· Private foundation
Tiny Blue Dot Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+12 grants · $5.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Usona Institute Inc | $2,200,000 |
| Allen Institute | $526,044 |
| Brown University | $437,040 |
| The Regents of the University of California | $300,000 |
| Brown University | $300,000 |
| University of Oregon | $299,996 |
| The Massachusetts General Hospital | $299,988 |
| University of Haifa | $299,052 |
| University of Wisconsin - Madison | $297,165 |
| Florida State University Research Foundation Inc | $287,540 |
| Floresta Project Inc | $276,602 |
| National Central University | $252,764 |
| University of Zurich Psychiatric Hospital | $229,810 |
| UC Santa Barbara | $225,000 |
| Ernst Strungmann Institut gGmbH | $221,718 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $7.0M · revenue +39%
- AIALLEN INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2024 · $5.6M · revenue ×15
- IFINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES INC4× · 2020–2023 · $2.6M · revenue +120% · 100% of their budget
Funded once
- UCUNLIKELY COLLABORATORS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $25M
- BCBRAINSONIX CORPORATIONone grant, 2018 · $150k
- HRHUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +354%
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.
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.
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.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
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…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds USONA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLEN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FLORESTA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tiny Blue Dot Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tiny Blue Dot Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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