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Tj Tufts Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$33k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0182% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$138kPublic Safety & Disaster$43kArts & Culture$14kFood & Nutrition$14kReligion$11kHuman Services$10kPublic Benefit$10kYouth Development$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$1,483
Median grant
1
States reached
$628k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$15,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
SON RISE CHURCH$2,500
WILBUR EMERGENCY FUND$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,350
CRESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE AND EMS$1,500
WILBUR FIRE DEPARTMENT AND AMBULANC$1,483
WILBUR COMMUNITY CENTER$1,000
TOWN OF WILBUR - PARK LIGHTING$1,000
MISSOULA CHILDREN'S THEATER$1,000
WILBUR UNITING CHURCH FOOD BANK$750
WILBUR CEMETARY ASSOCIATION$750
ALMIRA COMMUNITY CHURCH$500
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ALMIRA COMMUNITY CHURCH: $5k → 11%CRESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE AND EMS: $2k → 11%CRESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE AND EMS: $2k → 11%CRESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE AND EMS: $2k → 11%WILBUR CRESTON SCHOLARSHIPS: $18k → 11%WILBUR CRESTON SCHOLARSHIPS: $16k → 11%WILBUR CRESTON SCHOLARSHIPS: $16k → 11%WILBUR CRESTON SCHOLARSHIPS: $15k → 11%WILBUR CRESTON SCHOLARSHIPS: $14k → 11%WILBUR CRESTON SCHOLARSHIPS: $14k → 11%WILBUR CRESTON SCHOLARSHIPS: $14k → 11%WILBUR CRESTON SCHOLARSHIPS: $12k → 11%WILBUR CRESTON SCHOLARSHIPS: $11k → 11%TOWN OF WILBUR: $10k → 11%WILBUR FIRE DEPARTMENT AND AMBULANC: $5k → 11%WILBUR POOL: $5k → 11%WILBUR FIRE DEPARTMENT AND AMBULANC: $5k → 11%WILBUR POOL: $4k → 11%WILBUR UNITING CHURCH FOOD BANK: $3k → 11%WILBUR FIRE DEPARTMENT AND AMBULANC: $3k → 11%WILBUR FIRE DEPARTMENT AND AMBULANC: $3k → 11%WILBUR POOL: $3k → 11%WILBUR POOL: $3k → 11%SON RISE CHURCH: $3k → 11%WILBUR POOL: $3k → 11%WILBUR POOL: $3k → 11%WILBUR EMERGENCY FUND: $3k → 11%WILBUR EMERGENCY FUND: $3k → 11%WILBUR UNITING CHURCH FOOD BANK: $3k → 11%SHERMAN CEMETERY: $2k → 11%WILBUR UNITING CHURCH FOOD BANK: $2k → 11%SHERMAN CEMETERY: $2k → 11%WILBUR EMERGENCY FUND: $2k → 11%SHERMAN CEMETERY: $2k → 11%SHERMAN CEMETERY: $2k → 11%WILBUR EMERGENCY FUND: $2k → 11%WILBUR EMERGENCY FUND: $2k → 11%SHERMAN CEMETERY: $2k → 11%SHERMAN CEMETERY: $2k → 11%WILBUR POOL: $2k → 11%SHERMAN CEMETERY: $2k → 11%SHERMAN CEMETERY: $2k → 11%WILBUR UNITING CHURCH FOOD BANK: $2k → 11%WILBUR FIRE DEPARTMENT AND AMBULANC: $2k → 11%SHERMAN CEMETERY: $2k → 11%WILBUR ELEMENTARY BITES 2 GO: $2k → 11%GOLDEN RULE CHILDCARE CENTER: $2k → 11%WILBUR POOL: $2k → 11%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.

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.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$282k · 21 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
10

Total granted

$282k
$19k

Still filing today

5%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    9× · 2017–2025 · $129k
  • WF
    WILBUR FIRE DEPARTMENT AND AMBULANC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    9× · 2017–2025 · $25k

Funded once

  • TO
    Town of Wilbur
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • WE
    WILBUR ELEMENTARY BITES 2 GO
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $1k

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

04Your field
04the grantee network

1 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
1/1
Grantees still filing
1/1
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $129,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWILBUR FIRE DEPARTMENT AND AMBULANC — $24,583 · OtherWILBUR FIRE DEPARTMENT AND AMBULANCIndividual grant recipient — $24,536 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $18,350 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWILBUR UNITING CHURCH FOOD BANK — $14,019 · OtherWILBUR EMERGENCY FUND — $12,000 · OtherTown of Wilbur — $10,000 · Other+23 more — $63,468 · Other+23 moreWILBUR CEMETERY ASSOCIATION — $4,950 · Membership Benefit
Other$295,956Membership Benefit$4,950

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWILBUR CEMETERY ASSOCIATION — $4,950 over 6y, 2.8% 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.

  • Who funds WILBUR CEMETERY ASSOCIATION

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Tj Tufts Charitable 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
22232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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, FY2225

    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 31 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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