$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,184
Median grant
1
States reached
$121k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Misc Charities$3,184
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 (FY20–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Chaim Medical Resource: $20 → 14%Atime: $180 → 20%Atime: $80 → 20%Atime: $54 → 20%Bonei Olam: $395 → 20%Bonei Olam: $216 → 20%Bonei Olam: $180 → 20%Ezras Cholim D'Satmar: $20 → 20%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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$53k · 16 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +125% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
68

Total granted

$53k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+125%
+34%

Still filing today

19%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionHealthPhilanthropyPublic BenefitCivil RightsOther
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

  • CR
    Congregation Rav Lehoshia Inc
    2× · 2020–2022 · $900 · revenue ×53
  • BO
    Bonei Olam Inc
    3× · 2021–2023 · $791 · revenue +24%
  • AT
    A Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange
    2× · 2020–2021 · $314 · revenue +125%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $17k
  • IH
    ICHID HATORAH VHACHESED
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • CU
    Central United Talmudical Academy
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
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
Bikur Cholim of Ny Inc

Medical Guidance

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2
Ezreinu Inc
Health
3
Mishken Chaim Rivnits

Assistance to the indigent

Religion
4
Gemilas Chesed Kramer Inc
Philanthropy
5
Refua Vesimcha Inc

Assist the poor, Infirm, Handicapped and the underprivileged

Arts & Culture
6
Zichron Meshilem Feish Inc

Provides finacial assistance to needy individuals and to religious, charitable organizations

—
7
Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc
Philanthropy
8
Shaarei Halacha Inc
Philanthropy
9
Zicron Eliyahu Inc
—
10
Ohr Avrohom and Moshe Inc

We support religious organizations in the us and israel by providing grants.

Public Benefit
11
Bonei Olam Division of Rockland County

Bonei Olam provides financial assistance,guidance & referrals for assisted reproductive technology,including consultations, work up, medications, high risk pregnancy,Preimplantation genetic diagnosis,pre & post…

International
12
Lev Tamim Inc
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chaim Medical Resource Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ezras Cholim D Satmar 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

10 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. 10 of the 84 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Misc Charities: $26,820 · OtherMisc CharitiesBAIS RUCHEL DSATMAR INC: $20,000 · OtherBAIS RUCHEL DSATMAR INCIndividual grant recipient: $17,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientICHID HATORAH VHACHESED: $10,000 · OtherICHID HATORAH VHACHESEDCentral United Talmudical Academy: $6,425 · OtherCentral United Talmudical Academy+69 more: $11,481 · Other+69 moreBonei Olam Inc: $791 · Human ServicesA Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange: $314 · Human Services+2 more: $40 · Human ServicesMATBIA CHARITIES INC: $1,100 · PhilanthropyCongregation Rav Lehoshia Inc: $900 · ReligionMIKVAH USA INC: $36 · ReligionVYAZREIM INC: $250 · Public BenefitLECHEIRIS ORGANIZATION INC: $50 · Civil RightsREFUAH HELPLINE INCDBA REFUAH RESOURCES: $36 · Health
Other$91,726Human Services$1,145Philanthropy$1,100Religion$936Public Benefit$250Civil Rights$50Health$36

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMATBIA CHARITIES INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCongregation Rav Lehoshia Inc: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBonei Olam Inc: $791 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange: $314 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVYAZREIM INC: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLECHEIRIS ORGANIZATION INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUAH HELPLINE INCDBA REFUAH RESOURCES: $36 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIKVAH USA INC: $36 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAIM MEDICAL RESOURCE INC: $20 over 1y, 20% of budgetEZRAS CHOLIM D SATMAR INC: $20 over 1y, 0.1% 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 MATBIA CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Congregation Rav Lehoshia Inc ↗
  • Who funds Bonei Olam Inc ↗
  • Who funds A Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange ↗
  • Who funds VYAZREIM INC ↗
  • Who funds LECHEIRIS ORGANIZATION 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.

The Ojc FundNY40× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · The Lexicon Foundation Inc · R' Shaya Ben Moshe Foundation · Greenzweig Family Foundation · Kanfei Yoneh Foundation · D & E Steinmetz Foundation · Hps Foundation · Bochner Foundation · American Friends of Bnai Levy Foundation · Yr Foundation · Kee Seesu Foundation · Mk Charity 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 Tilly Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tilly Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 Tilly Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Tilly 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 84 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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