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Tipping Point Private 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.

$405k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Animals$994kFood & Nutrition$417kPhilanthropy$201kInternational$160kCommunity Improvement$125kEnvironment$93kEducation$55kHealth$53kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $325k
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$698k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ONWARD EUGENE$100,000
GREENHILL HUMANE SOCIETY$75,000
SCARLET MOON INC$50,000
AQUATIC LIFE INSTITUTE INC$50,000
ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS$50,000
KARUNA FOUNDATION$30,000
ONWARD EUGENE$25,000
KARUNA FOUNDATION$25,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $260k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%RETHINK PRIORITIES: $50k → 10%POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION: $60k → 13%POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%RETHINK PRIORITIES: $50k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
DC
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 14% of Tipping Point Private Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Tipping Point Private Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 11% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 16 repeat orgs$520k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
15

Total granted

$1.5M
$345k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+7%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsFood & NutritionEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • AC
    ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS
    4× · 2021–2025 · $226k · revenue +14%
  • GH
    GREENHILL HUMANE SOCIETY SPCA
    4× · 2018–2025 · $165k · revenue +35%
  • KF
    Karuna Foundation
    3× · 2022–2025 · $138k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • Physicians Committee for Responsible Med
    one grant, 2021 · $53k · revenue +10%
  • EV
    EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +36%
  • MI
    Meridian Institutegraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +58%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
Animal Agriculture Alliance

The animal agriculture alliance is a nonprofit organization that helps bridge the communication gap between farm and fork. we connect food industry stakeholders, engage food chain influencers and promote consumer choice by helping key…

Food & Nutrition
3
A Just World

Our mission is to promote a world where all beings live a just life of dignity and respect. To this end, we engage in practical actions, raise funds, spread understanding and foster compassion.

Animals
4
Food Animal Concerns Trust (Fact Inc)

Food animal concerns trust (fact) promotes the safe and humane production of meat, milk, and eggs. fact envisions that all food-producing animals be raised in a healthy and humane manner so that everyone will have access to safe and…

Animals
5
A Greener World

A Greener World empowers sustainable solutions in agriculture, promoting and supporting real-life farming models to the public and offering farmers and ranchers practical guidance, resources and support on achieving truly sustainable…

Food & Nutrition
6
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
7
Institute for Animal Happiness

Growing respect and acceptance for veganism through our dedicated work of rescue and creative care, impactful vegan food programs, vibrant education, and consistent advocacy; all strengthened by our engagement with a rising global network…

Animals
8
Global Food Partners Inc

Global food partners ("gfp") is an animal protection organization whose mission is to help food businesses meet their cage-free egg commitments and producers implement cage-free best practices.

Food & Nutrition
9
Pax Fauna

Pax fauna exists to design a more effective social movement for animal freedom in the u.s., using original research as well as careful study of social movement literature and the recent history of the animal movement, in order to reverse…

Animals
10
Animal & Vegan Advocacy International Inc

Animal and Vegan Advocacy International, Inc. is dedicated to creating a world in which animals are removed from the food system and other human uses. It furthers this mission by convening advocates through an international conference…

Animals
11
The Food Alliance

Food alliance works at the juncture of science, business and values to define and promote sustainability in agriculture and the food industry, and to ensure safe and fair working conditions, humane treatment of animals, and careful…

Arts & Culture
12
Animal Equality

Animal equality is an international organization working with society, governments, and companies to end cruelty to farmed animals.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy for Animals Inc and the most unlike its peers is Changing Markets Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and ShelterChristian Missionary Organi…Local Food System Organizat…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Health Access Advocacy and …Policy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 11 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%9%<5yr14%31%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%6%<5yr14%24%5–10yr19%31%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr16%9%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/34
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,531

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
21/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS — $225,500 · AnimalsANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORSGREENHILL HUMANE SOCIETY SPCA — $165,000 · AnimalsGREENHILL HUMANE SOCIETY SPCAKaruna Foundation — $137,800 · AnimalsKaruna FoundationAQUATIC LIFE INSTITUTE INC — $90,000 · AnimalsAQUATIC LIFE INSTITUTE INCHUMANE AMERICA ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $60,000 · AnimalsHUMANE AMERICA ANIMAL FOUNDATIONANIMAL OUTLOOK INC — $50,000 · AnimalsANIMAL OUTLOOK INCSCARLET MOON INC — $50,000 · AnimalsSCARLET MOON INCTHE HUMANE LEAGUE — $38,000 · Animals+6 more — $105,000 · Animals+6 moreNEW HARVEST INC — $201,241 · OtherNEW HARVEST INCRETHINK CHARITY — $101,000 · OtherRETHINK CHARITYPROVEG INTERNATIONAL INC — $100,000 · OtherPROVEG INTERNATIONAL INCFAUNALYTICS — $72,200 · OtherFAUNALYTICSINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $51,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDA…Meridian Institute — $50,000 · OtherMeridian InstituteENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP — $30,000 · Other+2 more — $12,500 · OtherTHE POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION — $160,000 · Human ServicesTHE POLLINATI…Rethink Priorities — $100,000 · Human ServicesRethink Prior…ONWARD EUGENE — $125,000 · Community ImprovementREDUCETARIAN FOUNDATION INC — $51,000 · Food & NutritionBEYOND CARNISM INC — $27,500 · Food & NutritionA Well-Fed World — $25,000 · Food & NutritionFROM FAUNA INC — $10,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $2,500 · Food & NutritionEFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC — $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $5,000 · EducationPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med — $52,620 · Health
Animals$921,300Other$617,941Human Services$260,000Community Improvement$125,000Food & Nutrition$116,000Education$55,000Health$52,620

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS — $225,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetNEW HARVEST INC — $201,241 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetGREENHILL HUMANE SOCIETY SPCA — $165,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTHE POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION — $160,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetKaruna Foundation — $137,800 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRETHINK CHARITY — $101,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetRethink Priorities — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPROVEG INTERNATIONAL INC — $100,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetAQUATIC LIFE INSTITUTE INC — $90,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetFAUNALYTICS — $72,200 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetHUMANE AMERICA ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med — $52,620 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREDUCETARIAN FOUNDATION INC — $51,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $51,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetANIMAL OUTLOOK INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetEFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMeridian Institute — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HUMANE LEAGUE — $38,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBEYOND CARNISM INC — $27,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetA Well-Fed World — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEGAL IMPACT FOR CHICKENS — $20,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetSENTIENT MEDIA — $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCHANGING MARKETS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetANIMAL ADVOCACY CAREERS — $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFROM FAUNA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetANIMAL DEFENSE PARTNERSHIP INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR CLIMATE LEAGUE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLACK VEGETARIAN SOCIETY OF MARYLAND — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Quinn FoundationHumane America Animal…Animal Charity Evalua…Effective Ventures Fo…The Greenbaum Foundat…Silicon Valley Commun…Rsf Social Finance IncGood Ventures Foundat…Aceso Foundation IncKh Dominion Foundatio…Vegfund IncBuilders Vision Found…
The Quinn FoundationKS41× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Quinn Foundation · Humane America Animal Foundation · Animal Charity Evaluators · Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc · The Greenbaum Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Good Ventures Foundation · Aceso Foundation Inc · Kh Dominion Foundation 5507-21-40 · Vegfund Inc · Builders Vision Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Tipping Point Private Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Greenhill Humane Society Spca — 1% of income from government
  • Onward Eugene — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines