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Tisbest Philanthropy

TISBEST PHILANTHROPY connects businesses and individuals with important causes by replacing gifts of "stuff" with gifts of "good."

$7.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
181
Grants FY2025still arriving
36
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$4.7MPhilanthropy$4.5MInternational$3.8MEducation$3.7MAnimals$2.3MFood & Nutrition$1.9MHuman Services$1.6MArts & Culture$1.4MOther$0
02FY2025 · 181 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 181 grants below total $3,784,528, the rows itemized in this filing. The $7,335,981 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,551,453 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k67 grants · $455k
  • $10k–50k92 grants · $1.6M
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $1.7M
$10,100
Median grant
36
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AIRBNB ORG INC$200,000
ALIGHT$101,615
FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC$100,025
GATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS$100,000
COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS$100,000
MICRO-SOCIETY INC$100,000
NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$100,000
VERSE VIDEO EDUCATION INC$100,000
JUST CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC$100,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$74,415
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL-ALSAC$70,833
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION$61,798
DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE NATIONAL OFFICE$51,130
HEALTHCORPS INC$50,050
STOP THE ADDICTION FATALITY EPIDEMIC - SAFE - PROJECT US$50,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%Search Angels: $20k → 8%HELLO NEIGHBOR: $50k → 11%BE A FRIEND PROJECT INC: $20k → 6%DUTCHESS OUTREACH INC: $20k → 9%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $14k → 10%UNBOUND: $26k → 16%THE SAFE PROJECT: $50k → 17%Encircle FamilyYouth Rs Cent: $20k → 8%Ellis Marsalis Center: $35k → 8%DUTCHESS OUTREACH INC: $20k → 9%Paws With a Cause: $13k → 10%NEW JERSEY REENTRY: $11k → 14%THE NEXT STEP FUND INC: $20k → 8%Bellport Area Comm Action Co: $15k → 7%BE A FRIEND PROJECT INC: $20k → 9%Paws With a Cause: $13k → 10%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH: $11k → 6%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $13k → 10%American Red Cross: $85k → 9%Carver Foundation of Norwalk: $20k → 9%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $19k → 8%American Red Cross: $57k → 9%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $16k → 8%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $12k → 8%American Red Cross: $41k → 9%JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC: $20k → 8%JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC: $15k → 8%American Red Cross: $13k → 9%THORN: $26k → 14%THINK OF US: $25k → 14%YOUTHCARE: $12k → 9%THORN: $26k → 14%Thorn: $25k → 14%Prospects OpportunityEnrich: $60k → 9%PROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC: $40k → 9%PROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC: $35k → 9%PROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC: $25k → 9%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $25k → 14%New York Womens Foundation: $25k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $31k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $16k → 17%Covenant House: $14k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $11k → 17%Covenant House: $11k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $10k → 17%The Childrens Aid Society: $10k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $25k → 17%GLASSWING INTERNATIONAL USA: $10k → 17%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
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 100% of Tisbest Philanthropy’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 4% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 0%.

Tisbest Philanthropylessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20M · 241 repeat orgs$6.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

241 repeat relationships: 126 still active in FY2025, 115 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

241
334

Total granted

$20M
$5.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+10%

Still filing today

93%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $902k 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
EducationHealthInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • Feeding America
    7× · 2018–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +77%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $658k · revenue +145%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $613k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • UF
    UTAH FILM CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue +128%
  • SI
    STRIVE INTERNATIONAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $110k · revenue +68%
  • TE
    THE EXPLORATORIUM
    one grant, 2018 · $103k · revenue +24%
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
7
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
8
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
9
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
10
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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11
Furman University

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.

Education
12
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; the most unlike its peers is Agnes Choir Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

600 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. 600 of the 647 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
77
Early backer (in before they grew)
576/600
Grantees still filing
366/600
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $2,200,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC …GATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS: $500,000 · PhilanthropyGATES PHILANTHROPY PART…NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $405,100 · PhilanthropyNEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FO…ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $255,995 · PhilanthropyGRACE FARMS FOUNDATION INC: $250,167 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEAR FUND: $212,711 · Philanthropy+18 more: $1,213,926 · Philanthropy+18 moreST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $657,979 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN…HEALTHCORPS INC: $401,900 · HealthHEALTHCORPS INCPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $390,719 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHO…ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $245,003 · HealthALZHEIMER'S FOUN…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $225,218 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER …CECA FOUNDATION: $200,000 · HealthCECA FOUNDATIONNATIONAL NETWORK OF DEPRESSION CENTERS: $144,000 · HealthPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $124,956 · Health+19 more: $1,119,720 · Health+19 moreInternational Rescue Committee INC: $392,978 · InternationalInternational…MYRIAD USA INC: $170,000 · InternationalMYRIAD USA IN…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $168,675 · InternationalUNITED STATES…ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $153,756 · InternationalMilagro Foundation: $150,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $141,295 · InternationalAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $140,254 · InternationalALIGHT: $129,181 · InternationalACUMEN FUND INC: $100,167 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC: $100,075 · InternationalOPEN SUPPLY HUB INC: $100,000 · International+21 more: $1,187,477 · International+21 moreCONNECTICUT RISE NETWORK INC: $350,000 · EducationCONNECTICUT…MICROSOCIETY INC: $300,000 · EducationMICROSOCIET…KHAN ACADEMY INC: $212,494 · EducationKHAN ACADEM…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $200,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOO…EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF TETON VALLEY INC: $110,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $105,000 · EducationSHAWN CARTER SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $100,897 · EducationRIDGEFIELD ACADEMY INC: $100,130 · Education+20 more: $972,533 · Education+20 moreTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $612,825 · AnimalsTHE AMERI…AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $520,028 · AnimalsAFRICAN W…SPECIES UNITE 23 INC: $200,000 · AnimalsSPECIES U…Humane World for Animals Inc: $192,803 · AnimalsHumane Wo…AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $190,568 · AnimalsAMERICAN …BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $172,684 · AnimalsBEST FRIE…+1 more: $50,204 · AnimalsAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $376,109 · OtherAmerican National Red Cross & It…UTAH FILM CENTER: $250,000 · OtherCENTER FOR FAMILY REPRESENTATION INC: $277,333 · Other+76 more: $5,991,073 · Other+76 moreFeeding America: $1,395,665 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA: $69,657 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $42,874 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$5,037,899Health$3,509,495International$2,933,858Education$2,451,054Animals$1,939,112Other$6,894,515Food & Nutrition$1,508,196

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $2,200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $1,395,665 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $657,979 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $612,825 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $520,028 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetGATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS: $500,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $405,100 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetHEALTHCORPS INC: $401,900 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $392,978 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $390,719 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $376,109 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT RISE NETWORK INC: $350,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetMICROSOCIETY INC: $300,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetCENTER FOR FAMILY REPRESENTATION INC: $277,333 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $255,995 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGRACE FARMS FOUNDATION INC: $250,167 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $250,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $245,003 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $225,218 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND: $212,711 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC: $212,494 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetIDEOORG: $210,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetJUST CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $210,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIES UNITE 23 INC: $200,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetCECA FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $192,803 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $190,568 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetGLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT INC: $175,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $172,684 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $170,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $168,675 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC: $160,150 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $153,756 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS: $150,050 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSING FOR HOPE INC: $150,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMilagro Foundation: $150,000 over 6y, 9.2% of budgetCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC: $150,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $149,375 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF DEPRESSION CENTERS: $144,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $141,295 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $140,254 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc: $135,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetALIGHT: $129,181 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $128,729 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $126,144 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $124,956 over 7y, 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.

  • Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHCORPS INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT RISE NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds MICROSOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR FAMILY REPRESENTATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GRACE FARMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
  • Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds IDEOORG ↗
  • Who funds JUST CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds AIRBNBORG INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIES UNITE 23 INC ↗
  • Who funds CECA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds PROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA ↗
  • Who funds THE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds SING FOR HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds Milagro Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE ↗

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.

Dalio Foundation IncDalio Family Fund IncCharity Bridge FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Fairfield County's Co…New Canaan Community …The New York Communit…Robin Hood FoundationJewish Communal FundPledgeling FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…Gates Foundation
Dalio Foundation IncCT55.4× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dalio Foundation Inc · Dalio Family Fund Inc · Charity Bridge Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Robin Hood Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Pledgeling Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Gates 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 Tisbest Philanthropy funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tisbest Philanthropy. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
  • The Safe Project: 54% of income from government
  • Verse Video Education: 35% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Autism Society of America Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Helping Up Mission Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Connecticut Rise Network Inc: 2% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • All Our Kin Inc: 1% of income from government
  • St Luke's Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
41report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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 Tisbest Philanthropy?

Find your warmest path to Tisbest Philanthropy 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 647 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 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home